About
The 2020 festival has ended but we have announced OUR FIRST SEASON OF EVENTS OVER AT losthorizonlive.com
With its roots deep in contemporary music, art and activism, Shangri-La has established itself as a legendary field in UK festival culture, engaging a truly dynamic community of artists, builders, and revolutionary creators and known for showcasing the latest “off mainstage” acts.
About Lost Horizon
In this unhinged world currently devoid of human connection, Shangri-La decided to create something completely original, bringing people together through a new global platform for art and music… and most of all for FUN!
LOST HORIZON is a deep multi-layered experience, filled with wild dance-floors, secret headliners, a visual feast of art and performance, hidden venues and some HUGE artists playing exclusively for you.
Inside this Multiverse you can meet with your friends and make new ones, chat, dance and explore together, blag your way backstage or find a shady corner to hang out in. Fully customisable avatars will transcend gender, colour and the limitations of the body - be whoever you want for the weekend!
Vision
Our mission is to pioneer new ways of sharing culture and creating a global community that we feel defines us and our ethos.
We need unity more than ever right now, in an industry that is falling away in front of us. By creating a digital platform to experience art and music in a new way, we are at the forefront of defining the next generation of live entertainment and creative communities as we know them.
History of Shangri-La
With its roots deep in contemporary music, art and activism, Shangri-La has established itself as a legendary field in UK festival culture, engaging a truly dynamic community of artists, builders, and revolutionary creators and known for showcasing the latest “off mainstage” acts.
Shangri-la has served as a launchpad for some of music’s biggest names, with artists such as Lady Gaga, Rudimental, Disclosure and Pendulum gracing its stages early in their careers.
With creativity and non-conformity at its core, Shangri-La has beec directly responding to the world we live in through all creative mediums over the past 12 years at it’s shows at Glastonbury Festival.
Since its creation in 2008, Shangri-La has brought many world firsts to Glastonbury from the first use of video mapping and immersive set design in a festival environment, to the groundbreaking Womxn only space The Sisxterhood, or the hugely well received heavy metal stage Scum, to endurance live art and live performance.
This makes it the perfect place to launch the next era of live music.
ShangrilART
The multitude of artworks by Shangrilart on the ongoing theme of human connection, make this the largest collective art show ever seen at an outdoor festival, this time transported into virtual reality.
Shangri-La is an enormous collaboration with cutting edge visual artists from around the world, creating site specific works that amplify our themes and contribute to the ongoing narrative in unique and diverse ways.
Works of art exhibiting in Lost Horizon will be available to purchase, with profits going directly to artists. Featured on the towering billboards that surround the Freedom Stage will be a new exhibition “Yours Truthfully” co-curated by world famous graphic designer Malcolm Garrett RDI with Lost Horizon and Shangri-La creative director Kaye Dunnings. The show, part of a partnership with creative not-for-profit organisation Design Manchester will feature work from globally renowned graphic artists, limited prints of which can be bought in aid of the charities.
ShangrilART manifesto
Art is for everyone
ShangrilART was created for the purpose of providing
limited edition art at inexpensive prices
ShangrilART aims to fill the gap between the mass-produced, cheap and superficial works currently found on the high street, and the more elitist and unobtainable 'gallery' art
Our priority is to support artists
by making their work accessible to everyone
ShangrilART believes in
art as an experience
ShangrilART is committed to creating awareness of today's situation and problems through the
transformative power of art
in all forms
