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...
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....
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...
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GREENBELT 2026 27 – 30 AUGUST BOUGHTON HOUSE
Loving Angels Instead?
One in three people in Britain believe they have a guardian angel, but just 25% say they believe in God. Can you have one without the other? Peter Stanford traces the role angels have played over the...
Speaker(s): Peter StanfordThe Joy in Eco Living
Can we have a high quality, fulfilling life and live in harmony with our environment? Based on 25 years' experience, Mukti Mitchell shows how reducing your carbon footprint makes you happier,...
Speaker(s): Mukti MitchellThe Hidden Humour in Holy Scripture
The matter is cloaked in so much secrecy that it would be indecent for the speaker to reveal in advance what might be said. Owners of bendy Bibles with margins covered in green ink notes and triple...
Speaker(s): John BellThe People Vs Tech
Tech has radically changed the way we live our lives. But with our fragile political systems threatened by this digital revolution, what do these changes – and the likes of Cambridge Analytica –...
Speaker(s): Jamie BartlettWake up – the house is on fire!
A guest blog from Cliff Mills of Anthony Collins Solicitors, partners in The Exchange venue at Greenbelt, following on from his session at the festival on generational justice with Daniel...