Azariah France Williams
Revd Azariah France-Williams is an Anglican priest based at Ascension Church Hulme in Manchester. He is the author of Ghost Ship: Institutional Racism and the Church of England (SCM Press). You may...
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...
Where The Wild Things Are
Each year we conjure a theme here at Greenbelt to inspire and guide us in our creative decision-making. And in the hope that all of us, festival-goers and artists alike, will feel energised to 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...
Ron Artis II
To say that Ron Artis II plays music from his heart and soul would be a bit of understatement. With his family upbringing and incredible early success, you may even say it has been pre-ordained....
Anna Tivel
Anna Tivel is a north-west USA-based, internationally touring songwriter who is forever drawn to the quiet stories of ordinary life. The characters and imagery that populate her writing are full of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
An open door: reimagining the marketplace through social housing
A guest blog from Benjamin Rick, Co-founder and Managing Director at Social and Sustainable Capital, a partner of our sponsor CCLA. Good investment relies on good thinking, which is why we've...