Colorado’s Largest Mardi Gras Event Experience
“Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler!” Let the Good Times Roll

Dave and Busters

Saturday, February 18, 2012
www.DenverMardiGras.com

A traditional Mardi Gras party

You Receive: Complete venue take over

• 2,500 people
• Free Video Games
• Free Mardi Gras Beads, beads and more beads.
• Multiple DJ’s and Bands,
• Multiple rooms and environments including 2 dance floors
• Pool, Ping Pong, Air Hockey
• Stilt walkers, jugglers, tarot card readers, face painters, mask makers, dancers
• and more

Entertainment:

• National Performers Alliance – performers and dancers
• DJ’s
• Dub Twins debut
• DJ Skeet

Live Performance:

• Hypnautic and King Tef – creators of the original Mardi Gras song
• Megan Page – live vocals

Decor:  Green, Purple, Gold festival decor

Drinks:  Hurricanes, Gin Fiz, Mardi Gras Mojitos

Attire:  Get in the spirit and come in outfit or costume. Purple Gold and Green are the traditional colors. Masks are always a plus, costumes are encouraged. The best female and male costume will be crowned Mardi Gras King and Queen and will receive tickets to all KLP events for 2012.

Costumes are not mandatory but, highly encouraged.

Cost:

GA – $25 Entry and a couple strands of beads
VIP – $59 Entry, Beads, VIP Area, party favors, free food,  cash bar.

Age:  21+

Sponsors: 107.1, Wizards Chest, Colorado Photo Medicine, National Performers Alliance

HISTORY

It is generally accepted that Mardi Gras came to America in 1699 with the French explorer, Sieur d’Iberville. The festival had been celebrated as a major holiday in Paris since the Middle Ages.  Now it has finally come to Denver!!!

In French, “Mardi Gras” literally means “Fat Tuesday,” so named because it falls on the day before Ash Wednesday, the last day prior to Lent…a 40-day season of prayer and fasting observed by the Roman Catholic Church (and many other Christian denominations) which ends on Easter Sunday. The origin of “Fat Tuesday” is believed to have come from the ancient Pagan custom of parading a fat ox through the town streets. Such Pagan holidays were filled with excessive eating, drinking and general bawdiness prior to a period of fasting. Since the modern day Carvinal Season is sandwiched between Christmas and Lent, with Christmas Day being December 25 on the Gregorian Calendar as set by the Roman Catholic Church, this means that other Holy Days are “floating” in nature. Easter always falls on a Sunday, but it can be any Sunday from March 23 through April 25, its actual date being the Sunday which follows the first Full Moon after the Spring Equinox. Mardi Gras is always 47 days prior to this alloted Sunday (the 40 days of Lent plus seven Sundays). The beginning of the Carnival Season itself, however, is also fixed…being January 6, which is the Feast of the Ephiphany, otherwise known as Little Christmas or Twelfth Night. Since the date of Mardi Gras thus varies, the length of the Carnival Season also varies accordingly from year-to-year. The origin of the word “Carvinal” is from the Latin for “farewell to the flesh,” a time when one is expected to forego earthly pleasures prior to the restrictions of the Lenten Season, and is thought to be derived from the feasts of the Middle Ages known as carnis levamen or “solace of the flesh.”

The traditional colors of Mardi Gras are purple (symbolic of justice), green (symbolic of faith) and gold (symbolic of power).

12th Annual

Victorian Fetish Ball

A Sensual Dance and Costume Party

SATURDAY October 22nd, 2011
9 pm – 2am – main party
2 am – 4 am – after party
Colorado’s Erotic Halloween Party
SOLD OUT LAST 11 YEARS!
World Famous: people really do travel from all over the world to attend.
Complete building takeover with 20,000 sq feet of provocative carnality.
60+ Performers

The Victorian Fetish Ball is a provocative exploration of eroticism allowing people from all walks of life to explore healthy sensuality. You will find business owners, politicians, artists, models etc. celebrating life. The event is designed to tantalize the mind and senses creating a euphoria of abandonment. A “pretty” fetish party.

How many of the Fetish Balls have you made? Once you have attended one you will never miss another.

A maze of unique environments with various proclivities.

Multiple Stages running simultaneously.

Phenomenal performances.

Erotic ballet, living balloon statues, queens of sensuality, Japanese rope bondage, submission shows, multiple DJ’s, Shibari, fire eaters, professional dominatrix, jugglers, burlesque, exotic belly dancers, contortionists, human marionette, body painters, den of inequity, garden of eden, topless dancers, live vocalists, angels and daemons, live snakes, body painters, cirque shows, interactive air brush, human balloons and much, much more!

Many other surprises of interaction await.

Mandatory costuming keeps the energy high causing reality to fade. A person can lose themselves to an alter ego and escape reality for 1 night. The only costume mandatory event in the state!

“Best place to see a politician in bondage.” Westword

“Best thing about Kevin Larson Parties is you can push your boundaries without regretting what you did in the morning.”

The ball has maintained continued success through constant vigilance and efforts to keep each year cutting edge, original, entertaining with phenomenal people. As in all Kevin Larson events, it is the people that cause the night to take flight.

Did we mention we have legal Nudity!!!!!!!!

carnality, eroticism, fleshiness, lasciviousness, salaciousness, sexuality, provocativeness, sensual-ism, steaminess, lascivious, libidinous, licentious, carnal, lubricious, wanton, libertine, puritan.

After party from 2:00 1m – 4:00 am

Date: Saturday, October 22, 2011
Time: 9:00 PM – 2:00 AM (MT)
Location: Denver, CO | Diamond Cabaret

Slip on Fancy Footwear, Savor incredible food & alcohol, Socialize & be charitable

Date: August 27, 2011
Time: 4-8PM
Where: Writer Square in Denver

Presented by DiningOut Magazine

• Complimentary Beer, Wine and Unique Restaurant Tastings
• Multiple live bands, DJ’s and various performers will be encompassing the entire city block of Writer Square in Denver
• Block party takeover between 15th to 16th streets at Larimer at Lawrence from 5 – 8 pm
• Exclusive VIP tasting 4 – 5pm
• Shoe Contest: over $1,000 in shoe shopping sprees with 10 categories to win

Benefiting Love Hope Strength Foundation – 100% NET PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT THE CHARITY

About the Foundation

Love Hope Strength is the World’s Leading Rock n’ Roll cancer foundation. The mission is to save lives, right now, with the advances that have already been made in cancer care. We do not fund cancer research, rather we use funds to: Build and support cancer centers around the world, build awareness of global cancer needs through film and music, build international marrow databases through our GET ON THE LIST campaign. EVERYONE at Shoes and Brews will have the opportunity to save a life by getting ON THE LIST to become a marrow donor.

Learn more about how we save lives, one concert at a time at: www.lovehopestrength.org

Map & Directions

Writer Square
1500 Larimer Street
Denver, CO 80202