Fairies coming to LI Magical festival to be held at Sands Point Preserve

BY CAMERYN OAKES

The Sands Point Preserve is hosting its first Long Island Fairy Festival, a day for kids and youthful adults to experience the magic of the mythical spirits and the preserve’s natural environment.

The all-day festival will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 6, at the Sands Point Preserve. In the case of rain, the festival will be pushed to the following day, May 7.

Director of Operations Linda Nutter said the festival is a day of anything fairy-related one could think of.

“It’s basically a celebration of magic and nature and fairies,” Nutter said. “We’re looking forward to people having a day where their imagination can just run free and people can feel that thrill of child-like wonder again.”

Activities and performers include a fairy house walk featuring fairy houses built by community members, photos with the Queen of the Woodland Fairies, music, aerialists, face painting and a fairy art exhibit.

Leading up to the event, community members have been building fairy houses to be included in the event’s fairy house walk. Fairy houses are small homes built of natural materials to welcome back the fairies, elves, gnomes and other woodland creatures to the preserve.

The preserve held fairy house workshops to help community members build them. Community members can drop off fairy houses to be included in the walk on May 4 and May 5.

Nancy Sinoway, a prominent Port Washington designer who closed her design studio to start her new wedding business, made the dress for the Queen of the Woodland Fairies.

Nutter said the preserve has had the idea to host a fairy festival for many years, but it never materialized until now. The preserve has been actively working on establishing the festival since October.

She said she got the idea to host the festival after years of taking her daughter to fairy festivals in New Hampshire when she was younger. For years Nutter has dreamt of bringing it to Sands Point and now finally will.

“We really have the perfect place for [the festival],” Nutter said. “We have a pond, we have the beach, we have the trails, we have the great lawn. So we have a lot of space here for it and I always thought it would be perfectly situated here because it’s a magical place anyway.”

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