Parade Day Instructions

Birthday Battalion

1.10 Front banner
1.12 Music Group: Herald trumpets
1.20 Birthday cake and jesters

Domrémy Battalion

2.00 Title banner – Domrémy
2.10 Krewe de Fleurs and Maypole
2.10 Group credit banner: Fleurs
2.20 Sheep & Shepherds
2.20 Child “Joan”
2.30 School Groups

Voices of Joan Battalion

3.00 barrier banner “Called”
3.10 Title banner – Voices of Joan
3.10 Voices battalion “Joan”
3.10 Quote banner “One life is”
3.20 Wheel prop, St. Catherine, and Wheel Team
3.20 Voices full members
3.30 Quote banner “I heard a voice….”
3.30 St. Michael and Cloud prop and team
3.30 Music group: Angel Army Choir (by F.O.R.C.E.)
3.40 Dragon, St. Margaret and team

Knights Battalion

4.00 Barrier Banner “Battled”
4.10 Performance Group: Flag Corp (by NOLA Angels)
4.10 Flag Corp group credit banner “Cities Joan Liberated Flag Corps”
4.20 Bagpipes group credit banner “Joan’s Scottish Allies starring Kilts of Many Colors”
4.20 Music Group: Bagpipes
4.20 Hand Cannoneers
4.25 White wood horse and Knights Battalion “Joan”
4.30 Coat of arms pennant banner #1
4.40 Quote banner “I am not afraid”
4.40 Quote banner “I fear nothing”
4.50 Cavalry board (stick ponies)
4.55 Coat of arms pennant banner #2
4.60 Knights full members
4.60 Cannon and Cannon team
4.60 Music: Cannon drummers
4.65 Coat of arms pennant banner #3
4.70 Wall (Orléans)

Orléans Battalion

5.00 Quote banner “Trust in God”
5.10 Orléans Full Members
6.00 Banquet banners (2, tall krewe logo)
6.00 Big replica Joan banner
6.00 Title banner – Maid
6.15 Barrier Banner old St. Joan
6.20 Horse security with rope
6.20 Maid of Honor “Joan” on live horse
6.10 Maid’s entourage

Royalty Battalion

7.00 Music Group: King’s Band
7.10 Barrier banner – royalty crown
7.20 Title banner – Queen Yolande
7.20 Title banner – King Charles VII
7.20 Royal pedicabs, side by side
7.30 Royal entourage

Joan’s Trial Battalion

9.00 Barrier banner JUDGED
9.10 Quote banner “Bishop, I die through you!”
9.10 Music Group: Joan’s Rhythmic Inquisition

Flaming Heretics Battalion

10.00 Barrier banner BURNED
10.10 Flaming Heretics title banner
10.20 Joan the Flaming Heretic character
10.25 Flaming Heretics full members (dressed as flames)
10.30 Muff-a-Lottas
10.30 Muff-a-Lottas credit banner “Dancing Flames”

Restoration Battalion (celebrating the re-trial that declared Joan innocent)

11.00 Barrier Banner – Innocent
11.00 Title banner – Restoration
11.10 Quote banner — “In infamous and irreparable”
11.10 Quote banner — “She never thought…”
11.20 3 rose windows “lollipop”
11.21 Restoration Full members
11.22 Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral rolling prop
11.30 Costumed gargoyles with bells
11.31 Notre Dame de Rouen Cathedral rolling prop
11.32 Rotary Group: Monks with medieval manuscripts
11.33 Music Group: Archbishop Shaw band members costumed as pike men
11.40 Rotary Group: Monks with banners and signs
11.41 Visiting Orléans delegation, folding in at the HNOC
11.42 Orléans Cathedral rolling prop

Saint Joan Battalion (canonization of Joan)

12.00 Barrier banner: Sainted
12.10 Title banner: Saint Joan
12.10 Chorus Girl Angels
12.15 Chorus Girls group credit banner “Saint Joan with the angels starring The Chorus Girls” (1)
12.20 Canopy over Joan statue carried on litter (carry on shoulders)

Legacy Battalion (Joan’s legacy through history into our modern world)

13.00 Joanie on pony trike
13.10 Barrier Banner “Legacy”
13.20 Women Warriors group credit banner “Women Warriors”
13.20 Women Warriors
13.30 Suffragists
13.30 Suffragists overhead banner
13.50 Dollies
13.60 Barrier banner: Blessing
13.60 Barrier banner: Blessing
13.61 Blessing Joan puppet and team

11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Church at 1031 S. Carrollton. Use the side entrance on Zimple St.

All throws ready for pick-up!

