Bristol Light Festival 2023 will run from 3 – 12 February, across 10 days and two weekends, making it the longest running edition to date.
07/07/2022
This year Bristol Light Festival made its highly anticipated return with a six-day event that brought stunning light installations to Bristol’s city centre.
The findings of an independent financial and visitor analysis report confirmed, Bristol Light Festival attracted 170,000 visitors to the city and brought an additional spend of £3.4m into city centre businesses as a direct result of the event, supporting the post-pandemic business recovery.
Demonstrating the importance and requirement to create free leisure time activities and events in the city centre that give another reason for people to visit, Bristol Light Festival encouraged visitors to eat, shop and drink in city centre businesses at an otherwise quieter time of the year. Bristol City Centre BID, organisers of Bristol Light Festival, has confirmed it will return in 2023 with a new programme including internationally acclaimed artists, the ambition is to make this an annual event for the next five years.
Bristol Light Festival 2023 will run from 3 – 12 February, across 10 days and two weekends, making it the longest running edition to date, increasing the event’s duration to give more opportunity for people to visit.
Bristol City Centre BID’s analysis of Bristol Light Festival 2022 highlighted key findings for the event which included:
