GlasGlow 2023 has opened at Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens, this year’s theme being Ghostbusters

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GlasGlow is Glasgow’s autumnal light show that takes place at the Botanic Gardens in the West End. Since its launch in 2018 the event has got larger and the team have now opened their biggest spectacle yet.

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00:00 So behind me, every single year, we're always really proud to have the community pumpkin

00:06 patch, which is exactly what this is.

00:08 You're seeing it during the day, it takes a whole different form at night when it's

00:12 all lit up.

00:13 And what this is, is hundreds of school children all across Glasgow create these pumpkins for

00:18 us as well as our very own professional pumpkin carvers.

00:22 And we just love this, it's my favourite bit of Glasgow every year.

00:25 It's so pretty, it's so cute and there's also lots of little fun nuggets thrown in there

00:29 for adults, such as a baby pumpkin being eaten by an evil pumpkin in the corner there that

00:33 you can see.

00:34 And every year we want to build on it, we want to make it bigger, we want to make it

00:37 better.

00:38 So every year we invest in certain areas that always come back, so marshmallow land, which

00:43 is my personal favourite.

00:45 Every child should have the ability to tote a marshmallow at least once a year and that's

00:48 what we get to do here.

00:49 And then what we want to try and do is always create a theme every year that connects with

00:53 people.

00:54 Like I said, it's all about lighting people's lives up.

00:57 It's a time of year when the clocks change, Halloween starts, the leaves are changing,

01:02 the area looks really beautiful and behind me you can see an Ecto-1.

01:05 The theme this year is all about ghosts, ghouls, the nostalgia of the 80s, taking inspiration

01:11 from amazing movies like Ghostbusters and the opportunity for people to see the sky

01:15 lit up.

01:16 You can grab a beer or a Baileys and hot chocolate and sit and watch one of the main finale shows,

01:22 which is an unbelievable showpiece that you get to walk through.

01:26 And this year what's really exciting, if people have been before to Glasgow, is we're going

01:30 back inside the kibble and the show that's in the kibble, which we pulled together last

01:36 night and I've watched for the very first time, is unbelievable.

01:39 So I hope everyone gets the opportunity to see it.

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