Globalisation post September 11th
The author of Grace and Mortgage will speak about the events of September 11th 2001 have affected his view of the nature of globalisation and the prospects for humanising a world driven by money...
What’s that hanging out your arts?
Can you have faith and be an artist without trying to sell something? Mike addresses the relationship between our imagination and our convictions. (yes, he's had a few). Warning: may contain...
What Race? – 2
From a diversity of ethnic groups there is one race - The Human Race. A two part seminar exploring the complex issues around race, discrimination and diversity. Bev Thomas has worked for the last 20...
From Mission Hall to Mosque –
In 1977, Ibrahim Hewitt played to the Queen in her Silver Jubilee. In 2002, he was a guest at her Golden Jubilee in acknowledgement of his work as a leading British Muslim. So how did a...
How do children cope with death & greavement
We used to opt out of facing children's distress by saying 'children are resilient' but we realise now that children's grief is as profound and idiosyncratic as adult grief. Sister Frances draws on...
Buy Bye Childhood
Has the commercialisation of childhood won? To advertisers children are anything from small, absorbent consumer capitalists, to fulcrums of parent pester-power, and receptacles of prematurely adult...
A poetic theology of the human
Using poetry and song that celebrate the ordinary things of our days, this event tells stories of pain, stories of hope and songs of lament and life. Pádraig Ó Tuama is the unofficial poet of...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó TuamaWith a crunch and a crash
Is consumerism on its corporate knees and does it matter? Is the recession just the shock we need to remind ourselves what really matters... or is that a bit theoretical if you've just lost your...
What Kind Of Church Is Emerging
It's called 'The Emerging Church', but what is it, who is it for and has it got anythign to say to 'The Submerging Church'? With leading voices from Europe, the USA and Australia including Karen...
The Next Factor
After the long party of the Olympics and the Jubilee, is there a massive hangover to come? We're living through huge changes to our collective culture, character, spirituality and ways of life, but...
Speaker(s): Cole MoretonBlessings and Rituals for the 21st century
People are choosing to bless babies and hold weddings and funerals without the church, in a way that seems less hypocritical, more celebratory and more in tune with their lives. How can the church...
Clean Cut Kid
Clean Cut Kid are a contemporary indie-pop act who mix classic melodies with sonic adventurousness and deliver defiant pop hooks with an emotionally-charged fragility. Listeners of a certain vintage...
Josephine Cocoran
Josephine is a poet, playwright, and short story writer. She founded and edits online poetry journal And Other Poems.
Second set of lineup names for GB 2017
So, here's another crop of great names for this year's Greenbelt Festival programme – as eclectic and wide-ranging as you might have come to expect from us. After all, when you're exploring a theme...
47 Soul
The music of 47SOUL takes Dabke – the traditional Palestinian street music and dance – to a whole new place. Deploying analogue synths, trance-inducing guitar lines and a mixture of Arabic and...