Glastonbury Festival

The Kidz Field 2003

This information relates to Glastonbury Festival 2003

Unbelievably, in this age of wealth creation it is still free for young people under the age of twelve to come into the festival. They must bring at least one adult to tag along with them in case of emergency but that is the only rule. Once inside the grounds there is a massive amount of things to keep them happily occupied for the duration. Glastonbury offers an enormous variety of extraordinary facilities and wonderful entertainments designed specifically with young people in mind. In the Green Fields, the aptly titled Green Kids area is a blissful nook where environmentally friendly play and creativity is emphasised and children are encouraged to take home something they have made from the mass of recycled and natural materials available in several different workshops. Around the whole site there is a constant stream of living theatre to see between fields and a plentiful supply of suitable-for-all shows in the theatre marquee, the circus field, the big top and the outside theatre stage. There is a family camping area where peace and quiet is encouraged after dark, away from the full on party that exists everywhere else on site and doesn’t really suit the very young. After many years of practise it seems the festival organisers have thought of everything. However, it is in the unique Kidz Field where the importance and respect paid by the festival organisers to our younger visitors is most marked and remarkable. The emphasis here for this year’s festival is Two Thousand and FREE, a theme dreamt up by coordinator Tony Cordy and his Eventuality team to highlight Glastonbury’s unique free-for-children policy.

I spent much of Friday wandering about, soaking up the happy atmosphere that prevailed in spite of the rain and talking to a collection of smiling adults who share the single intention of giving their young customers a happy Glastonbury.

Sandy Francis

THE BIG TOP

BODGER AND BADGER Bodger and Badger’s magic mash show. Riotist kidz comedy with loads of audience participation and a guaranteed good time for all of bodger and badger’s mashy mates.

THE FOOLHARDY FOLK Circus Clowns Present – Masters of Slapstick.

PARASOLE PRODUCTIONS Cown Bert’s day at the circus – hilarious circus characters, giant bubbles and audience participation.

GOFFEE The Emaculate Contraption

Absurd zany nonsense.

BELL AND BULLOCK The dove of love pirate show.
A clown fairytale with unforgettable characters, scintillating circus skills, silly slapstick, special effects galore, music, song, magic and mirth.

HERBIE TREEHEAD The Herbie Treehead band – music for all the family, silliness, dancing, juggling, and anything else that’s ridiculous.

GORONWY THOM What goes up must come down.. and most of the time go back up again!

BLACK CAT THEATRE Hand, rod, string and shadow puppets come alive in ‘Puppet playlets’ including a 20 minute variety show of exotic Indian marionettes.

PINEAPPLES DON’T GROW ON TREES Green eyed monsters ever imagined what would happen if you accidentally fell into your rubbish bin? Watch the rubbish dump come to life in our parallel universe of monsters, machines, and mysterious beings.

THE AMAZING CHRIS WOZ Cabaret magic, comedy wozisname

CAPRICHO THEATRE COMPANY Presents – Momo. Using their unique blend of actors, puppets and dynamic story telling, Capricho bring you Momo, an adaptation of Michael ende’s classic children’s tale

BUTTERFLY THEATRE COMPANY Oceanymotion – Black light theatre and puppetry melt together in a superbly choreographed show, take a liquid journey to the depths of the ocean and your imagination (with an eco message).

PROFESSOR PANIC'S PUPPET ARENA

Your fabulous ringmaster, Prof. Panic hosts all day puppet madness, circus skills, stories workshops and more... DON'T PANIC!

OVER THE TOP PUPPET CO. Willy the wicked wolf
Outrageous wolf who’s interests include – food, motorbikes and rock and roll. He plans to eat granny and red riding hood, but fails miserably due to his own stupidity and the unreliability of his motorbike.

PUPPETS ALIVE Anniedroclese and the ringmaster's tail – a young girl enters a bizarre circus world and mayhem ensues.

NICADA PUPPETS Theo.C.Cupiers Trad Punch & Judy shows and puppet making workshops

THE BOOT PUPPET THEATRE Squeak The Cat

PEEPO PUPPETS Goldie Ducks And The Three Bears

THE PUPPET WORKSHOP George and the Dragon.

TIPPETY TWIG ENTERTAINMENTS Carolin Emerson waves her wand and enchants with puppets and stories

THE BIG GREEN INTERACTIVE SCULPTURE CIRCUS

Big green Interactive Sculpture Circus are back again with welding for kidz. Make costumes and props, get dressed up and face painted or take part in the building of our two large steel rhinos and learn how to weave cans into a 16 ft can man.

STORYTELLERS MARQUEE

JOHN ROW Infamous story wizard with tall tales from around the globe

CHRISTINE WILSON Where do you want to go? A story from everywhere in the world with accordion accompaniment

BETH WEBB Specialises in plenty of noisy audience participation using her own zany just-so style. Tales and variations of her much loved children’s books including plenty about mischievous dragons, magic and wishes.

DOT IN A FROCK Stories and poems to suit the occasion

SUNDANCE Groovy Glasgow company do ‘Eco Wolfy and the three greedy pigs’

CHICKEN CO-OP 3 Interactive story telling

KAMRAN ‘ALI’ KHAN Stories for the new (multicultural) age

THE TALE TELLER Sebastian tells traditional stories.

