ABOUT

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Enchanted Garden is a trans-media platform celebrating the garden. In an annual gathering we bring together ideas and impressions about this topic from different approaches and disciplines. Originally conceived as a film festival, other art forms – performance, photography, music, etc.—were later integrated.

It is in the nature of the garden to be a shape-shifting place – which is one reason why we want to make this our concept. As we contemplate it for its beauty, it does not cease to grow – ever expanding, weaving, whispering, deceiving, listening, understanding. While the first edition was a three-day event in the city of Vienna, with a programme including an exhibition, performances, concerts and workshops, the second took place in the Gesäuse National Park, a less tamed landscape, with film screenings, artist talks and hands-on workshops under the stars. An exhibition in the forest followed 2025.

ENCHANTEMENT (n.)

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c. 1300, enchantement, „act of magic or witchcraft; use of magic; magic power,“ from Old French encantement „magical spell; song, concert, chorus,“ from enchanter „bewitch, charm,“ from Latin incantare „enchant, cast a (magic) spell upon,“ from in- „upon, into“ (from PIE root *en „in“) + cantare „to sing“ (from PIE root *kan- „to sing“). Figurative sense of „allurement“ is from 1670s. Compare Old English galdor „song,“ also „spell, enchantment,“ from galan „to sing,“ which also is the source of the second element in nightingale.

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