| First Night Helena is a Community Event which takes place on New Year's Eve annually. Many communities across the state and country take part in their own local versions of this celebration. We would like to closely model our version off of what we see the Missoula Community doing, and feel their event (now nearly 20 years running) is a shining and successful example. First Night Helena 2017 will invite and pair up performers and artists of all kinds with local downtown participating venues. Celebration tends to begin early in the afternoon around 1 or 2 pm and runs all day long in different scheduled locations around the designated part of town, making it easy for visitors to plan their adventure. The closing event tends to be a live musician or band to help the participants ring in the new year. There are many details to the event, how we would like to collaborate with the downtown businesses of Helena, and how we would like to make this event annual. We are just getting started and are collecting locations in the area from the Great Northern Town Center to the Reeder's Alley who would like to participate and receive more information and updates as we progress. Events like this cannot happen on their own or by sheer will power :) Having the downtown area involved and supportive will go a long way in making this dream a reality. We feel that this event is a long time coming and are very excited to bring it to Helena Montana! Please direct inquiries to marionette.prod@gmail.com for more information or to be included as a participant, and check out our page on Facebook as well. |
