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This year’s Oregon Hill Halloween parade might be the last.

The popular Day of the Dead-type parade featuring larger-than-life puppets, music, art and people in costume will set off from Monroe Park and weave its way down South Laurel Street on Wednesday night.

This is the 13th year for the parade.

“It feels like the end of a cycle for me,” said Lily Lamberta, creator of the parade and leader of All the Saints Theater Company. “I have an interest in pursuing more installation work and focusing on my family.”

While Lamberta, 37, is leaving open the possibility that she might return to the parade in the years ahead, she said that after this year, she feels she will need to take a break.

She said more than 2,000 people participated in the parade last year.

Each year’s parade is a funeral march set to a different theme, often political in nature. There have been funeral marches for the Confederacy and Grace Street.

This year is a “funeral march for the patriarchy” and “a celebration of the divine feminine,” including those who identify as transgender.