Get ready for Mardi Gras at the Soulard Mardi Gras – U.S. Cellular Family Winter Carnival on Saturday. There will be plenty of arts and crafts activities like make-your-own Mardi Gras costumes and masks. Also enjoy family-friendly performances on the main stage and at the Laclede Gas Gashouse Gang Corner Art Wall.
The U.S. Cellular Children’s parade takes place at 4 p.m. where children can wear the masks and costumes they made in a parade through Soulard. The parade begins at 9th and Lafayette and goes south to Soulard Street, then turns east to 8th and then north again ending in front of Soulard Market at 8th and Lafayette.
- Saturday, February 12
- 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Soulard Market Park in the Historic Soulard Neighborhood
- Free
- For more information, call 314-771-5110 or go to www.stlmardigras.org.

