Belly Dancing with Mirage Fusion Belly Dance
Carol (Mirage) has been teaching Belly Dance for over 20 years running weekly classes and managing two dance troupes, Syren Alternative Belly Dancers and Aurora Fusion Belly Dancers. We have held...
David Gibb
David Gibb is on a one-man mission to make brilliant, engaging and high quality music for grown-ups and children.
The Big Shift
From way back when, Greenbelt has made room to engage with the impacts of Climate Change. In the early 1990s, Midnight Oil thundered through a set on the mainstage, with Peter Garrett, their lead...
Sewing some hope: news from Embrace
A guest blog from associate partners, Embrace the Middle East ... Salwa is 43 years old and comes from the city of Manbej in northern Syria, not far from the Turkish border. She fled to Lebanon last...
Greenbelt 2017: A few of our favourites things.
Just as we head into Easter weekend, we thought we'd share a few festival favourites who will be gracing the bill this summer for our 44th festival, The Common Good. It's good to have a degree of...
Peter Bazely & Friends
Peter describes his act as stand-up comedy, but others simply label it a cry for help.
An Altar in the World: worship & spirituality at Greenbelt 2017
As we gather at Boughton House for our fourth Greenbelt there and our 44th festival overall, we look forward to what Corrymeela leader and poet Pádraig Ó Tuama describes as his "annual sacrament of...
Listen up! Recorded talks back online.
We are really excited that our recorded festival talks archive is now back online. All 1,000 or more talks from Greenbelt 2014 and earlier are now absolutely free to download, stream and share –...
This House Believes The 2015 Election Will Make No Significant Difference To The Future of Britain
Motion: This house believes the 2015 Election will make no significant difference to the future of Britain. For: Martin Newell (Catholic Worker Network) and Louise Donkin (SPEAK) Against: Gavin...
Speaker(s): Louise Donkin, Andy FlannaganCommunion
With Rev. Becca Stevens, Thistle Farms and the Sisters of Magdalene, Mpho Tutu, Marcus and Levi Hummons Travelling light means we travel together, bearing one another's burdens and joys, and...
Speaker(s): Psalm Drummers, Becca Stevens, Thistle Farms (and the Sisters of Magdalene), Mpho Tutu, Marcus Hummon, Levi Hummon, Matt BeckinghamWhy Can’t My Dog Take Communion?
After studying environmental ethics, Ruth wrote her debut novel, Enemy of the Earth. Exploring the surprising parallels between environmental activism and Christianity, it mines her faith journeys...
Speaker(s): Ruth RuderhamHow To Birth A New Idea
A small idea can help spark a movement for women's freedom. This will be a time to nurture inspiration and give breath to thoughts deep within our hearts. Offering space to give life to new visions...
Speaker(s): Becca Stevens, Thistle Farms (and the Sisters of Magdalene)A Recipe for Mixing Lavish Love into Social Enterprise
Mixing your best ideals into the marketplace creates a recipe that allows economic growth to rise with justice. Love is good business. Becca will share ideas about how we can take our most lavish...
Speaker(s): Becca Stevens, Thistle Farms (and the Sisters of Magdalene)The world is the poor’s and everything in it?
In South America the church has proved itself as a vehicle of liberation of the poor. In what ways could this inform the church in the current economic recession? Does this focus remove biblical...
Speaker(s): Margaret HebblethwaiteCatholic Taste
Is it all change or business as usual in the Catholic Church? What does the arrival of a Pope from outside the rich world mean for the institution and for ordinary churchgoers? How will the Church...