Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts '11

A unique feast of music set on a huge site offering a grand scale of entertainment unlike any other festival in the world. For five days the Pilton farm plays host to a tented city in Somerset. As well as music from nearly every genre imaginable on over 50 stages, there's performing arts with cabaret, theatre, circus, children's entertainment, poetry, healing, green crafts and information and much more. Vibrant, spontaneous, colourful, and hugely entertaining. The dates for the 2011 Festival confirmed as Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th June.

Line-up

There are no confirmed acts yet for the line-up.

What's on?

Expect something like 2,000 performances at 50 or so venues including music, cabaret, theatre, circus, a fantastic Kidz area, something will be replacing the departing Leftfield stage, poetry, green crafts and information and loads, loads more ... much more than just the music, so make sure you check it all out!

Music on the main stages runs from around 11am each morning until 00:30 on the Friday and Saturday and midnight on the Sunday (longer stage running times than just about every other festival), with entertainment on some of the smaller stages running later (until 6am in Shangri-La).

Tickets

Tickets for Glastonbury Festival are not yet on sale.

Everyone who has a ticket to the Festival must be registered, and that includes children aged 13, 14 and 15. Each ticket features a photograph of the person in whose name it is registered and will be non-transferable. If your registered for tickets in 2009, there was an option to keep your registration for the next five years.

Festival Ethos

The Festival wants people to think about their journey to the Festival, to use public transport, or if coming by car to share transport with others. The Festival is committed to minimising the amount of waste, and managing the on site collection of that waste efficiently, 'reduce, reuse and recycle'.

Glastonbury Festival believes that work begins at home, at Worthy Farm. Looking after the fields, the hedges and the livestock has always been the Festival's number one concern, and it is what life is all about.

Festivals goers should think responsibly when they are packing their things to take to the Festival, and not bring items that will end up in Landfill, or that they won't want to take back home again, remember to "Limit what you bring, and clean up behind you."

Opening times

Neither the Festival site nor campsites or carparks are expected to open before 8.00am on Wednesday 23rd June, with traffic problems so great on Wednesday at 2009's event, it may be worth seeking local accommodation the night before. Please do not plan your arrival before that. It causes local residents problems, there are no facilities available until then, and local police will move you on. From 8.00am on Wednesday pedestrian gates operate 24 hours a day until the end of the Festival. If you have any problems with your ticket, or getting on site, there are enquiry cabins at each pedestrian gate to assist you.

For detailed information on all aspects of the festival, click here.