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The Parade of Lost Souls is BAAACK!
NOVEMBER 1ST, 2025!!!
PARADE COUNTDOOOWN!!!
Parade of Little Souls
November 1st, 2025
Family-Friendly Procession at 7pm
Parade of Lost Souls
November 1, 2025
Processions Hourly at 8pm & 9pm
Lost Souls AFTER PARTY
November 1st, 2025
10 pm – 2 am
a must do!
tickets will be up sept 1
Parade of Lost Souls can only exist through the generous donations of the community who support it. It costs many tens of thousands to put on the parade each year: covering everything from permitting to insurance, security, artist fees, and built infrastructure. And, while this year may be a little different, we hope to continue putting on the Parade again and again for many years ahead.
THIS year we have another surprise for you revealed Sept 1st at midnight on the website...Check back here for the details. Resurrected your identities, faced your fears, saved your souls, and now it’s time to shake those bones and rejoice! Following the Parade of Lost Souls, the party continues through the night at the LOST SOULS AFTER-PARTY featuring live music, visuals and performances!! Proudly presented by the DFC ....And
THIS IS LAST YEAR'S POSTER,
DON'T BE FOOLED
ANNOUNCING PARADE 2025 THEME:
THE THINNING OF THE VEIL
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ALL WELCOME to join in this year to take part in the performance, music & art of the Parade of Lost Souls..... for "If we are lost, then we are lost together...”
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This year we have an exciting new collaboration to reveal to you on Midnight the night before All Hallow's Eve, Hallowe'en. Check here after 12 am on October 31st for the location reveal!​
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Our workshops are free and accessible to all, at Britannia Community Center. We take donations gratefully but please come without hesitation!
Our Open House Costume Sales are located at our Studio, 2050 Scotia Street, entrance through glass door next to the building's loading bay.
Come get your spook on & participate this Halloween season!!!
Happy Halloween! May the little souls in our life LIGHT UP THE NIGHT! Parade of Little Souls is for the ALL the wee children who want to join in on the colourful & dazzling festivities! Procession for the Parade of Little Souls begins at 7pm at the secret location revealed the nights before!
Thriller Flash Mob
Let’s party like it’s 1899…learn the ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY of Michael Jackson’s record setting break out hit Thriller! Come to at least two of the three workshops, if you can. Kat is very precise about teaching it exactly as MJ did it – to the step–which means that you can do your homework by watching the video and mirroring the zombies. It is tons of fun and draws dozens of zombies each year. Join the undead in this time honoured tradition. ​
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Dates: Sundays Oct 5, 12, and 19th
Times: 130-330 pm
Workshop Age: 5 - 478
Suggested Donation: $10 per session
Instructor: Kat Single-Dain
Location:
The Cafeteria of Britannia High School
This can be hard to find---Please locate the football field at Britannia School and you will find the cafeteria adjacent.
1001 Cotton Drive Vancouver, V5L 3T4
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Come to all or one of these workshops! Kat teaches the Thriller from scratch every time, so anyone can come to any of the workshops listed above. Note: Brtiannia has a workshop listed on Oct 26th but this is not for newcomers and will likely be rescheduled as a site walk. Do not come fresh on Oct 26th, join before!
Do the Time Warp
Learn the original, super fun, and very simple choreography to "The Time Warp" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Time is fleeting.... Do it this year! BUT you must dress like one of the movie's characters and do join us on the night of the "Parade of Lost Souls 2024" for the ULTIMATE FLASH MOB!!! You will be performing alongside professionals who have played the lead roles from year to year… Or you yourself may want to play a lead!! Come to at least two of these rehearsals, all if you can!​
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Dates: Sundays Oct 5, 12, and 19th
Times: 430-530 pm
Workshop Age: 19 - 99
Suggested Donation: $10 per session
Instructor: Kat Single-Dain
Location:
The Cafeteria of Britannia High School
This can be hard to find---Please locate the football field at Britannia School and you will find the cafeteria adjacent.
1001 Cotton Drive Vancouver, V5L 3T4
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Note: Later sessions are meant as practice sessions and people should aim to come to the very first session. Oct 26th is in the Britannia calendar but is only for people who have already learned the dance. No newcomers please for the final practice.
THRILLER TUTORIAL
TIME WARP IN ACTION
Parade Dancers Workshop
Join the parade and help to lead it by learning simple dance choreography to go along with the parading Carnival Band. Taught by Artistic Director of the Parade of Lost Souls, Kat Single Dain, this workshop will be fun and easy to do, good for all ages all levels of experience. It will involve costuming, some props, and mostly movement and it's only an hour each weekend!
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Dates: Sundays Oct 5, 12, and 19th
Times: 330-430 pm
Workshop Age: All Ages
Suggested Donation: $5 per session
Instructor: Kat Single-Dain
Location:
The Cafeteria of Britannia High School
This can be hard to find---Please locate the football field at Britannia School and you will find the cafeteria adjacent.
1001 Cotton Drive Vancouver, V5L 3T4
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Note: Later sessions are meant as practice sessions and people should aim to come to the very first session. Oct 26th is in the Britannia calendar but is only for people who have already learned the dance. No newcomers please for the final practice.
