In our second podcast of 2010 we take a look at the volunteering dynamic which drives Greenbelt – the handmade Festival.

We talk to Linda Watson, The Festival's volunteer coordinator, about her role and working with so many volunteers, Chris Parker, Site Manager for the Children’s Festival area, Saga Arpino, heading up the Festival’s Site Vibing Team, Luke Warner, a volunteer in the Box Office Team, and Stuart and Karen Radcliffe, husband and wife volunteers in the Festival’s Operations Team.

Click here to download the .mp3 podcast file (27.2MB)

Or stream the audio using the player below.

Timings – so you can dip in and out if you want to:

00.00 – 00.50 – Intro

00.50 – 03.25 – Linda Watson, Greenbelt’s Volunteer Coordinator

03.25– 05.55 – Chris Parker, Site Manager for the Children’s Festival area

05.55– 10.00 – Saga Arpino, head of the Festival’s Site Vibing Team

10.00 – 12.30 –Luke Warner, Festival Box Office volunteer

12.30 – 16.20 –Stuart and Karen Radcliffe, Festival Operations Team

16.20 – 17.55 –Linda Watson, Greenbelt’s Volunteer Coordinator

17.55 – 19.33 –Outro

Resources and links

How to get involved

Volunteering Generally

Apply

FAQs The Teams

Match your skills to the teams

Volunteer Profiles

Children's Festival Team

Site Vibing – Making Days – Make bunting!

The Soundtrack

• Together – Rob Mooney
• Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix) – Massive Attack
• Together – Kin
• Music Box - The Low Anthem
• A very short sample from Together – Dr. Israel
• Psyche – Massive Attack
• March of the Volunteers – Monkey
• Ticket Taker – The Low Anthem
• Together – Music from the BBC Series
• A History of Scotland - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
• Better Together – Live feat. G. love – Jack Johnson
• Join Together – The Who

Credits

• Narrated by Grace Wroe and Garry Rutter
• Mixed and Edited – bigJohn Noble
• Written and Executive Produced by Paul Northup
• Co-production – bigJohn Noble
• Narration recording – Iain Archer
• Field Recording – Paul Northup

In our first podcast of 2010 we chat to Greenbelt's incoming Festival Director, Gawain Hewitt.

In a departure from the format of previous Greenbelt podcasts, Phil Smith, Greenbelt's Head of Communications, chats to Gawain Hewitt, Greenbelt's newly appointed Festival Director, about his life, his interests, his faith, and his feelings about and vision for the role he's about to take up on 8 February.

[podcast]http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/downloads/podcasts/gb_jan-2010_final.mp3[/podcast]

Click to download the .mp3 podcast file.

You can read more about Gawain's appointment over here.

Credits
Questions posed by Phil Smith
Questions answered by Gawain Hewitt
Mixed – bigJohn Noble
Executive Produced by Paul Northup

In our last podcast of 2009 – and of the decade – we take a look back over Greenbelt's noughties.

We talk to Andy Thornton, The Festival's Manager coming into the decade, about the move to Cheltenham, Jude Levermore, The Festival's Chair in the early part of the decade about beginning to turn things round, Karen Napier, the Festival's Chair in the mid-to-late part of the decade, about moving Greenbelt from crisis to sustainability, and Andy Turner, the Festival's brand new Chair at the start of a new decade, as he looks forward to what the next ten years might bring.

Click here to download the .mp3 podcast file (34.8MB)

Or stream the audio using the player below.

