The overall theme of the Procession this year is Sky Islands. We will be integrating music, dance, symbolism, and ideas that span Cuba, Colombia, and Southern Arizona. From the literal island of Cuba to our desert sky islands—the land enclosed by water, the mountain environments enclosed by desert—to the isolation that is epidemic in our…
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As a 501(c)3 nonprofit, our parent organization Many Mouths One Stomach is funded primarily through our generous donors, sponsors, and granting organizations. You can see details of our 2017 annual report here: manymouthsonestomach–annualreport.
The Procession is created by the community–including hundreds of volunteers. I’ve been one of those volunteers since 2013, and every year I look for a new way to volunteer my time and energy into making our All Souls Procession as amazing, if not better than the one before. It’s been a journey that has brought…
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The Procession is an enormous community-created, non-commercial event to creatively honor and celebrate our dead. Open to all cultures, all traditions, all art forms, all people. Free to participate. Funded by donations from people like you. Please do your part and contribute today. The barricades, the police services, the port-a-potties—all of those are paid for…
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The desert has a frequency, a sound you can hear in the wilds around. XIXA tunes in and warps it, in glittering, gritty psychedelic cumbia tracks on their debut album, Bloodline (Barbès Records/Glitterhouse Records, February 2016), an expansion on their recent EP Shift and Shadow. An earlier incarnation of XIXA started by playing covers of…
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I miss my Nana Virgie. I cried for her the other day. Yelling to the sky that I still need her. I missed her so much I went by her home. The one where she taught me to roll tortillas. Where she taught me, with her beautiful, long nailed, lined with use hands—sewing and the…
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It takes all sorts of volunteers doing all sorts of things to make the Procession happen. This Tucson Angel is one of them. She and her predecessors have been working with the Usher & Ambassador crews for five years to help keep the Procession kind. Gratitude to her—and to all the other volunteers—for her service…
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As an attendee of the All Souls Procession and a Tucsonan by choice, I have a thing to say about costumes: I read a comment recently disparaging the Procession based on it “just being a big costume contest.” Despite the fact that it’s obviously not a contest (and I’m sure the naysayer meant that metaphorically),…
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