The Fire This Time – My Taxi Ride With James Baldwin
A belief in creativity and equality have been the hallmarks of Bonnie Greer's career. Combining passion, honesty and fascinating true stories from the arts and sciences, as well as her own life,...
Speaker(s): Bonnie GreerSuperior: The Return Of Race Science
In conversation with scientist and writer Angela Saini about her much-lauded work on the murky history, science and politics of race – and how the far-right is attempting to repackage racism in the...
Speaker(s): Angela SainiIn The Metaverse As In Heaven
As we move towards the metaverse and Web3, how should we prepare? How will virtual, augmented and meta ‘realities' affect our spiritual experiences and religious rites? What new opportunities...
Speaker(s): Andrew JonesLost In Work: Escaping Capitalism
Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie—at least for most of us. For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure,...
Speaker(s): Amelia HorganRight To Roam
Like a modern-day Woody Guthrie, Nick Hayes wants us to rediscover that 'this land is our land'. Find out how to cut through centuries-old power and privilege and reconnect with the countryside that...
Speaker(s): Nick Hayes…and now, the weather…
For our 2022 festival communion, we met to express the planet's fear and distress, to give words to creation's grief, and to ask for God's mercy. It was a service about climate care and climate...
Richard Dawkins at Greenbelt 2022
Over the course of our festival weekend, a few people once again raised concerns with us on our social media over inviting Professor Richard Dawkins to Greenbelt. The same concerns were raised way...
Life begins at 50
Greenbelt turns 50 next year: a landmark moment that offers us a chance to reflect. To take stock but also to glimpse the future ahead. So in 2023 we'll be making two changes to Greenbelt that...
Trans and non-binary – inclusion, support and programming at Greenbelt 2022
When we announced our lineup, concerns were raised about the inclusion of some speakers on the bill who it was claimed had shared gender critical views as part of their public and platformed...
To bring or not to bring? That is the question.
When we first moved to Boughton and away from Cheltenham Racecourse back in 2014, our festival theme was ‘Travelling Light'. We wanted festivalgoers to think carefully about what they really...
Vicki Hird
Vicki Hird MSc FRES is Head of the Sustainable Farming Campaign for Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming (over 100 non-profit organisations), is a published author and she also runs an...
Faraday
The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion is a Cambridge-based interdisciplinary research institute improving public understanding of religious beliefs in relation to the sciences.
Young, Woke and Christian
Join the authors of ‘Young, Woke and Christian' for a creative conversation spanning racism, homelessness, gender, sexuality, interfaith and more! This isn't a place for easy answers; it's...
Printing with Lorna Aindow
Lorna is a visually impaired artist who loves explosions of colour and abstract pattern. She uses a variety of different techniques and surfaces to develop her artwork, from Geli plates and screen...
Revolting Christians
Our friends from the United Reformed Church will be at Greenbelt Festival again this year. Here's a blog they've written about what they'll be doing and how you can get involved. It's written by Roo...