Beautiful Resistance

What is “beautiful resistance”? Learn what life is like living under occupation in Aida Refugee camp and why Palestinians, particularly the young people of the West Bank, don't have the “luxury...
Speaker(s): Abdelfattah A Abusrour

Fahad Khalid

Fahad Khalid is a singer, songwriter, musician & a multi-instrumentalist, deeply inspired by the sufi wisdom of Rumi which he tends to transform within the sufi Qawali music of South Asia. Whilst...

Paul Cookson

Paul Cookson has been a poet for over 25 years, visiting thousands of schools and festivals and selling over a million books.

Kate Rusby

Of all the stars in folk music's wondrous firmament few shine as brightly as Yorkshire's Kate Rusby. A remarkable interpretive singer with a back catalogue spanning two decades, Kate's vocals...

Akala

Akala is an award-winning hip hop artist fusing rap, rock and electro-punk with fierce lyrical storytelling.

The Lemonade Effect… Read On

It was a full house and one of the most compelling conversations at Greenbelt in years. ‘Forced the audience to confront the idea of white discomfort and move beyond 'not seeing colour' – a...

YMCA at Greenbelt

A guest blog from YMCA, who this year will be supporting us with our youth work at the festival, hosting the Den youth venue, and doing all sorts of great stuff with young people across the...

Discover Video Games at Greenbelt

Bringing video-games to an arts festival is a similar challenge to engaging children in poetry. Largely untapped by young people, poetry can offer a rich seam of beautiful and unimagined ways of...

XLP Van

X-Mobile is a mobile recording studio, with state-of-the-art equipment, created out of a police riot van.

The Old Plough Folk Club

The Old Plough Folk Club at Greenbelt is a happy combination of session and sing-around where all acoustic music is welcome.

Katherine Maxwell-Rose

Katherine is an activist and editor of Tearfund Rhythms which inspires the emerging generation to live differently through ethical lifestyle choices.

Hollie McNish

Hollie is a UK poet who straddles the boundaries between the literary, poetic and pop scenes.

Paul Cookson’s The Family Twist

Paul Cookson has been a poet for over 25 years, visiting thousands of schools and festivals and selling over a million books.