Maria Ferguson
Maria Ferguson is a writer and performer. Her poetry has been widely anthologised and published in literary magazines such as Magma, The Rialto, The North and The Poetry Review. She was a finalist of...
Zia Ahmed
Zia Ahmed is a writer from North-West London. He is a former Roundhouse Slam champion and in 2019 Zia's stage debut 'i wanna be yours' premiered at the Bush Theatre. He is a recipient of the...
Chine McDonald
Chine McDonald is Director of Theos, the religion and society think tank. She was previously Head of Public Engagement at Christian Aid. She has two decades of experience in journalism, media and...
El Pony Pisador
El Pony Pisador is a lively and unique band from Barcelona, known for an eclectic blend of musical styles and humorous, adventurous spirit. Their mix of folk sounds from all over the world results in...
Grace Will Lead Me Home
Grace Will Lead Me Home tells the story of two men whose lives followed astonishingly similar paths, but whose experiences were astoundingly different. Both were eleven when home-life ended. Both...
Jo Musker-Sherwood
Jo has experienced multiple burnouts throughout her adult life both as an activist, and as a human who feels things deeply. After a decade of campaigning for change, both from within and outside of...
Paul Cookson
Paul has been to every festival since 1977 and performed at every festival since 1978. Curator or The Twist and Family Twist for over thirty years, Greenbelt has very much been an artistic home. The...
John Bell
John Bell first came to Greenbelt expecting it to be an advanced judo course where he might learn some new moves. He has been moving ever since. During the pandemic he learned how to right click and...
Laura Laker
Laura Laker is a freelance journalist with more than a decade's experience covering cycling, walking and wheeling (and other means of transport). Beginning her career with a cycling website called...
Beth Allison Barr
Beth Allison Barr (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is James Vardaman Endowed Chair of History at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she specializes in medieval history,...
Some things old. Lots of things new.
Our Creative Director Paul gives us a whistle-stop round-up to the latest May bookings for this year's Greenbelt Festival. Some favourites. Some newbies. Some surprises. All adding to the richness...
Stewart Home
Stewart Home was born and lives in London (UK). He has been working as an artist and writer since the early 1980s and had a mid-career retrospective at White Columns in New York in 2011. He is the...
Virginia’s Wolves
Virginia's Wolves are a fierce female punk band born out of Leicester's Unglamorous music project in 2022. With raw energy and unapologetic honesty, the band quickly carved out their place in the...
Twat Union
Theatrical-feminist-punk-pop 6 piece Twat Union are known for their wild, immersive gigs and trademark provocative humour. Part punk gig, part comedy show, the twats don't shy away from topics...
Them There Cowboys
Them There Cowboys bring you something the likes of which you ain't never seen or heard before; call us cowpunk, call us folk, call us country, or call us queer, all you need to know is we will have...