Greenbelt Through the Decades: The 1990s
To celebrate our 50th anniversary, we've asked some of the folk who've helped bring Greenbelt Festival to life over the last 50 years to write a little something about their festival experiences....
Len Pennie
Len Pennie is a poet who writes in both Scots and English. She writes passionately about the promotion of minoritised languages, survivors of domestic abuse and the destigmatisation of mental illness.
Jules Peters
Mother of Dylan & Evan. Wife of Michael Peters. Jules was born in Prestatyn North Wales, graduating from Bangor University with an English Literature degree and later qualifying as a teacher....
Ace Of Dymonds
Colin Dymond has been a full-time professional magician for over 25 years. In 1996, he earned membership in the prestigious Magic Circle, and in 2010, he was promoted to Associate of The Inner Magic...
Victoria McCloud
Dr Victoria Cloud (Master McCloud) is a Former Master of the Senior Courts, Queen's Bench Division and later King's Bench Division. In 2024 she stepped back due to Gender Critical Ideological...
Marie Howe
Marie Howe is the author of five volumes of poetry: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 2024), which won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in poetry; Magdalene: Poems (W.W. Norton, 2017); The Kingdom of...
Laura Laker
Laura Laker is a freelance journalist with more than a decade's experience covering cycling, walking and wheeling (and other means of transport). Beginning her career with a cycling website called...
Science Boffins
Science Boffins are the UK's Original Science Party Entertainers and the Largest School Science Workshop Provider, providing magical, unforgettable science shows (with a slime making activity table...
Selva Romero
Originally from Chile, Selva has travelled all over Latin America researching different music and dance styles and found a love for samba dance whilst visiting Brazil in 1995. Since then she has...
Complete Wasters
Come and make a great festival souvenir from an old vinyl record at The Groovy Records Workshop. You can transform an old LP into a clock, mirror, photo frame or spinning top, using paints, a bike...
Bleephaus
Bleephaus is an adventure playground for sound, noise and accidental music. They provides opportunities for creative play in using a wide range of music technology, from analogue synthesisers to...
Sarah Corbett
Sarah Corbett is founder of the global Craftivist Collective and has worked as a professional campaigner for over 10 years.
Richard Jordan Productions and 412
Written and Directed by Philip Stokes. Richard Jordan Productions and 412, in association with Lawrence Batley Theatre, Ketchup Productions and Pleasance Meet Daniel. He's a strange boy, the...
Martyn Joseph
Martyn Joseph is a completely unique and mind-blowing artist. Take everything you think you know about singer songwriters and rip it up. For one man and a guitar he creates a performance with a huge...
Michael Mears
Following a three-week run off-Broadway in New York… and prior to performances in Japan… ESSENTIAL THEATRE presents THE MISTAKE by Michael Mears When the decision is made to use the atomic bomb...