October 23, 2012

Bury Light Night

Another long gap between blogs and this time's excuse has been working on Bury Light Night. You can see much more of it on its Facebook page (I was too busy to get many photos of my own) but Saturday night's event drew a crowd of around 25,000-30,000 people to the streets of the town centre. 
 In total, there were 22 artists involved in the night - including 11 local Bury artists;

11 live bands; Circus performers and acrobats performing around the town centre (Custard Storm);

And then Nationally and internationally renowned performers such as Walk The Plank, KMA and Flame OZ;
The laser bus also worked with the Noise Festival and 3 young practitioners to help develop their work, opportunities and practice.

The event was a huge labour and couldn't have been done without the massive support of the Hamilton Project




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