V&A hosting week-long Glastonbury Festival online celebration
By Tim Lethaby 16th Jul 2021
The V&A is hosting a seven-day celebration online of all things Glastonbury Festival.
Coinciding with the weekend when the world-famous festival was due to celebrate its 50th year at Worthy Farm in Pilton, the V&A has delved into its collections and asked for contributions from its curators to help fill your festival void.
Home to the nation's Glastonbury Archive, the museum will be launching a new collections page on its website as it develops an online resource for the public to learn about and navigate this collection of posters, programmes, designs, interviews, film, photographs, backstage passes and other memorabilia.
V&A curators have also created new content providing an introduction to the Glastonbury Archive and the Festival's History as well as an examination of Glastonbury and Fashion, and Glastonbury and Stage Design.
The personal memories of those that attend Glastonbury are just as important as the artists that perform.
The crowd at the festival is famous the world over, which is why the V&A is launching a call out for members of the public to send in their memories from the festival.
Using the email address [email protected], the museum is asking for your written memories to enter the archive to help tell the story of those that attend.
Glastonbury is more than the performances themselves, it is about the communal social experience of the festival-goers. The memories project will contribute towards a 360 degree mapping of its 50-year history.
A specially commissioned soundscape by award-winning sound designer Gareth Fry will also launch on the V&A website.
This seven-minute binaural piece includes recordings from the across the festival to explore a day in the life of Glastonbury.
Recorded during the 2015 festival, it conveys the atmosphere of festival life through snippets of conversations and familiar sounds from across the festival site including sunrise at the Stone Circle and sound checks at the Pyramid Stage.
This sonic experience recreates the side of Glastonbury enjoyed by its guests but not covered by TV channels.
Gareth said: "Glastonbury is so much more than just music – there are comedians, circus acts, workshops, buskers and dozens of international cuisines.
"The camping, the walking, the people you pass by and the people you meet. There's something
unexpected around every corner." Museum staff have also revisited their memories of attending the festival and each selected one song that reminds them of their visit.
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