Leu Gardens offers sensory-friendly time slot for 'Dazzling Nights'

AdventHealth is partnering with Harry P. Leu Gardens to offer a sensory-friendly night at Dazzling Nights. It is scheduled for Monday, Dec.5.

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Tickets are sold out for the 5:30 p.m. time slot, but there are still a few available for 5:15 p.m.

They are $25 for adults and $22 for children 3 to 13.

Leu Gardens transformed into a winter wonderland featuring a million dazzling lights, shining forests, magical displays, music, and beautiful sculptures.

Guests who attend the sensory-friendly night will get pamphlets with a map. It will detail light and sound sensitive information for each experience. This allows families to choose and customize their own holiday experience.

“There are quiet spaces. There’s a map that kind of explains how the whole event is going to be set up. So, families who know what their children’s triggers are, can avoid them. The lights will be turned on in some locations, the music will be turned down globally across the whole event to allow those children, who are a little neurodiverse, to be able to enjoy it just as much as their neurotypical peers,” said Crystal Stephens an Occupational Therapist at AdventHealth.

The three-quarter mile, interactive holiday experience at Leu Gardens ends Jan. 1.

AdventHealth lists areas of the experience that may lead to triggers:

1. Entry Area
- Sound: Ambient, fun holiday music playing from speakers
- Lights: A “Happy Holidays” sign with flashing/chasing lights and a tree with static light emanating from within
2. Wondrous Woods
- Sound: Quiet, ambient background music
- Lights: Thousands of slowly rotating laser lights
3. Glowing Garden
- Sound: Quiet, ambient background music
- Lights: 8’ tall neon flowers with a static glow
4. Joyful Journey
- Sound: Medium volume background music
- Light: Tens of thousands of small, white lights hanging from trees overhead, some twinkle. Large neon snowflakes.
5. Down the Chimney
- Sound: Loud holiday music playing from speakers. 8 blowers for a large inflatables
- Lights: Static illumination of the inflatable
- Experience: An inflatable play area that requires climbing up an angled stairway to access slides
6. Brilliance
- Sound: Loud music with live vocals
- Light: Lots of flashing lights and lasers
7. Path of Peace
- Sound: Quiet, ambient background music
- Light: Static lights wrapped around tree trunks
8. The Crystal Kingdom
- Sound: Medium volume background music
- Light: Slowly fading beams of white light, glowing ice crystals
- Experience : 3 characters available for meet and greet. Two speak without amplification. One is non-verbal.
9. Sparkling Stars
- Sound: Quiet, ambient background music
- Light: 200 static light lightbulbs on top of steel poles
10. Snow & Glow
- Sound: Loud holiday music playing from speakers. Large snow machines with fan noise.
- Light: Static light
- Effects: Falling snow: small particles of nontoxic, skin-safe foam
11. Peppermint Pass
- Sound: Loud holiday music playing from speakers
- Lights: 100, 70-foot neon strips, twisted along a 70-foot enclosed tunnel. Static lighting.
12. Fabulous Flurries
- Structure: An enclosed dome, 40 feet in diameter
- Sound: Music playing from speakers. 10 loud fans
- Light : Bright, static light
- Effects : Swirling confetti fills this room, blown by the fans
13. Ring of Radiance
- Sound : Loud holiday music playing from speakers
- Light : 200 flashing LED nodes
- Effects : Fog effects emitted in plumes from fog machines. A hissing noise is made when fog output is active.

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