SLPL Prom 2023

Join us for fun and friends at PROM!

Friday, March 31
7:30-9:30 p.m.
Central Library
$60 individual | $40 Friends of SLPL
must be 21 or older

Grab your high school besties, your powder blue tuxes and taffeta dresses, and hit the dance floor at Central Library.

Enjoy drinks, St. Louis-themed food and dancing with our guest emcee, the iconic Johnny Rabbitt! 

Proceeds from the event will support SLPL’s new exhibit “PROM Magazine: Where did you go to high school?”.

•Guest will enjoy:

•  Drinks (Beer, wine, spiked punch, soda)

•  St. Louis-themed snacks (Toasted Ravs, pork steak sliders with Maul’s BBQ sauce, St. Louis-style pizza, veggies and Mayfair dressing, gooey butter cookies - and TUMS!)

•  Dancing to tunes from past decades

• Recreating your Prom memories with fun and traditional photos

•  Celebrating the crowning of two individuals as SLPL PROM Royalty for their service to the community (Vote here for Prom Royalty)

Prom attire from any era is suggested. Free parking is available in SLPL’s surface parking lot at Olive and 15th.

 

Click here to purchase tickets!

PROM @ SLPL celebrates the unique cultural relationship St. Louis has to the special four-year shared experience we all call “high school.” PROM @ SLPL consists of two components - a prom event and an exhibit at Central Library opening in April.

PROM Magazine: Where did you go to high school?
April 10, 2023 - January 7, 2024
Central Library
1301 Olive Street

Stroll down memory lane while exploring St. Louis Public Library’s new exhibit highlighting the library’s extensive collection of PROM Magazine–a monthly publication from 1947-1973  featuring all the news from St. Louis’ public, private and parochial schools.

The exhibit will explore the publication’s start as post-war capitalism targeted at young consumers, its revolutionary use of student reporters, and its emphasis on celebrating the high school years with social events, sports, and fashion.

The exhibit is free and open to open to the public during normal library hours.

 
PROM @ SLPL Event Sponsors
Ulrike and Tom Schlafly               
Commerce Bank
St. Louis Magazine
Yvette Drury Dubinsky and John Dubinsky
Ferring Family Foundation
John Burroughs School Alumni Association
Kiku Obata

The St. Louis America

PROM @ SLPL Exhibit Sponsors
Ulrike and Tom Schlafly
Missouri Humanities Council
Commerce Bank
St. Louis Magazine
Yvette Drury Dubinsky and John Dubinsky
Ferring Family Foundation
John Burroughs School Alumni Association
Kiku Obata
The St. Louis American

 
Special thanks to:

Anthonino’s Taverna, Classic Car Club of America, Herbaria, Horseless Carriage Club of Missouri, St. Louis Car Museum

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