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Shining bright
Bristol Light Festival returned to the city and expanded from six days to ten
T he award-winning Bristol Light Festival returned to the city from February 3-12, 2023, entertaining visitors over ten days with a mix of colour and light. Support from key partners across the city enabled the event to grow. This year’s festival featured more than ten immersive light installations and commissioned artworks and took place in new locations, including Victoria Rooms, the Wills Memorial Building, Millennium Square, Bristol Hippodrome, Temple Meads train station, PRYZM, and City Hall.
In 2022, Bristol Light Festival – presented by Bristol City Centre Business Improvement District –welcomed 170,000 people and generated £3.4 million of additional revenue for local businesses. This year, the city-wide and family-friendly event expanded from six days in 2022 to ten in 2023.
SC Productions, Redwood Event Solutions, Sunbelt Rentals, Roadphone NRB, Ethical Staffing, 24/7 Event Crew, SAS Barriers, and PRG supplied equipment and services to the annual event.
For all your event support vehicles
For all your event support vehicles
• 2, 4 and 6 seat diesel Mules/Gators
• 2, 4 and 6 seat diesel Mules/Gators
• Utility buggies • 4 and 6 seat buggies • Trailers
• Utility buggies • 4 and 6 seat buggies • Trailers
• Disabled access and ambulance buggies
• Disabled access and ambulance buggies
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Web: www.eventbuggyhire.co.uk love smaller festivals, the under 10,000 capacity ones where you get to know everyone on site and can get around without a buggy! As a festivalgoer, you can make friends and bump into the same people across the weekend and every performance feels special.
It’s these events where youngsters cut their teeth and learn festival dos and don’ts, and where veterans stand loyal to their favourites and wouldn’t dream of missing them.
Small and medium-sized festivals are vital to the industry. We all know the “big boys” when it comes to festivals and there will always be a place and a demand for those, but I feel that the smaller ones allow variety, diversity, opportunity, and interest, and make festivals available to all.
They also support the local economy with opportunities for catering, bar, crew, and local jobs, and are key for emerging artists, giving them an opportunity to perform and grow.
The event landscape would look very different without them…
In 2022, I saw music events, festivals and outdoor gigs filling the events calendar. It’s happening this year too and
