"Secret Garden Party is a festival of the arts…where everyone is the artist. It is a gathering that exists for only four days - away from cities and schedules, brands and boundaries – founded on participation and with the potential to change your life. A temporary community that is as free, irreverent, friendly and engaging as it is possible to be, The Garden is conceived as a moment in the year where you can connect to your creative powers, explore your wildest fantasies and meet thousands of people who all want to meet you."
The Garden's guiding principles can be found by clicking here.
To truly understand The Secret Garden Party you need to walk through the garden gates on Thursday as if Monday was never destined to arrive...
Curated by the people behind the award-winning Secret Garden Party, Meltdown and Mama festivals, comes Wilderness - a celebration of arts in the most spectacular of settings. It's a place of freedom, inspiration and rejuvenation. It is a festival of pioneering performances, fireside banquets and theatrical spectaculars - a summer weekend that opens the mind and revitalises the soul.
Fastidiously programmed, Wilderness offers live music ranging from the orchestral delights of Antony & the Johnsons to the Balkan brilliance of Gogol Bordello; culinary feasts prepared by Skye Gyngall and Sam & Sam Clark; speakers, debates & literary arts from Intelligence Squared and Tom Hodgkinson's Idler Academy; and promenade theatre by The Old Vic Tunnels and Tax Deductible.
But it's the exceptional landscape of Cornbury Park and the surrounding Wychwood forest that are the real headline attraction. Guided expeditions through ancient woodland; a ribbon of ornamental lakes provide a secluded sanctuary for all types of restorative pleasures; from meditation and massage to hot tubs and saunas to swimming, boating and even fly-fishing.
