After the overwhelming success of 2010's Secret Garden Party in Cambridgeshire and the fantastic participation of all the Gardeners who attended we are very pleased to announce the Arts & Expression theme for 2011 will be 'Origins and Frontiers'.
In 2011 the Arts & Expression theme will be transporting you into a world of origins and frontiers, sources and horizons. Through the myriad of live music, performance stages, spectacles, action camps and art installations your Garden will be exploring where we have come from and where we are going. Half the party will be dedicated to breaking boundaries, reckless advance, endeavour, innovation and the unknown...the passion for new frontiers. The other half will be dedicated to reconnecting with ourselves, our roots, our wild spirits...revelling in our rich and mysterious origins.
On a more practical note, The Head Gardeners' policy for 2011 will be 'more of everything' - facilities, welfare, security with no increase in capacity (17,000 ticket holders). Ongoing is a major landscaping programme: more grass for camping, more toilets, more water facilities. Each camping field will have its own Info & Welfare Station, where Gardeners can rendezvous, go for advice, shower, fill up with water. Security will be improved with higher fences, monitoring of campsites, and gates will have better access with twenty lanes for the man gate and a second new gate with ten lanes.
Other developments are afoot as Head Gardener Fred Fellowes explains: “We have plans for landscaping, treehouse building and overall ‘holistic town planning’ for the 2011 party – hi ho hi ho.”
Already the Head Gardeners are planning a feast of experiences. The Action Camps will answer the call of the creative with worlds of play and interactivity. The Garden's stages will explore both beginnings and horizons with the Artful Badger Woodland returning to Nature and The Remix Bubble providing a futuristic feast of DJs and the digital.
There'll be The Debates and Discussion Tents engaging our never ending interest in our origins - DNA, language, the humble atom and the vast universe. And, they will explore the frontiers of the 21st Century - the human mind, ecological harmony, colonising space. The Fire Circle, The Big Burn and Parade will connect with our origins - fire, community, wild celebration whilst The Sanctuary will offer respite and a return to our source - spirit, simplicity, a slower circadian pace. Sculpture and Installation will explore the incredible journey visual art has taken, from the hues and dyes of cave painting to the front curve of modern art.
Tickets and full FAQs for SGP 2011 are available now from www.secretgardenparty.com priced £155 + booking fee.
