2025 Poster
2025 Lineup
Dig in to the Greenbelt Festival 2025 lineup. Explore artists, speakers, and performers who'll bring the festival to life.
8 reasons for 18-25s to fall in love with Greenbelt
If you're aged 18 to 25, it can feel as if society is leaving you behind: shouldering you with massive educational debt; giving you less and less opportunity for mobility; and pricing you out of the...
Tessa Khan
Tessa is a lawyer, campaigner and Executive Director of Uplift, an organisation that supports a just transition away from oil and gas production in the UK. Before founding Uplift, she was co-founder...
Joust
Come and play Joust, the tactical theatrical PlayStation game you play in a field, without any kind of screen. It's become a regular Greenbelt favourite. We'll hunt zombies, save the villagers...
John Bell
John Bell first came to Greenbelt expecting it to be an advanced judo course where he might learn some new moves. He has been moving ever since. During the pandemic he learned how to right click and...
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...
Maria Ferguson
Maria Ferguson is a writer and performer. Her poetry has been widely anthologised and published in literary magazines such as Magma, The Rialto, The North and The Poetry Review. She was a finalist of...
Zia Ahmed
Zia Ahmed is a writer from North-West London. He is a former Roundhouse Slam champion and in 2019 Zia's stage debut 'i wanna be yours' premiered at the Bush Theatre. He is a recipient of the...
Chine McDonald
Chine McDonald is Director of Theos, the religion and society think tank. She was previously Head of Public Engagement at Christian Aid. She has two decades of experience in journalism, media and...
El Pony Pisador
El Pony Pisador is a lively and unique band from Barcelona, known for an eclectic blend of musical styles and humorous, adventurous spirit. Their mix of folk sounds from all over the world results in...
Grace Will Lead Me Home
Grace Will Lead Me Home tells the story of two men whose lives followed astonishingly similar paths, but whose experiences were astoundingly different. Both were eleven when home-life ended. Both...
Jo Musker-Sherwood
Jo has experienced multiple burnouts throughout her adult life both as an activist, and as a human who feels things deeply. After a decade of campaigning for change, both from within and outside of...
Paul Cookson
Paul has been to every festival since 1977 and performed at every festival since 1978. Curator or The Twist and Family Twist for over thirty years, Greenbelt has very much been an artistic home. The...
Beth Allison Barr
Beth Allison Barr (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is James Vardaman Endowed Chair of History at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she specializes in medieval history,...