All Souls
River Procession

In the fall of 2021, Moni J. Sears, Ivy Stovall and Mellissa Berry decided to create a small walking procession with masks and handmade lanterns through Cathedral Park to the Willamette River. It was held around All Souls Night, and used art and land-based ritual to acknowledge those lost during the first year of the Covid 19 pandemic, and to honor and remember the larger community of beloved dead, both human and other-then-human. Then following the wildfires in 2022 they decided to do it again. And yet again in 2023 in response to the war in Ukraine, and the war between Palestine and Israel.