City Park's Celebration in the Oaks- Exhibits

Celebration in the Oaks™ Exhibits

Verry Merry Maze

Dancing Lights

Dinobration!

la Maison Noël features a traditional-style cottage decked out for the season. Inside, Père Noël sits next to a fire while he checks his list and overlooks a réveillon feast.

New Orleans tradition continues as the two-story tall Mr. Bingle that reigned over generations of Christmas seasons on Canal Street now watches over Celebration in the Oaks. For more information about the history and magic of Mr. Bingle, visit mrbinglefans.com. Also visit Dillard's Mr. Bingle homepage for information about Mr. Bingle merchandise and store locations.
Mr. Bingle is a registered trademark of Dillard's, Inc.

A new state of the art twenty minute Laser Light Show set to holiday music performed by some of New Orleans' favorite artists. Presented nightly in the Azalea and Camellia Garden of the Botanical Garden. This new show was created especially for the 2007 edition of Celebration in the Oaks.

The multi-media Cajun Night Before Christmas exhibit depicting the classic local twist on the traditional tale is presented nightly. The exhibit features life-size lighted figures, as illustrated by James Rice, synchronized to Cajun narration. More than 25 years after its first publishing, Cajun Night Before Christmas has become a modern classic that has sold more than 490,000 copies. A delightful twist on the classic poem by Clement C. Moore, A Visit from St. Nick (or more popularly 'Twas the Night Before Christmas), the James Rice illustrated tale is set on a Louisiana bayou, Santa is dressed in muskrat “from his head to his toe,” his skiff is filled high with toys and is hitched to eight friendly alligators, not a Prancer or Comet among them. Pelican Publishing of New Orleans agreed to allow City Park to recreate the tale in memory of Rice who died in June of 2004.

Cajun Night Before Christmas written by Trosclair, Illustrated by James Rice. Published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc. in 1973 full color edition.
©1973, 1992, 2001 Pelican Publishing

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James Rice's Cajun Night Before Christmas

A twenty-foot tall Poinsettia Christmas Tree is the focal point of the Botanical Garden's Conservatory of the Two Sisters. The conservatory also features the Tropical Rain Forest and Living Fossils exhibits.

Garden Club Wreaths: The Federated Council of New Orleans Garden Clubs and the Jefferson Parish Council of Garden Clubs will display holiday wreaths in the Lath House and Carousel.

Gallery of Children's Trees: Children from area schools and community groups will create handcrafted ornaments and proudly display them on Christmas trees lining the walkways in the Botanical Garden's PLANO Garden.
Participating Schools: Acad. Of the Sacred Heart, Allemands Elem., Allen Ellender Middle, Arden Cahill, Atonement Lutheran, Brother Martin High, Cabrini, Calvary Baptist, Children's Hospital, Christ the King, Christian Brothers School, Concordia Lutheran, Ecole Classique, Ella Dolhonde, Elmwood Park Academy, Fifth Ward JHS, Greater N.O. Therapeutic Riding Center, Holy Cross, Holy Rosary, J.D. Meisler Middle, Kate Middleton, Kehoe-France, Leo Kerner, Jr. Elem., Louise McGehee, Martin Luther King Head Start, McDonough 26, Metairie Academy, Miller Wall Elem., Mt. Carmel Academy, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Our Lady of Prompt Succor, Phoebe Hearst Elementary, St. Andrew, St. Angela Merici, St. Ann, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Benilde, St. Cletus, St. Dominic, St. Edward the Confessor, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, St. Francis Xavier, St. John Lutheran School, St. Matthew the Apostle, St. Michael Special, St. Philip Neri, St. Rita School, St. Rose Elementary, St. Ville Accelerated Academy, Salem Lutheran, Sophie B. Wright, West Bank Jefferson Parks and Recreation, Vic Petrie.