This is the weekend for Artica, STL's free-form, alternative and genuinely wacky arts festival. It takes place around the abandoned Cotton Belt Building in the old industrial wasteland north of the Arch.
It starts with an anything-goes parade to the river. Participants are encouraged to send flowers or biodegradable boats down the Mississippi, carrying their hopes, prayers or regrets. Impresario and organizer Hap Phillips leads the march in the top picture.
It starts with an anything-goes parade to the river. Participants are encouraged to send flowers or biodegradable boats down the Mississippi, carrying their hopes, prayers or regrets. Impresario and organizer Hap Phillips leads the march in the top picture.
5 comments:
This looks like fun, we could use a parade like this in my neck of the woods.
I saw this on the news...Minions, Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage....
Interesting bunch of characters. I'm surprised the protesters didn't show up there as they did at the Symphony.
Cool! Like the idea.
There must have been more than one Cotton Belt building. For a few years my father worked in a downtown office building that was the Cotton Belt Building. It was in the main part of the downtown, not the industrial area.
That is marvelously ludicrous!
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