Darn It! Workshops Kim Searle
Kim Searle graduated from the University of Huddersfield BA Textile Crafts course in 2012 after specialising in Printmaking with an emphasis on creative work within communities. Since leaving...
A Festival Life: Michael Eavis in conversation
Greenbelt may be 45 years old, but it's a minnow beside Glastonbury. So, we're delighted to welcome the founder of that Festival, dairy farmer Michael Eavis to Greenbelt this year. Having decided...
Speaker(s): Michael EavisMichael Eavis
Michael Eavis is an English dairy farmer, and is best known as the founder of Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, which takes place on his farm in Pilton, Somerset. It all began...
Kate Raworth
Kate Raworth is an ecological economist and creator of the Doughnut - a concept that aims to meet the needs of all people within the means of the living planet - and co-founder of Doughnut Economics...
Hot House: What makes for a good Brexit?
With remainer Natalie Bennett, Green Party, and leaver Sophie Sandor, Institute of Economic AffairsFor better or worse, the EU Referendum a year or more ago has exposed deep divisions in our society....
Speaker(s): Natalie Bennett, Cole Moreton, Sophie SandorGrace Wroe
Grace grew up at Greenbelt. Since graduating in social policy from Bristol University she has worked in a centre for vulnerable women in King's Cross, London and is now a Restorative Justice...
Sophie Sandor
Sophie Sandor is Programmes Manager at the IEA. Sophie tours UK schools, organising the IEA's sixth form economics conferences and other educational opportunities for school and university...
The People’s Gallery
Will you be part of the festival in a shed? The People's Gallery is an opportunity for all Greenbelter's – young or old; seasoned camper or festival newbie; mainstage performer or thoughtful...
URC asks: ‘Are you really welcome?’
A guest blog from Revd Craig Muir of our associate partner, United Reformed Church. ‘All Welcome' say church signs. Yet many will have stories of being ignored, barred, dismissed, dismayed....
What can you expect at the Exchange?
A guest blog from David Alcock, Head of Social Business at Anthony Collins Solicitors. The Exchange is one of three new venues Greenbelt is launching this year. What will you find there, and...
Cash, climate change and the banks
A guest blog by our Partner Christian Aid What are the banks doing with your hard-earned cash? However much money you have in the bank, you can be sure they are investing it somewhere to make...
Saraiya Bah
Saraiya Bah is a London based poet and writer who draws on the traditional West African storytelling style of the griot to wax lyrically about identity, faith, the relationship with self and...
Ella Al-Shamahi
National Geographic Explorer and palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi specialises in fossil hunting in unstable, hostile and disputed territories… is also a stand-up comic. She believes that...
Jasmine Kennedy
‘Introspective, contemplative, armed with a voice to stop you in your tracks.' Jasmine Kennedy is an acoustic singer/songwriter who sings from the heart; her lyrics a collection of throwaway...
Zamaan (Rihab Azar & Jamal Al Sakka)
‘Zamaan', meaning time in Arabic and often referring to the past, is a growing project that revives, celebrates and builds on gems of Arabic and Middle-Eastern music. Featuring the oud and...