3rd Annual Dragonfly Festival at Oak Hammock Marsh
July 19& 20, 2008
Oak Hammock Marsh Interpretive Centre is celebrating the third Dragonfly Festival on July 19th and 20th. Discover the lifecycle of these amazing insects that call wetlands home. Many activities are planned for all ages including dragonfly safaris, a dragonfly art workshop using food, live nymphs in an aquarium display, a collection of beautiful photographs, informative presentations and films, dipping for dragonfly nymphs, playing a life size dragonfly board game, dress up costumes and more. Our Café will be serving a special lunch and dragonfly jewelry and other items may be purchased in our Giftshop. Take home a beautiful event poster as a keepsake.
More details later. Here's the agenda from last year for an idea of what to expect:
Dragonfly
Festival at Oak Hammock Marsh
July 21 & 22, 2007
For more information please call Oak Hammock Marsh at 1-204-467-3000
Events and Activities:
Dragonfly Food Art Workshop – Sat. or Sun. 11-12, 12-1, or 1-2 pm - Use your imagination and creativity to make a dragonfly out of different foods and enter to win great prizes (All supplies at marsh, just bring your imagination). Two separate contests, one Saturday and one Sunday, and winners will be announced at 3:30 pm both days. Age group categories 3-6, 7-9, and 10-12 years old.
Dragonfly Collection – Come and visit the interpretive centre to see pictures and specimens of the many dragonfly species in Manitoba (provided by University of Manitoba).
Critter
Dipping/ Invertebrate sampling – Throughout the Day - Grab
a net and a bucket and dip for dragonfly nymphs. Learn the importance
of dragonflies in the food chain and to wetlands.
Microvideo presentations (Saturday Only) – 11:30 am and 2:00 pm - See dragonfly nymphs up close on our theatre screen and find out cool facts about dragonflies.
Horse-Drawn Wagon Rides (Sunday only from 12:30 to 4:30pm) Explore some lesser known part of the marsh with local nature-lover Allan Webb and his horse-drawn wagon and listen to the many stories and information he has to tell you. Extra fee of $3 for non-members of the Interpretive Centre and $2 for members apply for this half-hour to forty-five minutes ride.
Theatre Presentations (Sunday Only) – 11:30 am and 2:30 pm - Enjoy presentations by Jim Duncan from Manitoba Conservation on the Manitoba Dragonfly Survey such as “How to identify dragonflies” and “The dragonfly survey”.
Dragonfly
Safaris – Both Days 10:30 am, 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, and 5:30
pm - Come and explore the lesser known trails at the marsh with a net
and field guide. Join an expert to catch, identify one of the many types
of dragonflies, and then release them back in the marsh.
Face Painting – 12:00 to 5:00 pm - Have one of the many species of dragonflies painted on your cheeks by one of our artistic nature interpreters.
Dragonfly clay craft - Make a beautiful dragonfly out of mouldable clay for yourself or as a gift for someone special.
Dragonfly board game - Take a turn playing our life size dragonfly board game. Follow dragonfly eggs through their life cycle. Watch them metamorphosize into adults and then lay a new batch of eggs to create a new generation of dragonflies.
Canoe
Rides – Throughout the day - Explore the marsh from a dragonfly’s
point of view as you paddle in one of our 3 voyageur-style canoes for
a forty-five minute to one hour excursion. Extra fee of $3 for non-members
of the Interpretive Centre and $2 for members for this ride.
Café - Special lunch for visitors (dragonfly
theme, no dragonflies in lunch).