Tickets Go On Sale October 1 For GARDEN LIGHTS

Tickets go on sale October 1 for Atlanta's favorite holiday tradition, Garden Lights, Holiday Nights, featuring a new twist on last year's popular towering three-dimensional light curtain, all-new displays and a lounge in the Skyline Garden.The show, presented nightly November 17 - January 6, also will feature several of the giant topiary-like sculptures from this summer's popular mosaiculture exhibition, Imaginary Worlds: Once Upon a Time - all shown in a whole new light.

Here are five highlights not to miss:

• Debuting last year, "Nature's Wonders" returns to Storza Woods with its hundreds of vertically hung strings of multi-colored lights suspended from the treetops over the Canopy Walk. This year's display includes new music, choreography and sound effects in which the more than 70,000 color-changing LED bulbs create images of Northern Lights, a storm at sea and a gentle snowfall, among others.
  
• For the first time, the show will extend to the new Skyline Garden, where the Flower Walk will be immersed in a new all-white light tunnel while a lighted sculpture will anchor the fiddlehead display in the Aquatic Plant Pond.
  
• Look for Robinson Gazebo, with its breathtaking views of the Midtown skyline, to be transformed into a mod Skylights Lounge offering comfy seating, cash bars and a deejay.
  
• Hanging out in the Garden will be several creatures from Imaginary Worlds, including the Phoenix and Pegasus sculptures wrapped in lights and the Dragon and Camels dramatically uplit.
  
• Back by popular demand will be those dancing "Orchestral Orbs" on the Great Lawn, towering cone trees, giant candles, the serene Ice Goddess, Holiday Model Trains and s'more roasting firepits.

Round out the evening with a dinner reservation at Longleaf restaurant or grab some takeout at the Quick Café.

Garden Lights, Holiday Nights is open from 5 - 10 nightly (11 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays). For ticket information and other details, visit atlantabg.org.

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