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ARTS The Parade of Lost Souls plans to go interactive by Steve Newton W ith Halloween night fast approaching, there’s a lot of uncertainty about how it will pan out in 2020. time around. “This year we will not gather in one place, but we will gather in every place,” Dusty Flowerpot artistic executive direc-

People have questions. Like, how many tor Kat Single-Dain writes on the society’s trick-or-treaters can I expect this year? parade web page. “We invite you all to Will there even be trick-or-treating? Will celebrate within your ‘bubble’ of families, I have to eat all the Kit Kats and Coffee friends, and community. We invite you to Crisps myself? a program of activities that you will do

One thing Vancouverites can be sure of, on your own front yard or balcony, outat least, is that the Parade of Lost Souls is side, where we can all be together…from still happening. The time-honoured Com- a distance. Look to your neighbours on mercial Drive Halloween tradition, put the left. Look to your right! We may need on by the local artist-run nonprofit Dusty to isolate, but we do not need to be isoFlowerpot Cabaret Society, will endure. lated. Now is the perfect time to become

It will just look a lot different this 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 the website. live on Co-op Radio—kicks off at 6:30 “Every minute of our Lost Souls prop.m., with a radio dance party at 7, games, gramming will be led by radio broadcast storytelling, and singalong at 7:20, a dance and podcast, and all of it is fully interbreak at 8, and closing ceremony and cir- active,” Single-Dain writes. “If you happen cle at 8:20. Participants are encouraged to to live in East Vancouver, a ‘surprise’ may wear costumes in keeping with this year’s pass you by during the program.” theme, the Wild Side, and suggestions for other props and activities are provided on For more info visit potcabaret.com. g www.dustyflower-

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