Mardi Gras - Family Winter Carnival & Shoebox Float Gallery at the Lift For Life Elementary School Gym
Date: Jan 18, 2025 | Time: 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
The 2024 St. Louis Mardi Gras presents the Family Winter Carnival & Shoebox Float Gallery at the Lift For Life Elementary School Gym* in Historic Soulard. This is a FREE kid-friendly, family event featuring face painters, making your own mask, cape, crown and noise makers, free popcorn, and MORE! See website for info on how to make your own Showebox Float! This is an alcohol-free event. Admission is FREE!
*Lift For Life Elementary School Address: 1920 South 7th Street, St. Louis, MO 63104.
See website for more information on this event and ALL the other Mardi Gras festivities!
The Mardi Gras season begins on January 6th with the 12th Night Celebration and ends with the Grand Parade on Saturday, March 1st.
Soulard, a neighborhood in the St. Louis Historic District and on the National Register of Historic Places, is well known for its festive and sometimes rowdy Mardi Gras and Bastille Day celebrations. This south side neighborhood also has a wonderful restaurants, pubs and the historic Soulard Farmers Market.
Directions: The Soulard Neighborhood is located on the near Southside of the City of St. Louis and is bordered by Interstate 55 on the north and west; and Broadway on the east. From Downtown St. Louis take Broadway south into the neighborhood. From I-55, take Exit #206C/Arsenal Street and go east. From Gravois/Highway 30, take Arsenal, or Sidney, or Julia, east into the neighborhood.
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