Glastonbury Festival Of Contemporary Performing Arts - Areas - The GreenCrafts Village

THE GLASTONBURY GREENCRAFTS VILLAGE

The Greencrafts Village at Glastonbury Festival has grown to be something of a cultural landmark. The biggest gathering of hands-on craftworks in Europe, returns once again, to engage your mind and body.

Old favourites and a plethora of new faces combine to offer a bustling showcase for the exceptional  abilities of some of the finest independent craftspeople, all itching to share their knowledge and enthusiasm with you.

Additional to our daily Happy Hour when it is all free from 10-11am, you can ask for a quick go at something for free, if you want more (who doesn’t) workshops start at a couple of quid for a quick taste or you can immerse yourself completely in the magic of creating something that is truly yours, in a full range of materials, clay stone textiles wood glass copper iron or silver etc.

Woodchips and sparks dance to the pounding of hammers and mallets, whilst weavers turners knitters and stitchers offer their own creative rhythms.

All are welcome, old hands and new hands, as are children with accompanying adults, most workshops operate on a drop in basis, a few need to be booked in advance, check us out we are a Glastonbury must do….

Traditionally the first area up and running, cunningly situated below Kings Meadow and the Stone circle, it is a wicked spot to take time out, do something for yourself, enjoy the spirit and a stunning panoramic view across the entire festival.

WORKSHOPS ON OFFER

SURVIVAL SKILLS

• Wildwood Bushcraft
• Making fire with a Bow drill
• Wilderness Crafts
• Making fire with flint and steel + Knot work & cordage

CLAY WORKSHOPS

• Pottery Parlour
• Kick wheel pottery throwing
• Come play Clay
• Clay sculpting

WOOD WORKSHOPS

• Cylchcoed
• Have a go at timber framing building
• Lawless Furniture
• Wooden Bridgets cross
• Spinney Hollow
• Greenwoodwork  using pole lathes, shave horse, hand drill & cleving tools making swords, magic wands, walking sticks & larger greenwood projects
• Green Device
• Make a carved wooden bowl & tree pendant
• La Roulette
• Learn about yurt making with steam bending
• North Wind Blows
• Wood turning a mushroom – cycling to make power
• Funky Monkey
• Make ash/hazle walking staff, tent pegs & hemp cord bracelets
• Wiltshire Hurdles
• Have a go at making hazle hurdles or a ash cleft gate
• Shakeahula
• Hula-hoop making using turning lime/cherry wood on a peddle powered victorian lathe with steam bending
• Occupy Yourself
• Have a go at wooden sculpture carving blackthorn & wooden badge making
• Gary Orange
• African slotted and carved wooden chair
• Robin Wood
• A chance to learn about the craft of bowl turning on a pole lathe
• Dorset Shafts
• Learn how wooden horse shafts are made
• Roots
• Make a wooden stool, or carve a spoon & learn how to make a yurt crown
• Running Deer
• Traditional native Indian crafts and wooden toy making

WILLOW WORKSHOPS

• Emma Scott
• Try weaving willow
• Twisted Hedge
• Make willow grass & reed woven baskets, stars, hearts, butterflies & garlands
• Willow Sculptures
• Learn how to weave a willow garden animals like a dragonfly or butterfly
• Hedgerow Arts
• Making bird feeders, woven baskets, fish, wreaths & stars
• Blith Field
• Learn how to weave a willow basket, dragon-fly, snail and other sculptures

JEWELLERY WORKSHOPS

• Lost Treasure
• Silver ring making
• The Jewellery Workshop
• Making silver rings, flower broaches with tin cans & plastic bottles & decorate aluminium with metal stamps
• The McTigue Jewellery W.Shop
• Make a silver ring or
• Simon Summers
• Learn copper repousse & make a copper pendant or engrave a tree ogham & attach with nettle twine. Iron age forge works.
• The Cuttlefish Bone
• Try silver casting using carved cuttle-fish bones to make jewellery pieces
• Philippine Community
• Making jewellery out of drinking can ring-pulls
• Ground Zero
• Using aluminium drink cans using piercing, repousse and stamping techniques

BODY BEAUTIFUL

• Angel Gardens
• Make a mini bath bomb, soap & spell pouches

METAL WORKSHOPS

• Bronze Age Foundry
• Learn the ancient craft of bronze casting, using a furnace fuelled by charcoal
• Alfresco Forge
• Have a go at forging hot metal using a drop-hammer
• Kate the blacksmith
• Forged metal hook & metal bunting using re-cycled tin cans/wire
• Mario Avalos
• Blacksmithing workshops & see a cold working metal sculpture demo
• Garry Johnson
• Blacksmithing workshop
• Millypeds
• Bicycle repairs, maintainance and workshops on all things bicycle
• Gareth Blacksmith
• Forging workshops in tool making, & flint & steel fire-lighting kits

TEXTILE WORKSHOPS

• Leatherworks
• Stitching leather and learn how to use rivets, eyelets and embossing
• L for Leather
• Learn leatherwork techniques: rivit, lace, emboss, stitch, punch, braid, edge & polish making a range of items with saddle making demo
• Hapitat
• Making fascinators, badges, flower clips & head-pieces
• Stitch Sisters
• Make textile bunting using hand crank sewing machine and print techniques
• Camp Bunting
• Making button bracelets & use a hand sewing machine making fabric bunting
• Emma Fountain Felt
• Wet felting wool, making rings, hair dregs and balls
• Scarramouch
• Make a textile bum rug
• Ring a Ring O’ Roses
• Flower head garlands and hat/hair sticks workshops

STONE WORKSHOPS

• Rockworx
• Stonecarving workshop - sculptural
• Tom Clarke stonemasonry
• Stonecarving workshop – carving drawings onto paving slabs for local school
• Mixed Media Mosaics
• Make a media mosaic plaque
• Stoneycraft
• Stone carving small items
• Chalk & Charcoal
• Have a go at chalk carving – sculptural

GLASS & LIGHT WORKSHOPS

• Phoenix Candles
• Candle making workshops
• LED Fantastic
• Learn to join LED components & to solder, making a range of items like a torch, fairy lights & tenticles
• Sophie Hussain
• A chance to learn about the craft of stained glass

INSTRUMENT MAKING

• Running Horse
• shamanic drum & rattle making

IN THE GREENCRAFTS MARQUEE

• Caorigh Felt
• Have a go at felt making - felt pouches and phone covers
• Wayne’s Woods
• carving wooden spoons
• The Grindstone Cowboy
• jewellery from re-cycled silver plated cutlery + tool sharpening service
• Faith and Betty
• Bath bombs using essential oils & dried herbs and flowers
• Willowcraft
• Take part in making a giant willow ball