How to Save the World from Financialisation
Wit, wisdom and...economics don't often get together in the same field. But stagnant productivity, lack of investment and rising inequality indicate that our finance-led growth economy is broken....
Speaker(s): Grace BlakeleyEvent Horizon: Faith In The Future
The world's religions have stories about the way the future will go. Those different stories and how literally we take them can have profound implications for our living together in the present....
Speaker(s): Event Horizon: How The Way Faith Sees The Future Affects Us All In The Present, Festival FriendsClimate Emergency? What does that mean? And what are XRs demands?
Climate Change and ecological collapse has been on the edges of public consciousness for decades so why has it become so important at this moment in history? In this session we will explore some of...
Speaker(s): Extinction RebellionPeak Inequality and Food Bank Use
The Trussell Trust's CEO Emma Revie will be talking with Danny Dorling on his latest book Peak Inequality, and how we can create a future without the need for food banks in the UK.
Speaker(s): Danny Dorling, Trussell TrustWit as a Weapon: Art against Fascism
In the face of today's increasingly extreme politics, what can we learn from how artists have made subversive wit a weapon and deployed absurdity and a truer wisdom in the face of authoritarian...
Speaker(s): Debbie LewerDon’t Touch My Hair: crowning glory, power and identity
Charting the cultural history and symbolism of Afro-textured hair, Emma Dabiri's work sweeps from pre-colonial Africa to the dubious provenance of Kim Kardashian's braids, showing how black...
Speaker(s): Emma DabiriWhat’s So Funny About Brexit?
Professor Danny Dorling argues that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche, fuelled by misplaced nostalgia and profound anxiety. Is...
Speaker(s): Danny DorlingThe Politics Of Climate Change
A politics that looks beyond national borders and seeks to build international cooperation and consensus must play a part in the fight to avert climate breakdown. As the UK teeters on the edge of a...
Speaker(s): Catherine RowettWhat does it mean to love our neighbour?
Mervyn Thomas CMG in conversation with Sarah Snyder When we look deeply into the parable of the Good Samaritan, we are confronted by a picture of radical love for those in need. Come and explore...
Speaker(s): CSWFive Tiny Acts of Revolution
In April 2019 a heavily-armed young man entered two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 52 people and injuring 49 others. That day, armed with a flat cap and a piece of cardboard, Andrew...
Speaker(s): Andrew GraystoneThe John Peck Lecture: A Tribute to John Smith
Anthony Wilson reflects on John's legacy at Greenbelt, placing his work in the tradition of the prophetic imagination. Tracing the connection between his vision and Greenbelt's, where the arts...
Speaker(s): Anthony WilsonGhost Trees
This is a talk about connections: in time, in space, with other species and in community. Illustrated by stories, Bob explores the importance of attentiveness in observing nature, understanding our...
Speaker(s): Bob GilbertWake up – the house is on fire!
A guest blog from Cliff Mills of Anthony Collins Solicitors, partners in The Exchange venue at Greenbelt, following on from his session at the festival on generational justice with Daniel...
Love in the face of Empire
The Festival Communion service at Greenbelt 2019 put the story of Christmas at its heart. Here, you'll find all the words from the service to download and share and use – along with the thinking...
Event Horizon: How The Way Faith Sees The Future Affects Us All In The Present
Event Horizon brings an inter-faith panel together to consider what their faith reveals about the future, and how their different insights, traditions and disciplines point them towards the...