Vancouver Park Board - Bright Nights in Stanley Park

Bright Nights In Stanley Park

November 27, 2009 to January 2, 2010, 3-10pm (farmyard open to 9pm) closed Christmas Day

The Vancouver Park Board and British Columbia Professional Fire Fighters' Burn Fund invite everyone to nights of magic and illumination for the twelfth annual Bright Nights in Stanley Park.

Admission

Admission to the Plaza is free. Tickets are required to ride the Bright Nights Train and visit the Children's Farmyard.

Tickets

Adult	$8.00
Discount	$5.00
Children & Youth (2-18), Seniors (65+)

Includes a ride on the Train and a visit to the Children's Farmyard. Train tickets are sold in half hour time slots. Trains run 3 pm - 10 pm nightly. Farmyard is open 3 pm - 9 pm.

Ticket Purchase Options

Buy Your Tickets Any Day In Advance Of The Day You Want To Come

Where: Call 604-280-4444 or visit the Ticketmaster website or purchase them in person at any of the Ticketmaster sales locations.

When: Any day from now until 9:00 am on the day you wish to ride the train, except for:

Sundays - Ticketmaster sales cut off at 4:00 pm on the Saturday before, and
January 1 - Ticketmaster sales cut off at 4:00 pm on December 31

Hint: If you are trying to book online and all the times you check are sold out, call Ticketmaster. Its agents can let you know what dates and times still have tickets available.

Buy Your Tickets The Same Day at Stanley Park

Where: At the ticket booth in the train Plaza in Stanley Park.

When: Opens at 12:00 noon daily. (Tickets are sold for that day's train rides only.)

Big Bright Night Out Dinner Package

Bright Nights Dinner Packages with the Old Spaghetti Factory are only available through Ticketmaster. Buy package tickets.

The Old Spaghetti Factory is donating to the Burn Fund an amount from every meal served at its Lower Mainland locations for the duration of the Bright Nights event.

Important Information

At least half of the tickets for each day's train rides will be set aside and only available for purchase on-site from 12:00 noon onwards on that same day. This means that even if Ticketmaster is sold out for that day, there will still be lots of tickets for sale on-site.

This event is very popular and train tickets sell out early on busy evenings. To avoid crowds, consider coming on Monday-Thursday during the first two weeks. The BC Professional Fire Fighters' Burn Fund displays are open at all times during the event.

For public safety reasons, Stanley Park may occasionally be closed due to inclement weather conditions such as high winds. We will do our utmost to notify the public if a closure happens by contacting local media with an advisory and updating messages on the Bright Nights Info line at 604-257-8531.

Get in the spirit of the Holidays – take a train ride through our forest transformed with two million twinkling lights, see the animated displays and listen to holiday sounds as you enjoy hot chocolate, fresh popcorn and roasted chestnuts.

Mortal Coil's fabulous creations bring laughter and artistry to the Park. Christmas tunes serenade you as you ride the train. Professional and community choirs and bands will also be in the plaza on special nights. And don’t forget to visit Santa in his workshop !

Student volunteers act as festival ambassadors. Individuals, companies and foundations donate goods and funds to ensure that the over 200,000 annual visitors to Bright Nights enjoy the event called "the most spectacular lighting display in Canada".

BC Professional Fire Fighters' Burn Fund

All donations collected at the event, and partial proceeds from the sale of tickets for the train, go to the Burn Fund to help burn survivors and their families. As Bright Nights is one of its major fundraisers, the Burn Fund accepts donations at the front gate and suggests a minimum donation of $2.

Bright Nights has raised over $1.5 million for the Burn Fund. This achievement is supported by more than 500 off-duty professional fire fighters from the Lower Mainland and around BC who donate their time to set up, operate and take down the annual display.

The BC Professional Fire Fighters' Burn Fund
is a registered charity established in 1978 by the BC Professional Fire Fighters' Association. Over 3,700 professional fire fighters throughout British Columbia dedicate their time and skills to help burn survivors in the province.

To make a donation or for more information please visit www.burnfund.org or call 604-436-5617.

Refreshments

Enjoy a snack, hot drink or a light meal at the Children's Farmyard Concession. In the Plaza, there are chestnuts and pistachios roasting and the Stanley Park Ecology Society sells hot buttered popcorn from its cob house.

Recycle Old Holiday Lights

Bring your strings of old, inefficient lights, drop them in the marked bin by the Plaza back gate and help save energy. Plus BC Hydro will donate to the Burn Fund $2 for every string dropped off.

How To Get There

When you enter Stanley Park off Georgia Street, go straight ahead (don't turn right under the underpass) and through the Rose Garden. Follow the signs to parking. There is a limited number of accessible parking stalls right by the Plaza gate. Parking in the lots by Bright Nights is free after 3 pm.

Bright Nights is readily accessible by transit. The terminus for bus #19 is at the bus loop, right by the entrance to the Train Plaza. Check with TransLink at 604-953-3333 for more detailed information.

Find Bright Nights on Facebook and watch the Twitter feed for updates.

Promotional Designs by
Lynda Nakashima, Hana Bee Studio

Photography by
terryhughesphotography.com

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