Fall Colors Celebration

Celebrate the beauty of autumn at Lakewood at our Fall Colors Celebration. This open-house style event invites the whole community to enjoy live music, participate in nature-inspired art activities, and sip warm apple cider as you explore our grounds.

Activities

Cider and cookies

Swing through the Welcome Center to fill a cup with warm apple cider and pick up a free cookie (while supplies last). Enjoy your treats as you visit the event's activity stations or wander through Lakewood's 250-acre haven in the city.

10am - 1:30pm: Live music by Luftl

Luftl (Sarina Partridge and Sarah Larsson of Minneapolis, MN) sings rich vocal arrangements of Yiddish, Sephardic and Eastern European folk songs. Singing in the tradition of lineages of women's group singing, the duo lifts up the complex harmonies of these musical traditions entwined in the simple joys of singing together. In performance, Luftl offers translation and storytelling of all the songs they sing, illuminating the real life struggles and longing embedded in the lyrics of the songs. Journeying through Bosnian ballad songs, Yiddish lullabies, Hebrew devotional and festival tunes, and Ladino songs of longing and loss, the duo makes connections between their own journeys learning this music and the ways that music has traveled with communities of people across borders and time. Luftl invites audiences to draw connections to their own families' stories of immigration, heritage, and roots, and uses music as the key to unlock doors of understanding.

Walking Tour - Legacy Trees of Lakewood
10:30 and noon, meet at the Welcome Center's front door

Join Lakewood's volunteer guides to walk a loop that introduces you to the arboretum. Topics include tree diversity, benefits, identification, and, of course, their beauty. The walking route is about 3/4 mile on paved roads and turf grass and lasts about 60-70 minutes.

Natural Inks
Led by artist Kim Boustead

Explore a spectrum of colors—each with their own charm—produced with natural pigments from local plants. Create a painted postcard or a unique work of art to take home as a memento.

Conversations with Backyard Phenology
Hosted by the Backyard Phenology collective

What does fall look, sound, and feel like to you, in the places you visit every day? Share what you've noticed with artists, scientists, and scholars by stepping inside the Climate Chaser, a mobile camper and hub for conversation.

Seed Heroes
Imagine what it's like to be a tree seed, setting out on a fall adventure. Cut and paste elements to create a story about a seed as it encounters a world full of creatures, people, changing seasons, and new places where it could set down roots.

Self-guided activities

In addition to guided tours and artist-led projects taking place near the Welcome Center, some activities encourage exploration at your own pace, either on your own or with a small group.

Visit the Memorial Chapel
Enter Lakewood's historic Memorial Chapel, the centerpiece of the cemetery, and marvel at its intricately mosaiced interior that has enchanted visitors since 1910.

Living Memory Tree
Pick up a ribbon in the Welcome Center that you can tie to the Living Memory Tree, across the street from the Memorial Chapel.

Focus on the Seasons photography contest
Today is the last day to participate in Lakewood's Focus on the Seasons photography contest. Visit the Welcome Center for a flyer with details and inspiring prompts for your photographic foray.

Self-guided history tour & nature quest
Hosts in the Welcome Center can provide maps of the grounds, including a self-guided tour brochure with over 60 points of interest, from community memorials to well-known individuals who are laid to rest at Lakewood.

Spark wonder about biodiversity at Lakewood by grabbing a Nature Quest sheet, filled with clues you can look for throughout our tree-filled landscape.

Call the Lakewood events line at 612-540-5165 or email events@lakewoodcemetery.org

Location: Welcome Center.