Glastonbury Music Festival - 24/05/21

On Monday Seagate Rotary’s Zoom meeting had a presentation on the management of the Glastonbury Music Festival.  Steve Molloy, a former Police Inspector, is in charge of the security and stewarding of the event which sees 200,000 people gather over a period of 5 days in a 1300 acre site.  This was an insight into the problems of crowd management on that scale, and also the huge logistics problems of catering for such numbers.  In addition to the familiar stages, marquee music venues and beer tents, there are cinemas, a circus, discos, 900 shops, 500 food stalls and 5000 toilets.  In a good year it looked a good party, but pictures of flooded fields and tents were a reminder of the downsides of outdoor festivals.  Billy Dickson proposed a Vote of Thanks.

President Eric Greig reported that in the Rotary Young Writer competition, Katie Morrison, in S1 at Irvine Royal Academy, was runner up in the West of Scotland heat in the Intermediate category, and Marcelina Witek, in S6 at IRA had won the Young Artist in the Senior category and will go on to the national finals.  Seagate will be presenting them both with certificates and trophies to mark these achievements.