Festival Info
Some of us have been coming here our whole lives. Some of us are back after a break, and some are brand new to the party. Whether it's your first time, or your 15th, here's all the Greenbelt...
All Talks 2022
The complete set of all the talks recorded at Greenbelt 2022.
Rebugging the Planet
An introduction to the intelligent insects, marvellous mini-beasts and inspirational invertebrates that bring life to our planet. Discover how we can ‘rebug' our attitudes and embrace these...
Speaker(s): Vicki HirdRichard Dawkins, In Conversation
Richard Dawkins' work on evolutionary biology saw him voted the world's top thinker in Prospect magazine's poll in 2013. He is world-renowned for a string of best-selling books, spanning from...
Speaker(s): Richard Dawkins, Giles FraserPrison is not the Solution; It’s the Problem
We have a justice system based on two-thousand-year-old principles of proportional revenge. It hasn't worked and it's not fair. It is time to abolish prisons and develop a new system of...
Speaker(s): Frances CrookScience And Spirituality: How Do We Respond To Experiences Of Awe?
Scientists feel awe at the vastness of intergalactic space, the complexity of living things, or when data fit together and make sense in an unexpected way. But how do they process these...
Speaker(s): FaradayCommunion: …And Now, the Weather…
Every day on the news there are stories of doom and destruction; wars and rumours of wars; poverty, child abuse, corruption … and then a smiley soul slides on to tell us what the weather will be...
Speaker(s): Azariah France-Williams, Pip Herbert, Electric Cabaret, Peter Graystone, Christian Aid…and now, the weather…
For our 2022 festival communion, we met to express the planet's fear and distress, to give words to creation's grief, and to ask for God's mercy. It was a service about climate care and climate...
DIY Rolling Activities
Over the weekend we will have simple crafts to the more complex, quick and easy to those that take that little bit longer. Sock Monkeys Have you missed making your yearly sock monkey?? Never fear,...
To bring or not to bring? That is the question.
When we first moved to Boughton and away from Cheltenham Racecourse back in 2014, our festival theme was ‘Travelling Light'. We wanted festivalgoers to think carefully about what they really...
Vicki Hird
Vicki Hird MSc FRES is Head of the Sustainable Farming Campaign for Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming (over 100 non-profit organisations), is a published author and she also runs an...
Quiet Communion
Faraday
The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion is a Cambridge-based interdisciplinary research institute improving public understanding of religious beliefs in relation to the sciences.
Studio Aindow
Award winning hand embroiderer Naomi Aindow-Clark is the founder of Studio Aindow, a small business that hopes to keep the art of hand embroidery alive. Naomi creates bespoke hand embroidered...
Drum Runners
With more than 25 years experience as a change facilitator and rhythmologist, Paul helps teams and community groups get the mind and body moving in sync, reducing stress, increasing creativity and...