This year Bristol Light festival will be returning to the city's streets from tomorrow. The festival will bring together a showcase of renowned light artists and installations from across the UK, featuring the best of Bristol’s talent.
The installations first came to Bristol in 2020 and helped Bristolians to enjoy the city in a new way. It also allowing local artists to showcase their work in some of the city's most iconic locations. And after being put on hold due to Covid - it's back and promising to be as great as ever.
This year's festivities will feature six world premiere works from some of the best UK light artists, all making their Bristol debut at carefully selected locations across the city.
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The Light Festival is not only hoping to bring some joy to Bristol's streets but also aims to get people out and enjoying some of Bristol's best-loved locations in a socially-distanced way whilst also supporting some of Bristol's businesses that may have been impacted by Coronavirus.
This year’s festival will be supported by Bristol’s City Centre & High Streets Recovery and Renewal programme, which is funded by Bristol City Council and the West of England’s Combined Authority’s Love our High Streets project, with the aim of supporting the recovery of Bristol’s priority high streets.
The range of installations are coming to the city on March 1 and will be free and open to all. There are 14 excellent pieces of work and you can make it your mission to seek them all out.
Whether you want to make it a fun family trip or a competition between friends to see who can spot them all first; the detailed map makes it easy to spot them all.
The festival is designed to help people explore the city in a new way with installations in the following locations: Park Street, Harbourside, Old City, Castle Park, Redcliffe and Temple and Quakers Friars in Cabot Circus.
Whether you'd like to see Banksy's Park Street Masterpiece 'Well Hung Lover's reinvented or a huge slinky taking over the Cascade Steps and head towards the harbour’s water, there's a fun creation that's bound to peak your interests.
Bristol Light Festival is presented by Bristol City Centre Business Improvement District (BID), who are working in partnership with Redcliffe and Temple BID, Arts Council England and Cabot Circus. The event has been curated by the festival’s creative director Katherine Jewkes.
The BID and the partners are focused on creating "a better Bristol that’s more caring, more welcoming, safer, cleaner, wonderfully diverse and better promoted" through the event.
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