On Friday, the Financial Times ran an interview with Reem Kelani, who's playing at Greenbelt 09.  Reem talked a lot about Palestinian cookery and gave the FT her favourite recipe.  You can read the whole interview here, and here's the recipe for Reem's Chicken and onion mussakhan wraps:
Known as “muhammar” in Galilee and Nazareth, “mussakhan” can [...]

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Just one small slice of the lineup for 2009
We talk to Rachel Stringer, Greenbelt's Head of Content, about her role, its joys and challenges, Shlomo about beatboxing, The Vocal Orchestra and coming back to Greenbelt, Mark Vernon about agnosticism and the School of Life, and Vito Aiuto from The Welcome Wagon about their debut album [...]

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Greenbelt features in an article entitled 'Festivals Across the Pond' in this month's US-based Relevant magazine.  The article was written by Becky Garrison, who spoke at Greenbelt 2007, and also includes a nice quote from Jonny Baker: "this festival can act as both an encouragement and a spark to the imagination of people in the [...]

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Bev Thomas asks whether, in an age of cynicism and lack of engament in the democratic process, political activism can play a central role in transforming our communities. We are pretty sure there is a Greenbelt recorded talk out there for every occasion. And this month's free recorded talk, recorded at Greenbelt 2007, demonstrates [...]

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Carol Ann Duffy has been named as the new Poet Laureate, the first woman to be appointed in the 341-year history of the post.

She's the first woman, the first mother, the first lesbian to be appointed to the post. She was widely regarded as the runner up to the post when Andrew Motion was appointed [...]

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The internets is a great place to find the strangest things & today it threw a digested look at the news of the week filtered through an Auto-tune- it's the device that made Cher's voice go all wobbly in her 1998 track Believe and it can be used to make someone off pitch sound on [...]

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Photo by Matt Patterson

by Nick Welsh
I came across Russell Davies*, (strategist, futurist, blogger & gadget maker – his words, not mine) after last years Do Lectures that Howies put on.
Russell (pictured) was talking, amongst other things, about failing. It’s a subject close to my heart (I’ve had lots of practice). I may blog about that [...]

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by Helen O'Sullivan (GB music administrator)
One of the things that I’m most grateful to Greenbelt Festival for is introducing me to Peter Wilson aka Duke Special. I remember seeing him play there about 9 or 10 years ago in a “magazine show” (possibly Last Orders!) when he was Booley’s frontman – he had baby [...]

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