Links to Festivals & Events

UK

www.beautifuldays.org   Beautiful Days - The Levellers annual bash in Devon - winner of the 2006 Best Grassroots Festival at the UK Festival Awards.   

www.bestival.net September's Bestival is environmentally aware and a great addition to the UK festival scene.


www.bigchill.net The Big Chill Festival - see also:
http://www.bigchill.net/story/79/thediversificationofthecountryside.html

www.big-green-gathering.com The UK's big gathering for all things green.

www.blissfields.co.uk Blissfields - a grass-roots festival promoting new music in a friendly and relaxing atmosphere. Small, but beautifully formed.

www.bristolmusicfestival.co.uk Bristol are encouraging cycling by making provisions for people visiting by bike and investing into public transport where possible.  

www.cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk Cambridge Folk Festival is one of the longest running and most famous folk festivals in the world. Winners of the Greener Festival Award consecutively in 2008 and 2009.

www.celticbluerock.org.uk Celtic Blue Rock - Llanfyrnach - is a free festival, unless you drive! Great music and also green education  - everything from biodeisel to turbine power.

www.cornburyfestival.co.uk  Cornbury Festival - Oxford - three music stages, fairground and circus as well as the posh stuff - tennis, champagne and upmarket accommodation.

www.partyneuf.co.uk Croissant Neuf Summer Party - the world's greenest festival: great music and fantastic for families.  

www.edfilmfest.org.uk The Edinburgh International Film Festival - the oldest continually running film festival in the world - city centre based with rigorous recycling policies.

www.foolsfestival.com Befast - Northern Ireland's cheerful and anarchic street festival.

www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk The UK's biggest festival of music and performing arts
- The Glastonbury Festival Environmental Policy Statement (PDF)

www.greenbelt.org.uk Greenbelt is a music festival working to express love, creativity and justice in the arts and contemporary culture in the light of the Christian gospel. Greenbelt is moving towards minimising its enviromental impact and ensuring its practices are as sustainable as they can be.

www.thegreenmanfestival.co.uk  Green Man Festival - Brecon Beacons - a great recycling programmes and lack of corporate sponsors - oh - and great music too.

www.greenroadshow.co.uk Solar powered, non-animal circus, Green activities & displays, Family learning, Hands on fun and much more...

http://hillside.on.ca The Hillside festival in Guelph - with great music, Green roof to replace green space lost to main stage, Solar powered main stage. dish crews, free water with recyclable containers, workshops and speakers.

http://kingstongreenfair.org.uk The UK's most successful one-day family event.

www.ilmc.com The International Live Music Conference.

www.larmertreefestival.co.uk Family friendly and small scale - "like a rainbow-coloured garden party" with Somerset ale, real sausages and good music.

www.latitudefestival.co.uk  Lattitude - Suffolk - camping in Indian bell tents, gondola trips on the lake, music, literature, poetry and and more. 

http://www.loungeonthefarm.co.uk Deep in the Garden of England, Canterbury's fine festival!

www.nggonline.org.uk The Northern Green Gathering. Planned for 9th - 12th August '07 - contact Gael (northerngreenpixie@riseup.net).

www.outsiderfestival.co.uk  - The Outsider Festival - Cairngorn National Park - mountain bike racing, kayaking, walks - hang on that all sounds very energeric!!! Organic and fair trade food and a healthier experience. But great music too.

www.myspace.com/rainforestjam The Soho Rainforest Jam Music Festival.

http://www.partyneuf.co.uk PartyNeuf is the Croissant Neuf solar powered party - they say: "let's live as lightly as we can upon this precious Earth".

www.rockness.co.uk  Rising  to the surface for this monster festival, Rock Ness has evolved into a beast of an event in one of the most glorious settings on earth, on the bank of the mystical Loch Ness. Rock Ness is musically one of the most diverse events in the calendar, creating rwo different days of alternative sounds.

www.skyemusicfestival.co.uk  Skye Music Festival -  Isle of Skye - a real festival of music.

www.summersundae.com Summer Sundae Weekender - Leicester - 4 stages based around De Mountford Hall. A 2006 UK Festival Awards nominee.

www.sunrisecelebration.com winners of the UK Festival Awards Social Responsibility gong in 2006 with compost toilets, organic site-wide policy on food and alcohol, permaculture area, horsedrawn transport and rickshaws, education and everything powered by renewable sources.