[podcast]http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/downloads/podcasts/gb_dec_09_final.mp3[/podcast]

Timings – so you can dip in and out if you want to:

00.00 – 01.20 – Intro
01.20 – 03.30 – Andy Thornton talks about the 'hairy' early days of the decade
03.30 – 08.00 – Jude Levermore talks about how close Greenbelt came to death
08.00 – 10.20 – Karen Napier talks about steadying the ship and setting a course
10.20 – 13.50 – Andy Turner looks back to look forward
13.50 – 16.20 – Andy Thornton talks about where he sees the Festival being now
16.20 – 17.20 – Jude Levermore talks about the good things that have been born
17.20 – 19.00 – Karen Napier talks about the wonderful volunteers
19.00 – 19.55 – Jude Levermore says 'thank' you to Christian Aid
19.55 – 21.00 – About Greenbelt's 'Just Peace' campaign
21.00 – 24.11 – Goodbye and play-out with Sufjan Stevens

Resources and links

The Thirty Book
The book Greenbelt published on turning thirty in 2003
Read about it and download a PDF version of it here
Read it online here

Video
Click here to view video footage captured at Greenbelt
Click here to view BBC 1 Heaven and Earth Show footage from GB07

On the record
What people have said about Greenbelt over the past 10 years

A decade of Festivals – those we have sections for on the website
2002: Kiss of Life
2003: Diving for Pearls
2004: Freedom Bound
2005: Tree of Life
2006: Redemption Songs
2007: Heaven in Ordinary
2008: Rising Sun
2009: Standing in the Long Now

The Soundtrack of the Greenbelt Decade

Jah Wobble – Heaven and Earth
ADF – Obsession
Bugge Wesseltoft – Stille Nacht
My Morning Jacket – I'm Amazed
U2 – I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Jose Gonzales – Storm
Coldcut – Music for 18 Musicians
Hope Springs Eternal – Autumn Leaves
Eddi Reader – Lazy Heart
Sufjan Stevens – Sister Winter

Credits

• Narrated by Grace Wroe and Garry Rutter
• Mixed and Edited – bigJohn Noble
• Written and Executive Produced by Paul Northup
• Co-production – bigJohn Noble
• Narration recording – Iain Archer
• Field Recording – Paul Northup

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 to the current crisis:

"I don't know what Jesus would do with this world. I don't know how he would challenge the tangled webs of power that be. I don't know if he'd be vegie or vegan. If he wouldn't fly to the conferences to which he was invited. If his house would be an eco-haven. I don't know if he would go out and protest. I don't know how he would respond to the responsibility he shoulders. Would he be in the developing world, helping those on the front line of climate change? Or would he be obeying the law, having faith that somewhere out there our future must be in good hands? Or would he be a superhero of the environmental movement, exposing government wrongs there, shutting down carbon intensive infrastructure here? How would he transform hearts and minds? It's impossible to know.

Is it a paralysis or is it a call to action so compelling that it does transform lives? That you give up your ambitions for luxuries that you'd always imagined having and instead become one small part of a very small group always on the brink of being overwhelmed. A group of people that have faith, that believe we can transform this world, that humainty is worthwhile enough to dig itself out of this mess."

Click to download the talk and or subscribe to our free talks and podcasts in iTunes.

[podcast]http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/system/wp-content/uploads/talks/gb09-113mp3.mp3[/podcast]

For more information about next week's demonstration click here.

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 his recent book Patience with God and about his experience of Greenbelt; we talk to Anne Butler of Sticky Kids Music; and we talk to Greenbelt's Phil Smith about how to shop online via the Greenbelt website and add to the festival's bottom line.

Click here to download the .mp3 podcast file (31MB)

Or stream the audio using the player below.

[podcast]http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/downloads/podcasts/gb09_nov_09_podcast.mp3[/podcast]

Timings – so you can dip in and out if you want to:

00.00 – 02.30 – Intro and notices
02.30 – 05.13 – About 'Generous' with Martin Wroe
05.13 – 08.14 – About 'Generous' with Annie Porthouse
08.14 – 11.00 – Ruth Ruderham, Present Aid
11.00 – 16.05 – Frank Schaeffer, on Patience with God
16.05 – 19.15 – Anne Butler, Sticky Kids
19.15 – 21.00 – Phil Smith on Greenbelt's online affiliate schemes
21.00 – 22.34 – Outro

Resources and links

Generous
Click here to the Generous website.

Present Aid
Click here for Present Aid website.

