Looking for Allah at 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A Musical Journey

Speaker(s): Abdul-Rehman Malik

Charles Handy at Greenbelt 2017

A personal reflection on the great man's visit to Greenbelt 2017 from Paul Northup, Greenbelt's Creative Director … If you're of my vintage (clears throat: half a century or so on this...

Chine McDonald

Trustee Chine McDonald is head of Christian influence & engagement at World Vision – a faith-based children's international development agency. Prior to that, she was director of communications...

9 ways to hang on to that festival feeling

The Greenbelt weekend – with its reams of talks, art and conversation – can be a pretty mind-altering, life-changing experience. But even the most intense experiences fade over time as summer...

Communion: Bring a Body

Gather from 10am for our annual festival communion service. All are welcome. This year's communion service – entitled “Bring a Body” is designed to reflect and celebrate how radically...
Speaker(s): Fischy Music

Looking for a Living Wage: How to run a Living Wage campaign in your area

The Living Wage campaign started in our very first community alliance in East London in 2001. In this session we share the tried-and-tested organising methods that root this national campaign in...

A different kind of power: what does power have to do with theology, and why does it matter for community organising?

Power. This hotly-debated, sometimes keenly avoided, concept is central to community organising. We share the secret – and the theological basis – of a power based on relationships, not...

The real art of the deal: negotiating for the common good

Want your MP to change their mind on your issue? Looking for a living wage commitment from a local business? Our role-play scenarios will put you in the hot seat, on both sides of the table,...

The contemplative organiser: developing a spirituality of action

Community organising is rooted in multiple traditions, and inseparable from their spiritual practices. In this workshop, we explore how contemplation can nurture action, and how organising should...

Transforming your church, changing the world: using community organising to reinvigorate your congregation to work for the common good

Learn from two people who know it works! Revd Keith Hebden and Revd Canon Angus Ritchie share their first-hand experiences of using community organising to build congregations that are passionate –...

Hot House: The Truth. The Whole Truth. And Fake News

Join a panel of reporters, journalists and campaigners as they debate how to report, advocate and speak in a post-truth world – where everyone has an opinion to share, fake or legitimate. Free...
Speaker(s): Peter Oborne, Jack Monroe

Israel / Palestine: No Fit State

Two State? One State? Not fit state? What hope is there for a just peace in Israel-Palestine, when the world (and Israel) seems so content with the status quo? And might the brazenness of Trump...
Speaker(s): Peter Oborne, Robert Cohen, Sahar Vardi, Muhanad Al Qaisy, Karen Chalk

Business as usual?

Almost 10 years on from the financial crash of 2008 and the resulting longest, deepest recession in living memory, it seems like the banks, the financial institutions (and those of us who use them,...
Speaker(s): Ann Pettifor, Vivian Woodell

Hot House: Religion leads to violence. It always has and always will

Since 9/11, and stretching back centuries before, the worst atrocities committed against humanity have been motivated by religious conviction and difference. And things don't seem to be getting...
Speaker(s): Salma Yaqoob, Clive Stafford Smith, Sahar Vardi, Lisa-Raine Hunt