Christian-Muslim Storytelling: Stories of shared faith from history presented by Khayaal Theatre
Khayaal is an award-winning theatre company dedicated to the dramatic exploration of Muslim literature for the stage, film, and education. Strengthening and enriching interfaith and intercultural...
John Wills
As a child of the 60's, John Wills grew up in the small East Northamptonshire town of Rushden, where he was able to witness the slow decline of the traditional town centre shopping. John was...
John Atherton
John works for Co-operatives UK in Manchester providing leadership and accountability for its membership and events functions. Cooperatives UK promotes, develops and unites the 7,000 co-ops in the...
Origami with Lisa-Raine Hunt
Lisa-Raine Hunt works in London with faith, race, disability, LGBT and gender focus groups, supporting the development of grass routes community activity that counters extremism in all its forms....
USPG: The world church and ‘The Common Good’
A blog from Gwen Mtambirwa from our Associate, USPG ... As I write this it's just two months until Greenbelt 2017. It's three weeks since the terror attack at London Bridge (a mere 10-minute...
Asad Ali Jafri
Asad Ali Jafri is a cultural producer, global arts leader and interdisciplinary artist with a creative vision for sustainable social change. Since 2001, he has worked passionately with artists,...
Ella Al-Shamahi
National Geographic Explorer and palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi specialises in fossil hunting in unstable, hostile and disputed territories… is also a stand-up comic. She believes that...
Ansari Qadri Rifai Sufi Order
The Ansari Qadiri Rifai Tariqa is an international non-profit spiritual organization recognizing that we are one humanity, and in service to the Divine we bring good works to the world we live in by...
Video-Games Aren’t What You Think They Are
GeekDad Gamer Andy Robertson writes about this year's plans for video-game programming at the festival ... Greenbelt took a risk on video-games last year with its Interact programme, and it...
Jasmine Kennedy
‘Introspective, contemplative, armed with a voice to stop you in your tracks.' Jasmine Kennedy is an acoustic singer/songwriter who sings from the heart; her lyrics a collection of throwaway...
What we don’t say says a lot
Greenbelt's Creative Director Paul Northup muses about the space for change and transformation that is opened up when things are left unsaid. You can tell people what you believe. You can make it...
Murmuration by Nicola Haines
This installation comprises a set of 150 intricately stenciled birds that swoop overhead in a suspended swirling murmuration over a 25-metre walkway. At dusk, the birds are illuminated and change...
You’ve Got A Lot To Learn by GRACE!
GRACE is a collective of women who identify as older. GRACE will perform an action involving tasks and skills that are well known to our generation: rewiring a lamp, darning a sock, cross-stitch,...
Tom Forest
Tom Forest is a unique British song-writer and guitarist. After a decade playing guitar in bands, he releases his debut album next year. The song 'Hope' was written around Tom's compelling live...
St Martin’s Voices from St Martin-in-the-Fields
St Martin's Voices from St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, with their Director of Music Andrew Earis, explore through word and song some of the great music of our religious heritage. In 2013 St...