LITTLE KIDZ AREA

Tiny tots will feel at home in the little kidz area, a safe, fenced in area at the top of the field with it's own mini playground and helpers, including shaded sand pit, swingboats, chairoplanes, a book and toy library. Bristol Playbus project is on hand along with Suffolk playworks and the National Childbirth Trust providing baby changing and feeding facilities and advice.

Regrettably, we DO NOT provide crèche facilities.

WORKSHOPS

There are various workshops of all kinds going on all day but most take place in the large workshop marquee at the top of the field. We would like all children who visit the field to take home at least something they have made at Glastonbury. All workshops use recycled materials and many scrap gurus are on hand to help.

MAKENDOO Gabrielle Bradshaw and Katie English –

Stars of channel 5's Havakazoo

MAUREEN OKAIN Mo’s mosaic massive

SCRAP HAPPY Instruments, windmills and outdoor decorations

PICKTISH PAPER PEOPLE Origami planes, bangers, spinners, moving animals, hats, slippers, boxes and other wonderful paper things

NORTH LONDON MUSIC Interactive music workshops
CONGLOMERATE

THE MAKING PLACE Paper maché, windmills, solar reflectors, jewellery (Charity promoting science and technology)

FREE TIBET Flag making

STICKY FINGERS And you will have by the time you’ve finished making things here!

DREAM CATCHERS Sleep happy every night with cosmic dream catchers

FLOWERCROWNS Every little pixie has to have a flowercrown

MORPH Mask and costume transformations

BUZZ STOP Swarm – mini beasts, weird and wonderful things on wings building to large precession on Sunday.

CRAFTY KIDZ The four elements – earth, wind, air and fire masks

BIG BIRDS Build and decorate large processional bird

SOUL TO SOUL Fun aerobics for kidz

Facepainting Marquee

Open all day, non allergenic face paints, water based and easy to remove.

FACEPAK Fabulous artists cooperative

RICHARD LANGFORD Facepainting with rainbow prisms and giant sundials

THE JAZZY MAKEUP PARLOUR Funky makeup for fashion conscious kidz

CHESHIRE CATS Face painting co

Syrcas Circus Big Top

Syrcas Circus present ‘Coppelia’ – a rich fusion of circus, theatre and dance! As well as providing a whole range of activities including circus skills workshops in juggling, plate spinning, unicycling, diablo, trapeze etc. Designed to help develop social skills, humour and confidence. This dynamic new Welsh troupe are evolving a whole new concept in circus, community art and social interaction.

Outdoor Rides and Games

ALBION KIDZ SHOW Soft playroom, organised games, karaoke stage and much much more

HELTER SKELTER

INFLATABLE SYSTEMS Big Balls, Organised games, Spiky Donuts and inflatable decor.

MAYNELL GAMES Large well organised outdoor interactive games

AERIAL RUNWAY BEWARE!! Low flying kidz

SUPER TRAMPS Trampolines

COCONUT SHY Just for a change, everyone’s a winner (fair trade coconuts)

RED BUS Gyroscope, facepainting and crafts

PAUL STICKLAND’S ARTIST Artists, famous and otherwise, run master classes COLLECTIVE in drawing, animation and popup art

SEA URCHIN SWINGS AND ROUNDABOUTS Roundabouts and Swingboats

BEARNARD’S SWINGBOATS

EARTHHEART Swingboats

LOKISCOPE Gyroscopes for kidz and teenagers.

OTHER WORLD ARTS Magic garden and maze

THE WOODCRAFT FOLK Giant enchanted climbing castle (Promoting UN agenda 21 - The right to play)

HUGH JART Large interactive painting screen (just bring your talent!)

ANIMAL TRAIN Interactive percussive sculpture.

BLUNDERFUDGE This explosive kaleidoscope of circus, foolish theatre, music and comedy is the story of one man’s dream to become the worlds greatest daredevil stunt man

RAINBOW THEATRE PRODUCTIONS Present – Fairy stories with red riding, three billy goat’s gruff, three bears and three little pigs, the golden goose, the hare and the tortoise, the elves and the shoemaker.

MIKE AND MAYNARD Present – Bravo – comedy police do strange and interesting things.

COREO HAZARD Sleight of hand - Catch the magic before it disappears

BEZERCAZ CIRCUS Circus workshops, zip zap boing! Juggling, Diablo, devil sticks and plate spinning

FUNDING PENDING Sisters of Percy – crazy technicolour nuns

Out and About

Whilst on the field expect to run into a few weird and wonderful characters who will be doing walkabouts this year. They include The maestro – chair balancing, balloon modelling clown. Alien creatures and anarchists, magical statues, dysfunctional disco droids, the Stones on tour with their own preposterous crazy druid, stanly stardust, dolly pops – the crazy lollypop lady with her own portable zebra crossing! Busy Lizzy’s magical mobile cocoon where the children will be turned into beautiful butterflies,

The Kidz Field has a lost childrens post manned by a large group of trained professionals, a first-aid post and a CCTV system to ensure safety.

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