Looking for Allah at 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A Musical Journey
With a radical monotheism that sometimes confounds its sister faiths, Islam's conception of God can seem inaccessible or even, to some, devoid of humanity. Cue the band. Abdul-Rehman Malik will...
Speaker(s): Abdul-Rehman Malik33rd Greenbelt Communion
One night in Egypt, an apprehensive people gathered to eat a hasty meal of lamb, bitter herbs and unleavened bread. With their coats on and their posessions bundled on their backs, they waited for...
Ooberfuse
Ooberfuse are a songwriting band composed of Hal St John and Cherrie Anderson. They are unafraid to deep-sea dive into the deepest oceans of human emotions to colour-up drab contemporary life. Their...
2024 Lineup
22-25 August 2024, Boughton House
Palestine/Israel resources
We've created a sort of living wall of Greenbelt-produced and Greenbelt-connected inspiration and provocation related to the Palestine/Israel conflict. From voices and artists we've been...
A Beautiful Human Life: Remembering Pip Wilson
With the blessing of Pip's family and of the writer, Martin Wroe, here's an edited version of the tribute that Martin gave at Pip Wilson's funeral earlier this October. ‘They say you're...
Acting for future generations – lessons from a small country
The word 'polycrisis' has become part of our lexicon and people across the world are feeling the affects of a failure to plan for the long term. Why do politicians find it so hard to think ahead and...
Speaker(s): Sophie HoweFear of the Future Panel
With the existential threat of climate change, the cost of living crisis, the long shadow of COVID, war in Ukraine, famine in Ethiopia (again), and the collapse of political truth-telling - it's no...
Speaker(s): Sophie Howe, Melanie Nazareth, Jyothi Cross, Becky HallFight the Power
Just a few years older than Greenbelt, Greenpeace were named after a small boat that set sail in 1971 to stop a US nuclear weapons testing off Alaska. Today, they are still fearlessly committed to...
Speaker(s): GreenpeaceIn conversation with Jack Monroe
Jack Monroe is a food writer and anti-poverty campaigner. She has joined us at Greenbelt twice before. With rocketing food inflation and energy prices, more households than ever are struggling to...
Speaker(s): Jack MonroeOn Death and Dying
Drawing together threads from our festival focus on death and dying, join a conversation with experts and practitioners from the programme. Connecting with work Theos think tank have done on public...
Speaker(s): Ru Callender, Kathryn Mannix, Lisa-Jayne LewisGreenbelt 2023 All Talks
The complete set of all the talks recorded at Greenbelt 2023.
How religious – or not – is our future together?
With UK census data showing that increasing numbers of people - especially those under 40 - have no religion, and 20 years on from Alastair Campbell saying, of Tony Blair's New Labour government...
Speaker(s): Andrew CopsonChurch Land and the Climate Crisis
Hear about how the 500,000 acres of Church and Christian-owned land (1% of total land in the UK) contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, but can also be a carbon sink when managed sustainably....
Do We Need A New Economy? Or can we fix the one we’ve got?
An opportunity to share your ideas and ask questions about economic restoration. Are our economic problems fixable? Or do we need a revolution? Come tell us what you think! Hosted by the Goodmakers...
Speaker(s): Ann Pettifor