The ENCHANTED FOREST at Lee Tartt Nature Preserve Saturday November 2!

Enchanted Forest   4:00pm - 8:00pm $10 all persons over 5 yrs

Enchanted Forest trails take you through the light filled swamp with fantastic beasts of all shapes and sizes created by all ages in our workshop series and curated by a team of artists! Also experience the Green Dragon Apothecary, firepit, creative activities & more!

Wear a costume or make a mask at our activity staion

Event includes a wagon ride to the gate. Parking is at the City Auditorium and Police Station

Buy tickets at the gate or online

SCHEDULE

Bewitching Birds Presentation  4:00 - 6:30 

Meet live owls and other feathered beasts. Learn more about them with Mississippi Wildlife Rehabilitation

Enchanted Forest Trails 4:00 - 7:30

Explore mysterious lights, handmade magic and the beauty of a cypress swamp

Green Dragon Apothecary & Sweet Shop 4:00 - 8:00

Sweets, weenie roasting kits, smore kits, live music, full moon photo booth with a firepit 

CREATIVE INSTALLATIONS handcrafted with natural and found materials:

  • The Great Deku Tree and Friends - encounter the wisdom of tree beings, guardians of the forest.

  • Migrating Forest Trolls - pygmy swamp trolls lurking in the rubble.

  • Flying Fish - a school of glowing fishes hovering in the cypress trees

  • Swamp Thing - 12 ft furry swamp beast hiding along the trail (don’t worry, he’s a vegetarian)

  • Fantastic Fungus - mushrooms with attitude clustered on logs and snags throughout the trail.

  • Musical Spiders - GIANT spider webs and a musical interactive web 

  • Swamp Lab- meet “mad” soil scientists from the USGS Soil Laboratory in Oxford and peer into their microscopes

  • UFO - mysterious visitors from another world

  • Flower Power - huge sunflowers attract huge butterflies

  • Dr. Shrikes House of Curiosities - explore the mysteries of nature and beyond!

A HUGE thanks to our sponsors and partners!

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

Create faces in the forest this weekend at Lee Tartt Nature Preserve!

Be a part of the creative team for the Enchanted Forest!

We need YOU to help to install faces on trees and give them personality! Expect to forage for interesting natural ephemera and find ways to incorporate your findings into the face. Grasses, twigs and flowers make terrific beards, mustches and hair. Mushrooms, leaves, lichens, acorns, feathers and all the interesting things on the forest floor really bring the faces to life.

Winona High School art students have created the faces themselves by sculpting paper mace and cardboard based features onto hardware cloth. The grid of the cloth is perfect for weaving in the natural materials.

This is fun for all ages! We think this is a perfect activity for a team of friends or family.

Pssst…If you can’t make it to the workshop on Saturday, please join us Sunday afternoon.

The Great Deku Tree is the guardian of the forest haven in the Legend of Zelda. We have envisioned our swamp forest as a similar forest haven. We believe the trees in our forest provide this kind of service which is key to its wellbeing.

the Great Deku Tree

Shout out to Shirley Hamilton and her Winona High School Art classes for dedicating their time and talents in the creation of 13 faces. This was hard and sticky work involving repurposing pasteboard boxes, take away bowls and brown Kraft paper into paper mache faces.

Make plans to attend the 4th biennial ENCHANTED FOREST on Nov 2 opening at 4pm.

A HUGE Thanks to our volunteers, partners and sponsors! Especially: Delta Rehab Contract Services, Inc., Allison Ashmore, Mississippi Arts Commission, Grenada Tourism, USGS Soil Laboratory, Artplace Mississippi, Delta Art Alliance, Grenada First Presbyterian Church