New Arcadia Dragonfly - Opening Ceremony - Glastonbury 2024 - Fatboy Slim - Right Here Right Now

In 2024 the Arcadia team retired the much loved 'Spider' for Glastonbury Festival and created the incredible new Dragonfly from an old, retired, and now upcycled, Royal Navy Sea King helicopter. This is a snippet from the opening Ceremony, including Fatboy Slim dropping his much loved Right Here Right Now just as the Dragonfly gets it's 'wings.'
Here's what the official festival site says.
Arcadia kicks off a whole new chapter at Glastonbury with their boldest installation yet. The Dragonfly, a giant biomechanical creature, will awaken at the heart of an evolved geometric space, exploring ideas around renewal, our relationship with technology and how we adapt to a changing climate.
Built from an ex-military Royal Navy helicopter, The Dragonfly repurposes a weapon of destruction into a unifying symbol. As conflicts flare around the world, the transformational nature of the sculpture is a monument to hope.
The transformation of the first dragonfly to mark the dawn of a new season resonates through cultures, none older than the Aboriginal First Nations of Australia. Each night, Arcadia and representatives of the Wadjuk Noongar nation will perform Warraloo, a spectacular ceremony that sees The Dragonfly burst into life. It celebrates possibility in epic style, inviting reflection on a changing climate and ways to navigate it through cooperation and the creative use of technology.

[@a.gar.presents]

Sickkkkk!!! Wow! So much respect to Fatboy for doing this. ❤️ from Sydney

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[@jamiesmart9016]

The spider was better and there could of been a way better dj on there