ALL SOULS AT MOUNTAIN VIEW CEMETERY
EVENTS

HONOURING OLD TRADITIONS | CREATING NEW ONES

“On All Saint’s Day in the autumn the cemeteries are little cities of golden light, a candle flickering the night through beside each grave.” 

– Poland; from Funeral Customs the World Over, Habenstein & Lamers, Bulfin, 1960

ALL SOULS 2024

October 24 to November 1

EVENTS & ACTIVITIES

Thursday, October 17

20 Years of All Souls!

Retrospective slide show featuring pictures,
stories and things we learned along the way.

At Celebration Hall (north of the Mountain View Cemetery Office)

Thursday, October 24 – Friday, November 1

Memorial Box Lanterns Kits

Kits will be available beginning October 19 and can be found outside the Cemetery Office to take home and personalize.

Memorials can be placed on the shrines at Mountain View Cemetery beginning October 24.

Thursday, October 24

Opening Ceremony

6pm (Sundown)

Ceremonial fire and public shrine official opening.

Thursday, October 24 – Friday, November 1

Public Shrines

The public are invited to light candles, write messages, and leave personal memorials to remember their dead in an atmosphere of contemplative beauty.

Quiet incidental music may be encountered in the evenings and on weekend afternoons, throughout the memorial period.

Saturday, October 26

1pm to 4pm

Red Dress Memorial

Elder Kelly White and Strawberry Spirit Singers honour the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ peoples.

2pm to 4pm

Clay Memorials

Decorate and write messages on handmade unfired clay pieces, then, leave your creation outdoors to melt into the earth as an offering. With artist Jesse Orr.

All materials provided, no experience necessary.All Ages. Free. Drop in.

Sunday, October 27

1 to 4pm

Traditional Chinese Funeral Practices

Walter Quan shares traditional Chinese funeral practices.  Come fold joss paper and make an offering.

2pm to 4pm

Mending/Tending Ecological Grief

Hands-on creative offerings. Led by artist Keely O’Brien.
All Ages. Free. Drop in.

November 1

7 – 9pm

Closing Ceremony

Our annual walk to each of the shrines to close the event.

Parking available. Wheelchair accessible

~ All events are outdoors. Please dress for the weather.~

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MUSIC AT MOUNTAIN VIEW

Live ambient music may be encountered on weekend afternoons and all evenings.

Musicians appearing during All Souls:
Johann McBee (hung drum), Naomi Steinburg (flute), 
Calvin Cairns (fiddle), Johanna Hauser (clarinet), David Akselrod (dreamy electric guitar), Rene Hugo Sanchez (Peruvian Instrumentals), Strawberry Spirit Singers (Indigenous Women’s group), Kristina Zalite, Carmen Rosen, and Mik Bewsky (Golden Trio, Balkan music), Salalaul  (Acapella Trio), Crystal Dorval (healing electronic music) Beverly Dobrinsky (Hurdy Gurdy), Quatro Plus 4 (Acapella octet) and the Savoir Faire musical group

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