All Souls
River Procession

Held Annually the First Saturday of November
at Cathedral Park and Green Anchors
in North Portland, Oregon

Photo by Rusty Blazenhoff

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.

Over the next three years the walking procession grew from around 30 friends of friends to an all-ages community art event with about 300 people attending.

The 4th Annual All Souls River Procession
will start at 5pm Saturday November 2nd, 2024
at the Green Anchors community pavilion, 8940 N Bradford St.
(enter via event gate at NW corner of Cathedral Park boat ramp).
Detailed directions HERE

Visit http://www.pdxallsouls.org for more information, or visit our volunteer page if you would like to be involved with helping creating the procession.