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Glowfari offers a family-friendly holiday outing in Oakland.<\/p>\n
Oakland Zoo<\/p>\n
For the last six years, the Oakland Zoo has hosted hundreds of large animal-shaped lanterns, each handmade, hand-painted, and adorned with countless LED lights. Glowfari, on view most evenings through January 25, has become a beloved winter tradition for kids and adults alike around the East Bay.<\/p>\n
With a timed-entry ticket, guests can explore this season\u2019s brand-new lanterns, which are designed by zoo staff and divided into five major sections for the 2025\u201326 show, exploring the African savanna, bugs, coral reefs, reptiles, and local wildlife. Oakland Zoo CEO Nik Dehejia calls the event a \u201cchoose-your-own adventure\u201d experience. \u201c[In guests, we see] wonder, excitement, [and] even squeals as they\u2019re turning the corner,\u201d he says. \u201cWe increasingly need more joy and fun and the ability to make different memories, and that\u2019s what Glowfari does.\u201d<\/p>\n
Though its live animal residents aren\u2019t visible during Glowfari, the zoo\u2019s eateries are open, and kids can enjoy the Rides Area. Glowfari also features a strong emphasis on wildlife conservation that echoes the zoo\u2019s mission. \u201cOur vision is about creating a flourishing planet where people and wildlife thrive together,\u201d says Dehejia. \u201cWe want to connect people to animals, first and foremost, and then we want them to understand how can they be part of saving [them].\u201d<\/p>\n
All guests are welcome at Glowfari\u2014and are invited to return time and time again. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter whether you\u2019re 3 or 93 years old, you can come with your friends, your family, [or] on a date in the evening for Glowfari and enjoy it,\u201d says Dehejia. \u201cIt really is for everybody, and that\u2019s the joy of what the zoo brings people.\u201d oaklandzoo.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glowfari offers a family-friendly holiday outing in Oakland. Oakland Zoo For the last six years, the Oakland Zoo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1959,30815,47243,143,145,144,12294,7662],"class_list":["post-83107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-conservation","tag-glowfari","tag-led-lights","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-zoo","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}