Glastonbury Festival began in 1970, with 1500 guests and is now considered to be the largest
Greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world with approximately
140,000 attendees over a five day period.
The festival aims to encourage and stimulate youth culture from around
the world, in all its forms, including pop music, dance music, jazz and all the
creative forms of art and design, including painting, sculpture and textile
art.
A large area of the festival is set aside for complementary and
alternative medicine, demonstrations and displays of environmentally friendly
technologies and techniques, various forms of religious expression and a forum
for debating environmental social and moral issues. The festival organizes
market places, selling an enormous range of wares and places particular
emphasis on offering high quality prepared food and hand made goods, including
clothes and jewelry.
The festival is aware of its impact on the environment and since 1970 has been
working with various environmental groups such as
AGreenerFestival.com, Greenpeace and many others to adopt environmentally
efficient methods and keep up its reputation to be one of the ‘greenest and
cleanest’ festivals around (Glastonbury Festival n.d).
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