Atelier de la Nature, a twenty-five-acre nature reserve and eco-educational campus, invites all children and families to the 2023 Halloween Art & Nature Festival, a one-day free event to celebrate Halloween, Louisiana's special natural surroundings, the Gulf of Mexico and planet Earth, through art, music, food and science. This year’s festival theme is “The Deep” (deep sea life, deep roots both cultural and botanical, deep time, deep traditions, and more). Festival goers will have 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. More Info