First Friday Holiday Stroll Featuring ArtWalk
December 5 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
December’s First Friday consists of the 24th annual Downtown Billings Holiday Stroll, with events throughout the evening starting at 5pm. The stroll includes various downtown businesses, retail shops, and other activated downtown spaces with extended hours, holiday-centric events, specials, holiday beverages and snacks, and loads of holiday cheer.
Featured on this night is also the Holiday Art Walk from 5pm – 9pm, which celebrates the fine art with local and regional artists, at nearly 40 art galleries and downtown locations.
View the December 5th Calendar of Events
additional Stroll activities:
FREE Photos with Santa – details coming November 2025
Stroll Shuttle – details coming November 2025
Live Music and Carolers throughout downtown, details coming November 2025.
with more to come…
event Resources
Dec 2, 2022 – The 21st annual holiday stroll: Friday, Dec. 2
Jan. 2, 2020 – First Fridays continue in 2020 downtown (Billings Gazette)
Jan. 3, 2020 – Downtown Billings kicks off First Friday (KTVQ)
Is your downtown Business a DBA Member who has something planned for Friday, December 5th? Submit what you have going on at your business on Friday December 5th for Holiday Stroll/ ArtWalk to the downtown Calendar by clicking on the button below.
1) The DBA promotes and markets First Friday and the submitted events/promotions/activities with social media posts and email marketing. The real success of the event will be up to the commitment of participating businesses to be consistent and offer events, promotions specials.
2) We believe in the value of working with your other downtown neighbors to enhance the downtown experience. The DBA stands behind the concept of ‘abundance breeds abundance’. Meaning when First Friday falls in conjunction with an ArtWalk, or any other event hosted downtown it will only enhance and increase the downtown activity as a whole because it offers a variety of options to draw more of the community to downtown.
You bet ya! ArtWalk is an amazing member driven event that falls on the first Friday of every other month (6 times a year). The community looks forward to the opportunity to mingle and explore local and regional artists at various locations downtown promoted by the ArtWalk organization. The ArtWalk has been around for many years and has a wonderful momentum and following that participants really benefit from. For more information about ArtWalk email artwalkdowntownbillings@gmail.com.
First Friday happens 12 months a year. and is not your typical traditional event format, as it’s not located in a specific footprint. First Friday happens at ALL participating locations and the DBA will market and promote each location while also add little fun enhancements to draw more people downtown for the night. So being a part of both can only increase the amount of people your business is marketed to and interact with in a variety of ways.
The 2024 Holiday Stroll was coordinated by our Downtown Billings team and presented by White Heating & Air Conditioning and supported by event sponsors Valley Credit Union, TDS Fiber, Heenan & Cook Trial Lawyers, Bravera, and the Northern Hotel.
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