Fall Community Day and Mid-Autumn Festival at Innisfree Garden

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of China’s most important holidays, one which celebrates the full moon, fall harvest, and the moon goddess. Traditions include lanterns to light a path to prosperity and good fortune, eating mooncakes, and gathering with family and friends. Innisfree's Mid-Autumn Festival features day-to-night festivities, including artist-led paper lantern-making, storytelling of traditional Chinese tales, mooncake samples, moon-inspired Chinese Qigong, moon and stars viewing, a lantern display, and their first-ever golden hour picnic.

This festival will be held on Innisfree’s Fall Community Day. Thanks in part to a grant from the Northeast Dutchess Fund (a fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation) free garden admission and discounted Community Day event tickets are available to residents of the Northeast Dutchess County communities of Amenia, Clinton Corners, Pleasant Valley, Dover Plains, Millbrook, Wassaic, Wingdale, Millerton, North East, Pine Plains, Stanford, and Washington and their hamlets.

Community Day Schedule • Moon-inspired Qigong, 10–11 a.m. • Docent tour, 10:30 a.m. • Drop-in paper lantern-making workshop, 12–5 p.m., 5:30–6:30 p.m. • Music for Peace: Hudson Valley Shakuhachi Choir 2:30–3:30 p.m. • Storytelling for all ages: The Moon Goddess and other traditional tales, 4–4:45 p.m., 6–6:45 p.m. • Moon and stars viewing, 7:30–11 p.m.

To register and find out more information, click here.