Festival 2025

Schedules

Main Stage

Dr. Nakia Wiley and Martin Lackey Sr are your hosts for the first half of the day!

12pm parade comes from the playground to the stage

12:15pm English Welcome by Dr. Wiley and Spanish Welcome Nancy Saiz from the City of Madison

12:30pm Forward Marching Band and Aerial dance by Martha Siravo, Luv Seamon and Sasha Lasdon

12:45pm Breaking the Piñatas

1:00pm Vets on Frets

1:30pm Elias Cook dancer

1:45pm Danielle Kupas and Illia Sorokin ballroom dance

2pm Rebecca Hoyt and Leah Reinardy from The City of Madison Dept of Civil Rights

2:20pm Karyn Burrow, Ms Wheelchair WI

2:30pm Armondo Contreras & Ballet Folklórico de María Díaz

SunShine Raynebow will host the second half of the festival!

3pm Defying Gravity: an aerial dance

3:15pm Nola Talks to Trees

3:45pm The Sparkle Hour

Set One

SunShine Raynebow-Enough

Elliot Wage Gap-Money, Money, Money

Madam Lacy-Brave

Tea Thief-Life In Wartime

Set 2

SunShine Raynebow-Masterpiece

Elliot Wage Gap-I Will Survive

Madame Lacy-Come to Mama

Tea Thief-Cities

Aerial Schedule

12:30pm collaboration w/ Forward Marching Band

12:45pm Adaptive Aerial Martha/Sasha/Luv (side of stage)

1:00pm Aerial try-its, Luv/Sasha (side of stage)

3:15pm Defying Gravity Aerial, Martha/Luv/Sasha

Tennis Courts

Court #1

12-5pm Dairyland Sports

Court #2

12:30pm Sarah Jacobson, Arts for All Wisconsin Adaptive Dance Workshop

2:00pm Illia & Danielle from Fred Astaire Dance Studio Madison West Wheelchair Ballroom Dance workshop

2:30pm Meet n Greet Ms Wheelchair Wi 2025

3:00pm Meet n Greet Armando & El Ballet Folklorico de Maria Garcia workshop

Rain Plan

Someone requested our rain plan. It depends on when it rains and how much.

The tents will start going up at 8am and are all up by 9:30am, a mild rain after that and we will try and carry on. Individuals will make their own choices and for instance the aerial dancers would may not perform in rain.

If it is a downpour that lasts through the night before and into that day, we will probably cancel. Especially if there is thunder and lightning, bu that is not the current forecast.

Right now Accuweather says perhaps spotty showers in the morning, then sunny and humid high temp 81. It will feel like 90 in the sun and 83 in the shade. The two days before that predict .04 and .10 inches of rain.

If we are cancelling, it will be on our social media for sure, Facebook and Instagram and our website.