Birmingham Carnival Society

Vintage Mardi Gras Invitation. From the Birmingham Archives.

We've gotten lots of questions and emails regarding the possibility of a 2016 Birmingham Mardi Gras parade: Unfortunately The Birmingham Carnival Society is not planning a 2016 Mardi Gras parade. The difficulty of the parade permitting notification process and related requirements and costs have led us to the decision to not organize the parade this year (and last). Most notably the City of Birmingham has ceased providing waivers for the required police escorts and security. Our apologies. If other organizations/individuals organize a Mardi Gras event, parade or otherwise they are welcome to post it on this page.
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Pelicans terrifying King Cake Baby mascot is back

http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2015/02/09/pelicans-scary-king-cake-baby-mascot

si.com Mardi Gras is right around the corner and that means it is time for the New Orleans Pelicans to bring back the most terrifying mascot in all of sports, The King Cake Baby.

Feb 7: Mardi Gras Bash - StyleBlueprint

http://styleblueprint.com/birmingham/happenings/february-7-mardi-gras-bash/

styleblueprint.com Shelby County Arts Councilpresents “MARDI GRAS BASH” with 2BLU AND THE LUCKY STIFFS. Your $20 ticket includes a beverage reception hosted by Lewis Lakes Vi

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Birmingham Carnival Society's cover photo

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Sidewalk Film

This morning's press conference with Mayor Bell to announce our screening of Spike Lee's "4 Little Girls" in partnership with the City of Birmingham!

Remembering the UpStairs Lounge: The U.S.A.’s Largest LGBT Massacre Happened 40 Years Ago Today

patheos.com The 24th of June in 1973 was a Sunday. For New Orleans’ gay community, it was the last day of national Pride Weekend, as well as the fourth anniversary of 1969′s Stonewall uprising. You couldn’t really have an open celebration of those events — in ’73, anti-gay slurs, discrimination, and even violen...

Happy Mardi Gras!

I am very sad to say that we will not be having the Fat Tuesday parade this year. As a two person operation, we both just got to busy with some other projects this fall to work on the parade permit paperwork and all of the administrative headaches that come along with that. We tried to identify a non profit to work with over the summer so that we could grow and find sponserships for the parade but that has been an unsuccessful effort thus far. We will keep trying! If anyone knows of a non profit that might be a good fit we would like to attempt to work with an organization and keep the parade alive- Please let us know if you have any suggestions. In the mean time we are working on the logistics of a New Orleans style walking parade Sat. 9th of Feb. in 5 points or Lakeview if anyone is interested? That way we could possibly bypass needing the permit and can keep the Mardi Gras tradition going.

Birmingham Carnival Society organize Mardi Gras night parade for Fat Tuesday

http://magiccitypost.com/2012/02/17/birmingham-carnival-society-organize-mardi-gras-night-parade-for-fat-tuesday/

magiccitypost.com Photo: 1897 Mardi Gras Parade. Courtesy of the Birmingham Public Library Archives. The first float in Birmingham's inaugural Mardi Gras parade on March 8, 1886 was sponsored by a brewery. It “represented the king of beer seated on a throne of velvet, drinking to the health of the crowd.” Cheers t...

BMG Parade 2012 Home

Parade Update: All permits have been approved by the City!... and that is after being mistaken for another parade last year where people were apparently really bad. We are still waiting on approval of police and security, but that usually comes through at the last minute. So we need help please invite your friends to this event page and recruit folks to be in the parade - cars, bikes, float, animals all are welcome..... Register here: http://birminghamcarnivalsociety.tripod.com/

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2012 Parade Participation Registration Is Now Open: http://birminghamcarnivalsociety.tripod.com/

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In the meantime (aside from the recent update) ANYONE INTERESTED IN HAVING A FLOAT OR WALKING IN THE 2012 BIRMINGHAM MARDI GRAS PARADE?

A 2012 Mardi Gras Parade Update: We heard back from the City that our parade permits have been received and are being reviewed. We will be paying permit fees next week. We now also have to get the City to clear security and police fees, which can be a bit of a task, but we managed it last year and are getting to things much earlier this year so, hopefully, we will get through that as well. Once we have a little more underway we will post a registration form on the website and a link on the page.

Fat Tuesday 2012 is on February 21st

The Birmingham Carnival Society is submitting the permits and related paperwork this week in hopes of a 2012 Birmingham Mardi Gras Parade, keep your fingers crossed. We will update soon.

The first Mardi Gras parade since 1901 is a go for March 8th!