The 3rd Annual
All Souls
River Procession

5 - 9 pm, November 4th, 2023
Green Anchors & Cathedral Park

Photo by @natalya_chaos

Join us...

for an all-ages community art event and ritual procession through Cathedral Park to the sandy shore of the Willamette River below the St Johns Bridge.

With masks, lanterns, rattles and drums, we will recognize the thinness of the veil at the Autumnal cross-quarter, and offer an acknowledgement of all that and those we have lost over the preceding year.

Following our offerings, prayers, and farewells, we will conclude with revelry for us—the living.

Photo by @wildlandroots

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Call for Volunteers!

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Things to bring to with you

Schedule

Photos from All Souls 2022

Photos from All Souls 2021

Call for Volunteers!

Would you like to carry a giant puppet in the procession? Or to embody a ritual role such as a Guardian of Water, Earth, Air or Fire? Maybe you would like to play some music for the procession and/or post-processional revelries? Or perhaps your talents lie in cooking and our food committee seems like the place to help out?

These and other volunteer opportunities are waiting to be filled. Please visit our volunteer sign-up form, or you can email Moni with any questions.

Photo by @wildlandroots

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Things to bring to with you

A ceremonial costume and/or decorative mask. Suggested themes: Light and dark, threshold, ancestors, seed, autumn, nature, connection to place.
Drums, rattles and other musical instruments.
A lantern (Strongly recommended to navigate through the dark night)
Offerings for the river (Biodegradable please. If plant-based, no invasive species.)
Tokens to honor and remember those who have recently passed on, to wear or carry with you.
A picture or symbolic item to place on the community altar of our beloved dead of any loved one (human or non-human) you wish to honor during the event.
If the forecast calls for rain, we recommend you bring a large umbrella embellished for the procession.
A "night picnic" to enjoy in the big tent after the procession, and/or food to share.

Photo by @wildlandroots

Schedule

5:00pm : Gather at the Green Anchors gardens, at 8940 N Bradford St. We have a brand new entrance! Look for the big metal gate in the fence along the northwest edge of the Cathedral Park boat ramp parking lot.

5:30pm: Procession line-up

Sunset / ~6:00pm: Procession through Cathedral Park to the river's edge and ritual site. (Route is just under a ½ mile, along both paved and grassy surfaces)

7:00pm: River ritual ends, revelry begins! Bring a night picnic and hang out under the big tent with our community "altar of our beloved dead", and enjoy live music on the Green Anchors stage.