Date/Time
Date(s) - 2025-09-07
8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location
Almaden Lake Park
Categories
Event Name: Shine A Light Walk Bay Area
Venue: Almaden Lake Park
Venue address: 6099 Winfield Blvd, San Jose, CA 95120
Event Start: 8am
Event End: 12pm
Arrival Time: 7am
Expected number of attendees: 100
Requested number of characters: Any
Requested character types: Any (Open for any characters ie. Darth Vader, Stormtroopers)
Secure changing/staging area: No- we can set up a tent and a volunteer will be on hand to watch over bins
Handler/Photographer: Yes
Weapons/Masks: Yes
Amenities available at venue: Our Bay Area event will take place in Almaden Lake Park. Due to this, we won’t have a green room/private changing room but public bathrooms are available fro changing. This park is considered accessible with a wheelchair-accessible parking lot and wheelchair-friendly path around the lake. We will provide water and light snacks.
Comments: The Shine a Light NF Walk is a fundraising event to benefit the Children’s Tumor Foundation and help end NF. Neurofibromatosis, or NF, affects millions of people worldwide, but few have heard of it and there currently is no cure. The Shine a Light NF Walk brings NF out of the shadows, raising awareness and funding research to help better the lives of those living with NF.
Our event is a celebration of our NF Heroes and their families. We have face painters, games, live music, and other activities for everyone to do starting at 8 AM when registration opens. Then around 9:30 AM we will have a short program before we have our physical walk. Afterwards, we will have snacks and more fun before everyone heads home. In the past, the characters have helped send our walkers off and then greeted them when they have returned. A majority of our attendees are impacted children and their families.
Referred by: The 501st Legion has supported our event in dozens of cities for years now and we so appreciate the fun you bring to our walks! We would love to have you all involved in our Bay Area walk this year to help make it an even better day for our participants. The characters are always a huge hit with our kids!
GGG Event Coordinator: Kevin Dizon
Booking Deadline: 9/5/25
Incoming Transmission: if a minimum of 2 troopers and 1 handler is not met, we will decline this event.
Decline Date
2025-09-05
Trooping
Sign ups are closed for this trooping event.
Notes from the Troopers
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