The URN
Help Us Build the URN
Beginning October 5th
Continuing every Monday, 7pm
Location:
Epic Cafe
745 N. 4th Ave.
The Urn Project evolved out of a decade’s worth of finale performances implemented at the end of the All Souls Procession. MMOS conducted many experiments, working different designs and different ways of harnessing the cultural expectations of an entire community, as well as being able to safely burn a large object in the middle of an urbanized area.
Our genetic history tells us that fire is life, as well as warmth and security. Our modern human existence detaches us from the experience of utilizing fire for cooking, warmth, and the family/tribal hearth that was the centerpiece of so much of our human existence. This is the human genetic codec that the Urn Project and similar contemporary expressions directly touch in the human spirit.
We see the Urn in a planetary manner. We have created it so that anyone with Internet access can participate in the specific ritual that happens in Tucson, AZ, in the first part of November each year.
This site is also intended to empower your local community to physically participate by building an Urn in your locale and participating simultaneously each year with us. After reading through the material, please contact us if you have any more questions regarding how it happens. This project’s initiation was funded by the Black Rock Arts Foundation, MMOS, and donors from the community.
LEARN HOW TO BUILD AN URN IN YOUR COMMUNITY
PRAYER FORM
For those unable to attend the Procession simply follow these instructions:
1) List any names you wish to honor, any dreams, hopes, wishes, or goals you want to enact, or you can list bad habits, secrets, anything you’d like to let go of (smoking, drinking, etc.)
2) These can be completely anonymous-You don’t have to put your real name in the FROM field.
3) Any images uploaded cannot exceed 3 MB. We will ensure that they are printed and placed into the URN before the Burning.
For those attending, you are more than welcome to generate your own lists before or during the Procession. Please Download our Prayer Form which you can print, fill out and bring to the parade and put into the URN yourself.
Designed by Daniel Martin Diaz
