“It’s my love letter back to the region. People need happy things and things to inspire us — like the Renaissance after the Dark Ages.”
The two-day event commemorates the 40th anniversary of “Star Wars: Return of the Jedi” this June in Northern California. It includes four film screenings between the two counties and holiday-like fanfare, with costumes and parties in downtown Eureka and on Cal Poly Humboldt's campus in Arcata.
The festival’s vision is to gather community members and outsider fans of the series for a summer jubilee akin to the Fourth of July, where folks are encouraged to dress up to the theme and congregate under the redwood trees. Community staples such as the Sequoia Park Zoo and Humboldt Crabs baseball team are participating, andis expected to feature a 20-person squadron of Stormtroopers marching down main street.
“It’s my love letter back to the region,” Hesseltine said. “People need happy things and things to inspire us — like the Renaissance after the Dark Ages. Yeah, it will help the economy, as people will stay in hotels and eat out. But it’s so much more than that. It’s a holiday. It’s that Fourth of July feeling with everybody out and about, all united. We’ve been so divided between the pandemic and politics; this is not one of those things.
Fans adorned in Lucasfilm-approved costumes on the"Sky Walk" at the Sequoia Park Zoo during the 2022 May the Fourth event hosted by the Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commission.The dates are set — June 2 and 3 — and scheduling is still coming together as the film commission continues to coordinate with local vendors and community partners. Interested vendors have until May 26 to apply to join., including “YOU CAN’T have Yoda in an ad asking patrons to come buy tacos at your Taco Stand.
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