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Ezekiel 37 – Re-Membering Hope

How can the Bible resource us in not just having, but making, hope? Miranda Threlfall-Holmes invites you to begin your Greenbelt with a meditation on Ezekiel's vision of the Valley of Dry Bones,...
Speaker(s): Miranda Threlfall-Holmes

Sacred Earth. Sacred Soul.

Drawing on the vision offered by the Celtic wisdom tradition, the Scottish author John Philip Newell calls us to return to true relationship with Earth and the depths of the human soul as our place...
Speaker(s): John Philip Newell

Exodus 5 – Making Bricks Without Straw

How can the Bible resource us in not just having, but making, hope? This meditation invites you to contemplate how we can make hope when things go from bad to worse around us, and co-create...
Speaker(s): Miranda Threlfall-Holmes

Save Our Retirements: How to Build a Pension System for People and Planet

The UK government is carrying out the biggest pensions review in a generation – but it's ignoring the climate and nature crises and our societal inequality. With £3 trillion of our money in the...
Speaker(s): Andrew Finney, Phoebe Edmonds, Jesse Griffiths

Church: Do You Still Go?

Quiet revival or quiet denial? Is big best or is small beautiful? What keeps you going or sends you running ? Can we belong without believing — or vice versa? Have you given up or have you found...
Speaker(s): Andrew Rumsey, Chine McDonald, Jayne Manfredi, John Philip Newell, Lamorna Ash, Martin Wroe

Hope in the Dating: Finding love and connection in a disconnected world

As we explore whether technology has made it easier or harder to form genuine connections, are we at a cultural turning point in how we approach dating and relationships? How can we keep honesty and...
Speaker(s): Chine McDonald, Lamorna Ash, Seth Pinnock, Vicky Walker

This is Not Another AI Panel: This is a Panel for the People

In the late 1950s, Marv Minsky, one of the early pioneers of Artificial Intelligence, excitedly turned to a colleague and gushed, "We're going to make machines intelligent. We are going to make...
Speaker(s): Hannah Silva, James Stewart, Kester Brewin

Fascist Yoga

While lots of us happily practise our downward dogs and warrior poses, artist and writer Stewart Home explores an alternate secret history of those few who have tried to use yoga to exploit and...
Speaker(s): Stewart Home

Travel Green. Feel Free?

Bring your imagination and experiences to explore how sustainable places and journeys can deliver freedom and independence for people of all ages. An interactive discussion with a panel of transport...
Speaker(s): Laura Laker, Anna Williams

How’s Your Hope? How’s Your Anger?

With wit, warmth and humour, poet Henry Raby and theatre-maker Natalie Quatermass present a raucous live recording of the podcast where art and activism meet. With live music and poetry and some...
Speaker(s): The Vandal Factory Podcast Live

Time Travel as a Tool for Activism

Transition movement founder Rob Hopkins shares some of the tools and insights from his new book 'How to Fall in Love with the Future', sharing practices and activists whose work plays with time and...
Speaker(s): Rob Hopkins

Positive Tipping Points

Tim Lenton, founder of the Global Systems Institute and Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter, tells us how we can each play a part in triggering vital positive...
Speaker(s): Tim Lenton

Festival Communion Gathering

Hope In Our Hands. We gather to remind ourselves that hope is more than optimism, but instead a habit of character we must choose, practise and cultivate. We gather to be reminded of the strength of...
Speaker(s): Adjoa Andoh, Sarah Corbett, Seth Pinnock, Two:23

Stories from Land and Ocean

Australian novelist Tim Winton (twice nominated for the Booker) talks to Malcolm Doney about Juice, a book which will “stab your conscience and break your heart”, also about faith, the importance...
Speaker(s): Tim Winton

Who am I to Judge?

Hear from Dr Victoria McCloud, the UK's first – and so far only – openly trans High Court judge. A practising Roman Catholic, she now chairs medical tribunals, fights for LGBTQ+ rights and runs...
Speaker(s): Victoria McCloud, Rachel Mann