Courtesy of Kamalu Ogata

From themed events with live music to off-campus excursions and cozy gatherings, Feb Club transforms February into a month-long celebration for seniors.

“It’s been really fun having an excuse to hang out with my friends every single day, especially since a ton of us are ‘All-Starring’,” said Michelle Zheng ’25. “I always think I know more people in my class than I actually do, but I still find myself seeing new faces at every event.”

All-Stars are seniors who have attended and completed a special task every night of Feb Club. After the month is over, their dedication to Feb Club is recognized in the form of a small gift, traditionally a flask with their name engraved on it.

“The tasks all result in you taking a picture of yourself and sharing it with the Feb Club Coordinators,” said Kamalu Ogata ’25. “Picture tasks have included building a snowman, making a snow angel, doing a keg stand, pretending to DJ, pointing at the moon and posing with your bingo sheet.”

This year, a month-long ticket for Feb Club, which provides access to all Feb Club events, cost seniors $40. For seniors interested in attending only a few nights of Feb Club, tickets for individual events hosted Sunday through Wednesday cost $10 while Thursday through Saturday tickets could be purchased for $15 each.

Feb Club party locations are typically scattered across campus, drawing seniors to a new location each night. This year, Feb Club locations have included BAR Pizza, Luther House, Zeta, off-campus housing, Branford God Quad, the Silliman theater and various classrooms in Linsly-Chittenden Hall and William L. Harkness Hall.

Feb Club parties, organized by the secret society Desmos, have included themes including Vegas Wedding, Battle of the Bands, Febtoberfest, Costume Party, Twin Night, Drag Queen Bingo, Global Groove and more.

Seniors are notified of Feb Club events through class-wide emails, large automated texts and through a private Instagram account.

Despite being referred to as “Feb Club parties,” not every day is an actual party. 

“A good amount of the days have just been miscellaneous events, like a snowball fight or a movie night or a bingo game or PE class or Jeopardy or painting or Capture-the-flag,” said Ogata. “I think this is awesome because it feels like it makes Feb Club so much more accessible to the senior class, as now it engages with people through ways other than drinking and dancing.”

On Feb. 9, a Feb Club Snowball Fight was hosted on the Morse/Stiles crescent. To prepare for the event, Nathan Sih ’25, Cole Black ’25, Cristian Pereira ’25 and Wade Wahlig ’25 went to Walgreens beforehand and purchased plastic tubs, filling them with snow and using them as bricks to construct a snow fort before the snowball fight even started.

“Unfortunately, the fort called a lot of attention, and we basically spent the whole fight holding off everybody else,” recalled Pereira.

Pereira said that he “liked seeing the diversity of events offered” through Feb Club, while Zheng told the News that the variety of events gives seniors “daily excuses to act like a kid again.”

Marcus Lisman ’25, who hopes to become an All-Star, told the News that he found Feb Club to be “extremely well-organized” and that having a variety of good events kept him participating and returning to Feb Club each night.

“Everything was planned perfectly and the parties were all super fun,” said Lisman. “I think it was the perfect combination of normal parties and more fun competition events like Twister or even chill events like painting.”

Lisman said that his favorite night of Feb Club was “definitely opening night at Luther.” The party’s space theme was “Take Off,” with the All-Star task involving taking a photo pointing to the moon. Seniors notably showed up costumed in “silver, shiny clothes, space suits, [and] goggles,” according to Ogata.

Lisman found it special how the majority of the senior class all came together to party and celebrate not only the start of Feb Club, but “really all of our accomplishments and memories so far as a class.”

Ogata noted that the first Thursday night of Feb Club was also “a blast” as seniors attended the party with their societies. “It’s always a great time when all your friends are around,” said Ogata.

Feb Club also included performances by live bands this year. At a “Battle of the Bands” event hosted by the Leviathan senior society on Valentine’s Day, student bands included The Blue Tits, Don’t Sell Me The Dog, Aces Bridges Club and Lyle Griggs & Friends.

Kaj Litch ’25 told the News that he had a “great time” performing at Feb Club. He found it special that Yale has “a real appreciation for live music,” and that even on a sub-20 degree night, “people seemed excited to come out and hear live music.”

“Performing at the Battle of the Bands was a blast,” said Tristan Byrne ’26, who plays the guitar and performed with Aces Bridges Club at the Battle of the Bands Feb Club event. “We did have a few roadblocks along the way, namely the ground that the audience would be standing being covered with ice, but we all pitched in with shovels and were able to put on a fun show.”

Byrne told the News that the event being “mostly seniors made the vibes even better” and that he is excited about attending Feb Club as a senior next year. Byrne noted that “there was a real community vibe that you don’t get with more open parties” at the Battle of the Bands event.

The final Feb Club event will take place on Friday, Feb. 28. The theme is Moon Landing.