Frances Crook
Appointed Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform in 1986, Frances Crook was responsible for research programmes and campaigns to raise public concern about the penal system, until her...
Jake Isaac
Born and raised in South London, UK, Jake Isaac began playing drums age 3 and by 19 had begun to make a living as a part-time session musician playing drums and bass on various jazz and rock records...
Kae Tempest
Kae Tempest is an award-wining, Sunday Times bestselling author, poet and recording artist. Tempest won the 2013 Ted Hughes Award, was nominated for a Costa Book Award and a BRIT Award, has been...
Pascale Petit
Poet Pascale Petit was born in Paris and lives in Cornwall. She is of French, Welsh, and Indian heritage. Her eighth collection, 'Tiger Girl' (Bloodaxe Books, 2020), was shortlisted for the Forward...
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins was first catapulted to fame with his iconic work of 1976, The Selfish Gene, which he followed with a string of prestigious bestselling books including The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing...
2020: Wild at Home digital lineup
Wild at Home features two main livestreams from the Canopy and Pagoda, plus a heap of other spaces to meet in and encounter great content in on Saturday 29 plus a lunchtime picnic on Sunday 30.
Jeffrey Martin
As a babe Jeffrey Martin sought out solitude as often as he could find it. He's always been that way, and he has never understood the whole phenomenon of smiling in pictures, although he is a very...
Talks
Explore Greenbelt Festival Talks, recorded live at the festival. Access nearly 20 years of insight, inspiration, and provocation – all available to listen to online, download, and share. With over...
Graham Maule: enemy of apathy
Longterm Greenbelter John Davies has written this wonderful tribute to Wild Goose Resource Group founder Graham Maule, following his recent death ... The words and music of the Iona Community's...
Mental Health First Aid
We're delighted to be working with our friends at Space to Breathe in Sheffield to provide Mental Health First Aid support at this year's festival. Here's what Andy Freeman from S2B has to...
Christmas around the world
A guest blog from our partner Christian Aid Christmas is nearly here and we cannot wait to roll out the tinsel and dust off the nativity scene! This Christmas, we're highlighting the...
James Holloway: builder of Greenbelt’s foundations
A Tribute to James Holloway by former festival manager and Fat Band member Martin Evans James Holloway died at 3a.m. on Friday, the 18th October 2019 in Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge,...
Christian Aid urge us to keep the faith!
A guest blog from our partner Christian Aid... Many of you joined us in August at the festival to protest, to create banners and placards, to sign petitions and to learn from each other about what...
An act of faith
A guest blog from Greenbelt volunteer Katherine Venn from the XR / CCA protests in London this week ... Like a lot of the banners say, I don't want to be here – I really don't. I'm a...
Everybody Now – International Rebellion
We were excited to have members of Extinction Rebellion with us at the festival this summer. Here's what they've written to us ahead of their Everybody Now: International Rebellion action next week,...