After Bowie and Prince
With the untimely deaths of Prince and David Bowie, is the age of rock stars as avatars of our better selves, pointing to a world of possibility all over? Is all we're left with nostalgia and...
Speaker(s): Steve LawsonLemn Sissay In conversation
Come and hear poet Lemn Sissay in conversation with Martin Wroe on his life as a child in care and now as Chancellor of Manchester University and one of the nation's best-loved poets. His sense of...
Speaker(s): Lemn SissayGungor In Conversation
Michael and Lisa Gungor, part of the driving force behind the progressive US Liturgists movement and wonderful music artists, get to share about their life and work and motivations with Martyn...
Speaker(s): Gungor, Martyn JosephArriving + Departing Greenbelt 2017
We know you're getting excited about Greenbelt. We guess you're probably planning and packing ?, making lists and devising menus ?, so we've a few bits of information to help you get onto site...
Panel on Faith & Science
Skipping past the hackneyed scienceversus- faith debates, this panel conversation acknowledges science as God's gift and aims instead to focus on how we as communities, individuals and churches can...
Speaker(s): Tom McLeish, Abdul-Rehman Malik, Winchester UniversityCommunion
Inspired by Pope Francis' ‘Laudato si' our Greenbelt Communion Service this year is conceived and shaped by Br Sam and the Franciscan community at Hilfield Friary in Dorset. They will be joined...
Body Shock
With so much focus on photoshopped body images, is it any wonder that we don't think we make the grade? How can we grow a healthy, relaxed attitude to the way we look as part of who we are?
Speaker(s): Judy Reith, Siobhan O'Loughlin, Joanna Jepson, Steve ChalkeSTAYING ALIVE: A Conversation
Building on sessions that we've hosted at the festival over the past few years with artists like Bobby Baker and Jo Enright, hear author Matt Haig and disability rights advocate Katharine...
Speaker(s): Matt Haig, Katharine Welby-RobertsThe Real Benefits Street / The Truth about Sanctions
How did the government's ‘benefit sanctions' policy end up leading to hunger, destitution and desperation? Why are people on benefits being stigmatised? Joining Angela Neville, author of Can...
Speaker(s): Angela Neville, Niall CooperForgive us our debts?
With ever-increasing indebtedness, is it time to rethink lending and borrowing altogether? Are there other ways to make the money go round? With Anastasia French (Debt Trap, The Children's...
Speaker(s): David Barclay, Kit BeazleyTwitter Vicars and the Sacrament of Social Media
Are you wearing your clerical collar online? How can you be a vicar on Twitter? Can you be a Facebook Father or a Snapchat Sister? Three well known social media lovers and working priests on managing...
Speaker(s): Giles Fraser, Kate Bottley, Rev. Richard ColesMovements of the Spirit
How come so many of us lost confidence in political parties? Don't believe the system represents us? Aren't convinced our vote will change anything? But how come so many of us think new, looser,...
Speaker(s): Jeff Halper, Dave Andrews, Maya EvansISIS and beyond: what’s happening in the Middle East?
How should we understand the phenomenon of ISIS? What has fuelled its rise – is it the Sunni/Shia divide, foreign intervention, the Arab Spring or even the unresolved conflict in Israel-Palestine?...
Speaker(s): Bidisha, Jeremy Moodey, Jeff HalperNuclear: Necessary or Nonsense
70 years on from the horrors of Hiroshima, the UK government is still in thrall to the nuclear option. Why does there seem so little appetite for seriously considering the benefits of scrapping...
Speaker(s): Bruce KentAsylum and Exile: Voices of Refugees
Bidisha will introduce her work on asylum seekers and refugees, uncovering their life stories. She will then be joined by Ilona Pinter, policy adviser at The Children's Society and co-chair of the...
Speaker(s): Bidisha, Dave Smith, Fuzz Kitto