Support ALL THE SAINTS 18th Halloween Parade!
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Come one, come all! All the Saints Theater Company proudly presents...
Richmond's 18th ANNUAL HALLOWEEN PARADE!
Join us in the spirit of tradition and community ritual to march through historic Oregon Hill. This year we celebrate with a FUNERAL MARCH FOR TIME.
Meet us in Monroe Park, Tuesday, October 31st, 7pm Sharp!
Come in your own costume, your own puppet, or join all the saints by participating in carrying a puppet hand, a flag, or a sign! Please help us in the park get ready so we can start timely! Bring your friends and family and carry a puppet together! Or go to Oregon Hill and trick or treat with your littles, and watch or join the parade as we pass!
Time as we know it has been weaponized as a day to day, week to week, extraction of product rather than an exploration of our great small and present experience on Planet Earth. Billionaires, fossil fuel monsters, planet plastic, and late capitalism have been tick tock using our blood, muscle, and bones, our hearts and our creativity. Here we say Time is dead, for the Pillars of Creation that we see through the James Webb Telescope do not exist. They are 6,500 light years away, puppet monsters of stardust, we see now the ghost of our own origins, stardust, and energy. We, my beautiful peers in Richmond, we carry that stardust forward, we recognize that absurdism and then surrealism were born from the existential movement. We recognize that Time as we know it, just like gender and race, was created to serve a sense of order to feed the rich, and we protest by bringing JOY and PUPPETS to the street on all Hallow's Eve to explore a reality where Time is dead and we are free.
This parade is in honor of my beautiful best friend Jonas Emanuel Fricke, who died unexpectedly this past March. He knew time was not linear, he knew we are all all, and whatever is ours to own:
"Time machine your heart is a time machine, beating with everything, counting with everything. Oh sturdy crux, your heart is a sturdy crux, there is no turning back, ohhhh. Oh time machine, beating with everything, counting everything. oh sturdy with anything, your heart is a sturdy crux, your past is fractured in memory pasts. oh time machine, and now is the time and now is the time and now is the time and now is always now." -Jonas Fricke (if not I then who than
Thank you for sharing this annual tradition with All the Saints.
Lil Lamberta
THROW US YOUR BONES!
All the Saints Annual Halloween Parade is a labor of love, financially supported through community fundraising and donations. As we continue to grow and bring in other artists, please consider donating and sharing to help us compensate our amazing crew of dedicated lil' saints
Artist Pay: $6000
A bulk of the raised money goes towards paying our artists. Artists come from near and far to work on the parade and its been our ongoing goal over the years to further compensate and facilitate all these saints. Including the band, poster designer, stilt walkers, painters, dancing skeletons, wayward ghosts, paper mache pumpkins and more. A little donation goes a long way to help us buck off the capitalist time crunch.
Material Costs- $2000
Even though we strive to use recycled, and donated materials primarily. Additional material costs do come up! Such as studio rent, paint, brushes, wood, flyers, transportation, cornstarch, more paint!, and other day to day necessities (like snacks, or screws)
Check back on this page regularly to see updates!
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Thank you Richmond for your ongoing support and love
Happy Halloween from the All the Saints crew :)
To learn more about our beautiful friend Jonas Fricke check out these links
Fundraising team (2)
Marcus Fioravante
Organizer
Richmond, VA
Claire Bronchick
Team member