More About Mardi Gras 12th Night Kickoff Festival
Mardi Gras makes its flamboyant entrance with the Twelfth Night Parade Extravaganza inside the Lake Charles Event Center Coliseum on Saturday, January 2, 2027. Details are pending. There will be a lively, presentation featuring members of Krewe of Krewes under the direction of Mardi Gras of Southwest Louisiana. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. and the event begins at 6:00 p.m.
The audience has a chance to win grand prizes, dance and hail the kings and queens of more than 60 local krewes. Guests in the Twelfth Night audience, who find "babies" in their pieces of King Cake, win lavish grand prizes which will include prizes from local merchants and businesses of Southwest Louisiana. New this year is the Kid Zone, which which will be on the main floor of the Event Center from 4:30-6 PM where kids will have an opportunity to take photos with the Mardi Gras Queens and enjoy special activities like the Habibi Shriner clowns making balloon animals, a craft table & corn hole!
Twelfth Night-twelve days after Christmas-is the legendary beginning of the Mardi Gras season prior to Lent. Following tradition, Mardi Gras royalty of last year waves their symbolic good-byes to the thousands who turn out to see the grand fanfare of costumes and to greet the new season. Many of the fabulous costumes will take their places in the Mardi Gras Museum of Imperial Calcasieu.
Admission: $10; kids 10 and under are free.
The audience has a chance to win grand prizes, dance and hail the kings and queens of more than 60 local krewes. Guests in the Twelfth Night audience, who find "babies" in their pieces of King Cake, win lavish grand prizes which will include prizes from local merchants and businesses of Southwest Louisiana. New this year is the Kid Zone, which which will be on the main floor of the Event Center from 4:30-6 PM where kids will have an opportunity to take photos with the Mardi Gras Queens and enjoy special activities like the Habibi Shriner clowns making balloon animals, a craft table & corn hole!
Twelfth Night-twelve days after Christmas-is the legendary beginning of the Mardi Gras season prior to Lent. Following tradition, Mardi Gras royalty of last year waves their symbolic good-byes to the thousands who turn out to see the grand fanfare of costumes and to greet the new season. Many of the fabulous costumes will take their places in the Mardi Gras Museum of Imperial Calcasieu.
Admission: $10; kids 10 and under are free.
Date & Time
January 2, 2027
Location
Lake Charles Event Center
900 Lakeshore Dr.
Lake Charles, LA
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