Glastonbury Festival Of Contemporary Performing Arts - Areas - The Green Fields

The Green Fields are the soul of Glastonbury Festival, where traditional skills and new ways of thinking combine in an explosion of creativity. They occupy the highest ground at the top end of the site, overlooking the rest of the Festival and keeping watch over its basic principles. This enchanting area still encapsulates the spirit and ideals which inspired the very first Pilton festivals. With its skyline filled with peace flags, gently turning wind generators and the outlines of dozens of tipis, this is a place to discover that there are other ways to make the world turn round other than competing and consuming.

The Green Fields are about change and discovery - learning how to release your own potential, and discovering how to change the world. The green movement encompasses both, from the small ways in which we can change our personal lifestyle to the big challenges of shifting the direction of international politics. The Green Fields are about doing things for ourselves, but at the same time doing them in a way that is communal, inclusive and caring.

The Green Fields are also fun. So you can pedal yourself into a mild sweat making sure the batteries for the PA keep charged, relax with a soothing massage session, listen to bands in a solar-powered marquee, join in a heated discussion about the best ways to cool the planet or learn how to bake your own bread in an open air oven. This is the place to escape the frenetic activity of the rest of the festival, to relax and maybe to meditate. There are endless ways in which you can open up your mind and your body.