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​Children under 15 years of age must be accompanied by an Adult.
OPEN HOUSE COSTUME SALE!
A drop-in evening at the Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret! Join us at the studio every Friday in September (starts Sept 12th) and October from 4pm to 6pm where you can do a variety of things including:
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Make a costume!
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Buy a costume! Rent a costume!
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Contribute to set decoration preparations!
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Meet potential collaborators!
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DJ for the folks enjoying the space!
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Get a tour of the new improvements of the space!
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Meet with the crew of the Parade!
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Talk about any ideas you may have!
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Drop in on a Swing Lesson that starts at 6 pm
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Located at 2050 Scotia Street, Vancouver BC
(entrance is the GLASS DOOR next to the LOADING BAY at the back of The Artiste Building)
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CALL TO ACTION!
Since its first rising, the Parade of Lost Souls has been a grass-roots festival planned, organized and performed by, and for, the community that it serves. It's creativity, success, and contributions to the community are the result of the tireless efforts of an outstanding, talented and hard-working group of souls. But, we can always use more help.
What is the PARADE OF LOST SOULS?
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IT'S YOU!!!
This is your chance to create your wildest, spookiest nightmares and bring them back from the dead!
How to get involved?
- Participate in the workshops
-Bring a shrine
-Make an installation and bring it!
- Attend the Friday Open House Happy Hours
- Create a costume for the Parade
- Come as an artist and do your thing
- Come help build, craft & paint cool stuff
-Talk to us if you have a band or a sound installation!
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Got ideas? Reach out & say hello!​
We aim to inspire the performer and maker that exists in all of us! A variety of creative workshops leading up to the parade provide an opportunity to dance, play music and make, with opportunities to participate in parade performances.
EAST VAN WITCHES IN ACTION
GALLERY
CALL FOR ARTISTS,
PERFORMERS & MAKERS
Calling all artists, performers and makers! We are extending an invitation to you, our community of artists, performers and friends, to find your own inspiration and join us in creating this festival of celebration and ceremony. Are you a maker, a sculpter, an artist or a performer? Are you interested in building an installation, helping to create the parade environments, or performing that one thing you've always been aching to do? We are on the lookout for more performers, musicians, fire dancers, stilt walkers, puppetteers, clowns, acrobats, magicians, voice performers, contortionists, jugglers, and thriller dancing zombies. If performance isn't your thing, we're also looking for artists, costume designers, graphic designers, sculpters, makers, and make-up artists. If you're creative, and interested in the Parade, we want to hear from you! Let us know how you'd like to contribute.
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Applications a-brewing & open soon!
Paid Crew Needed!
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Installation, Set Decoration, Striking, Clean-up, Buskers
email us at:
dustyflowerpotcabaret@gmail.com
(please note that we will no longer respond to emails once we have enough paid crew)
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
A festival, the size of the Parade of Lost Souls, requires a huge team of volunteers who are willing to do just about anything to help pull off the event. Volunteering with the production team or with the site crew will give you a behind-the-scenes look at how it all works and what it takes to pull of this festival. You'll also be providing an invaluable helping hand. We're looking for souls to help with a wide range of tasks, from helping to construct props and installations, place festival infrastructure on-site, to collecting donations at the parade, and cleaning up at the end of the night. This festival would not be what it is without the generous help of volunteers. If you're available and interested in lending a hand, we want to hear from you! Let us know how you'd like to contribute to the Parade of Lost Souls, and we'll try to match you with our current needs.
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Volunteers Needed!!!
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Set Decoration, Makers/ Builders, Hospitality, Costume Design, Installation, Parade Ambassadors, Information Booth, Ushers, Stage Assistants, Clean-up.
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email us at:
dustyflowerpotcabaret@gmail.com
Or feel free to fill out the contact form below
refuge &release
community &collective
for thousands of lost souls
As All Hallows’ Eve crawls out from the autumn mist, preparations are well underway for the Parade of Lost Souls. The annual tradition, a decades-old East Vancouver mainstay, is refuge and release, community and collective for thousands of lost souls. Participants of the Parade gather together to redefine their ideas of community engagement; to reconnect with one another, and with ourselves, in a celebration of the cycles of life and death. The festival’s true popularity lies in its ability to inspire and accentuate the creativity of those who attend. The Parade is proof that we have not lost our link to the richness and depth of the ritual celebrations of our ancestors.
The Parade of Lost Souls is organized by, and for, the community that it serves. It is a parade of spectacle and performance, an inclusive celebration for the thousands of lost souls that join us every year.
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It takes a tremendous amount of effort and funding to stage this event, and we are always on the lookout for energetic volunteers, artists and donors to join our team. The festival continues to be successful because of the creative artists and performers who share their talents, our hard-working volunteers who keep us running, and the larger community who join us each year - dressed in wondrous costumes!
Parade of Lost Souls
CAST & CREW 2025
The line up will be announced in October!!
Artistic Director
Kat Single-Dain
Performers
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Bands
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Thriller Leads
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Time Warp Dancers
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DJ Collectives + Installations
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Fire Show
Afterparty
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*Conceptualized and produced by the Public Dreams Society for over twenty-five years, the Parade lives on under the direction of its producer since 2013, The Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret.
Special Thanks to:
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