www.tinthepark.co.uk T-in-the-Park, the world's leading carbon offsetting festival - plus battery exchange on-site and fresh water protection policies as well!

www.tribeofdoris.co.uk Tribe of Doris Intercultural Summer School - Somerset - all sorts of world music fun.

www.thisistruck.com the Truck Festival in Steventon, looking at a host of new  green initiatives.

www.urbanlawns.com The Urban Lawns Festival in Axminster, Devon (contact: info@urbanlawns.com).

www.valeearthfair.org The Vale Earth Fair - based in Gurnsey with lots of top green initiatives; a 'leave no trace' philosophy.

www.waveformproject.co.uk The South-West's first home grown dance music festival from those lovely Sunrise people! A unique and exciting collaboration of some of the best underground dance music from the UK and around the planet!

www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk  The Wickerman Festival - East Kirkarswell - celebrates everything weird and wild.

www.womad.org  Womad is now bigger and held at Charlton Park - and still leads the way in world music

www.workhousefestival.co.uk Workhouse Festival - Ecclectic, upbeat festival in Wales.

www.wychwoodfestival.com  Wychwood - toddler friendly at Cheltenham Racecourse. Lots of bands plus workshops and the like.

USA

www.bonnaroo.com The Bonnaroo Festival in the USA has great green policies - have a look at the 'greening' section of the site for practical advice and some useful links.

www.sxsw.com The rapidly greening, Austin based convention with local offsetting, a greened up office and committed to reducing, recycling & re-using.

www.sustainablelivingroadshow.org From mid-march to mid-november in 2008, the SLR is producing over twenty eco-carnivals across the US each lasting three days.  The SLR will be touring in a caravan of biofuel powered vehicles producing zero-waste, totally off-the-grid events, aimed at educating, insipiring and empowering individuals and communities with the necessary options, strategies, and programs to live more in tune with the earth. Email zachary.carson@gmail.com 

Portugal

www.boomfestival.org Outstanding Portuguese eco-aware festival.

Denmark

www.roskilde-festival.dk Denmark's leading music festival.
- Roskilde have a strong environmental ethos, see their policies here.

Finland

www.faces.fi Faces EtnoFestival in Billnäs, Finland.

http://www.ilosaarirock.fi Ilosaarirock, Joensuu, Finland.

www.sauna-open-air.fi Sauna open-air metal festival, Tampere, Finland.

New Zealand

www.ecofest.co.nz Organic river festival in New Zealand.

Australia

www.bluesfest.com.au  Bluesfest is Australia's East Coast blues & roots festival -  a 300 acre site with a 40 acre wood which the organisers plan to extend - and wildlife includes koalas, bats and wallabies (with Festivaltime wildlife walks!). Future plans incluide compost topilets, grey water use and to run all lighting off wind generated and solar power.

www.thedreamingfestival.com  The Dreaming - Australias International Indigenous Festival is where over 25 Indigenous nations from all over the world gather to perform many art forms from theatre to dance and music and comedy. The festival uses compostable plates and drink cups and recycles approx 98% of all waste produced at our festivals through worm farms, water recycling and full rubbish recyling.

www.peatsridgefestival.com.au Peats Ridge Festival in Australia.

www.theplantingfestival.com The Planting Festival which is an environmental festival aimed at planting trees on the Festival site (where DReaming Australias and The Woodford Folk festival are also held). The Festival is growing quickly and is showcasing many new inventions that help the planet to recover and save its resources.

www.riverfestival.co.au The international river symposium and environmental flows conference.

www.woodfordfolkfestival.com  Woodford Folk Festival is one of the largest Folk festivals in the world with an aggregate attendance of over 125,000 over 6 days. Over 70,000 trees have been planted on the site and The Festival is rapidly approaching carbon neutral status.

Serbia

www.exitfest.org The Exit Festival - Serbia's wonderful July festival, set within a historic fortress on the banks of the river Danube.

Spain

www.eolica.es Eolica is a great collective multi-artistic celebration, a call to participate from your conscience. A musical-cultural festival unique in its style which feeds exclusively on natural energies, recycles its waste, combines workshops, exhibitions, projections, visits and excursions with performance, theatre, dance, circus, shows, multimedia, and a line-up of more than 50 artists from around the world on four stages.