Exciting opportunity for businesses at Bury Light Night 2015

Local businesses are being offered a unique opportunity to be part of this year’s Bury Light Night.

Traders can have their shop frontage featured in the event and in its printed guide with a unique, specially commissioned artist’s installation, as part of the Art Trail for Bury Light Night 2015 and the weekend following.

Now in its fifth year, Bury Light Night is a hugely successful visitor attraction and will take place this year on Friday 16 October.

Many thousands of visitors have flocked to previous occasions, to enjoy light-inspired displays and unusual happenings across the town centre – from The Rock and Mill Gate to Bury Art Museum, the Fusilier Museum, The Met, Bury Transport Museum, and many of the town’s public spaces.

Kelly Townend, a member of the Mill Gate team, said: “The Mill Gate has worked in partnership with Bury Light Night since the first event in 2011, with amazing and intriguing installations in our shop spaces, attracting visitors to come and see Bury in a new light. From a ‘Light Club’ to a projected animation of Genie Lamp, we have seen a vast array of attractive uses for the spaces encouraging visits to the Mill Gate. We are pleased to be a part of Light Night 2015, showcasing our brilliant town.”

Bury Light Night is organised by Bury Council and The Hamilton Project.

Businesses have until Friday 31 July to apply to take part: please email Diana Hamilton at info@thehamiltonproject.co.uk

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Press release issued: 15 July 2015.

Picture: An art installation in the Mill Gate at the 2014 Bury Light Night, "Dream Genie" by Vincent James.