The Sunday Morning Service at Greenbelt 2009 focussed on the stories of the people living in the land called holy – especially the Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories.
The webpage we've built here will give you more resources – where you can go next with these stories. But we'd love to know what you made [...]

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My Greenbelt has been slightly different to most. In amongst arranging press conferences and planning interviews with what feels like every local BBC radio station in the UK, time to stop and watch is understandably limited, as is time to write reviews of what I've seen or conjure the words to describe it…
Last night [...]

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(by Andy Tate)
Greenbelt is like New Year's Eve without the mild sense of disappointment.
This is the best description of the festival that I know. They aren't my own words of Wildean wisdom, unfortunately, but those of Cole Moreton who told me that he, in turn, borrowed them from poet and priest Mal Doney. Unlike the [...]

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(by Simon Jones)
There's a problem though, sometimes. You come to get inspiration and it's easy to find. The artists are inspirational and so are the activists. The musicians can find the secret chord that David played and even the holy people can make you believe that being holy might matter. Greenbelt's creativity comes from its [...]

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By Kari Stewart, talks administrator.
(There's a group of people you'll rarely see at Greenbelt without a phone pressed to their ear. Here's a quick story illustrating the kind of thing they'll be working on.)
Running across centre course… my phone rang. Again. It was a lovely volunteer from Contributor's Reception who had a rather confused Alister [...]

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by Steve Lawson, originally posted on his blog.
This year is my 17th Greenbelt. At 4 days a year, that’s over 2 months of my life spent either in a field – or on Cheltenham Racecourse – listening to music (and most years playing it to), listening to talks, seminars and debates, hanging out with friends [...]

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One of Greenbelt's photographers, Jonathon Watkins, walked around site yesterday, took some pictures of the set-up and has posted them all on Greenbelt's Flickr photostream. And don't forget, if you're taking your camera this weekend and will be uploading the results to Flickr, tag your photos 'greenbelt09'.

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by George Luke
I’ll probably lose a million music journo credibility points for the confession I’m about to make, but here goes anyway. Until recently, I’d never listened to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue album in its entirety before. And I probably still wouldn’t have, were it not for Ed Richmond, Head of Greenbelt’s music group.  [...]

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Over the weekend, our Commercial Manager Phil Smith will be recording a video diary and posting it on YouTube, and here's his first effort. (Loving the sunglasses, by the way…)

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With not long to go now, we are looking forward to the visual arts programme coming together after a year of planning.
As well as all our exhibitions that you can come to see, we've got lots of things you can take part in so here's a round up of what you can do & what [...]

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