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Atelier de la Nature, a twenty-five-acre nature reserve and eco-educational campus, invites all children and families to the 2024 Halloween Art & Nature Festival, a one-day free event to celebrate Halloween in Louisiana's special natural surroundings through art, food, music and science!
This year's theme will be “Creepy Crawlers” inspired by the 1960’s activity game that taught children to cast plastic insects and other ‘creepy’ organisms out of molds. Our focus will be on BUGS! Insects and other arthropods play a vital role in ecosystems and our food chain but are often misunderstood and underappreciated.
There will be live insects, giant spiders, pickled sea roaches and much more!
Our 2024 festival mascot is “Franken-Mantis” by artist and biologist Cheyanne Eagles.
Cost
FreeHow
Registration is required for morning and afternoon sessions. The event if free but space is limited:
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Morning and afternoon sessions activities:
· Metal furnace pours with recycled aluminum and iron
· Iron forging demos with repurposed materials
· Meet insect and arthropod scientists
· Beetlejuice Cochineal Beetle Natural Dye demo
· Mead-making demonstration and honey-tasting
· Giant Interactive BUG Installation
· Preserved deep sea roach display
· Learn the names of different bugs in Uma (Houma) language
· DIY isopod sculpture workshop using recycled/up-cycled materials
· Experimental insect-inspired music
· Screenings of insect-inspired films
· Live spiders and other creepy crawlers with arthropod-inspired robots
· Eating BUGS! An edible insect-tasting
· Creepy Crane food display
· Insect lamp-making activity
· Live snakes and other reptiles
· Traditional Cajun and Creole cooking using locally sourced ingredients
· Trick or Treating
· Creepy Pumpkin Decorating
· More to be announced
Evening session activities:
· Metal furnace pours with recycled iron
· Bug Banquet
· Blacklight Insect watching
· Bug and Seek Video Game Tournament
· Screenings of insect-inspired films
· Live music
· More to be announced
