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Archiving Glastonbury Festival

Join us as we begin our collaboration with the Glastonbury Festival to archive the past, collect the present and work together on ways of documenting future festivals. This year the V&A’s National Collection of the Performing Arts will be live at the festival as we collect and document one of the biggest cultural phenomena of our times. We will take a journey through the rich collage of the festival landscape and encounter the extraordinary range of creativity in visual arts, scenography and live performances…

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An Indian Summer at Glastonbury

This week sees the return of Glastonbury Festival to Worthy Farm in Somerset. Awash with wellies, crowds and jaw dropping performances, this year will include a new guest – the...
Laura Woodfield
Archiving Glastonbury Festival

Sonic and visual responses to the V&A’s Glastonbury Archive

null Keith Hale
Archiving Glastonbury Festival

The making of the Mapping Glastonbury interactive

null Keith Hale
Archiving Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury: A Living Installation

null Helen Gush
Archiving Glastonbury Festival

‘Glastonbury : Land and Legend’ opens in Prague

null Helen Gush
Archiving Glastonbury Festival

Installing ‘Glastonbury: Land and Legend’ – Day 3

null Helen Gush
Archiving Glastonbury Festival

Installing ‘Glastonbury: Land and Legend’ – Day 2

null Helen Gush
Archiving Glastonbury Festival

Installing ‘Glastonbury: Land and Legend’ – Day 1

null Helen Gush
Archiving Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Installation Series: Part 3, Politics

null Helen Gush
Archiving Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Installation Series: Part 2, Weather

null Helen Gush
Archiving Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Installation Series: Part 1, Music

null Helen Gush
The Glastonbury Free Press
Archiving Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival Pack Down…

null Kate Bailey
Archiving Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival Signs, Banners and Posters

Signage at Glastonbury Festival
null Kate Bailey
Archiving Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival: A Patchwork of Film and Sound

null Kate Bailey
Archiving Glastonbury Festival

Staging the Spectacular at Glastonbury Festival

The Spider
null Kate Bailey
Archiving Glastonbury Festival

From Green Futures to Shangri-la

Green Futures at Glastonbury
null Kate Bailey
Archiving Glastonbury Festival

The V&A and Glastonbury Festival – Sounds bizarre?

Hippies and their horse at the first festival
null Bill Sherman
Archiving Glastonbury Festival

Meet Tony Cordy – Founder of the Kidzfield at Glastonbury Festival

null Kate Bailey
Archiving Glastonbury Festival

V&A acquires the Glastonbury Archive

null Kate Bailey
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