2023 Festival Schedule
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All events for the 6th Annual Roots & Wings Festival will take place from Wednesday, October 18 through Sunday, November 5. The calendar will be updated with events as they are added to the Festival.
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2023 Roots & Wings Festival Events
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Please note: Some events require pre-registration and some are reserved for students. Click on an event name to learn more.
Wings and Roots at Laguna Gloria
Join us at Laguna Gloria for an evening of exploration and celebration! We are excited to be part of this year’s Roots and Wings Festival! While here, make art inspired by the rich flora and fauna of Laguna Gloria, learn more about how you can help support the pollinators in our city, and enjoy exploring all the art and nature Laguna Gloria has to offer!
Check out TheContemporaryAustin.org for more information on what the evening will hold!
We can't wait to see you!
Seedballs and Stories!
Enjoy stories and seedball crafts to learn about bugs, flowers, and pollination in the Children’s Area at the Central Library!
Garden Storytime!
A storytime featuring butterflies for Roots & Wings at the North Austin Community Garden with a butterfly craft and live caterpillars to raise into butterflies at home!
If rain, this event will be moved into the Little Walnut Creek Library.
Sapling Superheroes & Sapling Planting with Dove Springs Proud at Kendra Page Neighborhood Park
Join Dove Springs Proud at Kendra Page Neighborhood Park for an afternoon of nature activities and tree planting!
NLID Fall Fest & Tree Adoption
Enjoy the beauty of fall in central Texas by joining the North Lamar International District Merchant Association for free family fun! Help us celebrate Arbor Day by adopting your very own, free, native tree from our partner organization, TreeFolks, and get your tree related questions answered by an expert certified arborist. We will also be celebrating Monarch Appreciation Day by learning all about butterflies and our other invaluable pollinator friends. Activities include seed ball making, a scavenger hunt, arts and crafts, story time, balloon artist, pumpkin patch, free snacks, and more!
Park Party at the Pleasant Hill Branch Library
Join us at Pleasant Hill for a special Roots & Wings-themed Park Party and celebration of the natural world in our library's beautiful green space. Learn about the plants in our park and enjoy a nature-themed story walk around the grounds. Youth Librarian Jace will host an outdoor storytime for all ages, followed by butterfly- and plant-themed crafts, activities, a chalk mural, and games. Free refreshments will be provided along with a seed ball creation station.
Roots & Wings Festival Day with Parents as Teachers
This event is reserved for Leander ISD students and families and not open to the general public. Invite pollinators to your front porch! Leander ISD’s Parents as Teachers invites you to engage in activities about our winged and rooted friends, fly like butterflies and leaves, and read books about trees and butterflies. You will leave with your own mini butterfly gardens and lots of knowledge about trees and butterflies!
Author Read Aloud with Collin Pine + Backyard Pollinator Garden Workshop
Event update: Please note that Zilker Botanical Garden will be charging regular admission. Conservancy members and Museums for All participants are free. Learn more here.
This is a hybrid event. To attend virtually, you must pre-register. Join us in celebrating the Roots & Wings Festival on October 30th, 2022 at the Zilker Botanical Garden, or attend online for a special hybrid live read-aloud of Collin Pine's new children's book “The Garden Next Door.”
Monarch Storytime with Local Children’s Book Author Tania DeGregorio at Zilker Botanical Garden
Event update: Please note that Zilker Botanical Garden will be charging regular admission. Conservancy members and Museums for All participants are free. Learn more here.
Come hear local children's book author Tania DeGregorio read her book Skydancer for a special story time at the Oak Grove Stage from 11:30 am to 11:55 am during the Roots & Wings Festival Celebration at Zilker Botanical Garden.
Pollinator Protection w/PEAS!
This event is reserved for students and not open to the general public. PEAS will help schools cultivate and revitalize their pollinator gardens by purchasing pollinator plants for schools who "opt-in" to accepting a delivery from us and can ensure they will get planted. In some schools, we will be able to lead the plantings with our students during their programming times. Through our school programming, we will be able to share about the importance of pollinator plants and basic care instructions with the teachers and students.
Caterpillars, Trees, & Gardens, Oh My! at the Yarborough Branch Library
Come visit the Yarborough Branch Library to learn all about caterpillars, butterflies, trees, and gardens!