Run The Wall
Our Creative Director, Paul Northup, tells the story of Greenbelt's ties to the Palestine Marathon, and the origins of Run The Wall, a global event taking place this March that calls for you to run,...
The Fringe at Greenbelt 2024
We're excited to be opening up submissions to perform at this summer's Greenbelt. But this year, we're doing things a little differently. We're creating a brand new Fringe venue stage at...
Greenbelt 2024 – Dream On
Our Creative Director, Paul Northup, blogs about our festival theme for this year – Dream On. In those two long years of the pandemic, when we were unable to host a full-blown festival, it was...
Climate Assembly – Greenbelt 2023
Did you know? We hosted a participatory 'Climate Assembly' at this year's festival. Thanks to Jamie Kelsey Fry, Clare Farrell and co. Here are the most popular outcomes from the...
Louise Jones
Trustee Louise Jones is a former frontline child protection Social Worker who now works as a Service Manager for Cafcass, advising the family courts about the welfare of children. She's also...
Simon Brown
Trustee Simon is currently a full time Senior Lecturer in Arts & Festivals Management at De Montfort University in Leicester. He has over 20 years' experience working within the cultural sector...
Palestine/Israel resources
We've created a sort of living wall of Greenbelt-produced and Greenbelt-connected inspiration and provocation related to the Palestine/Israel conflict. From voices and artists we've been...
A Beautiful Human Life: Remembering Pip Wilson
With the blessing of Pip's family and of the writer, Martin Wroe, here's an edited version of the tribute that Martin gave at Pip Wilson's funeral earlier this October. ‘They say you're...
Ending the cycle of violence
Top image: Art by Gazan artist Malak Mattar on display at Greenbelt Festival 2022 Paul Northup, Greenbelt's Creative Director reflects on the current situation in Israel-Palestine. We've been...
Remembering Pip Wilson
Love has no off-switch: it's not about like or dislike. Love can help us see that people are beautiful. We learned of the death of our dear Pip Wilson overnight (Friday 22 September). We will...
All Talks 2023
The complete set of all the talks recorded at Greenbelt 2023.
What would Jesus eat?
Cooking is part of the daily routine for most of us, providing sustenance and comfort. Yet most of us cook only nine different meals on rotation.So the prospect of changing those habits and moving...
Speaker(s): YCCN (Young Christian Climate Network)Secret Power: Why it wants to destroy Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
The Julian Assange and WikiLeaks case marks a crossroads for our democracies. A society that does not allow journalists to expose state criminality freely and safely so the public can know about it...
Speaker(s): Stefania Maurizi with Ewen MacAskillWhy is it so hard to believe in a world without cars?
Why is it so hard for society to move away from its love affair with cars? Perhaps we need to focus not so much on the aspirations of those who believe in a green and pleasant land but on the...
Speaker(s): Wesley Wroe, Josh Grantham, Sarah Rowe, Anzir BoodooRadical Funerals
Ru Callender has been a self-taught radical undertaker for over 20 years, setting up The Green Funeral Company in 1999 and described in The Good Funeral Guide as one of 'The best undertakers of all...
Speaker(s): Ru Callender