Wear Orange 2026
Event Description
Join us for this year's Wear Orange event honoring violence survivors and building community together.
We'll have music, food, activities for kids, resources, and speakers! There is no cost to attend. Don't forget to Wear Orange!
Thanks to our Wear Orange partners for helping us make this event possible
- City of Madison and County of Dane government
- Moms Demand Action
- Students Demand Action
- Madison Metro School District
- Madison Police Department
- National Youth Advocacy Program
- Focused Interruption
- Safe Communities
- WAVE
- Centro Hispano
What is Wear Orange?
On January 21, 2013, Hadiya Pendleton marched in President Obama's second inaugural parade. One week later, Hadiya was shot and killed on a playground in Chicago. Soon after this tragedy, Hadiya's friends commemorated her life by wearing orange, the color hunters wear in the woods to protect themselves and others.
Wear Orange honors Hadiya and the nearly 130 people shot and killed every day in the United States, along with the hundreds more who are wounded and the countless others whose lives have been changed by gun violence.