Glastonbury Festival Of Contemporary Performing Arts - Charities - Oxfam

Oxfam asks Glastonbury-goers to Do It Themselves!

This year, you can get a new look at Glastonbury courtesy of stylist to the stars Mrs Jones. After revamping Oxfam’s Camden shop Mrs Jones is now giving Oxfam’s 2 stalls at Glastonbury a high fashion makeover and will be offering the same service to Festival-goers themselves. From high fashion to high glam Mrs. Jones will use Oxfam clothes to create unique looks for Glastonbury goers, and they can learn her tricks themselves at one of her Oxfam DIY workshops.

On-site, Oxfam DIY will be more than simply a shop, it will be an interactive, enlightening and fun element of the world’s greatest festival. Led by Mrs. Jones, Oxfam DIY will feature exciting activities such as Be The Band, where festival-goers will have the opportunity to become the band / artist of their choice. After their makeover participants will have a quick photoshoot, and, to top it all off they get to keep their outfits, so by Sunday, the Glastonbury site will be awash with Pretend Prodigys, Spurious Springsteens and Mock-Up Madnesses.

Emily Eavis said: "Now this is a good idea.  You can ferret through Oxfam's wondrous supply of gear and dress yourself up in whatever takes your fancy and get stuck in with your friends for a good cause.  And with a souvenir thrown in for good measure.  A taste of Mr Benn in The Park!"

The Oxfam marquees will be the place to be at Glastonbury with acoustic performances from some of the festival’s hottest acts (7pm daily) and a Daily DIY workshop hosted by Mrs Jones; on Thursday festival-goers can benefit from the ‘Prepare For The Festival’ theme while on Saturday, once those inhibitions have been left in a muddy ditch near the Pyramid Stage, the theme is High Glam: ‘The Big Look’!

Oxfam DIY will be staging a fashion show backstage, hosted by Beardyman. Oxfam DIY plans to take a group of muddy stewards and transform them into catwalk kings and queens, via an Oxfam DIY makeover at the Oxfam Shop. Mrs Jones will be keeping a watchful eye on their styling skills. The fabulous final looks will be showcased backstage in front of an eager audience. 

The Oxfam DIY fashion promo film, created for the launch of the Camden store, by director Drew Cox, will be showcased on the screens either side of the Pyramid and Other stages and the director will be on-site to capture more DIY fashion fun over the course of the four days for a DIY documentary.

Sarah Farquhar, Head of Retail at Oxfam, said:

“Mrs Jones personifies that sense of adventure we’d like our customers to feel shopping at Oxfam, where affordable, sustainable fashion is available to everyone. Her work highlights the ways in which we can all look again at our wardrobe, experiment with fashion and create looks that complement our own personalities. Best of all, by shopping at Oxfam you can do all this while helping us to fight poverty around the world.”
 
Weekend Activity

Thursday 12.00 – 2.00 pm – Mrs Jones ‘Get Ready’ workshop at the DIY shop, in the Market Place

Friday 12.00 – 2.00 pm   – Dress for the Catwalk workshop at the DIY shop, in the Market Place

Friday 2.00 pm – Backstage fashion show with Oxfam Stewards showcasing DIY looks created by the people of Glastonbury at the DIY shop, hosted by Beardyman

Saturday 12.00 – 2.00 pm – Mrs Jones ‘High Glam – The Big Look’ workshop at the DIY shop, in the Market Place 

Mrs Jones will also be making appearances at the Be The Band tent over the course of the festival to help style festival goers with their rock and roll looks.

Oxfam marquee opening hours:

Shop / DIY Marquee: from Wednesday to Sunday 10am-late

Be the Band Marquee: from Wednesday to Sunday 10am-6.30pm

Stewards

More than 1700 Oxfam stewards work behind the scenes to help get you in and out of the farm, help find your tent, your friends and anything else you might have lost on your travels. Over the past 15 years, their hard work at Glastonbury has helped to raise over £2 million to fight poverty.

It’s not all work, work, work though. To become a steward, click here.

Previously…
Over the years, tens of thousands of Oxfam supporters have campaigned at Glastonbury to make an impact on aid, fair-trade, climate poverty, education, conflict and arms control.

To view our new gallery pages please click here.

Retail Therapy
The Oxfam Shop at Glastonbury is vital in supporting our work around the world. It has raised more than £125,000 by selling wellies, waterproofs, blankets and second-hand fancy dress, helping us run a wide-range of emergency operations in 30 countries.

Get some retail therapy at our Glastonbury Festival shop or pick up your Festival essentials from your local Oxfam high street shop.

£19 protects a child from malaria, which kills over a million a year. £40 will buy a thousand bricks to build a school, which will educate generations of children. £1000 buys a water tank to provide clean water for thousands, fulfilling humans’ most basic need.

We’ll be showcasing some great ways to get involved with Oxfam and fight poverty at this year’s Glastonbury so please come and say hello or get involved today.

Oxfam is working for a cleaner, greener, fairer Glastonbury Festival 2009