Greenbelt Policies
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Wallis Bird
Irish artist Wallis Bird has been enrapturing audiences for over a decade, playing over 800 shows in that time. Wallis has won multiple international awards including two Irish Meteor Awards, and...
Rasha Nahas
Palestinian singer, composer and instrumentalist Rasha Nahas has a distinctive approach to songwriting, storytelling and performance, her sound moving seamlessly between the resonances of early rock...
Harry Baker
World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker is a poet and a maths graduate. He writes about important stuff like hope, dinosaurs and German falafel-spoons. His latest collection ‘Unashamed' was...
Earth Day – The Future is Sparkly
Earth Day 2018 – Ending Plastic Pollution. A Greenbelt Act of the Imagination. Each year Earth Day asks people around the world to come together and think about how we can be better at protecting...
Malak Mattar
Palestinian artist Malak Mattar, age 22, paints powerfully expressionist faces, figures, and semi-abstract designs. She first started painting at age 13, during the 51-day Israeli military assault on...
Eve Poole
Dr Eve Poole OBE is an academic and writer who specialises in leadership. She was educated in high schools in Scotland and the US, and has a BA in Theology from Durham, an MBA from Edinburgh, and a...
Anthony Reddie
Extraordinary Professor, Theological Ethics at the University of South Africa NRF 'A Rated' - Leading International Researcher Director of The Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture Author of...
Big Shift : What’s happened and what’s to come
A guest blog by our partner Christian Aid It's been five months since we were together enjoying the beautiful sunshine and fantastic buzz that graced Greenbelt festival2017. Thank you to all of...
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...
A greener festival
Over the last few years we've got rid of allllmost all our single-use plastic (we're still coming for you, cable ties) and managed to halve our festival fuel consumption. Each year we measure our...
Simon Barrow
Simon Barrow is Director of the beliefs and ethics think Ekklesia and a member of the Iona Community. He was formerly Assistant General Secretary of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland and he...
A humanitarian crisis that needn’t be
A blog on the crisis in Gaza from our Associate, Embrace Stephen Tunstall, Embrace's Programmes and Partnerships Manager for Israel & Palestine, visits Gaza regularly and has been shocked by the...
g-store
Welcome to our online g-store. Buy recorded talks from Greenbelt Festival 2022 as individual MP3 downloads or as a complete digital bundle, or all together on a USB stick. Search by speaker name or...
John Meagher
John's sharp jokes and wonderful stories have been leaving audiences wowed since he first walked on the stage. His positive energy and infectious enthusiasm have seen him become an act much in...