EV 201
Glastonbury Festival
CW 1 REPORT
Lecturer : Jessica Mackie
Email : jmackie@shms.com
Written by :
Jason Philip Laksana LAJA160789 (2D) – Introduction of Glastonbury
Thi Thuy Hang Nguyen NGTH191289 (2C) – Social and Cultural impacts, Environmental and Developmental impacts
Atika Karuna Gunawan GUAT080290 (2D) – Economy and Tourism impacts, Political impacts
Contents
Objectives ………………………………………………………………………… 02 Introduction of Glastonbury Festival …………………………………. 03 Social – Cultural impacts …………………………………………………… 05 Development and Environmental impacts …………………………. 07 Economic and Tourism impacts ………………………………………… 08 Political impacts ……………………………………………………………….. 11 Conclusions ……………………………………………………………………… 13 Appendices ………………………………………………………………………. 14 References ……………………………………………………………………….. 16
Objective
We write this report in order to achieve the 50% of our grade from 100% and also to be able to prove that we understand completely about this subject of Introduction of events.
Through this report we are able to choose and regonise the international level events and for this project we will do the analysis of Glastonbury Festival that is already known as a worldwide events that grow every year around and with this we will analysis about the impacts that are social and cultural impacts, environmental and developmental impacts, economy and tourism impacts and last political impacts.
Background and History
Glastonbury Festival is a contemporary arts event that features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and many other art performances. The first event began in 1970, on September 19thjust after Jimi Hendrix died. And the Glastonbury festival was first organized by Michael Eavis, the first festival was called Pilton Festival. The event itself was inspired by a visit to the Bath Blues Festival held not too far at Shepton Mallet, and the place where he started a great Glastonbury tradition. The reason why Michael Eavis was
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