2025 Chewbacchus Parade
Schedule
Sat Feb 01 2025 at 07:00 pm to 11:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
New Orleans | New Orleans, LA
About this Event
This ticket counts as your annual Krewe Membership dues and entry into the 2025 parade and afterparty. We also encourage members to attend our events throughout the year, such as May the Fourth, Midsummer Mardi Gras, Alien Beach Party, Set Your Phasers to Stunning, and more!
The Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus (IKoC) is a Mardi Gras parade organization for revelrous Star Wars freaks, Trekkies, Whovians, mega-geeks, gamers, cosplayers, circuit benders, cryptozoologists, UFO conspiracy theorists, mad scientists, and all super nerds. Chewbacchus is founded on improving the known ‘Verse through community and revelry. In joining together to craft, costume, parade, and socialize, we build stronger connections and a better world.
We are the Future of Revelry. We are the first truly open source parade with an emphasis on DIY, homemade, and sustainable materials and practices. Any and all fandoms are welcome, and members can build almost any contraption to roll in the parade, as long as they can be pushed, pedaled, pulled, or electric-powered (particle propulsion accepted). We utilize tricycles, shopping carts, robotic power chairs, rickshaws, golf carts, and more.
IKoC members create an impressive variety of handmade crafts for paradegoers, but some of our signature throws are bandoliers, “bando blocks” (signature collectible blocks to decorate the bandoliers), and pocket shrines for our Sacred Drunken Wookiee.
After rolling through the streets of New Orleans dispensing the blessings of Our Sacred Drunken Wookiee to the masses, Chewbacchus members attend THE CHEWBACCHANAL! This post-parade party is a place to reconvene with parade friends and members of the public to celebrate the evening’s march. The party features bands, DJs, and lots of goodwill. The public can purchase tickets to the Chewbacchanal, but entry is included in annual membership dues. ALL HAIL!
A nnual Memberships dues for 2025 are as follows (child membership rates start at $21 and increase on the same schedule):
$42 through August 31
$62 through December 31
$82 through January 31
$100 February 1
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram:
https://www.facebook.com/kreweofchewbacchus/
https://www.instagram.com/kreweofchew
Join our KREWE OF CHEWBACCHUS Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/chewbacchus
GET IN WHERE YOU FIT IN! New member and need to find a subkrewe to join?Join our Facebook Group to connect new members with existing subkrewes- GET IN WHERE YOU FIT IN: The Official Chewbacchus Subkrewe Group
Cheap Plastic Plastic Beads are trash and are banned from being thrown in Chewbacchus. We give out handmade pieces of art and other useful objects rather than creating trash. Join this Facebook group for questions, sharing ideas, and inspiration concerning throwmaking: Chew Whatcha Wanna
ALL HAIL THE SACRED DRUNKEN WOOKIEE!!!
Where is it happening?
New Orleans, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 21.00 to USD 60.00