Shangri-la Artist submissions - Venue/Installation Briefs for artists, groups. organisations and collectives.

SHANGRI-LA is Glastonbury Festivals most iconic late night area. Found tucked away in the farthest corner from the main stages, it has both inspired and challenged its vast and devoted audiences for the past decade. 

Through provocative art installations, underground music programming, spectacular set design and groundbreaking live art and performance, Shangri-La continues to push the boundaries of what a festival looks and feels like. These elements are woven together to create a fully immersive experience unlike any other.

Shangri-La strives to illuminate progressive culture with great urgency - in the field and beyond. By holding a mirror up to the masses, creating conversations, encouraging activism and engagement, and stimulating all of the senses, we aim to expand minds and open hearts, motivating people in politics and play. The audience enters a spectator, and leaves a participator.

This radical area has a deep history in outsider art and underground culture. By inviting new collaborators each year to contribute to our evolving narrative, it remains an incredible creative playground where this anarchic spirit continues to manifest in original and new ways, inspiring the next generation of cultural revolutionaries and amplifying the collective conscience. Shangri-La is the meta-narrative that strives to illuminate progressive culture and other- worldly entertainment within Glastonbury Festival.

We have a number of options for Digital art and AV:

Gas Tower:

This is an immersive music and visual arena split over 8 fully surrounding screens. If you would like to submit something for the Gas tower please review the technical description in the FAQ's.

AV projects:

We are open to ideas, we have a number screens, spaces and installations in which we can incorporate av and digital content. This could be a billboard, projections onto sculptures/spaces, digital films etc.

If you have an idea that is outside of these guidelines but is still in keeping with our theme then we would still love to hear from you. We can support and work with chosen projects to make them work within our restrictions.

At this stage we are just looking at initial ideas, sketches, moodboards etc and from there we can support you in developing the idea further if it will be something that is suited to Shangri-La this year. So please do get in contact if you have any questions regarding the brief or technical specifications.

Please see all technical specifications in the FAQs.

Budgets: 

We have not stipulated a commissioning fee / budget in these briefs as the scope of work and opportunities for funding them are very varied. 

We are not expecting you to work for free and we do have infrastructural resources to support some more ambitious projects, though commissions with a large footprint or higher costs usually have relatively long lead-time and probably won’t be able to be considered for this year’s festival. 

In the medium and long term we are open to projects of all scales so please do still approach us if you have that mega idea that will change the world! 

Feel free to drop us a message before you spend too much time developing your pitch if you think the costs are going to be significant. 

Inclusion: 

We are particularly interested in working with artists from communities that are underrepresented in the festival scene. It's time to break the barriers!