Greenbelt / Blog / September, 2009

Get connected…

After a couple of month's Only Connect is going good. We've now got over a hundred members all of whom are very different but equally lovely. We've also just done some upgrades on the site so it's a lot easier to find people that you might hit it off with. If you're single click to [...]

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More video goodness from GB09

Following on from the post about Platform 2 early this week, we now have more video goodness created by produced by the guys over at True Tube, featuring GB youth…

The Wall – What Divides Us? from TrueTube on Vimeo.

What Unites? / What Divides? from TrueTube on Vimeo.

Why Walls? from TrueTube on Vimeo.

Trading Fair from TrueTube [...]

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Platform 2 at GB09

At GB09 Festival partners DFID drew particular attention to Platform 2, which allows young people that wouldn't otherwise be able to afford it to visit developing countries. It's an amazing scheme. Check out the video below then visit the Platform 2 website to find out more.

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A nice review from out there on the blogosphere!

This made everyone in the office smile muchly, thanks for the hard work Matt Downer

Greenbelt 2009 Video Blog from Matt Downer on Vimeo.

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September 09 podcast: living in the long now

The first podcast after the 2009 Festival.
We talk to Jenny Brown about Greenbelt 365, Karen Ciupac about becoming a Greenbelt Angel, Julia Evans about Greenbelt's new 'Just Peace' campaign, some of the staff about their Festival 'moments, and at length to Beki Bateson, Greenbelt's Festival Director, as she looks back on her nine years' heading [...]

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Mother Courage and her Children – Preview

by Helen O'Sullivan, Greenbelt Music Group Administrator
Friday night was the first full run-through of the Bertolt Brecht play ‘Mother Courage and Her Children’ (Tony Kushner translation) in the 1100 seater Olivier Theatre at the National in London. There was a preview the previous night but due to lack of technical rehearsals, only two-thirds of [...]

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Change the world in an hour: a free talk for September 2009

This month we're giving away a great talk from this year's Festival. Eugenie Harvey, tells the story of We Are What We Do and encourages us all to do our bit to make a difference.
Click to download 'Change the world in an hour', by Eugenie Harvey (52MB)


If you like the talk, then check out Eugenie's [...]

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While We Were Here

As you'll quickly tell if you do a search on twitter, browse flickr, take a look at our vimeo account or even check out AudioBoo or qik.com, Greenbelt's media teams produced a lot of content online over the festival weekend. And a lot of people who couldn't be with us in person seem to have [...]

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