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Mifflin Street Block Party
Madison, WI · Festival
- When
- April 24, 2027
- Where
- Mifflin Street · Madison · WI
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
A campus-adjacent street party on Mifflin Street dating back to 1969, rooted in UW-Madison's counterculture and antiwar-era gatherings. The city closes streets and coordinates a public safety plan each year for the last Saturday of April.
The history within reach
- Mifflin Street Block Partysame spot
A campus-adjacent street party on Mifflin Street dating back to 1969, rooted in UW-Madison's counterculture and antiwar-era gatherings.
It started in 1969 as a political protest in a student neighbourhood off Bassett Street and turned, over decades, into the thing students do on the last Saturday in April before exams: bands on porches, the whole block outside.
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