ZOOFARI 2024
presented by Wells Fargo
7:15-11 p.m.
Friday, June 21, 2024
Sold Out!
Dig into dinner-by-the-bite samples and refreshing libations from 40+ local restaurants.
Enjoy interactive activities like the Kendra Scott Color Bar™, a wine and spirits pull, a local-restaurant gift card wall, and a silent auction offering exclusive animal experiences.
Dance the night away with musical entertainment across the Zoo, including Maggie Speaks Big Band, playing your favorite party hits.
2024 Participating Restaurants
801 Chophouse | Farinas Bar and Event Venue Fired Up Jellies and Jam | Michele C. Catering & Events |
Special Activites
Bid on unique Saint Louis Zoo experiences, from exclusive behind-the-scenes animal tours to specialty cocktail hours and dinners.
Support our local restaurants! Pull an envelope off the wall and win a gift card to a participating ZOOFARI 2024 restaurant or a St. Louis-area restaurant. Gift cards are valued at $25 or $50.
Create custom jewelry at the Kendra Scott Color Bar™, featuring the ZOOFARI commemorative stone. Necklaces, earrings and more are available for purchase, as well as fine jewelry. Twenty percent of your purchase will be donated back to the Zoo.
Pull a bottle from our impressive selection of wine and spirits, then enter the raffle to win a variety of prizes, including a magnum bottle of wine.
Enjoy samples from a selection of top shelf bourbons and enter to win a bottle of bourbon.
The Humboldt Penguin
ZOOFARI’s featured animal this year is the Humboldt penguin, a warm-climate bird that lives on the coast of Peru and Chile.
The Saint Louis Zoo has worked to help preserve Humboldt penguins in Peru for over 20 years. Zoo staff participate in the annual counts of Humboldt penguins along the Peruvian coast. They have also acted as international observers in several sustainable harvests of guano in the penguins' largest breeding colony in Punta San Juan, Peru. Additionally, the Saint Louis Zoo WildCare Institute supports research staff at Punta San Juan.
What to Wear
Guests are encouraged to wear fun, animal-inspired, creative black-tie attire and comfortable shoes while grazing on great food and drinks around the Zoo.
Thanks to our 2024 sponsors
Leader of the Pack
Wells Fargo
Plunging Polar Bear
Kevin Beckmann Charitable Trust at YouthBridge Community Foundation
Musical Entertainment
U.S. Bank
Tip of the Iceberg
World Wide Technology
Pre-Party
Anheuser-Busch
Gentle Giraffe
Bayer
Mid America Chevy Dealers
Playful Penguin
Acropolis Investment Management
Alberici
Ameren
Berges Family Foundation
CACi
Cequel III
David B. Lichtenstein Foundation
Edward Jones
Emerson
First Bank
Graybar
Harbour Group
Instinct Pet Food
Alicia S. McDonnell
PGAV Destinations
Roofers Mart, Inc.
Sandberg Phoenix
Thompson Coburn LLP
Thomas and Betty Tyler
ZOOFARI 2024
ZOOFARI Planning Committee
Joe and Marcia Ambrose Emilie Baker Susan Block Christine Boushka Kristy Bryan Dr. Edmond Cabbabe Bill Courtney Laura Courtney Whittney Dunn Amanda Ehll Kathy Federico Christine Figge Caryl Flannery Jan Goldstein Meghan Haines Nancy Hawes Michael Hickey Sue Hilbert Charlie and Marilyn Hoessle Jana Holstein Naretha Hopson | Victoria Iken Ken Johnson Praveena Kolli Susan Kottler Susan Krawll Julie Linder Katie Lineberry Megan Martin Brittany Mayfield Megan Moore Ron Moore David Murphy Sam Orlando Gwendolyn Packnett Lauren Parko Janice Phelps Mike Poletti David Pradhan | Dana Tucker Redwing Nancy Sauer Angela Schaefer Matt Schumacher Megan Higgenbotham Schwedtmann Madeline Sciortino Rachel Seward II William Siedhoff William Siedhoff Thad Simons Zachary Smith Lindsay Stowe Lisa Sullivan Dianne Sutcliffe Jack Terschluse Todd Tiefenauer Zach Ungerott Ann von der Heydt Jimmy Williams Kathleen Woodworth Debby Ziegenbein |
| ZOOFARI Co-Chairs | ZOOFARI Honorary Co-Chairs |
| Pamela Glaser Kip Bilderback | James G. Berges Elizabeth Mannen Berges |