Boo2Bullying presented its fourth annual Kick Bullying to the Curb Wellness Festival and Celebrity Kickball Game on October 10, inviting families to Palm Springs Power Stadium for an afternoon built around anti-bullying advocacy and youth mental health. The event ran from 4 to 8 p.m., with a celebrity kickball match serving as the day's centerpiece.
According to the event listing on Boo2Bullying's website, the festival was scheduled for 1901 E. Baristo Rd., with the kickball game set for 6 p.m. The listing described the matchup as family-friendly, featuring celebrity guests alongside community leaders, first responders, local businesses and youth organizations competing together on the field. The Desert Sun reported on the fourth annual gathering, noting it took place at Palm Springs Power Baseball Stadium.
A City of Palm Springs news snippet indicated admission to the festival was free, though that detail comes from limited snippet evidence rather than a fully verified source. Still, the structure of the day — hours-long community programming capped by the marquee kickball game — tracked closely with how the nonprofit has run the event in recent years.
How Last Year's Festival Set the Template
The 2025 version of the festival, Boo2Bullying's third annual, was held October 11 at Power Stadium in Sunrise Park, per KESQ's coverage. That event featured informational booths, face-painting, a petting zoo and free hot dogs, with activities running from 4 to 5:30 p.m. before the community kickball game kicked off at 6 p.m. Palm Springs native and former “The Voice” contestant Steve Knill sang the national anthem that year, the station reported.
Organizers of the 2025 festival emphasized inclusion and mental health as core goals of the event, with the station noting that organizers highlighted how youth mental well-being is strengthened when kids feel safe, supported and connected. That framing has carried through the festival's multi-year run, which traces back to an earlier Sept. 30, 2023, community wellness festival at Sunrise Park that also combined kickball activities with anti-bullying education, as described in a separate Desert Sun report.
A Disputed Founding Date
Accounts differ on exactly when Boo2Bullying got its start. KESQ has reported that founder Dimitri Halkidis launched the organization in 2011 following the suicide of a friend, while the Desert Sun has described the nonprofit as founded in 2013. Both outlets' reporting is clear on the organization's mission of providing free anti-bullying programs in schools, community settings and on social media, even as the founding year itself remains unresolved between the two accounts.
An earlier KESQ advance report, published in August 2025 ahead of last year's festival, had listed the event's hours as 4 to 7 p.m. at the same Sunrise Park address, 1901 E. Baristo Road — a minor scheduling detail that shifted by this year's listing to run an hour later, through 8 p.m. The persistence of the venue address across multiple years underscores Sunrise Park and its Power Stadium as the fixed home base for the annual gathering.
