Wit and Wisdom – some initial theme thoughts
As we approach our earlybird deadline, Paul Northup, Greenbelt's Creative Director, shares some initial thoughts on Greenbelt's theme for 2019, Wit and Wisdom. Wit is a different way of seeing...
Room for More: Quaker Week leads to Quaker year!
A guest blog from Gill Sewell of our associate Quakers in Britain Did you visit the ResisTENT venue during Greenbelt 2018? If so, you'll have met some Quakers and maybe heard something about...
One body: We’re all in this together
A blog from Natalie Gibbs, our associate partner URC's Youth Moderator-elect Those of us who are fortunate enough to have been to Greenbelt Festival will understand what I mean when I say that...
Beyond Forgiveness: the supreme act of imagination
Jo Berry and Pat Magee in conversation When Jo Berry's father, the MP Sir Anthony Berry, was killed in the IRA Brighton Bombing in 1984, little did she imagine that she would one day meet and then...
Speaker(s): Jo Berry and Pat MageeKeep It Simple
Even as we shape technology, it shapes us and our society. Figuring how we interact with it in ways that are healthy and responsible is proving a challenge. Can we step back from the detail and,...
Speaker(s): Ade AdewunmiManju Malhi
Manju Malhi is a TV chef and a cookbook author who was born in England to Indian parents. She grew up in West London surrounded by Indian culture, traditions and lifestyles. However, she spent...
Ade Adewunmi
Ade Adewunmi is a senior industry consultant with a focus on public sector organisations. She's a problem solver working at the intersection of data, digital and strategy. In her day job with...
Blessed are the peacemakers?
A guest blog from our associate partner, Oasis Trust At Oasis, we challenge the assumption that ‘peace' has outgrown us, becoming an unachievable ideal: a complicated, fleeting idea that has...
Rachel Rose Reid
Rachel is the first European woman to be ordained by the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, which reclaims and renews Jewish earth-based, embodied spiritual practices, and feminine narratives and...
DJPC
DJPC's love of otherworldly electronic sounds began as a young lad in Leeds when he experienced his local community radio stations playing the emerging house sound from the U.S in the late...
G-Books at Greenbelt 2018: Part 2
A guest blog from Church House Bookshop Already zipped through our last Greenbelt blog of reading suggestions? Here's seven more to whet your appetite for this year's festival… Plus –...
Twitnits
The Twitnits is a collective of improvisers based in Sussex, performing musicals and sketches inspired by audience suggestions since 2011. They have run a regular comedy night in Brighton and...
Siobhan Donnelly
Siobhan Donnelly is a singer, writer and community artist from Cumbria, via Huddersfield. Growing up, Siobhan always loved folk music and singing and still can't quite believe she now gets to do...
Hoop Weaving session with Rainbow Tree Workshops
Come and create colourful table matts and festival seats from up-cycled off cuts from the Eco Bag Workshop! Maintaining the 'nothing ends up in landfill' message this activity is also a no-waste...
Communion
The “thin” moment where each Sunday morning since 1974, everything else at Greenbelt stops. When we gather to worship God and share in the Festival Communion together. Listen, watch and download...