Dame Evelyn Glennie and Shovell of M People record an unusal Christmas carol for Present Aid:

Frank Schaeffer, Patience with God
Click here for our recent blog on Frank's latest book which contains a link to buy it online through Greenbelt's Amazon affiliate scheme.

Click here for an example of Frank's robust blogging on the Huffington Post and see the hot water it sometimes lands him in on American TV shows here:

Frank spoke at Greenbelt 08 – for a CD or MP3 of his recorded talks, click here

Sticky Kids
Click here for the Sticky Kids website.

Shopping online with Greenbelt
Click here for all Greenbelt's affiliate click-throughs.

Greenbelt Christmas ideas
Click here for some great Greenbelt-related Christmas gift ideas.

Soundtrack

Kingdom of Rust (instrumental version) – Doves
Trente Millions D'amis (live KCRW 98) – Air / Jack Arel
Kind and Generous – Natalie Merchant
Skog – Bugge Wesseltoft
FeelGood (live) – Bugge Wesseltoft
Half Light (Eddy Tm Losers Remix) – Athlete
Music Makers / Wiggly Woo / Jingle Bells – Sticky Kids
Passion – Michael Franti

Credits

• Narrated by Grace Wroe and Garry Rutter
• Mixed and Edited – bigJohn Noble
• Written and Executive Produced by Paul Northup
• Co-production – bigJohn Noble
• Narration recording – Iain Archer
• Field Recording – Paul Northup

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 about the community arts project that was Hull Fludde, Chris Verney about the work of Integrate Leeds, Ruth Bennett about LCET's 'See Me' exhibition, Paul Richards about Heavy Load, and Meryl Doney about WallSpace's 'Visionaries' exhibition.

Click here to download the .mp3 podcast file (30.9MB)

Or stream the audio using the player below.

[podcast]http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/downloads/podcasts/gb09_oct_09_podcast.mp3[/podcast]

Timings – so you can dip in and out if you want to:

00.00 – 02.16 – Intro
02.16 – 05.22 – Paul Wilson – on how it all began
05.22 – 06.25 – Jonathan Smith on giving the money away
06.25 – 08.22 – Rachel Duncombe-Anderson, Epic Arts
08.22 – 10.05 – Charlie Ryder, The Anne Peaker Centre
10.05 – 12.06 – Liz Dorton, Hull Fludde
12.06 – 15.13 – Chris Verney, Integrate Leeds
15.13 – 17.00 – Ruth Bennett, See Me, LCET
17.00 – 20.28 – Paul Richards, Heavy Load
20.28 – 22.30 – Meryl Doney, WallSpace
22.30 – 23.30 – Paul Wilson's take on Trust Greenbelt so far
23.30 – 25.21 – Outro

Resources and links

Trust Greenbelt
Click here for more Trust Greenbelt stories and to give online.
Click here for how to apply.

Epic Arts
Click here for Epic Arts' website
View a video of their work in China here:

Ann Peaker Centre and Charlie Ryder
Click here for the Anne Peaker centre website.
Click here for more on Charlie Ryder's arts work with offenders.
And click here to see Charlie being interviewed about prisoners' artwork on Channel 4.

Hull Fludde
Click here for more about Hull Fludde at Greenbelt.

Integrate Leeds
Click here for the Integrate Leeds website.

LCET, See Me
Click here for the LCET, 'See Me' website.

Heavy Load
Click here for the Heavy Load website.
View a video of the band here:

WallSpace
Click here for the WallSpace website.
Click here for more about the Visionaries exhibition at Greenbelt 2009.

