A new shape of days for our 50th
For our fiftieth anniversary year, Greenbelt Festival is shape-shifting. Slightly. Beginning and ending things differently so we can create a better festival experience for audience and...
50: A festival lexicon
We're crowdfunding a large-format hardback book for Greenbelt's 50th. The festival's story in 50 reflections and tales, poems and prayers.
50 years of partnership
We're pleased and proud to be able to share with you the wonderful array of partner organisations who will be present with us this year at our 50th anniversary gathering in various ways. Here's a...
Greenbelt Futures – The Next 50 Years
Greenbelt Futures – The Next 50 Years
Life begins at 50
Greenbelt turns 50 next year: a landmark moment that offers us a chance to reflect. To take stock but also to glimpse the future ahead. So in 2023 we'll be making two changes to Greenbelt that...
Rivers Of Blood. 50 Years On.
In 2018 the Windrush scandal followed the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr and Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech. This talk examines the corrosive power of...
Speaker(s): Anthony ReddieOoberfuse
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...
Elephant Sessions
From humble beginnings in the Highlands of Scotland, to playing around the world, Elephant Sessions celebrated their 10th year as band in 2022. Creating a progressive blend of intricate tunes, with...
Jenny Mitchell
Jenny Mitchell is winner of the Poetry Book Awards 2021, the Bedford Prize, the Ware Prize and joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize 2019. Her poems have been widely published and she...
Bob Vylan
London two-piece BOB VYLAN are unique. One vocalist (Bobby) and one drummer (Bobbie). One being a vital and focal mouthpiece, the other a rhythm maker and keeper, one audience ringleader, one master...
Lois Tucker
Gifts and Community Engagement Officer Lois has been coming to Greenbelt since 2006 (Redemption Songs, for those who track the years by theme) and did a lot of her growing up in fields over August...
Joanna Booth
Programme Administrator Joanna studied Music at the University of Sheffield where she developed a fascination with performing arts across a range of cultures, researching the role they play in our...
Sophie Grace Chappell
Sophie Grace Chappell has been Professor of Philosophy at The Open University since 2006. Before that she was Reader in Philosophy at the University of Dundee (1998-2006), and before that she held...
Jason Arday
Professor Jason Arday is a social commentator, presenter and public speaker. He is currently the 2002 Professorial Chair of Education (Sociology of Education) at the University of Cambridge, making...