Duluth ALL Souls Night

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

Our 17th Anniversary!

Saturday, November 2nd, 2024

Duluth All Souls Night 2024

17th Duluth All Souls Night!

Lake Superior Railroad Museum (LSRM)

Saturday evening, November 2nd, 2024

 
Schedule under and around the Depot and Library

4:30 Outdoor Railroad Plaza: Oasis del Norte food truck, face paint

 
5:30 LSRM: altar and skeleton displays, Northern Lights Aerials

 
6:15 Outdoor Library Plaza: Funeral for Rotten Ideas w/ Jillian Forte and friends

Grim Reapers with Sara Sha, bagpipes
Spiral dance with Helen Makela & Yabobo drummers
 
6:45 Bob Dylan Way: Puppet procession with the Boys Back Home brass band

 
7:15 Studio 4: Sadkin, art pop band

 
8:00 Railroad Plaza: Ceremony and Spin Collective fire dances

Also, don’t miss!

Starting Oct. 2nd Lane Ellis collection of Mexican folk figures, skeleton vignettes

Oct. 23rd – Nov. 2nd Altar Displays open LSRM hours 10 - 5 p.m.

Nov. 1st Studio 4 Poetry Slam w/ MC Zomi Bloom 7 - 9 p.m.

Giant 18’ marionette Max Skeleton by artists Mary Plaster & Christopher Lutter. Thanks to a 2017 Arrowhead Regional Arts Council Artist Development grant (shown here DASN 2023). Rolling gantry controller design/construction: Chris Lutter & Marc Scamp
Giant alebrije tricycle by Minneapolis artist, Gustavo Boada, thanks to a 2023 Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Support for Individuals grant.

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 & MSAB for art support grants past & present!

Projections by Daniel Benoit and River Akemann, this one is of Jillian Forte, ritual 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.

Sadkin, art pop band: Max Mileski lead vocal/guitar, Anton Jimenez-Kloekl synthesizers, Chris LeBlanc drum, Nicholas Hanson guitar, Alex Piazza bass. Sound: Richard Holbrook

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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@mary-plaster-2

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 and general and arts and cultural heritage funds.