save the date: June 5–7, 2026

In 2025, volunteers, gun violence survivors, community partners, and other advocates nationwide joined us to #WearOrange for the 11th year in a row. Mark your calendars for next year’s Wear Orange Weekend: Join us June 5–7, 2026, to honor survivors and build community with those working to end gun violence.

A collage of Wear Orange photos, including a woman wearing a We can end gun violence t-shirt and signs on a wall for Wear Orange
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why 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 125 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. 

Hadiya Pendelton

national gun violence awareness day

Wear Orange originated on June 2, 2015—what would have been Hadiya Pendleton’s 18th birthday. Today, National Gun Violence Awareness Day takes place on the first Friday in June and marks the beginning of Wear Orange Weekend. 

The 12th National Gun Violence Awareness Day will be June 5, 2026.