Wales’ biggest festive light trail is back and bigger than ever this winter – with a specially composed soundtrack and a UK premiere in cutting-edge lighting design as its grand finale.
Visitors to Christmas at Bute Park 2022 will be the first in Britain to see the brand new iridescent light orb experience ‘Prismatic’, designed by one of the UK’s foremost lighting designers, DBN Audile.
It is among a host of new installations being introduced in the event’s second year, alongside a magical ‘Light Canyon’ awash with a thousand mesmerising stars, a lake of light created by hypnotic lasers to create a ‘Liquid Sky’, as well as a sensory canopy of translucence, called Spectral Cloud, created by Wales’ very own Jessica Lloyd-Jones.
Now, up to 150,000 visitors are expected to follow in their footsteps during the trail’s five-week run in Wales’ capital city, after a team of 25 technicians spent more than two weeks installing over one million twinkling lights to create the breath-taking spectacular.
Organisers have been working with event experts nationwide to make sure more than 70% of the visuals on offer are completely brand new for visitors, and also working on specially composed pieces of music set to accompany the trail this year too.
Christmas at Bute Park takes visitors on a tour of festive delight around one of the capital city’s most beloved landmarks and through the biggest Christmas lights trail on offer in Wales, following a sell-out debut in 2021.
This year, there will be an even wider range of food and drink producers and a newly extended area for toasting marshmallows too. Greek Meating Point, Yorkshire PuddingWraps, Pizza Scorchinis, Hot Dogs Gourmet Griddle, Indian Keralan Karavan, Brownies Chock Shop, Smoking Griddle Cardiff, Churros Hermanos and a host of other suppliers are also among the new food offerings for 2022.
Christmas at Bute Park is also the only light trail in the UK to have signed up to the Attitude is Everything charter, launched to improve deaf and disabled people’s access to live music by working in partnership with audiences, artists and the music industry.
