The power of young voices
A guest blog from Reuben Watt, associate partner the United Reformed Church (URC) Youth Assembly Moderator-elect, on the power of young people in the world... Greta Thunberg and Louis Braille are...
Muneera Pilgrim
Muneera Pilgrim is an international Poet, Cultural Producer, Writer, Broadcaster, co-founder of the Muslim female Spoken Word and Hip-Hop duo Poetic Pilgrimage and Nana Collec-tive. Muneera...
Fantastic non-plastic
Every year after Greenbelt we see pictures of people proudly wearing their festival wristbands to work, school and play. But what lots of you wouldn't have realised was that woven in with the...
Stables
Stables - The indie-folk duo formed by Matthew Lowe (Keston Cobblers Club) and Daniel Trenholme. Stables was formed in January 2016 during late night drinks between Matthew and Daniel in London....
Press Club
Press Club have already risen way out of Australia's underground punk scene, to become one of the country's buzziest new bands. Support from the influential Triple J radio station has come...
Paul Mason
Paul Mason is a journalist, writer and film-maker. His latest book How To Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance describes the rise of the modern far-right, its colonisation of conservatism and...
Danny Dorling
Danny Dorling works at the University of Oxford as a professor in the School of Geography and the Environment. He was previously a professor for a decade at the University of Sheffield, and before...
Protective presence in Palestine
A number of Greenbelters have at spent time in Palestine and Israel with the Quaker-run EAPPI project, observing, providing a presence, and helping Palestinians go about their daily life. Here, a...
A Greenerbelt
Greenbelt has just gone an even more beautiful shade of green. Once again A Greener Festival has awarded us Highly Commended for our work making the festival as sustainable as we can. You'll know...
Your giving from Greenbelt 2018
Following the 2018 festival, from 50% of the generous giving you made at the communion service, we were pleased to be able to give away almost £20,000 in total to five great organisations. The...
Leena Norms
Leena Norms is a poet and YouTuber from the Midlands, UK. Her channel contains weekly video essays and imperfect thought experiments to help you live a more shrewd and spirited life. She was...
G-Books at Greenbelt 2018: Part 2
A guest blog from Church House Bookshop Already zipped through our last Greenbelt blog of reading suggestions? Here's seven more to whet your appetite for this year's festival… Plus –...
Harry Bird
Harry Bird is a Glasgow based singer-songwriter, composer and circus/theatre musician. With a deep love of stories and how we can connect through them, he has spent the last 15 years touring hundreds...
Communion
The “thin” moment where each Sunday morning since 1974, everything else at GREENBELT stops. When we gather to worship God and share in the Festival Communion together. Listen, watch and download...
Gŵyl Coda 2018: Gathering Hope
A blog by longterm Greenbelter and former festival trustee, Paul Bennett on the newest member of the Greenbelt Family... The Welsh word “bach” translates literally as “small”. But it also...