• Eastside Winter Market at Garver Feed Mill

    Garver Feed Mill 3241 Garver Green, Madison, WI, United States

    The first day of the two-day Eastside Winter Market will feature a dozen sets of music, heavy on Madison- and Wisconsin-based acts.

    Free
  • White Noise at Marcus Point Cinema

    Marcus Point Cinema 7825 Big Sky Drive, Madison, WI, United States

    White Noise (2022) is a project that greatly expands director Noah Baumbach's visual ambitions while addressing the only subject that's a universal concern for our species burdened with sapience. We are going to die.

    $5.28 – $13.72
  • Tokyo Godfathers at Union South Marquee

    The Marquee Cinema 1308 W Dayton St #245, Madison, WI, United States

    Satoshi Kon may be best known for his animated, surrealistic, psychological thrillers, so Tokyo Godfathers (2003) may stand out in writer-director-character designer's oeuvre as a rollicking buddy adventure that just happens to be Christmas-themed.

    Free
  • To Space And Back: An Evening Of Piano Trios at Arts + Literature Laboratory

    Arts + Literature Laboratory 111 South Livingston Street, Madison, WI, United States

    This program of chamber works by composers Bedrich Smetana, Fazil Say, and Dmitri Shostakovich spans over 150 years—from the lavish romanticism of Smetana, creeping modern dramatism of Say, and the concluding contrasts of Shostakovich.

    $15 – $20
  • “Or… (night)” Solstice Celebration at Common Sage

    Common Sage 934 Drake St, Madison, WI, United States

    As Common Sage continues to get back into the swing of more regular hosting, they're planning a send-off to 2022 in the form of a Winter Solstice celebration, "Or... (night)," as a tribute to another boundary-pushing composer, James Tenney (and to the longest night).

    $10
  • Sex Ed Disco Dance Party at Crucible

    Crucible 3116 Commercial Avenue, Madison, WI, United States

    Consider the colorful cure for those midwinter blues at the Crucible's Sex Ed Disco Dance Party this Thursday night, which unites a number of Madison creatives in a fundraiser for a new, vital documentary by videographer and filmmaker Gracie K Wallner.

    $5 – $10
  • Ghost Wars at MMSD Planetarium

    MMSD Planetarium 201 South Gammon Road, Madison, WI, United States

    Video artist Aaron Granat and multi-hyphenate BlueStem Jazz co-founder Thomas Ferrella's newest project "Ghost Wars" returns to the MMSD Planetarium here, on the nights of January 6 and 7, with a decidedly incendiary political angle.

    $20
  • Ghost Wars at MMSD Planetarium

    MMSD Planetarium 201 South Gammon Road, Madison, WI, United States

    Video artist Aaron Granat and multi-hyphenate BlueStem Jazz co-founder Thomas Ferrella's newest project "Ghost Wars" returns to the MMSD Planetarium here, on the nights of January 6 and 7, with a decidedly incendiary political angle.

    $20
  • Skinamarink at Marcus Point Cinema

    Marcus Point Cinema 7825 Big Sky Drive, Madison, WI, United States

    As with many of the most enduring horror movies, Skinamarink is more about cultivating a vibe, dispensing with all but the barest trappings of a plot, which could theoretically be described as what’s happening on the other side of the TV in Poltergeist (1982).

    $5.28 – $13.72
  • The Low Czars, The Also-Rans at Red Rooster

    Red Rooster 2513 Seiferth Road, Madison, WI, United States

    The Also-Rans, a new Madison band, combines four musicians with a long track record in the area.

    $5

Please note: For now, this is a listing of events that Tone Madison is hosting—including our quarterly-ish Office Hours meetups and occasional shows and workshops. We do not currently produce a listing of events around town, though we would like to in the future. But we do still preview shows, screenings, and other events around town in our stories.

If you are looking for a good local events calendar, we strongly recommend visiting our friends at Madison Minutes.

Want to send us info about an event? Email editor@tonemadison.com; please include all of the acts involved in the event, date, venue, showtime, ticket information, and any other information you think we should know. Send this information at least three weeks before the date of the event. We try to give everything fair consideration, but we do not and cannot preview all events, and we do not run submitted promotional copy.