Admission is $20 at the door.
For the last Muncie Gras, all Ball State students over 18 are invited to party, not just those over 21.
Cheryl Crowder, the organizer and planner of Muncie Gras since its origin 17 years ago, made the decision for its final year.
This year, Muncie Gras will move to Canan Commons and last from 6 p.m. March 24 to 2 a.m. March 25.
Inviting the campus community to join with Muncie helps continue one facet of Muncie Gras’ mission: to dispel the notion that downtown Muncie is “dirty” and “unsafe,” Crowder said.
When Muncie Gras began, however, Crowder said downtown was different than it is now.
“Downtown was a pretty vacant, desolate, unattractive place,” Crowder said.
Crowder said this mid-March festival succeeded at promoting the inviting image of Downtown until recently.
“Sometimes growing with what’s around you is doing something different, too,” Crowder said. “And that’s what we’ve come to.”
Though this is the last Muncie Gras, Crowder said a new tradition will start up in the fall.
A hootenanny, as Crowder calls it, will feature live blues and country, logrolling and Appalachian spoon-playing, among other attractions.
“You have to follow up Muncie Gras with something fun.”
For Ball State students wishing to attend the last Muncie Gras, four MITS trolleys will run between campus and downtown, with stops about every ten minutes.
Once there, students can watch live music from Muncie Gras returners such as the Indigos, Governor Davis and Jennie Devoe. Various vendors and other live entertainment, like a zip line, human bowling and midget wrestling will also return to Muncie Gras.
Admission is $20 at the door.
Contact Sara Barker with comments at slbarker3@bsu.edu or on Twitter at @sarabarker326.
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