The Annual Las Vegas Halloween Parade was started in 2010 by Cory Mervis, a SAG-AFTRA member who had moved to Las Vegas from New York and was shocked that we didn’t have a Halloween parade in town. She wanted to make it an event that anyone here could participate in for free.
Through grassroots efforts, she put it together, and this year will be the fifth annual parade.
In 2011, the legacy SAG Nevada Branch, in looking for a creative way to promote our presence locally, began sponsoring the parade. Participation in the parade has gotten us a lot of press coverage in Las Vegas over the last three years. As sponsors, we march our SAG-AFTRA banner in the parade and welcome all our members to join in and show their pride with us. Anyone in costume can participate and be a part of the fun. To accommodate our members that can’t walk the six-block route, we create a small float they can ride on that follows our banner group in the parade.
From left, Mary Ann Hebinck, Glenn Bass, Rick Rockne, Chris Rogers, Guy Chapman. Photo by Bobbie Wolff.
This is an event that’s open to family and friends and it makes for a fun evening. Each year, we have a theme for our float that helps bring out the actor in us. In 2011, we did a dungeon full of movie monsters and parade organizers used a photo of our group on the cover of their Facebook page! In 2012 we did a mad scientists lab and, in 2013, a pirate ship.
Mark your calendar and join us again this year. The SAG-AFTRA Nevada Local will observe Halloween and support this great community event with an Egyptian barge float theme that celebrates Cleopatra in film. We encourage those who will be riding on our float to dress according to the theme, while marchers are welcome to wear any costume to participate.
Details and logistics about our participation in the parade will be sent as we get closer to the event.
This item was originally featured in the August 2014 local newsletter.
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