·EVENTS·
All events are ALL AGES and sober. Masks must be worn by all attendees inside our building.
BYOC: Bring Your Own Canvas Painting Social
FREE
BYOC is a sober paint night where artists meet up to share space, company, and materials, while working on their own projects. Communication will supply acrylic paint, brushes, and a touch of inspiration, free of charge; all you need is to bring a surface to paint on!
Rooting Towards Housing Justice: A Creative Community Panel
Tickets Sliding Scale FREE to $15
How can we build towards solidarity-based solutions against homelessness? This event invites the unhoused community, grassroots initiatives, and allies to envision a community-driven approach to housing justice for Dane County.
Nola talks to trees and the Chaos Gremlins // Muscle Memory // Ask for Jane
Tickets $10
3 Madison acts share our stage to celebrate community and catharsis!
BYOC: Bring Your Own Canvas Painting Social
FREE
BYOC is a sober paint night where artists meet up to share space, company, and materials, while working on their own projects. Communication will supply acrylic paint, brushes, and a touch of inspiration, free of charge; all you need is to bring a surface to paint on!
Forage Like a Bear: Reading & Signing
Communication is proud to host writer Chris Fink and cartoonist/illustrator John Porcellino, who will be reading from their book Forage Like a Bear.
This will be followed by a Q&A and signing. This is a free event, and books will be available to purchase.
BYOZ: Bring Your Own Zine
FREE
Communication’s monthly gathering for those who like to draw, read and assemble zines and comics. Some materials will be available, including paper, pens, colored pencils and a big stapler.
BYOC: Bring Your Own Canvas Painting Social
FREE
BYOC is a sober paint night where artists meet up to share space, company, and materials, while working on their own projects. Communication will supply acrylic paint, brushes, and a touch of inspiration, free of charge; all you need is to bring a surface to paint on!
Queer Speed Dating (Ages 25-45)
Buy tickets $10
Join us for icebreakers and 5-minute speed dating rounds!
All Ages, All Masked Open Mic
FREE
Join us for a new, free monthly open mic event! Communication volunteers will host any singers, poets, comedians or other performers who wish to get onstage in an all-masked space.
Open Sewing Studio
This will be unstructured, informal time to gather and talk through projects, learn and practice new skills, and work through creative blocks together. Feel free to bring your machine or anything you need -- we will have some basic supplies to share.
BYOC: Bring Your Own Canvas Painting Social
FREE
BYOC is a sober paint night where artists meet up to share space, company, and materials, while working on their own projects. Communication will supply acrylic paint, brushes, and a touch of inspiration, free of charge; all you need is to bring a surface to paint on!
All The Sounds Are Done - Improvised Music Meetup
FREE
All The Sounds Are Done is a new gathering space for improvised music happening monthly at Communication. Run by hosts Jakob Heinemann, Sahada Buckley and Tim Russell, the series will begin each month with a performance by a different artist, before opening up a to jam session where all are welcome to play. We will draw names out of a hat to create a spontaneous grouping of musicians, who will then improvise freely together. Please join us in celebrating experimentation, connecting with new artists, and openness to new sounds!
Blanky // Chaepter // Red Pants // Slick
Tickets $12
Lawrence KS’s Blanky and Chicago’s Chaepter join us for some noisy pop, with local support from Red Pants and Slick!
Drop-in Collage Studio
FREE
Come collage at communication! Drop in during shop hours every third Saturday 11:00am-3:00pm to work on a free-form collage. No experience necessary, and all are welcome.
We will have cardboard, scissors, mod podge, paint brushes, and various collage materials from magazines and books. Have items at home? Please bring them along!
BYOC: Bring Your Own Canvas Painting Social
FREE
BYOC is a sober paint night where artists meet up to share space, company, and materials, while working on their own projects. Communication will supply acrylic paint, brushes, and a touch of inspiration, free of charge; all you need is to bring a surface to paint on!
BYOZ: Bring Your Own Zine
FREE
Communication’s monthly gathering for those who like to draw, read and assemble zines and comics. Some materials will be available, including paper, pens, colored pencils and a big stapler.
Scorpio Market: May Day
Communication is a proud sponsor and participant in the latest Scorpio Market! This fully masked spring market will bring together over 40 local artists and orgs for a community celebration of worker power, sustainability, and creative resistance.
All Ages, All Masked Open Mic
FREE
Join us for a new, free monthly open mic event! Communication volunteers will host any singers, poets, comedians or other performers who wish to get onstage in an all-masked space.
Linocut Studio: Political Printmaking
Sliding scale $25-35-50
Explore the powerful and flexible medium of linocut printmaking and channel your hope and rage into a political print. This one-day studio will offer materials and education so that you can carve a linoleum block and hand-print on paper or fabric (no press needed). Promote a cause with a poster, express yourself with an art print, or design a patch to wear your heart on your sleeve.
BYOC: Bring Your Own Canvas Painting Social
FREE
BYOC is a sober paint night where artists meet up to share space, company, and materials, while working on their own projects. Communication will supply acrylic paint, brushes, and a touch of inspiration, free of charge; all you need is to bring a surface to paint on!
