Just one small slice of the amazing Trust Greenbelt story and what the Festival's giving has enabled so far.
We talk to Greenbelt Trustee Paul Wilson about how the Trust Greenbelt idea was born, Greenbelt Treasurer Jonathan Smith about how much money Trust Greenbelt gives away each year, Rachel Duncombe-Anderson about Epic Arts' work, Liz Dorton [...]

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If you enjoyed Frank Schaeffer's talks at GB08, you might be interested to know that Frank has a new book out:  Patience with God: Faith for People Who Don't Like Religion (or Atheism)
"Former evangelical Christian political agitator Schaeffer has been born yet again. This time, he has been reborn into what he calls the Church [...]

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In the post below you'll see a mention of a video Jonah Mayfield produced – with some able assistance – at this year's Festival. Well, here it is…

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We had more classes than ever this year covering a variety of subjects.
Jonah Mayfield ran a film workshop for all ages on the theme of 'time' Things moving at different paces: slow, fast, reversed.
He took 2 groups of 10 around several spots of the site and allowed them to film whatever they wanted, then edited [...]

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For those of you still yearning for a "Long Now" experience you should point your feet, trains and cars in the direction of Birmingham and check out an exhibition.
The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition of Craft and the Slow Revolution from the 17th October 2009- 4th January 2010.
The exhibition looks at [...]

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Jon Bounds spoke at the Festival this year. One his excellent talks was about his 11-11-11 project.
He's written about the project he's conducting this year for the blog.
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I there’s one thing I like in the Old Testament is it’s grasp of the symbolic power of encircling a town. When Joshua brings down Jericho it's not [...]

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The Duke has been in touch and following his appearance at this year's Festival he has kindly offered Greenbelters a free album sampler. Click here to sign up for his mailing list and then you'll receive links to 11 tracks.
How very generous!

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In the hub at the festival this year over 400 people came & did a self portrait, and we were busy all weekend scanning each one.
We have created some screensavers you can view & download here
All the drawings appear somewhere in each of these three sizes – 1680 x 1050, 1600 x 1200 and 1024 [...]

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While we're immersed in picking up the pieces from this year's Festival we've just found out that we've got three nominations for this year's Festival Awards.
Needless to say, we're up against some heavy hitters, so if we're to stand any chance of success we need our loyal supporter base to hop on over to our [...]

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From Rachel Stringer, Head of Content
Greenbelt’s Sunday Service (usually communion except in years of Swine Flu!) is the one point of the Festival when we take time to come together as the community of Greenbelt to pause, reflect, celebrate, love, and share in the divine with each other. Over 10,000 people spend the hour together [...]

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