Free event at Union Station’s Haverty Family Yards in partnership with Downtown Kansas City Rotary Club, Kansas City Southern, Canadian Pacific, and GATX

Enjoy more than 15 exhibitors at this free learning celebration that focuses on the iconic monarch butterfly. Monarchs and rail transportation are a symbol of North American unity and this unique event will promote sustainable solutions to issues pollinators are facing today. Through hands-on activities, games, presentations, performances and more we will engage with our community to promote pollinator habitat, educate a diverse audience, and raise funds to support reforestation in the monarch overwintering forests of Mexico.

The event will include an opening ceremony, pledges by local officials, performances and activities to engage the public. Food trucks and other other vendors.

Onsite exhibitors include: the Kansas City Zoo, the Saint Louis Zoo, Missouri Department of Conservation, Monarch Watch, Missourians for Monarchs and more.

For more information on how you can help visit: https://www.kcsouthern.com/en-us/media/news/news-feature-monarch-mariposa

Event Schedule
10:00 – Recorded Music
10:30 – Opening Ceremony
11:15 – Mariachi Fuego
12:00 – Exhibitor Comments
12:15 – Mariachi Fuego
1:00 – Exhibitor Comments
1:15 – Folkorico Dance Group
1:45 – Exhibitor Comments
2:00 – Operation Pollination Signing
2:30 – Exhibitor Comments
2:45 – Recorded Music
3:00 – Exhibitor Comments
3:15 – Music by Nina Rodriguez
4:00 – End of Show