Open Minds, Open Hearts, Open Sourced: Dharavi & A Shared Future
Dharavi. A vibrant and sprawling mass of ramshackle buildings, heat, dust and on the outskirts of Mumbai, housing around a million people. Those in…
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Q&A With The Dance-Off!
Anyone familiar with the UK festival scene will have stumbled across these makers of mischief in a field somewhere, throwing shapes, causing mayhem and…
Save baby turtles, win Shambala tickets!
The purpose of our Adventures In Utopia blog is to tell the stories of the people we’ve met, worked and played with. Shambalans, like you,…
Oxfam Stewards – they don’t call themselves the ‘Oxfamily’ for nothing!
The Oxfam stewards often refer to themselves as Oxfamily, here’s a heart-meltingly sweet example of why: Two years ago, long-term Oxfam stewards Gavin and Carrie…
How To Feed The World
The following blog was written by Shambala’s very own permaculture guru, Lynne Davis – find her in the permaculture field at Shambala this year…
Q&A with Gary Thomas, of the Kids Kino Project
The Kids Kino Project is a mobile, social cinema for children affected by humanitarian crises. Made up of volunteers from the Cube Microplex Bristol,…
Meet the Anti-Apathy Collective
Can one person really make much of a difference? We say yes, and here’s the proof: four inspirational stories from every-day superheroes who realised…
A Better Future: Blockchain and the Bits!
No it’s not a band name, but it is a typically leftfield pioneering move from Shambala! In 2015, Shambala became the first UK festival…
Better than new – the repair manifesto
Ah, the good old days of darning your socks and doing a spot of soldering when your electronics packed in. Times have changed: now…
Craftivism for Freedom – Designing Political Protest
“No one is free until we all are free.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Following the success of her Death Row protest piece,…
Upcyling tips & Tie-dye to die for
Seamstress extraordinaire Lisa Comfort fell in love with sewing aged 11 when she made her first skirt, and she’s never looked back. After studying at…
A Sustainable Christmas – part 2
If you listen very, very carefully, you might just hear the jingly, twinkly sounds of Christmas sneaking up on us. But fear not Shambalans,…