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Missoula’s Festival of the Dead
By Jeremy Lurgio, Guest Writer, 11-09-07
Every year hordes of Missoulians gather in downtown Missoula to celebrate Missoula’s Festival of the Dead. Flame jugglers, ghostly figures, drummers, skeletons, dancers and even dogs in skeleton costumes waltz down Higgins Avenue in a sea of light, color, motion and sound. Every year a pack of photojournalists from the university also marches in and out of the parade in search of photographs that capture the spirit of the festival.
This year students from the advanced photojournalism classes at the School of Journalism at the University of Montana were put to the task of documenting Missoula’s Festival of the Dead, not just with pictures but with sound too. Armed with cameras, flashes and a digital recorder and microphone, students produced this multimedia piece about the history of the holiday and the festival in Missoula.
-Jeremy Lurgio is an instructor of photojournalism at the University of Montana’s School of Journalism.
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(Don, its on Nov 2nd every year in downtown Missoula...watch for the flyers)