Purchased Signature Throws Pick-Up

If you placed an online pre-order for throws, you can pick your throws up at the New Year’s Work Party. ALL the throws orders will be on site for pick-up regardless of which pick-up date you specified on your order. You can get your throws early at the New Year’s Work Party even if you specified a banquet pick-up (and every order picked up today is an order we don’t have to carry to the banquet!) 

“Free” Throws Pick-Up

Full members get a packet of throws included “free” with your membership: 20 tea lights, 20 prayer cards, a box of 50 matches, a collector pack of one of each of this year’s playing cards, and 5 wood doubloons. These packets are for full members only — not companion members. These packets MUST be picked up at the New Year’s Work Party by 2:30 p.m. If you are unable to pick up your throws bag today, the best strategy is to get a krewe friend to pick yours up for you.  Or, text Captain Amanda 504-940-4976 to have her reserve your bag and make arrangements to pick it up from her.  No throws bags will be brought to the parade line-up. 

At 2:30 p.m., throws bags not either picked up or reserved will be distributed to others. So if you’d like to score some extras, hang around until 2:30! The reason we do it this way is that one bag of 20 tea lights is easy to manage, but they are fragile and awkward to transport in bulk at a time when leaders’ cars are usually packed to the roof with other things.

Parade Wristbands

Get your parade wristband today!  If you already have your wristband, bypass the check-in at line-up and go straight to your place in the line-up.

Thursday, January 1: New Year’s Work Party

Most members have a reason to at least stop by this workshop, which makes it a bustling party. Group leaders and full members should pick up parade wristbands. Full members will be picking up throws, foot soldiers will be picking up costumes, and everyone will be working on making our signature tea light throws. 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. in the Parish Hall of Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church at the corner of Carrollton and Zimple (1031 S. Carrollton, map). Enter from the side door on Zimple. Show off your own projects or bring a snack or wine to share if you like.  Delicious holiday leftovers welcome. Dress: casual.

Action items:

• Volunteers needed: Sign up to help with loading in, packing out, food, wristband distribution or sale table
• If you picked up tea light kits to assemble, be sure to bring your assembled tea lights at the start of the work party (at 11 a.m.) so we can add the other goodies to member throw bags and get them ready for pick-up.

Pick up your costume TODAY — January 1st

11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Church, 1031 S. Carrollton, use side entrance on Zimple Street

According to our records, YOU have not picked up your costume yet! 

Thank you so much for signing up to be a foot soldier in Joan of Arc’s Army!  Remember that you MUST pick up your costume before parade day.

Today, you can not only pick up your costume but also enjoy our New Year’s Work Party. Hang out, meet other krewe members, eat, hear the Angel Army Choir, and help with last-minute krewe projects. Most krewe members have a reason to stop by, so it’s a fun gathering.

More about the foot soldier costumes: Foot Soldier Costume Guide  Note that the foot soldier costumes require you to wear dark solid color clothes underneath. Leggings or pants tucked into tall boots look especially good!  Don’t forget to wear your own medieval shoes!  Here’s our medieval shoes guide — you can probably find something medieval-looking in your closet.

Today is the last costume pick-up. Please make every possible effort to get your costume today. If you absolutely cannot pick up your costume today, you will need to annoy Captain Antoinette by making special arrangements to get your costume 504-717-1451 during these few days before the parade when her schedule is already jam-packed. This option should be strictly a last resort. 

NEW ROUTE AND START TIME: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS

If you did not return your costume last year, we need it desperately!

We are missing a LOT of foot soldier costumes from last year and with the increased cost of this year’s permit, we REALLY do not have the money to buy more. We need them THIS WEEK. Ways to return your costume:

• TODAY! Bring it to tonight’s throws workshop at Captain Amanda’s house, 7-9 p.m., Wednesday Dec. 17, 7330 Sycamore map
• Leave it on Captain Antoinette’s porch 617 Hyman Drive, Metairie (map) There’s a small wooden coffin on her porch (who knows why), and you can leave it inside that coffin.
• Bring it to the foot soldier costume pick-ups this weekend at the krewe storage unit at 3900 Tchoupitoulas (map). Call Antoinette when you arrive 504-717-1451 to let you in the storage unit gate, and our unit is right by the entrance.
  • 5-8 p.m. Friday Dec. 19 at the krewe storage unit
  • 9 a.m.-noon Saturday Dec. 20 at the krewe storage unit
  • 4-8 p.m. Sunday Dec. 21 at the krewe storage unit

You can leave your costume on Captain Antoinette’s porch at 617 Hyman Drive, but do NOT leave it on Captain Amanda’s porch.