One of the most impressive traditional carnival in Lithuania is called Uzgavenes (Užgavėnės), and occurs 7 weeks before Easter, on Shrove Tuesday (fr.Mardi Gras), every year. This festival with pagan roots is celebrated with food and Shrovetide traditions.

Lithuanians celebrate Carnival with a female effigy, called More, who is paraded through town streets before being burned as a way to say farewell to winter and to celebrate springtime. In addition to the character More, two other symbolic figures, Lašininis and Kanapinis, fight. Kanapinis, who represents renewal, always wins.

Other traditions include dressing up in costumes and donning masks, playing games, and pigging out. Lithuanians indulge in pancakes on Uzgavenes, as well as other foods traditional to this holiday.

A large Carnival celebration occurs in Vilnius main squares and also in Rumšiškės (the open-air ethnographic museum in Rumšiškės hosts Shrovetide celebrations in its traditional, rustic setting).