Night Flight: Prepare For Your Aerial Adventure

9 November 2026

Family including two adults and a teenager and a pre teenager walking through a garden lit with coloured lights

The Enchanted Garden 2026 is your ticket to join Ivy and Bert’s Night Flight expedition. Reimagined as a realm for discovery and play, this whimsical new chapter of the light show experience you know and love reveals the motion, rhythm and atmosphere of Roma Street Parkland at night.

Travel gate to gate and discover all of the ways the Parkland comes alive at night. Prepare to journey through seven immersive zones of light, colour and sound that will transform the gardens into different forms of flight, inspired by its resident creatures who take to the skies.

When you arrive, travel down the Allee Bridge runway to the Hub’s Departure Lounge, ready for take-off.

Gate One: Hawk Moth 

Enter the Spectacle Garden by the light of the luminous full moon, and watch as the flower beds flutter.

Gate Two: Powerful Owl 

Follow the illuminated flight paths of the Powerful Owl through Weeping Fig, atmospheric and awash with colour.

Gate Three: Firefly 

Step into a glowing realm on Bombax Lawn and Arid Lands as they reveal the secret language of light.

Gate Four: Sugar Glider 

Glide below sweeping arcs of light as they usher you across Fern Gully Bridge.

Gate Five: Grey-Headed Flying Fox 

Something is stirring in the trees of the Rainforest Spiral, as a fluorescent river of light is ready to flow skyward.

Gate Six: Tawny Frogmouth 

Wander through the quiet camouflage of the Rainforest, where bark and branches are saturated with luminous textures and playful patterns.

Gate Seven: Duskhawker Dragonfly 

Experience waters shimmering with iridescence from the Beebo Bridge and Boardwalk.

Download a low sensory version of the Night Flight story.

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Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Turrbal and Yuggera people, Traditional Owners of the land on which we gather and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.