Prairie Fest At the Gottfried Prairie and Arboretum UW-Fond du Lac Campus 400 University Drive (enter from Highway 23/Johnson St.)
Saturday, July 25, 2009, 10 am-3 pm
Rain or Shine - FREE admission!!
A combination of interactive events, presentations, tours and entertainment, Prairie Fest is a one-of-kind event!
For a link to Prairie Fest, click here: Prairie Fest 2009
Call for Artists Application
About the event Prairie Fest is a fun, family-centered event to celebrate the Gottfried Prairie and Arboretum and our native plants heritage. This is a great way to spend your Saturday -- lots to learn and lots to do! The event is FREE, and open to the general public. Bring your own picnic and lawn chairs or blankets.
Prairie Fest on Saturday, July 25
Join the family festivities at Prairie Fest at
UW-Fond du Lac. Indoor and outdoor activities
include presentations, entertainment, a run/walk,
prairie tours, arts and crafts, a plant sale, and kite
building and flying.
Visit or work a shift at the Audubon booth. Entries
in the Audubon photo contest will be on display. We
will have a magazine exchange, so save your nature
magazines and bring them to donate!
Join Audubon in two exciting workshops:
The Attentive Eye – Keeping a Nature Journal
(for adults and high school students)
Why keep a nature journal? What might it be like?
In this workshop, we’ll consider these questions, look
at examples, practice observation skills, and share what
we have created. Bring paper, notepad/notebook, and
writing or drawing implements.
Time: 10 am – noon; Presenter: Judy Barisonzi,
retired professor of English at UW Colleges
Detective Journalling – Seeing the Invisible
(for youth in grades 4–6)
In this workshop we will look for the secrets of
nature hidden in plants. We will draw and write about
an entire plant: what it looks like now (summer), what
it will look like later (winter), and what chews on it
or lives inside it. Bring paper, pen or pencil, markers
or crayons.
Time: 1 – 2 pm; Presenter: Bob Hasman, retired professor
of English at UW Colleges
Thank you to our Sponsors!
Fond du Lac Area Foundation Mercury Marine Target Hopper’s Silkscreen Sharpviews.com Photography Alliant Energy Mom’s Market Botanicals Floral Studio Fond du Lac Co. Audubon Society