Soundtrack

Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash
Dear God – Monsters of Folk
Lucky Gilchrist – The Unthanks
Living By Water – The Unthanks
The Fixer – Pearl Jam
Never Far – Miriam Jones
Be With Me – Foy Vance
Counting Screws – Heavy Load
USA – Heavy Load

Credits

• Narrated by Grace Wroe and Garry Rutter
• Mixed and Edited – bigJohn Noble
• Written and Executive Produced by Paul Northup
• Co-production – bigJohn Noble
• Narration recording – Iain Archer
• Field Recording – Paul Northup

Pictured at the head of this blog post, mosaic work at Integrate Leeds 2009

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 up The Team and prepares to leave for pastures new. We also hear from Rob Bell on what he made of Greenbelt on his first visit, we well as from Kester Brewin and Jeremy Woodham with their Long Now poetic mediations.

Click here to download the standard .mp3 podcast file (30.9MB)
Click here to download the enhanced .m4a podcast file (32.4MB).

Or stream the audio using the player below.

Timings – so you can dip in and out if you want to:

00.00 – 02.20 – Intro
02.20 – 03.15 – Kester Brewin's 'Long Now' meditation
03.15 – 06.30 – Jenny Brown on Greenbelt 365
06.30 – 07.42 – Karen Ciupac on being a Greenbelt Angel
07.42 – 08.08 – Volunteer with Greenbelt
08.08 – 10.54 – Julia Evans on Greenbelt's 'Just Peace' campaign
10.54 – 12.40 – The staff's 'festival moments'
12.40 – 19.22 – Beki Bateson's parting reflections
19.22 – 20.18 – Rob Bell's take on Greenbelt
20.18 – 21.14 – Outro
21.14 – 22.24 – Jeremy Woodham poem

Resources and links

Online survey
Click here to tell us what you thought of Greenbelt 2009 and earn yourself the chance to win a pair of tickets to next year's Festival.

Greenbelt 365
The Greenbelt 365 webpage
2009 Festival photos
2009 Festival videos
How to contribute your content to the community pools
Greenbelt on Twitter

Recorded Talks
Click here to browse, order or download this year's recorded talks.
Click here for Rob Bell's two talks from Greenbelt 09.

Greenbelt Angels
Click here to find out all about what being a Greenbelt Angel means and how you can become one.

Volunteer
Click here for the volunteer pages on the website.

Campaign
Click here for the 'Just Peace' page on the website.

The Sunday Service
Click here for all sorts of resources connected with this year's Festival Service.

Tickets
Click here to buy tickets for Greenbelt 2010, 'The Art of Looking Sideways'

Soundtrack

The Roll Off Characteristics (of History in the Making) – Cornershop
An Ending (Ascent) – Brian Eno
Hope, Peace and Love – Foy Vance
What Else is There? (Thin White Duke Mix) – Royksopp
Free Love – Cornershop
Palestine Looking Back – Homeless Balloon
Free Madness – The Office
Waltz for Koop – Koop
American Legion – Welcome Wagon

Credits

• Narrated by Paul Northup
• Mixed and Edited – bigJohn Noble
• Written and Executive Produced by Paul Northup
• Co-production – bigJohn Noble
• Narration recording – David Pick, FFG
• Field Recording – Paul Northup

Pictured at the head of this blog post, happy campers at Greenbelt 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 books: Teach Your Granny to Text (We Are What We Do) and Change the World for a Fiver: We are What We Do or if the talk has inspired you to make a difference, then why not become an Angel? Click here to find out more.

For more recorded talks from this year's Festival, click here.

Subscribe to the Greenbelt podcast via iTunes and future free talks will automatically appear amongst the Greenbelt podcasts.

The last podcast before the 2009 Festival.

We talk to the incredible Duke Special ahead of his Mainstage set this year, Roy Gregory about the amazing work of the Soul Space venue at the Festival, Peter Bone about a 'Just Peace', this year's onsite campaign, Liz Chapman about curating and producing the Festival's Sunday Service against a backdrop of concern of Swine Flu, and we close by announcing a competition – your chance to win some Greenbelt merchandise.

Click here to download the enhanced .m4a podcast file (27.4MB).

Or stream the audio using the player below.

Or if you still prefer good old MP3 format click here (27.7MB).

