Greek Fest Plus

Annual church picnic, 9/24-25, Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, with food, traditional music, church tours, kids' activities, market. Free. agocwi.org. 608-244-1001.

press release: Greek Fest Plus will move from its usual July spot to September in 2022: Sept. 24-25.

Greek Fest began as an annual church picnic at Hoyt Park in 1963. Over the decades, the celebration has grown into a weekend-long block party with food, dancing and music overflowing at the corner of Milwaukee and 7th Street on Madison’s east side. Greek Fest changed the official name of the celebration to “Greek Fest Plus” to acknowledge an increasingly multiethnic church community. The AGOC church family includes people from Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Syria, Jordan, Ethiopia and Greece. “If you look at the  Greek Fest Plus signs, you can see a little plus sign next to Greek Fest, which is supposed to represent an Orthodox cross, showing that many cultures worship [at AGOC] under one roof,” Schirmer Devitt says. 

Assumption Greek Orthodox Church is a multicultural Orthodox Christian community that is part of the Diocese of Chicago of the Greek Orthodox Church in America. For more information, visit agocwi.org.