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The oldest and largest festival of its type in the world takes over Houston April 10-13, 2025! Featuring multiple days of excitement and creativity, The Orange Show's Houston Art Car Festival & Parade presented by Team Gillman features over 250 mobile masterpieces designed and created by artists, individuals, schools, non-profits, corporations, and anyone with a dream and a set of wheels.
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Powered by the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, one of the leading folk and outsider art organizations in the country, the Houston Art Car Parade celebrates the artist in everyone and the "drive to create" and has become one of the most recognized and beloved events in Houston.​
Friday April 11, 2025
6 - 11PM | Orange Show World Headquarters - 2401 Munger St.
THE LEGENDARY ART CAR BALL
Wild costumes, live music, interactive and performance art, food, drinks, and a huge selection of illuminated and fire-breathing art cars are hallmarks of the annual Legendary Art Car Ball. Featuring incredible musical acts, performance art Immersive and interactive art installations, and the visual spectacle of hundreds of glittering, twinkling, bouncing, and pulsating art cars scattered throughout the Orange Show World Headquarters 8-acre campus. ​
Saturday April 12, 2025
THE VIPit Party & Benefit
12 - 4PM | Hermann Square at City Hall - 901 Bagby St.
The ultimate viewing party and largest fundraiser for the Orange Show’s Houston Art Car Festival & Parade offers unobstructed front row views of the parade as it rolls through Downtown, all set within the beautiful Hermann Square at City Hall. The event features complimentary bites from over a dozen local chefs and restaurants, cocktails, pre-parade entertainment, kids’ art activities, swag bags, live parade commentating from notable Houston personalities, and nearby reserved parking.
Reserved Parade Seating
11AM - 2PM | Heritage Society - 1100 Bagby St
The Grandstands are located in the beautiful grounds of The Heritage Society, directly in the center of all the parade action, with the parade route rolling on both sides. Your ticket allows you entrance into the gated portion of Heritage Society and a seat in our Shaded Grandstands with unobstructed views of the parade as it passes by.
THE ORANGE SHOW'S 38th ANNUAL
HOUSTON ART CAR PARADE
PRESENTED BY TEAM GILLMAN
2PM | Along Allen Parkway & Smith Street
For the 38th year, 250 rolling masterpieces will take over the city’s streets as nearly 300,000 fans cheer them on from the sidelines. The parade officially begins at the intersection of Dallas and Bagby Streets (on Allen Parkway) heading into Downtown before circling City Hall and heading outbound onto Allen Parkway out of Downtown until dispersing at Waugh Drive. As always, the parade is FREE TO ATTEND.