URC asks: ‘Are you really welcome?’
A guest blog from Revd Craig Muir of our associate partner, United Reformed Church. ‘All Welcome’ say church signs. Yet many will have stories of being ignored, barred, dismissed, dismayed....
What can you expect at the Exchange?
A guest blog from David Alcock, Head of Social Business at Anthony Collins Solicitors. The Exchange is one of three new venues Greenbelt is launching this year. What will you find there, and...
The Red Tent – the programme in store
The Red Tent is an old idea. But it’s new at Greenbelt. Whenever we’ve programmed feminist content at the festival, there has been a huge appetite for it. Overlay that with what faith and its...
Amal – the programme in store
Amal @ Greenbelt is a new venue showcasing Muslim artistry, ideas, conversation and spirituality and curated for us by Chicago-based cultural producer Asad Ali Jafri. Building on our long history...
Citizens UK: workshopping for change
To work for The Common Good, we need to be organised. So, on the Monday of this year's festival, we've asked Citizens UK to lead a day of community organising workshops for us. Here's what you can...
Panels at Greenbelt 2017
Here are some of the panels being hosted at Greenbelt Festival this August. There will be other conversations too – with the co-operative organisations in our Exchange venue, in the Amal venue and...
Can we make poverty history while the poor are always with us?
A guest blog from our church media partner the Church Times Theologian Justin Thacker joins the Greenbelt Ideas programme this year. Here, he speaks to SCM Press editor David Shervington about...
Is Tax Avoidance the Greatest Barrier to a Fairer Society?
Speaker(s): David Haslam, Mike Truman, John Christensen
Randa Ghazy
Randa Ghazy was born in Italy to Egyptian parents and studied International Relations, Economics and Political Science at the University of Milan. In 2002, at the age of 15, she wrote her first...
Ella El-Shamahi
National Geographic Explorer and palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi specialises in fossil hunting in unstable, hostile and disputed territories… is also a stand-up comic. She believes that...
Murmuration by Nicola Haines
This installation comprises a set of 150 intricately stenciled birds that swoop overhead in a suspended swirling murmuration over a 25-metre walkway. At dusk, the birds are illuminated and change...
Team Leader Info
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Monday night headliners: GRRRL
We are thrilled to announce our Monday night headliners for this year's festival. It's been a long time in the making, but we know the wait will have been worth it! For a few years now we've been...
‘Longing Belonging and Balfour’ show by Chai For All
Chai For All started life as a klezmer/jazz duo and now includes a clarinet, an oud, a derabukka and more....
Circus Abyssinia: Ethiopian Dreams presented by Bibi & Bichu
As boys, Ethiopian brothers Bibi and Bichu dreamed of joining the circus. They went on to become internationally renowned jugglers....