Field Trip: How to Read a Forest at Deepdene Park
Wed, Apr 01
|Deepdene Park
Step into Deepdene Forest with artist Heather Bird Harris and naturalist Eli Dickerson for a guided walk that reveals how Atlanta’s oldest trees and forest layers quietly record centuries of ecological change and interconnection.
Time & Location
Apr 01, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Deepdene Park, N Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30307, USA
About the event
Join artist Heather Bird Harris and tree-lover Eli Dickerson for an immersive walk through Atlanta’s Deepdene Forest, home to the city’s oldest known white oak tree. This experience invites participants to slow down and observe how forests tell their own stories through soil horizons, over/understories, and interspecies entanglement over time.
Together, Harris and Dickerson weave art, ecology, and history to explore how forests record the rhythms of change and disruption. Participants will learn to “read” the forest as a living archive of time and relationship, expanding their sense of place and kinship with the more-than-human world.
This event is part of a series. Learn more here about the first event of this series: Using Art + Science to Read the Stories Hidden in Atlanta’s Tree Rings (Wed April 1st at 7pm).
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