Right, an All Souls Procession participant collects prayers for lost loved ones to be added to the big urn in 2009.
Say goodbye to a loved one at the All Souls Procession
Tucson’s special, spectral All Souls Procession, a peculiar adaptation of Dia de los Muertos celebrations dating to the 1500s, is also rooted in the city’s early-1990s underground arts scene. However it’s described — picturesque, profound, intimate — it seems to fill a human need here.
These days, 40,000 or more take part in the procession, falling on the Sunday nearest to Nov. 2. Last year it ended with a cathartic show of pyrotechnics, acrobatics and drumming near Mercado San Agustín, west of Interstate 10.
