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Chinese Culture Days
St. Louis, MO · Arts & Culture
- When
- May 1–2, 2027
- Where
- Missouri Botanical Garden · St. Louis · MO
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
The Missouri Botanical Garden has hosted this cultural exchange each May since the 1990s, bringing visiting artists from China together with local performers for lion and dragon dances, a parade, and a food marketplace. The 2026 edition marked its 30th anniversary. (2027 dates approximate.)
The history within reach
- Best of Missouri Marketsame spot
The Missouri Botanical Garden closes out its growing season each October with this juried market of more than 150 Missouri food producers, crafters, and farmers, running for three days on the garden grounds.
- Chinese Culture Dayssame spot
The Missouri Botanical Garden has hosted this cultural exchange each May since the 1990s, bringing visiting artists from China together with local performers for lion and dragon dances, a parade, and a food marketplace.
The oldest botanical garden in continuous operation in the country, left to the public by an English merchant who wanted his estate kept as a garden forever.
The story every bakery tells is that a German baker in the 1930s got the proportions wrong, used too much butter in a coffee cake batter, and sold the flat gluey result rather than throw it away.
- Japanese Festival0.3 mi
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