St. Pete’s kid-friendly ‘First Night’ NYE celebration celebrates 30th anniversary

The City of St. Pete has been hosting its annual, family-friendly New Year’s party for the past three decades, and its 30th anniversary is right around the corner.

This free, North Straub Park-hosted event features live music, tons of kid-friendly activities, interactive displays, improv performances, dancing and sing-a-longs from 4 p.m.-8 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 31.  Event organizers claim that their annual First Night party is “the largest family-friendly New Year’s Eve Celebration of the Arts in Florida.”

St. Pete Catalyst recently reported that 2022’s First Night party was canceled due to “low funding, a scarcity of volunteers and blowback from the low attendance numbers of the pandemic years,” so make sure to bring the family out to this week’s significant event.

Like every year, 2023’s First Night party is alcohol-free, but if you’d like to return to downtown’s North Straub Park a few hours later, you can catch the City of St. Pete’s fireworks display and grab a drink on the St. Pete Pier.

And if you’re looking for more New Year’s festivities, check out Creative Loafing’s event roundup.
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This article appears in Dec 21-27, 2023.