The Cookout

02/19/2025

We’re Back! Save the date 4.5.25

Come celebrate, uplift, and honor Black and Brown excellence in the marching arts, post 2025 WGI Color Guard Championships! We’ll see you there! 😉

04/16/2023

The Cookout 2023 is in the books and couldn’t be happier that everyone could attend. Same time next year?

04/16/2023

WOW! What a great WGI! I hope you had as much fun as we did! There are still tickets left for The Cookout! Just go to marchingcookout.com to purchase your tickets. Doors open at 11am event ”happenings” start at 12:15pm.

Hope to see you there!❤️

The Cookout ticket page

04/14/2023

Hope you are having a great WGI! You still have 2 more days to get your tickets to The Cookout!!

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04/11/2023

Only 3 days left for you to purchase your tickets from The Cookout! You definitely want to be part of this monumental event that celebrates people of color in colorguard!

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04/09/2023

04/01/2023

🤣Happy April Fool's Day! 🤣 However, this is NOT a prank. If you are a student and would like to attend The Cookout event, we have a discount for you! Go to marchingcookout.com and use the code below at checkout. NO JOKE! 🤣 Get your tickets today.

03/30/2023

🔊Sponsor Shoutout🔊
Big thank you to The Breakdown for support this memorable event! We are so excited to be working with you all!

03/23/2023

The Cookout's Legacy Award Recipient for 2023:
🌟Rodney Bailey🌟
Rodney Bailey is a director, designer, consultant, choreographer, and influential voice in the marching arts activity.

Get your tickets to The Cookout at marchingcookout.com

03/21/2023

🔊The Cookout proudly announces the presenters for our 2023 event: Michael Rosales and Wayne Harris! 🔊

Get your tickets today: marchingcookout.com

03/17/2023

🔊Directors🔊
If you have performers of color who would benefit from this scholarship, please encourage them to apply. TODAY IS THE LAST DAY!
🌟The Cookout is awards 3 scholarships this year.
🌟One in collaboration with DPG (Digital Performance Gear)
🌟One that is specifically for a performer of color over the age of 25!
Apply NOW! 🍀

The Cookout 23 is looking for young color guard performers of color to receive aid for their next school year. We even have a scholarship for a performer of color over age 25! Apply below. Fill out all sections and remember to include a link to your introduction video. Deadline is March 17th @11:59p...

03/16/2023

🔊Directors🔊
If you have performers of color who would benefit from this scholarship, please encourage them to apply. THERE'S ONLY 1 DAY LEFT!
🌟The Cookout is awards 3 scholarships this year.
🌟One in collaboration with DPG
🌟One that is specifically for a performer of color over the age of 25!
Apply today! 🍀

The Cookout 23 is looking for young color guard performers of color to receive aid for their next school year. We even have a scholarship for a performer of color over age 25! Apply below. Fill out all sections and remember to include a link to your introduction video. Deadline is March 17th @11:59p...

03/16/2023

🔊GUEST SPEAKER🔊
The Cookout is so excited to have Deesha Dyer as a our guest speaker at the event this year!

🌟Find out more about here:

Deesha Dyer is the Founder and CEO of Hook & Fasten, a social impact agency that specializes in transformational relationships between corporations and communities, diversity & inclusion and executive operations. Dyer is an award-winning strategist, on-the-ground community organizer and operations expert who cultivates and executes ideas and causes that create tangible change. For nearly two decades, she has produced social-impact campaigns across entertainment, politics, philanthropy and business. Dyer served as White House Social Secretary under President Barack Obama, completed a two-year tenure at the Ford Foundation, and in December 2019, finished a fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics where she designed and taught a study course entitled, “From Imposter to Impact.”

Named to Marie Claire’s ‘new guard of women changing the world’, Dyer’s personal journey has been guided by an unwavering passion for servant leadership, civic engagement and social justice. In 2015, Essence called her “one of the most powerful women calling the shots in the Obama Administration.”

Dyer is a sought-after keynote speaker known for delivering engaging talks on a range of topics spanning women in leadership, confidence, diversity and social change.

03/15/2023

Let's take a look back at last year's Cookout celebration....

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03/15/2023

🔊Directors🔊
If you have performers of color who would benefit from this scholarship, please encourage them to apply. THERE'S ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT!
🌟The Cookout is awards 3 scholarships this year.
🌟One in collaboration with DPG
🌟One that is specifically for a performer of color over the age of 25!
Apply today! 🍀

The Cookout 23 is looking for young color guard performers of color to receive aid for their next school year. We even have a scholarship for a performer of color over age 25! Apply below. Fill out all sections and remember to include a link to your introduction video. Deadline is March 17th @11:59p...

03/14/2023

Looking for ways to support The Cookout event and all that goes with it? We have different ways you can do that:
Donate monetarily to either
Cash App: $thecookout22 or PayPal:
Or
You can buy merch, get your tickets and make a donation at marchingcookout.com
-$5 of every Cookout purchase goes to The Cookout event/scholarships
-follow the link to get your tickets to the event -AND-
-you can also click the link to donate.
So easy, so quick and for a great cause that is soon to become tradition.

03/13/2023

🌟Scholarship Opportunity for Winterguard Performers of Color🌟
The Cookout is awarding 3 scholarships to performers of color who are currently performing in a Winterguard this year. And one of those scholarships are specifically for performers of color over the age of 25!
This effort is in collaboration with Digital Performance Gear💗.
The deadline is March 17th so get your application in today! Good luck! 🍀

The Cookout 23 is looking for young color guard performers of color to receive aid for their next school year. We even have a scholarship for a performer of color over age 25! Apply below. Fill out all sections and remember to include a link to your introduction video. Deadline is March 17th @11:59p...

03/13/2023

Meet the founder of The Cookout, Nicole and find out why this event is important to her!