Timings – so you can dip in and out if you want to:

00.00 – 03.18 – Intro
03.18 – 09.13 – Duke Special
09.13 – 12.25 – Roy Gregory on Soul Space
12.25 – 15.00 – The 'Just Peace' campaign and Peter Bone
15.00 – 18.37 – Liz Chapman on the Sunday Service
18.37 – 20.12 – Outro

Resources and links

Duke Special

Duke Special's official website
Watch the video of Our Love Goes Deeper Than This here:

Soul Space

Click here to order The God You Already Know

Just Peace

Information on Greenbelt's Just Peace campaign will be posted to this section of the Festival website soon.

The Sunday Service

There will be a web page here soon with all sorts of supporting information about this year's Festival Service.

Essential Information

Click here for all the essential info you need to know about coming to Greenbelt.

Keep Monday Special

Click here for the KMS bill and the answer to the podcast competition question.

Soundtrack

Cornershop – Lessons Learned From Rocky I to Rocky III / Coming Up (2 Tracks)
Sixpence None The Richer – A Million Parachutes
Duke Special – No Cover Up
Leonard Cohen – Anthem
Moby – Inside / The Sky Is Broken (2 Tracks)
Various Apple Loops

Credits

• Narrated by Paul Northup and Liz Christmas
• Mixed and Edited – bigJohn Noble
• Written and Executive Produced by Paul Northup
• Co-production – bigJohn Noble
• Narration recording – David Pick, FFG
• Field Recording – Paul Northup

Pictured at the head of this blog post, Duke Special

Just one more small slice of the lineup for 2009

We talk to Steve from Athlete, ahead of their headline set on Greenbelt's mainstage this year, Alex Horne about the two stand-up shows he's bringing to the Festival, Reem Kelani about her life and artistry as a Palestinian jazz singer, Ele Ramsay from Christian Aid about their collaboration with Stan's Cafe at Greenbelt this summer, Vikki White from Platform2 about this fully-funded DFID oversees volunteering scheme, and Rachel Stringer, Greenbelt's Head of Content, about the lowdown on this year's 'Keep Monday Special' (KMS) bill.

Click here to download the enhanced .m4a podcast file (28.7MB).

Or stream the audio using the player below.

Or if you still prefer good old MP3 format click here (28.1MB).

Timings – so you can dip in and out if you want to:

00.00 – 01.50 – Intro
01.50 – 04.55 – Steve from Athlete
04.55 – 08.15 – Alex Horne
08.15 – 11.30 – Reem Kelani
11.30 – 14.10 – Ele Ramsay from Christian Aid
14.10 – 16.25 – Vikki White from Platform2
16.25 – 18.30 – Rachel Stringer on KMS
18.30 – 20.26 – Outro

Resources and links

Athlete

Click here for their Greenbelt lineup page and links off.
View the video for their latest single here:

Alex Horne

Click here for Alex's official website.
View video of him at the Comedy Store a while back here:

Reem Kelani

Click here for Reem's official website.
Click here for a short film about her life and work.
Click here for a recent article on her in the Guardian.

Christian Aid

Click here for Christian Aid's Climate Change action website pages.
View Christian Aid's Poverty Over launch video here:

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Stan's Cafe

Platform2

Click here for the Platform2 website.
Click here to read interview extracts with some of the volunteers.
View the Platform2 video here:

Keep Monday Special

Click here for more details on the KMS bill as it shapes up.

Soundtrack

Royksopp – What Else is There
Athlete – Wires / Summer Sun (2 tracks)
Vula – If You Want It / Sunday (2 tracks)
Reem Kelani – Galilean Lullaby / Yearning (2 tracks)
Homecut – Ecclesiastes 3:11
Jahaziel – In My Neighbourhood
U2 – Get On Your Boots Justice Remix

Credits

• Narrated by Phil Smith and Grace Wroe
• Mixed and Edited – bigJohn Noble
• Written and Executive Produced by Paul Northup
• Co-production – bigJohn Noble
• Field Recording – Paul Northup

Pictured at the head of this blog post, Athlete