1. Creative and Media: Level 2 Higher Diploma Unit 6: Festival
Level 2 Higher Diploma Creative and MediaUnit 1: Scene
6.1.1 Investigating festivals
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Investigating festivals
1) Examine promotional materials (brochures and/or website downloads) from a number
of contrasting festivals and complete the table below.
You will need to:
a) enter the name of each festival you are investigating
b) note the type of festival e.g. film, music, general arts
c) look for details of the aims and/or artistic policy of each festival
d) give examples of the types of events included in the festival programme (include 2–
3 examples of specific events)
e) consider who the target audience for the festival might be.
Name of festival Type of festival Artistic policy or Programme Target audience
aims content
The V Festival Music festival Predominately Contains a variety There target
rock music but a of performances audience is for
wide-range of from different people who enjoy
genres are music groups. live music
accepted. performances
from different
genres.
Glastonbury Contemporary To encourage and Pop music, dance People over the
Festival performing arts stimulate youth music, jazz, folk age of 25 however
culture from music, fringe younger
around the world theatre, Drama, individuals are
in all its forms mime, circus, welcome.
cinema, poetry
and all the
creative forms of
art and design
including painting,
sculpture and
textile art.
Baishakhi Mela Music and dance Celebrating the Contains musical It is aimed at the
festival Bengali new year; and cultural Bengali
to bring the events; also community in the
Bengali there’s a UK however
community procession that welcomes people
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together to takes place which of other
celebrate. includes dancing nationalities.
and music
Notting hill Music and dance To celebrate the Consists of a road Their main
carnival festival Caribbean culture procession with audience is the
and Caribbean music, dancing Caribbean
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people in general. and vibrant community but
costumes which welcomes people
starts on Great of other races.
Western Road,
Chepstow Road,
Westbourne
Grove and then
Ladbroke Road.
The Holi Festival Festival of colours To celebrate a Throwing of This festival is
religious legend coloured powder aimed at Hindus as
and to “rejoice in and coloured it is a religious
the love and water and lighting festival but
devotion of the of a bonfire. welcomes other
supreme being.” people to them.
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