It's possible to spend the time at Glastonbury glued in front of the major stages and see top band after top band, but you can do that at other festivals too. Glastonbury is about so much more...
Around every corner there's a surprise. With countless smaller stages and cafe's offering music from bands you've never heard of and may never hear of again - that doesn't mean they're not worth your time – alongside theatre, circus, comedy and cabaret, the UKs largest free children's festival, and a huge range of ‘new age’ technologies, crafts and information, if all you see are the big music names you’re missing out.
The Festival profits help support causes such as Oxfam, Greenpeace, and Water Aid – making a REAL difference to people's lives – and these organisations have information stalls to help you understand what they're about, and why their work is of such value to our planet. Pay them a visit on site, and find out how you can help them.
There's the now established Left Field, with speakers and debates on subjects that threaten our world (as well as music). This year there's debates on the illegal blockade of Cuba, the launch of the Birth Day Trust (which raises awareness that around 10 million pregnant women a year needlessly die or are disabled), a Declaration of Support for Refugees, and Tony Benn again pays a visit (streamed live online), aiming at mobilising hundreds of thousands on the streets of Edinburgh and outside the Gleneagles Hotel the weekend after the Glastonbury Festival to help MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY.
To show the Festival's support for MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY, at 4pm on Saturday 25th June at this year's festival, everyone is invited to join hands and draw attention to the cause. If you care, join hands. If you don't care, visit MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY to find out why you should care.
New for this year, Oxfam’s Control Arms campaign have teamed up with Concrete Recordings (who release the Glastonbury Unsigned compilations) to bring a new Late ‘n’ Live Cafe with live music from up-and-coming bands. The lack of control of the arms trade is fuelling conflict, poverty, and human rights abuses worldwide - every government is responsible. Control Arms is campaigning for a global arms trade treaty, to bring the trade in weapons under control. Over half a million people are killed by armed violence every year: that's one person every minute!
Don't forget, it's important that we help care for the Festival as much as it helps support care for our planet and its people. Don't piss in the hedges, and don't allow others to either. Working together we've helped crack this problem the last few years, but it remains important that we keep this up.
If you've been one of the lucky ones that got a ticket, make sure you enjoy the festival to the full.
Have a great Festival - look after yourselves and each other.
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