Stay Alert to Justice
Roo Stewart of the United Reformed Church, one of Greenbelt's partners, encourages us to keep looking beyond ourselves during lockdown and beyond. ‘Stay Alert', the slogan began. Observers...
Podcast
A nun, a Rabbi, a Muslim convert, a Lutheran firebrand, a humanist, an American liberation theologian, an ex Met police officer and an LGBTQ+ priest go into a bar. Join us for series three of...
A story about flying
Here's the third of our guest blogs as part of our #GBWildAtHome digital summer here at Greenbelt … This one is written by Cole Moreton. Cole is an award-winning writer and journalist and a long,...
#GBWildAtHome
Here's what Greenbelt looks like in digital form. A growing library of all the content we've shared as part of our #GBWildAtHome summer in 2020. From livestream performance to reflective blogs;...
Reni Eddo-Lodge
Reni Eddo-Lodge is journalist, author, and podcaster. Her debut nonfiction book, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, was published in June 2017 to critical acclaim and spent more...
Shaparak Khorsandi
Shaparak established herself as one of the country's finest comedians in 2006 with her sell out Edinburgh show, Asylum Speaker. This show lead to the publication of her childhood memoirs, “A...
666 COMMENTS presented by Aliki Chapple in association with LittleMighty
Aliki Chapple in association with LittleMighty presents 666 COMMENTS One internet thread. Two actors. 666 Comments In October 2010 cartoonist Gabby Schulz posted a comic strip on his website. It...
What’s new for 2020?
In a couple of weeks' time we'll be making our first lineup announcements. We can hardly wait. In the meantime, we thought we'd let you in on some of the feverish tinkering we've been doing to...
Roger Robinson
Roger Robinson is a writer who has performed worldwide. He is the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2019, RSL Ondaatje Prize 2020 and RSL Fellow. He was chosen by Decibel as one of 50 writers who have...
The Magic Numbers
The Magic Numbers are a UK-based four-piece formed in late 2002 in Hanwell, west London. Comprising two pairs of brothers and sisters (Romeo and Michele Stodart and Angela and Sean Gannon) they are...
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...
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...
Best-selling books from Greenbelt 2019
A guest blog from our friends at Church House Bookshop... Well, those hot, sunny days at Greenbelt 2019 are a distant memory now – but we thought you might like to see what sold best at G-Books,...