Celebrating peace, hope and unity at Glastonbury 2025

19th June 2025

From the very beginning, Glastonbury Festival was established to celebrate the best of human endeavour, with ideals of peace, unity, respect and hope underpinning all that the Festival stands for. 

In a world still challenged by global events, we will again be hosting events across the Festival aimed at bringing people together and inspiring hope for a better tomorrow. 

Here are a few ways you can celebrate peace, hope and unity at Glastonbury this year.

The Green Fields’ opening ceremony
— King’s Meadow; Wednesday 10pm.
The traditional opening ceremony in the Green Fields’ Sacred Space in the King’s Meadow will see the Flame of Hope – which unites 15 sacred flames from around the world – honoured with a thousand voices who will unite in a powerful mantra for Peace to create a collective sense of unity, love, and purpose, culminating in a fireworks display at 10.45pm.

Sing For Peace
— Sacred Space, The Green Fields; Thursday 12.30pm.
Glastonbury was started as a place for people to rejoice together and remains a place of welcome and inspiration for all to enjoy. Join the biggest Mantra For Peace ever seen at The Festival. Be there, raise the vibration in a celebration of life.

Hold Onto Hope
— Silver Hayes.
Inviting you to literally plant the seeds of hope, this immersive art installation, commissioned by War Child and brought to life by graphic artist Anthony Burrill and designer Michael Marriott, will bring the word “Hope” to life through a striking structure in the heart of Silver Hayes and serve as a gathering point for reflection, creativity, and solidarity. 

Learn from Delegates for Peace
— King’s Meadow, Green Fields; Thursday 1.15pm & The Information, Silver Hayes; Friday 5pm.
As part of the Green Fields’ Mantra for Peace, peace-building activists from Israel and Palestine will be making an address in the King’s Meadow. Hear them speak again at The Information, in Silver Hayes, on Friday (5pm) on the theme of “Action for Hope from Israel and Palestine”.

Oliver Jeffers Drawing Stories
— Greenpeace stage; Sunday 10.30am.
Set the world to rights at this hope-inducing interactive drawing session with inspiring internationally acclaimed author, illustrator and artist, Oliver Jeffers. 

Oxfam’s Milaya Refugee Arts Project
— Oxfam tent, Woodsies stage; open all week during daylight hours.
Honouring the refugees who fled Sudan and South Sudan with only a traditional embroidered Milaya to hold their belongings, this project invites you to hear tales of hope and resilience, family and community and join in to create one of these richly embroidered bed sheets. This collectively-crafted Milaya will also feature the words of Oxfam’s Radio Silence poem, stitched in using a coded textile font, which will only be revealed when finally finished. 

Seek Out The Information for inspiring talks
— The Information, Silver Hayes. 
Silver Hayes’ hub for thought-provoking discussions boasts an invigorating line-up that includes Israeli and Palestinian peace delegates (Friday, 5pm); broadcaster Gary Lineker and Andy Cato of Wildfarmed and Groove Armada on “Standing up for ‘getting along’ in a world that’s being pushed apart”, (Saturday, 5pm); and a talk on Collective Optimism with One Day actress Ambika Mod and Zarah Sultana, MP for South Coventry, (Thursday, 3.45pm).

Feel invigorated at the Tree Stage opening ceremony
— The Tree Stage, Woodsies; Wednesday from 3.15pm.
Performed as a sacred offering, the music of Aminadabu, the official band of the Flame of Hope, sets a soulful mood ahead of the official opening ceremony of the ambient Tree Stage with special meditations, celebrations, offerings and the ceremonial lighting of the Tolpuddle fire (4.15pm).  

Build the Peace
— Arcadia; Friday – Sunday.
This collaborative international art initiative transforms the machinery of destruction into unifying works of public art. A mural painted in the Zimbabwean township of Chitungwiza will become part of Arcadia’s Dragonfly as it comes to life in the Waraloo ceremony (Friday and Saturday, 11.50pm; 11:30pm, Sunday). A reciprocal mural will be painted live in Arcadia during the Festival and sent back to Chitungwiza where it will be added to by local artists, exploring how art is a tool for positive change in a post-conflict environment.