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2016 Lineup

From Sunday night headliners Nahko and Medicine for the People to the avant garde vaudeville of Bourgeois and Maurice and from radical economist Paul Mason to comedian and activist Josie Long through...

Time to Act

Munther Issac and Richard Sewell join us online from Palestine. Our Palestinian sisters and brothers are calling on us to act now for a just peace. Hear directly from them about their lived reality,...
Speaker(s): Amos Trust, Christian Aid, Sabeel-Kairos, The Methodist Church

Stop Funding the Climate Crisis: Christians Holding Banks Accountable

Hear how campaigners, including the Methodist Church, are turning to legal action to challenge those financing environmental harm. This event explores how and why churches are engaging with their...
Speaker(s): Andrew Harper, Clare Fussell, Frederique Seidel, Hamish Leese, Rosie Venner

Colonialism got new tools

Join a panel of young activists to explore the impact of a growing global debt crisis that is trapping low-income countries in poverty, with private companies lining their pockets in the process.
Speaker(s): Christian Aid, Gachui Agnes Kariuki, Javan Ofula, Jennifer Larbie, Precious Kalombwana

Treasure in a Field

At Boughton, the festival communion has re-emerged as a highlight of the weekend. So we've made a book of those ideas and resources! Andrew Graystone and others share their learning and their hopes...
Speaker(s): Andrew Graystone

Hope in Action

Drawing on Lamma Mansour's lived experience in Nazareth, and Christian Aid's work in the occupied Palestinian territory, join us to listen in on a hope-full conversation. Sally and Lamma will explore...
Speaker(s): Christian Aid, Lamma Mansour, Sally Foster-Fulton

Global Casino

Pettifor (Jubilee 2000 leader) offers a searing critique of how our global, remote, unaccountable financial system embeds inequality and generates crisis. She thinks we can do something about it.
Speaker(s): Ann Pettifor

Beyond the Headlines

What would happen if we let go of the big news stories and made space to listen to voices we rarely hear? Today we reflect with communities in DRC, South Sudan and Latin America on resilience, faith...
Speaker(s): Christian Aid, Sally Foster-Fulton

Financial Futures

Join Ann Pettifor, Atul K Shah and Matthew Martin as they explore alternative routes towards a just and sustainable future financial system, and an economics that can manage climate breakdown and...
Speaker(s): Ann Pettifor, Atul K Shah, Matthew Martin

Fossil Fuelled Migration

Another record-breaking summer, and the fossil fuel corporations cooking the planet are also funding the politicians closing the borders to the people fleeing it. The co-leader of Greenpeace UK...
Speaker(s): Areeba Hamid

The Sacred Ache

Writer, podcaster and biblical scholar Belle Tindall-Riley explores her new book with Chine McDonald, making the case that culture's increasing openness to the spiritual is not just a trend but the...
Speaker(s): Belle Tindall-Riley, Kate Bottley

How do we talk to children about the world to come?

Over ten years, Ben Rawlence wrote letters to his children wrestling with how to speak to them about the enormous changes unfolding on our planet. He knew that their world would be very different...
Speaker(s): Ben Rawlence

Remembering Apartheid, Hearing Palestine

Three thoughtful Palestinian voices and a priest from South Africa ask how remembering apartheid might help us listen more attentively to Palestine, and how we seek justice with truth, dignity and...
Speaker(s): Canon Nitano Muller, Daniel Munayer, Embrace the Middle East, Lamma Mansour, Muhanad Al Qaisy