Duluth ALL Souls Night

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

Our 19th Anniversary!

Saturday, November 7th, 2026

The Duluth Depot

506 W. Michigan St. in Duluth, Minnesota

Saturday Evening, November 7th, 2026

Spin Collective with projections by River Akemann and Daniel Benoit
Northern Lights Aerial Studio
Renan Cruz: 2024 RIP War, Guatemalan Kite Display

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!

Sara Thomsen will sing from her new album, Here and Now
The Boys Back Home with Max Skeleton
Burning the Rotten Ideas with Jillian Forte, ceremony leader

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.

Funeral March for Rotten Ideas: Allen Richardson as Grim Reaper, Sara Sha (bagpipes), Chris Baldwin (drums)
Rotten Ideas Casket carried by Brady Cluka and Zack Plaster

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.

PayPal

Venmo

@mary-plaster-2

Susan Ranfranz: RWR Love & Joy, Suitcase Remembrance Shrine

*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.