Hello to the World
Pádraig Ó Tuama has spent 20 years trying to say hello. Join him for this session of prose and poetry as he reads from his latest book and continues greeting what is beautiful, what is true and...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó TuamaRead the Bible With Your Feet
Reading the Bible isn't always easy. How do we deal with the bits we wish weren't there – and dig for ‘a pearl of great price' instead? Reading not only with our eyes but with our feet...
Speaker(s): Lucy WinkettA Vocabulary for Pain
Reclaiming the unique Jewish-Christian tradition of lament as an antidote to upset, anger, depression and bewilderment, both at an individual and a corporate level. Once described in his...
Speaker(s): John BellKaren Rooms
Karen Rooms is the Canon Missioner at Leicester Cathedral with responsibility for developing the cathedral's social outreach, and Transition Priest in the Holy Spirit Parish Leicester. Karen...
Savi Hensman
Savitri Hensman was born in Sri Lanka in the early 1960s and lives in London. She is a writer and activist and works in the voluntary sector. Her book Sexuality, Struggle and Saintliness: Same-Sex...
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...
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...