Duluth ALL Souls Night

Duluth's Dance of Death and Honoring of the Ancestors
Annually since 2008

Our 18th Anniversary!

Saturday, November 8th, 2025

Clyde Iron Works Event Center

2920 W. Michigan St., Duluth, MN 55806

5 pm Saturday, November 8th, 2025

5:00 pm Reflection: Art, Altars, Northern Lights Aerial Studio: Niamh Jackman-Bradley, Audra Stansky, Jessie Myrriah, Mary Swelstad, Spoken Word artists: Janis Fairbanks, Tina Higgins Wussow, Alex Buelt, Liz Minette, Chandra Fischer with Andrew Lipke, music & open mic host, Zomi Bloom
 

6:30 pm Sing with Sara Thomsen, Open with Jillian Forte, Funeral March for Rotten Ideas with Sara Sha, bagpipes, Spiral Dance with Helen Makela
 

7:00 pm Fire & Joyful Procession: Max Skeleton, Lanterns & company, Giant Marionette Makers: Chris Lutter and Mary Plaster Puppeteers: Olaf Mekitt, Mark-John Kruse, Adam Marquardt Muesli Mooseketeers: Paul Durham, Jim Elstrom
 

7:30 pm Ignite Imagination for our Future with the Spin Collective: Jayme Hudson, Erin Filletoe, Matt Lindberg, Denise Hooper, Aleasha Hladelik Falter, Amethyst Leamuria Harle, Closing with Jillian Forte
 

8:00 pm Dancing/Dismantle to tunes by The Boys Back Home brass band: Will Danaher trombone, Devon DaFoe saxophone, Beck Fulin trumpet, Grant Carl sousaphone, Maya Chavez-Sechser bass drum, Luke Chavez-Sechser snare drum

Also, don't miss!

October 2025 Workshops

October 9th Travel Shrines @ Spirit of the Lake Community Arts
5401 E Superior St @ 6 pm w/ Susan Ranfranz & co. (free)
 
 
October 19th Creative Writing @ Duluth Folk School Library
1917 W Superior St @ 1 pm w/ Zomi Bloom ($15)
 
October 23rd Sugar-Skull Masks @ Duluth Children’s Museum
2125 W Superior St @ 10:30 am w/ Eugenia de los Angeles Ortega Martinez (free)
 
October 25th Ofrenda @ Oasis del Norte restaurant
2401 W Superior St @ 2 pm w/ Eugenia de los Angeles Ortega Martinez (free)
 
October 30th Procession Lanterns @ Duluth Folk School ($15)
1917 W Superior St @ 5:30 pm w/ Mary Plaster

*Thanks to a Lloyd K. Johnson Foundation grant and the generosity of presenters/venues

The annual event remains Duluth’s only public acknowledgement of grief.

We move through our personal and collective sadness for losses of all kinds with creativity and kindness within supportive community. We have so much gratitude for our partners in venue and other contributions of time, talent and currency.

Thanks ARAC for art support grants past & present!

Duluth ALL Souls Night is intergenerational, multicultural, and multidisciplinary, nurturing expression from everyone as we recognize loss and embrace what is life-giving at the postharvest/pre-winter time of year when leaves have fallen and things look a bit bleak.

This night has consistently attracted people by acknowledging and transforming grief with displays, poetry, music, dance, and spectacle arts like giant puppets, aerialists, and fire spinning.

Help & Donations

Donations are greatly appreciated; however, there is no mandatory fee to join our efforts.
Anyone can support us in other ways: volunteer, be a guide, say names to honor beloved departed, carry a prop in the March, and write a Rotten Idea. Creativity is required for hope and healing in these unprecedented times.

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*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 & cultural heritage funds.