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Flashlight Nights 2024
DATE: Aug. 10, 17, 24, 31 | Sept. 7 & 14
TIME: 6:30–9:30 p.m.
PRICE: Included with Membership or General Admission
Escape the heat and explore the Garden after dark with family and friends! Discover the Garden’s five thematic trails, encounter desert creatures, and immerse yourself in the captivating nighttime ambiance with cool drinks and treats. Enjoy access to food trucks and Breezy Pops for sale. Garden will be selling s’mores and drinks and more from their pop-up bars serving non-alcoholic and adult beverages.
Join us for special theme nights in August:
Conservation in the Desert | Aug. 10
Explore ways to conserve water in the desert with Maricopa Flood Control District and the Water Warriors. Plus, enjoy activities tied to reuse, recycle, and repurpose.
Astronomy | Aug. 17
Lowell Observatory will be our featured guest and they will have telescopes for all to enjoy, along with space-themed interactive activities.
The Leaf Connection Opening Night | Aug. 24
Join us for the opening night of The Leaf Connection, the Garden’s newest exhibit. Enjoy leaf-themed activities in Webster Auditorium.
Desert Animals | Aug. 31
Join Phoenix Herpetological Sanctuary and get hands-on with Sonoran Desert reptiles. Enjoy an interactive animal tracks activity and view invertebrates at the Garden pond. Performance by Cold Shott and the Hurricane Horns.
Behind-the-Scenes (all dates sold out)
Explore the Garden with an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour that showcase desert plants from around the world and the Sonoran Desert. Visitors will have a chance to experience the Garden’s state-of-the-art greenhouses, witness rare and endangered desert plants, and learn about the Garden’s conservation and research work that protects desert plants for future generations.
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All Flashlight Nights events include the following activities:
Book Giveaway | Browse books and take one home for free! One per guest.
Moon Sculptures | Observe the shapes and textures of the moon, and identify a crater’s impact shape, size and impact rays. Plus, create a moon sculpture with clay to take home.
Constellation Cups | Create constellations with a paper cup to project and view.
Star Gazing | Discover stars, constellations, planets, moons and other astronomical objects in the night sky with telescopes.
Mesquite Pitch Painting | Try painting using mesquite pitch paint.
Prickly Pear pop-up | Learn about the many uses of prickly pear cactus including food for people and animals, a host plant for insects, and even cactus leather used in the fashion industry. Plus, taste a prickly pear cactus pad (nopalito).
Magnificent Mesquites | Touch, grind and taste mesquite flour made from the seedpods of a mesquite.
Making Tracks | Explore tracks of animals that live in the Sonoran Desert and create your own tracks using stamps and water.
Desert Critters | Encounter snakes, tarantulas, scorpions and other desert critters general questions.
Super Saguaro | Explore this desert icon, see and touch a saguaro skeleton, learn about how it is an important resource for various desert wildlife and how it has evolved as a plant to live in the desert. Guests will learn how saguaro fruit is harvested.
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