Enjoy an evening with world-renowned artist Kevin Red Star, along with authors AJ Otjen and Sabrena Half, for an art display and a special book signing of the children’s book, Elk Morning At the Battle of Arrow Creek. We welcome the community to stop in for a cup of cocoa, purchase a signed book, and enjoy the art of Kevin Red Star from 5:00-7:00 p.m. at Stockman Bank Downtown, 402 N. Broadway.
December’s First Friday consists of the 21st annual Downtown Billings Holiday Stroll, with events beginning at 5pm and throughout the evening. 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 which celebrates the fine art with local and regional artists, at nearly 40 art galleries and downtown locations.
View the December 2nd Calendar of Events
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 .
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.