Join us...

for an all-ages walking procession from the Green Anchors pollinator garden to the sandy shore of the Willamette River under the St Johns Bridge.

With masks, lanterns, rattles and drums, we will recognize the thinness of the veil at this cross-quarter, and offer an acknowledgement of the losses (human and other-than-human) of the past year through global climate change and pandemic.

Following our offerings and prayers, and our farewells to those who have passed on, we will then conclude with revelry for us—the living.

Schedule:

5:00pm : Gather at the Green Anchors pollinator garden, 8940 N Bradford St. (Please use the parking lot at Cathedral Park, then look for the entrance to Green Anchors by the train tracks).

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 by Children of the Moon. The Green Anchors Tea Trolley will also be open at 7pm.

You are invited to bring:

• 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 during the event, of any loved one, (human or non-human) who has passed on during the previous year.

• 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.