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Duluth All Souls Night
November 2 @ 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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Our annual event of respectful remembering & reimagining hosted by Duluth Community Fall Arts Festival/Duluth All Souls Night.
All are invited!
Night of: Come as you are, dress as a skeleton if you dare! Otherwise we suggest black. (Please reserve Dias de los Muertos to those of Mexican heritage.)
Bring photocopies and/or small mementos to add our community altars to honor your lost beloved people/pets.
Write out and carry Rotten Ideas you’d like to see go extinct for our fire ceremony!*Do not park on W Michigan St between the Depot and Library. Please leave the street between the Depot and Library as open as possible for our lantern procession. The W 4th Ave.S. Auto Park across W 5th Ave. S. is free evenings/ weekends. Enter thru the lower Depot doors of the North Shore Scenic Railroad. https://duluthtrains.com/directions/
This is a freewill donation event, suggested $10 to feed the live artists. Part of the evening is outdoors weather permitting. It will be likely be a bit cold – Minnesotans, be sure to layer up! *Returning attendees requested to be guides to Newbies throughout the evening!
4:30 Oasis del Norte food truck opens in Railroad Plaza, face paint
5:30 pm Train Station Entrance: Northern Lights Aerials, displays
6:00 LSRM Opening Ceremony: Jillian Forte & friends
6:10 W 5th Ave S Side Depot Walkway – Funeral for Rotten Ideas: Follow the Grim Reapers & Sara Sha, bagpipes. Use crosswalks.
6:20 Library Plaza Community Spiral Dance: led by Helen Makela
Projections by Daniel Benoit and River Aquamann, Yabobo drums
6:30 Reading and burning Rotten Ideas
6:45 Bob Dylan Way Lantern Procession east around the Auto Park back down to LSRM w/ the Boys Back Home brass and our new life-size, glowing, articulated moose!
5:30 pm Train Station Entrance: Northern Lights Aerials, displays
6:00 LSRM Opening Ceremony: Jillian Forte & friends
6:10 W 5th Ave S Side Depot Walkway – Funeral for Rotten Ideas: Follow the Grim Reapers & Sara Sha, bagpipes. Use crosswalks.
6:20 Library Plaza Community Spiral Dance: led by Helen Makela
Projections by Daniel Benoit and River Aquamann, Yabobo drums
6:30 Reading and burning Rotten Ideas
6:45 Bob Dylan Way Lantern Procession east around the Auto Park back down to LSRM w/ the Boys Back Home brass and our new life-size, glowing, articulated moose!
7:15 Studio 4 Sadkin, alternative pop w/ giant Max Skeleton & others
8:00 Closing Ceremony
8:15 Railroad Plaza Spin Collective Fire Dances
8:45 LSRM Tidy Up
8:00 Closing Ceremony
8:15 Railroad Plaza Spin Collective Fire Dances
8:45 LSRM Tidy Up
Other 2024 DASN Dates:
Skeleton vignettes starting Oct 2, including Lane Ellis collection of Mexican Folk Figures
Tues., Oct. 22nd LSRM Altar Display Set-up 2-5 pm,
Viewing available afterwards during LSRM Hours 10 – 5
Fri., Nov. 1st Studio 4 Poetry Reading w/ MC Zomi Bloom 7-9 pm
Sun., Nov. 3rd 10 am – noon LSRM Finish dismantling Displays
Skeleton vignettes starting Oct 2, including Lane Ellis collection of Mexican Folk Figures
Tues., Oct. 22nd LSRM Altar Display Set-up 2-5 pm,
Viewing available afterwards during LSRM Hours 10 – 5
Fri., Nov. 1st Studio 4 Poetry Reading w/ MC Zomi Bloom 7-9 pm
Sun., Nov. 3rd 10 am – noon LSRM Finish dismantling Displays
*These activities are made possible in part by the voters of MN through organizational grants from Arrowhead Regional Arts Council (ARAC) thanks to appropriations from the Minnesota State Legislature’s general and arts and cultural heritage funds. An Art Project grant funds artist stipends in the event.
An Arts and Cultural Heritage grant supported the Giant Moose Lantern Puppet build led by UK artist, Andrew Kim, in June with nine MN artists. Leah Yellowbird did the final paint flourishes!
Prior years support for giant Max Skeleton and Puppet Projection Chariot also from Arrowhead Regional Arts Council (ARAC).
An Arts and Cultural Heritage grant supported the Giant Moose Lantern Puppet build led by UK artist, Andrew Kim, in June with nine MN artists. Leah Yellowbird did the final paint flourishes!
Prior years support for giant Max Skeleton and Puppet Projection Chariot also from Arrowhead Regional Arts Council (ARAC).