{"id":10089,"date":"2025-09-25T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=10089"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:14:18","slug":"the-weekend-ahead-sept-26-28-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=10089","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Ahead Sept. 26-28, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4227\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/The-Weekend-Ahead.jpg\" alt=\"the-weekend-ahead\" width=\"734\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/The-Weekend-Ahead.jpg 734w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/The-Weekend-Ahead-300x123.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a curated list of some of the major Madison, WI events happening this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Festivals, Expos, Community Events<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/World-Dairy-Expo-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"World Dairy Expo\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/World-Dairy-Expo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/World-Dairy-Expo-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/World-Dairy-Expo.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsincheese.com\/art-of-cheese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art of Cheese Festival<\/a>: Thursday, Sept. 25 through Sunday, Sept. 28 at various locations<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcfarlandcommunityfestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McFarland Community Festival<\/a>: Friday, Sept. 26 through Sunday, Sept. 28 at McFarland Municipal Center<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.veronawi.com\/verona-fall-fest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Verona Fall Fest<\/a>: 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26 at Hometown USA Park<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/503234935869025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bodega<\/a>: 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26 at Breese Stevens Field<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackwomenswellnessday.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Women&#8217;s Wellness Day<\/a>: 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 27 at Monona Terrace<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worlddairyexpo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Dairy Expo<\/a>: Sunday, Sept. 28 through Friday, Oct. 3 at Alliant Energy Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Sports, Races<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madcapshockey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madison Capitols vs. Dubuque<\/a>: 7:05 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26 at Capitol Ice Arena<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waisman.wisc.edu\/event\/run2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waisman Whirl Run, Walk &amp; Roll<\/a>: 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 27 at Wasiman Center<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryvilaszoo.gov\/event\/10446\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Run Wild<\/a>: 8 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 28 at Henry Vilas Zoo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a curated list of some of the major Madison, WI events happening this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[16,287,4,79,34,55,206],"class_list":["post-10089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-things-to-do","tag-downtown","tag-mcfarland","tag-middleton","tag-near-east","tag-near-west","tag-south-side","tag-verona"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10091,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions\/10091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}