Six new Glastonbury spaces to explore this year

From the Pyramid Stage to the Ribbon Tower, there are some Glastonbury sights that have become as iconic as any headline act.

But while there are many parts of the festival site that remain unchanged year after year, other areas play host to dozens of ever-changing venues.

This year is no exception, with bold new spaces popping up across Worthy Farm, but with so much to explore it can be hard to keep track.

Here's a guide to six venues setting out for their debut year - some brand new, some reimagined old favourites.

Building on the emergence of the outdoor venue Woodsies in 2023, the Tree Stage is a brand new space in the wooded corner of the festival.

While the heart of the area, the Woodsies Main Stage, retains its high-energy line up, the Tree Stage is focused on a more laid-back experience.

A description on the festival's site says the new stage is "set beneath an oak tree decor canopy", with the intention of "zeroing into the immersive, ambient and experimental".

It'll be open from midday on Wednesday and Thursday, but the stage is really intended to come alive at night after the headliners have finished.

Making its home in the Williams Green area of the festival, "re-purposed airport" Terminal 1 will appear for the first time this year.

"Celebrating migration", a poster for the new space on social media listed a line-up of global artists including Bristol's very own St Pauls Carnival alongside its London counterpart Notting Hill Carnival.

The area is set to be open from Wednesday onwards, though the poster warns: "To gain entry all British citizens must successfully answer a question from the UKGOV citizenship test."

Arcadia is one of the most popular venues for late-night revellers looking to party after the headline acts finish, and is well known for its other-worldly set designs.

For 2024, the team behind the stage is introducing The Dragonfly - an enormous biomechanical creature made from an adapted Royal Navy helicopter.

The intention is to repurpose a "weapon of destruction into a unifying symbol," designers said.

For younger festivalgoers Arcadia has another brand new area, The Alchemists' Playground.

In collaboration with constructive play specialists, Woodland Tribe, the space aimed at children will offer "workshops and creative adventure".

As Glastonbury's first ever dedicated South Asian space, Arrivals has been fully realised by a South Asian team built from a number of different cultural institutions.

A description of the new area, situated in Shangri-La, describes visitors entering through "a portal to an alien jungle planet, immersed by an audio visual world coded in solar punk, carnivorous plants, cyborg beasts and space pirates".

They add: "The space bridges across nostalgia to futurism, a sensory feast of vivid lights and colours, remixing the worlds of pulp sci-fi classics within a newly redefined South Asian aesthetic."

Described as "an utterly delicious femme-queer venue where anything can (and does!) happen", Scissors is the newest location in the Park.

By day, the festival website says, visitors can get a haircut, chill in the beer garden or enjoy some downtime watching a film.

But nightfall brings "a twilight roster filling Kiki’s nightclub, where kaleidoscopic walls will keep you dancing till dawn."

It is open from Wednesday onwards, with the action starting from 1pm and running through the night.

A reimagining of the former WOW stage, Assembly is the newest arrival in the dance music haven of Silver Hayes.

The stage will become the first indoor venue in the area, which could be a relief if the weather takes a turn.

Beyond the music Silver Hayes will also welcome Room, a "wellness space, featuring sound baths, breathwork, guided meditation, yoga & other activities".

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