Our annual event of respectful remembering & reimagining.
All are invited! Let us know ASAP if you'd like to volunteer or make an altar display Oct 22nd.
Nite 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!
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
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
