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17th – 20th July 2008

Henham Park, Southwold, Suffolk

Working towards and greener festival.

The ground breaking Latitude Festival returns to the sunrise coast in Suffolk for its incredible third year. Nestled in the historic and beautiful surroundings of Henham Park Estate, Southwold, and taking place on 17th – 20th July, organisers Festival Republic are promising another truly spectacular event.

Teaming up with London’s Arcola Theatre, Latitude are working towards a greener festival. With environmental issues at its core, Latitude are pleased to announce that this year’s Theatre Arena will be a completely fuel cell powered stage. Arcola will be providing state of the art low energy lighting including LED and a Hydrogen Fuel Cell to power the stage. The fuel cell operates almost silently and will produce nothing but electricity and clean water.

This ground-breaking advancement in technology will bring down the carbon footprint of the festival and lessen the event’s impact on its immediate surroundings and the world’s climate as a whole.

The Arcola Theatre is a converted factory in East London and one of the UK’s leading independent venues. This partnership with Latitude is part of Arcola’s extensive sustainability programme – Arcola Energy – which along with partners in the Mayor of London’s Greening London Theatres initiative is driving the eco-culture frontier.

Over the weekend Theatre Arena at Latitude is a buzzing hotbed of creativity and inspiration, hosting a wealth of bespoke productions and performances exclusive to the festival. Some of the biggest names in contemporary, physical, classical, performance and local theatre, including The Royal Court, the Bush Theatre, nabokov, and Paines Plough, are coming to the Theatre Arena. It really has something for everyone; provoking thought, emotions, laughs and entertainment all weekend long. As well as powering the arena The Arcola Theatre will present a series of short but perfectly formed writer-led plays The Miniaturists. Each piece is no longer than 15 minutes, and the dizzying mix makes every event as various and unpredictable as life itself.

Latitude and Arcola will be supported by the London Hydrogen Partnership, Thomas Engineering & ETC.

The story about bio-degradable tent pegs was posted a little while go.  Well on Terry Wogan’s show this morning on BBC Radio 2 bio-degradable tent pegs were mentioned.  Hopefully, this will help to raise the profile and sell some tent pegs.

17th – 20th July 2008 Southwold, Suffolk

The line up for the 2008 Latitude Festival includes  Franz Ferdinand, Sigur Ros, Interpol, Death Cab For Cutie, Amadou et Mariam, Elbow, The Breeders, MIA During 2007 major acts included Jarvis Cocker, Damien Rice and the Gotan Project.

Similar to other festivals the Latitude Festival is encouraging guests to reduce their carbon footprint by sharing ‘lifts’ to the Festival via the service provided by Liftshare.

Photos by Jon Appleyard rawrphotography@gmail.com

Saturday 7th June & Sunday 8th June 2008
Loch Ness

Rockness is a weekend of live music, including performances by the View, Underworld, Razorlight, David Guett, Digitalism and many more. Click here find out the full list of artists

In terms of the environment Lift Share are being promoted to encourage guests to car share to reduce their CO2 emissions when travelling to Rockness.

Friday 25th & Saturday 26th July 2008
Stratford Upon Avon

Global Gathering is a weekend of dance and music during July.  The event will feature Godskitchen, Bedrock, Polysexual, Electric, Global, Random Concept and Mixmag along with Sven Vath’s Cocoon Arena, Raveology, Roger Sanchez’s Stealth record label and Spectrum.  All Earlybird tickets have sold out but you can still purchase tickets for the new VIP arena.

To reduce the event’s impact on the environment, in terms of travelling to and from the event, the organizers are encouraging people ‘lift share’ with Lift Share.