The Annual Robbins Back-To-School
Parade & Festival 2023
September 1 - 3, 2023

THIS IS A FREE EVENT!!
Open to all

SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST 6AM TO 11PM

• ROBBINS BACKYARD HOUSE PARTY hosted by The Village of Robbins Block Clubs

               6:00am VENDOR SETUP STARTS
               12:OOpm FOOD SALES START
                5:00pm FEST OPENS 
                6:00pm ROBBINS BACKYARD HOUSE PARTY STARTS with DJ Fozzy
                8:00pm FARLEY "JACKMASTER" FUNK, The King of House Music
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND 6AM TO 11PM

• KIDS ZONE, ROBBINS' GOT TALENT, PARTY STEPPERS NIGHT 

                6:00am VENDOR SETUP STARTS
               12:OOpm - 4:00pm KIDS ZONE Sponsored by the William Leonard Library 
                Face Painting / Henna painting
                2 Reptiles Show Case
                2 Obstacle Jumpy Courses
                Virtual golf
                Drone Event teaching about drones
                Black-Owned Businesses Intro to Entrepreneurship
                3:30pm Jesse White Tumblers
                4:00pm - 11:00pm LET'S GROOVE TONIGHT Sponsored by the Robbins Park District
                4:00pm - 5:30pm Robbins' Got Talent
                6:00pm - 8:00pm SOUL COLLECTIVE Live Band
                8:00pm - 11:00pm Sam Chatman w/Ramonski Luv
 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD 6AM TO 8PM

• ANNUAL BACK-TO-SCHOOL PARADE & GOSPEL CONCERT hosted by The Village of Robbins Block Clubs

​                6:00am VENDOR SETUP STARTS 
             12:00pm PARADE LINE-UP
                2:00pm PARADE BEGINS
                5:00pm GOSPEL CONCERT
               Mistress of Ceremony Debra Rhodes Pettigrew
               Shekinah Glory Ministry and Unity Choir
               EW Project
               Arthur Sutton & The Gift Of Praise and more
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH 11AM TO 1PM

• COMMUNITY CLEAN-UP hosted by the Village of Robbins

​          The Parade and Fest are over, let's clean-up! Everyone's welcome to come help; we're looking for high school and college students to come out and help clean-up on Claire Blvd from 137th to 139th. You will earn community service hours for helping out.

​*Schedule subject to change without notice

Donations for the Annual Robbins Back-To-School Parade & Festival are always welcome! Whether it's monetary, in-kind or in the form of volunteering, you help is greatly appreciated! Use the "DONATE" button below to make a monetary donation.

We accept cash, checks, all major credit cards, CashApp, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay and Zelle.
You may Zelle payments and donations to "[email protected]"

*All funds donated are tax-deductible and NON-REFUNDABLE. All vendor and parade fees are non-refundable, but transferrable upon approval from the Robbins Block Clubs.

MORE DETAILS COMING SOON!!

CHECKS CAN BE MADE PAYABLE TO: THE ROBBINS BLOCK CLUBS, INC.