Halloween Art & Nature Fest
Celebrate Halloween at this festival on the last Saturday in October from 11am-4pm at Atelier de la Nature. The nature preserve is located along the Corridor des Arts near Arnaudville. At this free event, parents have a great opportunity for their kids to celebrate Halloween safely. Learn about the importance of the environment while also celebrating Halloween through art, music, food & science.
Last year’s festival theme was “The Deep” (deep sea life, deep roots both cultural and botanical, deep time, deep traditions, and more). Festival goers had the opportunity to meet special guests including:
● Award-winning Special Effects Artist, Chuck Varga, Neptune the official King of the Coney Island Day Mermaid Parade coming from New York City
● Walter Sandifier III, Spy Boy of the Beautiful Creole Apache Mardi Gras Indian Tribe from New Orleans.
● Award-winning Playwright Lisa D’Amour from New Orleans.
● Walter Sandifier III, Spy Boy of the Beautiful Creole Apache Mardi Gras Indian Tribe from New Orleans.
● Award-winning Playwright Lisa D’Amour from New Orleans.
Last year’s activities included:
● Meet mermaids, buccaneers, and King Neptune
● A life-sized whale skeleton sculpture
● Mardi Gras Indian water Inspired performance
● Meet mythical aquatic characters from the Ocean Filibuster Performance
● Deep roots prairie grass sculptural installation
● Giant Glow in the Gulf of Mexico lantern-shark and deep-water anglerfish disco ball sculptures
● There Was an Old Mermaid That Swallowed a Shark Game
● Fossilized nano-plankton exhibition
● Magnificent Megalodon Interactive sculpture
● Creatures from the Deep Special Make Up effects demo
● Monumental Jellyfish sculptures and nautical maize
● Meet marine biologists and other Gulf of Mexico Scientists
● Geological core samples exhibition and outreach program
● S.T.E.A.M. activities with Mermaidens
● Deep Wonder augmented reality program
● Deep Explorations Activity Book making workshop and give-away
● Deeply parasitic larval mussel exhibition and activity
● Interactive deep water coral projected installation
● Preserved deep-sea specimens’ exhibition and drawing workshop
● Spine-tingling Storytelling about Jean Lafitte and the pirates of Louisiana
● DIY Aquanaut Costume workshop and submarine sculptures using recycled/up-cycled materials
● Geothermal Energy outreach demo
● Life Aquatic and other deeply inspired music
● Live snakes and other reptiles
● Live spiders and other creepy crawlers with arthropod inspired robots
● Traditional Cajun and Creole cooking using locally sourced ingredients
● Sustainable seafood cooking demo
● Trick or Treating
● Abyss Zone Pumpkin Decorating
+ More!
● A life-sized whale skeleton sculpture
● Mardi Gras Indian water Inspired performance
● Meet mythical aquatic characters from the Ocean Filibuster Performance
● Deep roots prairie grass sculptural installation
● Giant Glow in the Gulf of Mexico lantern-shark and deep-water anglerfish disco ball sculptures
● There Was an Old Mermaid That Swallowed a Shark Game
● Fossilized nano-plankton exhibition
● Magnificent Megalodon Interactive sculpture
● Creatures from the Deep Special Make Up effects demo
● Monumental Jellyfish sculptures and nautical maize
● Meet marine biologists and other Gulf of Mexico Scientists
● Geological core samples exhibition and outreach program
● S.T.E.A.M. activities with Mermaidens
● Deep Wonder augmented reality program
● Deep Explorations Activity Book making workshop and give-away
● Deeply parasitic larval mussel exhibition and activity
● Interactive deep water coral projected installation
● Preserved deep-sea specimens’ exhibition and drawing workshop
● Spine-tingling Storytelling about Jean Lafitte and the pirates of Louisiana
● DIY Aquanaut Costume workshop and submarine sculptures using recycled/up-cycled materials
● Geothermal Energy outreach demo
● Life Aquatic and other deeply inspired music
● Live snakes and other reptiles
● Live spiders and other creepy crawlers with arthropod inspired robots
● Traditional Cajun and Creole cooking using locally sourced ingredients
● Sustainable seafood cooking demo
● Trick or Treating
● Abyss Zone Pumpkin Decorating
+ More!
Be a part of this event by volunteering or as a vendor by emailing info@atelierdelanature.org.
