Greenbelt / Blog / November, 2009

WWJD: a free talk for November 2009

Next Saturday tens of thousands of people will gather on the streets of London to make a final call for climate justice ahead of the UN Copenhagen summit. We hope to see you there.
To get you in the mood, this month's free talk comes from Tamsin Omond. In WWJD Tamsin asks how Jesus would respond [...]

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A Soundscape of GB09

As well as exploring GB09 through images over on Flickr, you can now relive the Festival with our interactive Soundscape. Crank up the volume, hover over the various icons and before you know it you'll be back in Cheltenham.

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It's not often we plug Esquire magazine…

But they don't often feature articles from Greenbelt speakers. Great article over here from Shane Claiborne
"To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say with [...]

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November 09 podcast: a Generous Christmas

Some great, Greenbelt-flavoured ideas and insights for the upcoming season of giving and receiving.
We talk to Martin Wroe and Annie Porthouse about the online community born at Greenbelt called Generous; we talk to Ruth Ruderham at Christian Aid about the alternative gifts scheme they run called Present Aid; we talk to Frank Schaeffer about [...]

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Beyond Advent Calendar

The gang who did the ice sculpture at Greenbelt and the Fingermaze on the concourse in 08 have come up with a funky idea for Advent off the back of an event they ran last year.  BEYOND are based in Brighton & Hove and last year ran the world's first Advent Beach Hut Calendar – [...]

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Trust GB Grant Recipients nominated for a diversity Award

Congrats, congrats, congrats, to Heavy Load who have been nominated for a diversity award.
Heavy Load is a punk bank made up of musicians with and without learning disabilities. Trust Greenbelt granted funding to raise the profile of this group through the distribution of their 'Wild Things' CD. Heavy Load' has been short listed for [...]

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Greenbelt November 09 Mailer

If you're a Greenbelt supporter, you should over the next couple of days receive a mailing from us, reminding you that the November ticket deadline is fast approaching. If nothing comes, then you can browse the mailing below, but you might also want to log in at my.greenbelt.org.uk and make sure we have the correct [...]

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