Kurt Jackson is one of Britain's
leading painters, and a long-time supporter of Greenpeace. He has created an amazing series of paintings
and sketches from his residency at the 2009 Glastonbury Festival, which include
portraits of Radiohead, Massive Attack, Lily Allen and Tinariwen as well as
landscapes capturing the essence of the festival.
Posted by jamie — 30 June 2009 at 5:42pm
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There are a lot of tired but very happy (not
to mention sun-kissed) people around the office today. Those who manned the
Greenpeace field at Glastonbury
are reappearing and they have such tales to tell. (I would have asked one of them to write this update, but they're all worn out.)
I decided to give Glastonbury a miss this year, but it looks like everyone currently stuck in a seven-hour tailback in the car park had a rollickin' good time. Not just because of the sunshine or Blur's barnstorming set last night (slightly jealous I missed that), but the Greenpeace field was once again a marvel to behold.
Posted by jossc — 26 June 2009 at 2:34pm
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Just a quick reminder of the sorts of things you'll be missing out on if you don't take that step through the grass arch to visit the ever-stimulating Greenpeace field at this year's Glastonbury festival.
So head on down to the Greenpeace field, where you can (in no particular order):
sign up to become an Airplotter and help us create a spectacular aviation intervention to stop Heathrow expansion.
scale the climbing walls of our action training centre
conquer the famous Greenpeace skateboard ramp
take a solar power shower
feast organically at Café Tango
get some expert advice about how to make your world a bit greener
Hundreds of pilots,
stewardesses, train drivers and passengers will attempt to form the biggest
human "NO" ever seen at Glastonbury festival at midday on Saturday, in
protest at the government's plans for airport
expansion.
After her adventures at the Make a NOise carnival, Amy Greenhouse is back. This time, she joined us at Glastonbury to show the farm a bit of love. The question is, where's Trace?
With big thanks to Niall and Jason from Tellyjuice.
Posted by jamie — 25 June 2008 at 4:04pm
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So, we're here at Glastonbury and, after a few wrong turns on the way here and some hitches pitching my tent (I've never been the best camper), I'm starting to settle into the rhythm of working at the festival.
The Greenpeace field is almost complete and the garden design is quite amazing with covered walkways, vegetable patches and other examples of one planet living. As I write, music is blaring from the skateboard ramp behind me and I can hear the whoosh of wheels as the skaters do their turns.Last night, I was lured into the interactive light installation (another work by Jason Bruges, who created the installation at last year's 100% Light expo) which is quite addictive, especially after a few cans of Strongbow. Watch this video on our moblog to get some idea of what it's about.
