Bike Friendly Oak Cliff invites you to ride in the inaugural Oak Cliff Mardi Gras Parade!

Meet us in the parking lot of the Hitt Auditorium (Colorado Boulevard and Bishop Avenue) at Methodist Dallas Medical Center at 3:15. The parade kicks off there at 4 p.m. and proceeds 1.2 miles south on North Bishop Ave. through the Bishop Arts District.

FLOAT IS THE B.F.O.C THEME
Get decorated in any manner that represents the concept of the word “float.”
We encourage all to wear orange and/or use orange decorations since orange is our unofficial group color. Some float theme ideas:

• Attach balloons to you and your bike.
• Wear floaties on your arms, wear inner tube around your waist.
• Turn your bike into a float (cardboard, streamers, etc)

http://mardigrasoakcliff.com/

From The Advocate:

The classic cars, the waving dignitaries, the high school marching bands and, of course, the bead throws — lots of them. That’s what Amy Cowan and her committee envision for the first-ever Mardi Gras parade down Bishop Avenue. It will be “a little more family-friendly version of what happens down in Victory Park,” Cowan says. On the Sunday before Fat Tuesday at 4 p.m., the parade will roll down the avenue from Colorado to the Bishop Arts District and disperse there, with the hope of parade-goers moving their purple, green and gold revelry into the district’s shops and restaurants. “It’s always a reason to party and have some gumbo,” Cowan says.