design your own shack inside Shangri-La

Shangri-La, the night-time area of Glastonbury festival, are inviting create types to design their own shack to become a part of this year's festival within the Festival.

Shangri-La is the place that everyone heads to after the stages shut down. Last year it hosted a film-set and a storyline for the field, with a main stage, a central gathering area and a maze of alleys with many tiny nano-venues with much strangeness inside.

This year there's a new project for Shangri-La. Shacks will form the frontage to the alleys and will be a key part of the overall look of the field. Shack-builders can use their shack as a dwelling - making it their home throughout the festival, or it may simply be a creative space for other people to enjoy and add character to the overall field.

Each shack-builder that Shangri-La select will receive 2 tickets to the festival, backstage access and camping, and their very own bit of Glastonbury Festival in which to express their creativity. The guideline for the footprint is between 2.5-5m square, but Shangri-La will consider other sizes up to 7m.

Shangri-La are looking for poetic eccentricity, colour and character, experimentalism and cheekiness. The recommendation is to "Be creative – and be resourceful!"

The project has a serious side highlighting the fight for survival when resources become scarce and resourcefulness becomes the name of the game. Shangri-La will welcome references to real-life situations and fears of the global future but not in a preachy or obvious way.

Shangri-La explains, "We actually do want you to think about survival when resources become scarce. How are your children going to survive when there is no oil, water....? However, it shouldn't be limited to this – we're also looking for a cheeky factor as well."

The Shangri-La field was formerly the Travellers field and is still very much aligned with and part of Traveller Culture and the personal liberation achieved by inhabiting portable or temporary structures. There are only a limited number of places and Shangri-La are looking for high quality work only.

For detailed guidelines and submissions please contact glastonbury.shangrila@googlemail.com . Closing date for entries is Monday 5th April.

Background information:

Storyline

The Shangri-La of yesteryear (2009) was a dystopian vision of a citadel ruled by a corrupt regime in its dying days which was dedicated to enforcing its vision of perfect utopia, but all the while trapped in an unwinnable battle with the rebels of the alleyways. At the end of the year 2009, the rebels overthrew the regime, and the city was opened up for pleasure-givers from all corners of the known universe to flood in and carve out their own Utopia. Those with resources have taken over vast areas in flashy style, whilst others create tiny palaces from pallets and waste, but when resources become dangerously short everyone's attention must shift from pleasure to survival.

Look

Retro-futuristic, the look is inspired in part by fantasy dystopias such as Bladerunner, District 9 and Star Wars. It is under-set by the realism of current times and current fears but as much as possible it is also to a very fantastical environment, twisted and humorous, the sublime nestled next to the squalid.

Visually, there are two very different aspects in each the HUB and the Alleys. The look of the HUB is ultra-modern and digital-futuristic, with neon and projections as well as a piece of street art that evolves over the course of the festival. The Alleys are the opposite - an overpopulated shanty-town nestled next-door cobbled together from waste and riddled with filth of all kinds.

Logistics

Leave no trace – you will need to take away everything you bring or make arrangements for disposal with Shangri-La.

Shangri-La will be able to help with transport from certain locations.

It needs to pass Health & Safety – fire retardant, structurally safe etc. Shangri-La can assist with this and have detailed guidelines for it. If needed Shangri-La can provide a scaffold frame for the structure

No soundsystems. At all. Not one. Really.

Please let Shangri-La know any relevant experience you have in this area and examples of things you have built before.

Design

Think ramshackle, Bauhaus, favelas, used/found materials - give it colour and character and life!

Glastonbury Festival organisers have announced that the re-sale of cancelled tickets for this year's Festival will take place at 9am on Sunday, 11th April 2010.

Tickets will be sold online at www.seetickets.com/g2010 and via the Seetickets booking line 0844 412 4635. The numbers are limited and are expected to sell out quickly.

In order to purchase tickets in the re-sale, ALL ticket purchasers must be successfully registered by Wednesday, 31st March. Online registration can be made at glastonburyregistration.co.uk.

As well as standard Festival tickets (priced at £185), there will be a limited number of Combined Coach and Festival Tickets on sale. These tickets include either single or return coach tickets from a range of locations around the UK.

For more details about registering and ticket information click here.

The event will mark the 40th anniversary of the Music and Arts Festival at Worthy Farm, Somerset, where Michael Eavis first opened his gates for business in September 1970. Glastonbury Festival runs for five full days from Wednesday 23rd until Sunday 27th June 2010 across over a 1,000 acres of beautiful countryside.

Only headliners U2, Jack Johnson, Billy Bragg, My Luminaire, and John E Vistic are officially confirmed for the Festival. The ticket price includes includes a FREE programme, a 40th anniversary commemorative ticket, a useful cloth bag, and a small around the neck guide.

To see who might be playing, take a look at the eFestivals' Glastonbury 2010 rumours, updated as we receive information.

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