Exploring the visual arts and the Festival
We talk to Meryl Doney involved in the visual arts at Greenbelt since the 80s and now curator of the WallSpace Gallery in London, Jake Lever practising artist and teacher and past Greenbelt exhibitor about his work and artistic vision, Derek Hill, Greenbelt's visual arts coordinator, about the Festival's [...]

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The story is as follows:
"This cover of Stand By Me was recorded by completely unknown artists in a street virtual studio all around the world. It all started with a base track—vocals and guitar—recorded on the streets of Santa Monica, California, by a street musician called Roger Ridley. The base track was then taken to [...]

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Henry David Thoreau's Walden is one of the three books that will be discussed by the Greenbelt Book Club at this year's Festival.  Our Literature Coordinator, Ben Whitehouse, has now found a way to get the book for free – DailyLit will email you a chunk of the book direct to your inbox every morning. [...]

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I can't remember if I was sent this, or stumbled across it on a lunch break internet bumble (so apologies if you are the person who sent it to me!) but either way, it looks great. And very Standing In The Long Nowish…
Slow Down London is a new project to inspire Londoners to improve their [...]

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by Ed Richmond
When they’re not busy listening to loads of music to book for the whole of the Greenbelt programme, the intrepid band of volunteers on the music group tend to listen to more music. Here’s what some of them are listening to now.
Helen O’Sullivan
I have been listening to and "youtubing" Denis Jones, who I only [...]

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In 1993 Charlie Ryder took part in a demonstration to shut down the BNP headquarters in Welling, south-east London. The demonstration turned into a riot, and Charlie was sentenced to 16 months in prison for his part. While in prison Charlie wrote poetry, letters and art work, and now works for the Anne Peaker Centre, [...]

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To celebrate the first batch of line-up announcements, this month's free talk comes from long-standing Festival friend Alastair McIntosh.
Alastair is returning to Greenbelt this year, so if you like this talk from his last visit (2006), be sure to check him out at Greenbelt 2009.
You might also want to check out his books, and the [...]

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by Ben Whitehouse
One of the things I'm most looking forward to at the festival this year is the book club because I know it's going to be interesting. (Don't get me wrong, I'm looking forward to lots of the Festival but I have a love affair with books which is why I'm the literature coordinator [...]

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This Wednesday I went to the G20 demonstrations at Bank and the Climate Camp In The City on Broadgate later in the evening.
After briefly joining in the march to Bank at 11.30am, I was at the Climate Camp from 5.55pm until 1.30am the next day, uploading  images to Facebook and blogging live via my status [...]

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by Nick Welsh.
I was at a get-together of techie sorts a few weeks ago and I overheard some very clever people talking about Facebook. One of them said, “Yeah, I used to use Facebook but then my 10 year old nephew started using it so I don’t bother anymore.”
I kind of thought this was a [...]

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