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The Parade of Lost Souls plans to go interactive
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by Steve Newton
ith Halloween night fast approaching, there’s a lot of uncertainty about how it will pan out in 2020. People have questions. Like, how many trick-or-treaters can I expect this year? Will there even be trick-or-treating? Will I have to eat all the Kit Kats and Coffee Crisps myself? One thing Vancouverites can be sure of, at least, is that the Parade of Lost Souls is still happening. The time-honoured Commercial Drive Halloween tradition, put on by the local artist-run nonprofit Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret Society, will endure. It will just look a lot different this
time around. “This year we will not gather in one place, but we will gather in every place,” Dusty Flowerpot artistic executive director Kat Single-Dain writes on the society’s parade web page. “We invite you all to celebrate within your ‘bubble’ of families, friends, and community. We invite you to a program of activities that you will do on your own front yard or balcony, outside, where we can all be together…from a distance. Look to your neighbours on the left. Look to your right! We may need to isolate, but we do not need to be isolated. Now is the perfect time to become a community.” Dusty Flowerpot artistic executive director Kat Single-Dain says a stay-at-home version of the ghoulish parade will include a dance party on Co-op Radio. Photo by Michael Wheatley.
The stay-at-home event—broadcast live on Co-op Radio—kicks off at 6:30 p.m., with a radio dance party at 7, games, storytelling, and singalong at 7:20, a dance break at 8, and closing ceremony and circle at 8:20. Participants are encouraged to wear costumes in keeping with this year’s theme, the Wild Side, and suggestions for other props and activities are provided on
the website. “Every minute of our Lost Souls programming will be led by radio broadcast and podcast, and all of it is fully interactive,” Single-Dain writes. “If you happen to live in East Vancouver, a ‘surprise’ may pass you by during the program.” For more info visit www.dustyflowerpotcabaret.com. g
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