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Mardi Gras in Burlington

Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Juliana Summers
Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Alexandra Brenock
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at SMCVT chapter.

 

It’s that time of year again, collegiettes! Burlington’s 18th annual Mardi Gras celebration is hitting Church St. the weekend of March 1 – 3.

 

From the Friday night concert to the notoriously popular parade on Saturday, Mardi Gras in Burlington is an event you don’t want to miss. With over 25,000 attending the event in recent years, Mardi Gras brings the community together to celebrate with friends, floats, food, and also funds for a good cause!

 

Profits from the weekend-long celebration benefit the Hope Works non-profit organization, which works towards ending sexual violence. Celebrating downtown while also giving back, what could be better than that?

 

So, start planning that Mardi Gras outfit, ladies! Heading down to Church St. on Saturday means a day full of performances, a costume contest, a free photo booth, and of course a ton of Mardi Gras beads!

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Juliana is a senior Media Studies, Journalism and Digital Arts major with a minor in Global Studies at St. Michael's College. She serves as managing editor for her college newspaper (The Defender), is an online student ambassador for St. Mike's, writes a personal style blog (littlecupofj.com) and is an editorial intern at WellWed Magazine. Juliana hopes to move back to Cape Town after graduation, where she spent her spring 2014 semester abroad and work as a magazine editor or as an online/social media coordinator. Her favorites include blogging, all things pink, peonies & proteas, elephants, iced coffee, whistling, running and catch phrases.
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Alex is a junior at Saint Michel's College and is pursuing a degree in business administration. Alex is from Massachusetts but loves beautiful Vermont (minus the freezing cold, snowy winters)! She loves being involved on campus - besides running the Saint Mike's Branch of Her Campus, she is a tour guide and blogger for her college and a mentor to a second-grader. Alex plans on studying-abroad in Ireland and would love to move to Boston or New York City after graduation. She is uber passionate about social media and marketing and hopes to attend business school in the future. In her free time, Alex enjoys baking, taking naps, going to the movies with friends, and telling jokes about pirates.