It Feels Big: A Fashion Swap for Fatties
FREE
It’s back -- a fat positive space where fashion meets community! Bring 10-15 gently used, clean, plus sized (approx size US 14+) spring/summer clothing items, as well as a reusable back to carry home your new threads. A measuring tape might also be helpful!
Girl Blood Info: Zine Reading + Outreach Madison Transgender Association Fundraiser
Buy Tickets $3 to $10
Come hear your local poets and freaks on leashes read from the latest issue of Girl Blood Info, a zine series edited by Chessy Normile that's been running since 2016. All proceeds from zine sales and door will be donated to Outreach's Madison Area Transgender Association.
Communication Craft Circle
FREE
Join us from 1-3pm Saturday May 3 for a FREE Craft Circle! We love to have an excuse to gather, work on various projects, and share tips and ideas. All craft, sewing, knitting and other fibers projects are welcome.
BYOC: Bring Your Own Canvas Painting Social
FREE
BYOC is a sober paint night where artists meet up to share space, company, and materials, while working on their own projects. Communication will supply acrylic paint, brushes, and a touch of inspiration, free of charge; all you need is to bring a surface to paint on!
Zine Out Loud 2
We are back with another rousing zine reading! Seven of the Midwest’s finest cartoonists will read their work aloud, followed by a workshop.
CANCELED - Open Sewing Studio
CANCELED FOR APRIL in lieu of the Print & Resist event at the Central Library! Join us again in May!
Madison Print & Resist Zinefest
Join us at Madison Central Library were 90+ local & regional vendors for Madison’s long standing Print & Resist. Find diy, queer, politics, and nature zines, indie publishing, and printed goods by all manner of artists and those who resist.
Prepare and Rest: A pre-Print & Resist Gathering
Prepare and Rest: A pre-Print & Resist Gathering
The evening before Print and Resist come and mingle with other vendors and attendees!!!!!
If you are a vendor a long-armed stapler and ample space will be provided for last minute zine stapling or any other last minute preparation.
Otherwise, you can draw or just hang out with fellow zine-sters. Weather depending you can hang out outside or inside and enjoy a cool beverage.
BYOC: Bring Your Own Canvas Painting Social
FREE
BYOC is a sober paint night where artists meet up to share space, company, and materials, while working on their own projects. Communication will supply acrylic paint, brushes, and a touch of inspiration, free of charge; all you need is to bring a surface to paint on!
Tummyache // Khamsin // Drive Like I Do // Humid
Buy Tickets $12
Tummyache joins us all the way from the UK with their lyrical, confessional punk, joined by Nashville dreamo band Khamsin, post-hardcore quartet Drive Like I Do, and shoegazers Humid!
Drop-in Collage Studio
FREE
Come collage at communication! Drop in during shop hours every third Saturday 11:00am-3:00pm to work on a free-form collage. No experience necessary, and all are welcome.
We will have cardboard, scissors, mod podge, paint brushes, and various collage materials from magazines and books. Have items at home? Please bring them along!
BYOC: Bring Your Own Canvas Painting Social
FREE
BYOC is a sober paint night where artists meet up to share space, company, and materials, while working on their own projects. Communication will supply acrylic paint, brushes, and a touch of inspiration, free of charge; all you need is to bring a surface to paint on!
BYOZ: Bring Your Own Zine
FREE
Communication’s monthly gathering for those who like to draw, read and assemble zines and comics. Some materials will be available, including paper, pens, colored pencils and a big stapler.
All Ages, All Masked Open Mic
FREE
Join us for a new, free monthly open mic event! Communication volunteers will host any singers, poets, comedians or other performers who wish to get onstage in an all-masked space.
Gallery Opening: East High School Speaks Up!
Students in the Advanced Painting class at East High School, led by teacher April Sopkin, have been working on a political art project this semester which will be displayed at Communication.
Communication is proud to continue collaborating with the young artists at East.
The event will officially open at Noon on April 12th. Join us as we celebrate this classes great work!
BYOC: Bring Your Own Canvas Painting Social
FREE
BYOC is a sober paint night where artists meet up to share space, company, and materials, while working on their own projects. Communication will supply acrylic paint, brushes, and a touch of inspiration, free of charge; all you need is to bring a surface to paint on!
Communication Craft Circle
FREE
Join us from 1-3pm Saturday April 5 for a FREE Craft Circle! We love to have an excuse to gather, work on various projects, and share tips and ideas. All craft, sewing, knitting and other fibers projects are welcome.
BYOC: Bring Your Own Canvas Painting Social
FREE
BYOC is a sober paint night where artists meet up to share space, company, and materials, while working on their own projects. Communication will supply acrylic paint, brushes, and a touch of inspiration, free of charge; all you need is to bring a surface to paint on!
BYOC: Bring Your Own Canvas Painting Social
FREE
BYOC is a sober paint night where artists meet up to share space, company, and materials, while working on their own projects. Communication will supply acrylic paint, brushes, and a touch of inspiration, free of charge; all you need is to bring a surface to paint on!