Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at New York Botanical Garden

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at New York Botanical Garden  A giant rabbit greets guests at the New York Botanical Garden, like in the book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll. But this is not a white rabbit from his well-known children’s story; rather, it’s a nearly 12-foot-tall (3.7 meters) green rabbit made of plants.  This Alice-themed show was ten years in the making. And the exhibitions are spread across the Botanical Garden: outdoors and indoors.  The exhibition "WONDERLAND: CURIOUS NATURE" runs through October 27, 2024.  NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN/REUTERS VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes  #worldnews  #aliceinwonderland #botanicalgarden

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00:00Yeah, he looks a little sad, maybe because he didn't eat any food.

00:12You guys want to take a picture?

00:15Daddy, cheese!

00:16Cheese!

00:17Cheese!

00:18Cheese!

00:19Cheese!

00:20Cheese!

00:21Cheese!

00:22Cheese!

00:24Good job, Sabrine.

00:26Good job, Sabrine.

00:28Stay right there, Sabrine.

00:29Take a picture with the bunny?

00:30The rabbit is the first thing that Alice encounters.

00:33She's sitting on a lazy Saturday with her sister outside in the grass,

00:37and all of a sudden she sees a rabbit with a pocket watch, right?

00:40And he's hopping, and she follows him down the rabbit hole into Wonderland.

00:43And so for us, this rabbit is sort of our call to visitors to fall down the rabbit hole with us,

00:49come fall into Wonderland, and encounter some sort of magical things across the ground.

01:07Alice is such a curious little kid, and she sort of epitomizes that youthfulness

01:13when we're like asking a million questions.

01:15You know, any 8-year-old in your life is like, why, why, why?

01:18And we're sort of, I think one of the really resonant things about Alice in Wonderland

01:23is that into adulthood, sometimes we lose that sense of curiosity that we have as kids.

01:27And we really want this exhibition to be a call to us all to channel that inner kid

01:32and sort of refocus our curiosity and say, wait a minute, maybe I kind of glazed over that tree,

01:36but why on earth does it have blue pine needles?

01:39That's crazy, how could a plant produce something like that?

01:42So, yeah, really trying to just have us look a little bit longer than one second, you know,

01:46and sort of have that natural curiosity tapped into.

01:49And that's what we're hoping to do with this show.

01:51So, our exhibitions take a very long time to plan.

01:54We've been talking about doing a show about Alice in Wonderland for about a decade.

01:57And only about two and a half years ago, we really were like, okay, we're doing it, this is the dates.

02:03And so it took about two, two and a half years for this show to really materialize.

02:07So, Alice in Wonderland, obviously a beloved story, a movie that still resonates with kids today,

02:14whether it's the older version or the newer version.

02:17And we were looking at Alice in Wonderland as sort of a prompt for curiosity

02:23and a way of understanding the natural world.

02:25When it was published in 1865, Lewis Carroll was actually a mathematician.

02:29He's really interested in science and in math.

02:32And so the book itself really was an exploration of all of these different ideas about natural history.

02:37But for us, it's kind of this wonderful lens to say, like, isn't the natural world amazing?

02:42There is sort of this organic wonderland in our backyard, and we want to share that perspective with our visitors.

02:48She decided, since I had never seen this and I'm as old as I am, that time is running out for trips like this.

02:56So here we are.

02:57How old are you today?

02:59I'm 84 today.

03:0193.

03:02I mean, 93. I can't even remember how old I am.

03:0693?

03:07Is that right?

03:08That's right.

03:09I have to ask the chorus. 93, are you sure? That many?

03:13Queen at 93.

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