The Top 10 Reads from #gb17
Our Christian media partner Church Times reveals your Top Ten Reads from #gb17 ... Drumroll please ... from G-Books (the festival bookshop), here are the ten best-selling books at Greenbelt this...
Jack Monroe at Greenbelt 2017
This year, we were thrilled to welcome Jack Monroe to Greenbelt. Jack falls into the you-need-to-ask-four-or-five-years-in-a-row category of festival contributor. Along with the likes of Billy Bragg....
Charles Handy at Greenbelt 2017
A personal reflection on the great man's visit to Greenbelt 2017 from Paul Northup, Greenbelt's Creative Director … If you're of my vintage (clears throat: half a century or so on this...
Chine McDonald
Vice-chair of Trustees Chine McDonald is vice-chair of Greenbelt. In her day job, she's Director of Theos - the religion and society think tank. She was previously Head of Community Fundraising and...
9 ways to hang on to that festival feeling
The Greenbelt weekend – with its reams of talks, art and conversation – can be a pretty mind-altering, life-changing experience. But even the most intense experiences fade over time as summer...
Murmuration at Greenbelt 2017
One of the most amazing things about this year's festival was Murmuration, a commissioned, site-specific installation of delicate birds, suspended above the walkway towards the 'Other Side of the...
Hot House: Religion leads to violence. It always has and always will
Since 9/11, and stretching back centuries before, the worst atrocities committed against humanity have been motivated by religious conviction and difference. And things don't seem to be getting...
Speaker(s): Salma Yaqoob, Clive Stafford Smith, Sahar Vardi, Origami with Lisa-Raine HuntIsrael / Palestine: No Fit State
Two State? One State? Not fit state? What hope is there for a just peace in Israel-Palestine, when the world (and Israel) seems so content with the status quo? And might the brazenness of Trump...
Speaker(s): Peter Oborne, Robert Cohen, Sahar Vardi, Muhanad Al Qaisy, Karen ChalkIsrael, Its Military, and Us
One Israeli who refused military service probes militarism in Israeli society. How are children taught to become soldiers? What does a militarised economy look like and how is it exported? And what...
Speaker(s): Sahar VardiThe Middle East: Descent into Chaos?
The birthplace of Christianity was a region that modelled peaceful coexistence for centuries. But descent into chaos and war has meant marginalisation, oppression and cleansing of the Christian...
Speaker(s): Peter OborneFinding the Sacred in Harry Potter
The Harry Potter books and films have been formative for a generation of young adults - and for the parents and grandparents who read alongside them. Greg draws sacred themes of community,...
Speaker(s): Greg GarrettThe Ethics of the Zombie Apocalypse
Greg posits that Zombie Apocalypse narratives like The Road and The Walking Dead can help post-9/11 westerners – living in a world full of menace and fear – make meaning and teach us how to live...
Speaker(s): Greg GarrettWhat we talk about when we talk about faith, doubt, hope & love
Scribbling fieldnotes for living a good life and drawing on their forthcoming book The 95, longterm Greenbelters Malcolm Doney and Martin Wroe wonder if there's another way of talking about all...
Speaker(s): Malcolm Doney, Martin Wroe, The 95Please Bring a Body
The Festival Communion service at Greenbelt 2017 put access and inclusion at its heart. Here you'll find all the words from the service to download and share and use – along with the story and...
Living Wage Employer
We are pleased to announce that we are now accredited as a Living Wage employer. The Living Wage commitment will see everyone working at Greenbelt, regardless of whether they are direct employees or...