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Shangri-La Glastonbury Festival

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Chu’s Art Shangri-La Takeover

Chu is a cunning linguist, and he has created lots of work playing on words and their combination and structure to create poignant and witty comments, such as Sodtherich replacing ‘Shoreditch’ on a tube sign.  He’s created LOTS of artwork […]

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Shangri-La’s Onsite Blog #1

Nine days to go, and the build down at Shangri-La is well under way. The hexagons are up, and the old artwork from last year is ready to be coloured over with new messages, new ideas and work that reflects […]

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Shangri-La reveals a new story for 2015. POLITICS, SHOLITICS.

It’s 2015 and in reality there are seven political leaders and not a safe pair of hands among them, but here in Shangri-La we create our own reality.   2015 is the year of the SHANG RE-ELECTION and we want to […]

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Shangri-La, the NANO-VENUES

Something has changed in Shangri-La and it’s quite unsettling. Could it possibly get any more nefarious? The new hexagonal incarnation of Shangri-Hell’s famous alleyways presents a nightmarish maze of corporate hell which includes nano venues. Perfect for when you find […]

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Shangri-La – The Unmissable

Continuing to edge ever closer to the mother of all UK festivals, things are beginning to get just a little bit exciting. There is so much happening in Shangri-Heaven and Hell, our late night offerings are a feast for the […]

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Daytime sessions – Utopian Talks and Corporate Hell

We’ve been working like crazy to make this year’s Shangri-La the biggest and best yet and we cannot WAIT to let you in. Heaven provides a reprieve from the crazy world outside with  video installations and thought provoking Utopian Talks. And […]

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Shangri La: Bred from of the British squat movement, born into utopian idealism

Written by the Noisey One, this blog originally appeared on Almost Flash where you can read the article in full. Having established itself in 2009, Shangri La, has very quickly become Worthy Farm’s most notorious field. For some, it’s the […]

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The Awesome Artists of Shangri-La

Due to the fantastic funding received from the Arts Council this year, Shangri-La will be featuring more artists than ever. We have over 20 audio-visual geniuses residing in Shangri-Heaven and Shangri-Hell over Glastonbury weekend. We are on a mission to […]

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Arts Council Funding for our MORE ART LESS CASH Project

With an unrivalled reputation for its art offering amongst industry and audiences, Shangri-La are on a mission to make the contemporary visual arts offer at festivals as strong as the music, creating opportunities for emerging artists, giving them a platform […]

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We like to call it “office hell”

Here we are again, Glastonbury is almost upon us and the magical city of Shangri-la is soon to materialise out of the dawn mists… Sounds poetic, but the reality is a lot muddier and involves a lot of hard graft […]

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