Bridgeman Arts

10 years of the Glasgow Style Mile Christmas Carnival

Bridgeman Arts designs, delivers and produces several winter events across a number of Scottish cities and towns and one of our favourite annual projects since 2014 is the Glasgow Style Mile Christmas Carnival that takes place each November

A UNIQUE EVENT FOR A UNIQUE CITY

After a decade of experience of delivering other public carnival parades in Scotland, in 2014, Bridgeman Arts was given the opportunity to design and deliver an event for Glasgow’s Christmas season. All those years ago, the event started as a carnival parade that brought colour and spectacle to the streets, attracting tens of thousands of people to the city centre to share in the Christmas cheer. The event has had many articulations snd we have been able to respond to feedback and aim to improve the event year after year. Click on the video above to see one of our earlier carnival parades in 2017 The carnival has continued annually (except 2020 due to Lockdown restrictions) and since 2021 it has developed a successful new format that brings the best elements of the carnival parade to the city centre streets for the whole afternoon. Below you can see some images of carnival parade items in earlier years

As a special marker for our tenth birthday this year, in our Glasgow studio we have made 500 unique Christmas tree ornaments in the image of our Glasgow Style Mile Christmas Carnival snowflake that we will be giving away free to visitors who interact with our art creations on the day.