Building the Common Good
We've been working hard on ideas and invites to build the programme for Greenbelt 2017 : The Common Good. We're really excited at how things are shaping up. We'll be announcing the first lineup names...
Christmas Resources :: For The Common Good
We hope you've spotted our daily Advent images (on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook). The images are designed to inspire us to #mlmlg* this Advent. (We're really grateful to Ruth for tweeting us a...
YMCA :: Our Silent Stars for The Common Good
A guest blog by Andy Winter, Chief Executive of Coventry YMCA, (YMCA, one of our festival associates) The sky is clear, the sun's light brings an early haze, and the promise of an exciting day ahead...
Create or Consume? Buy Nothing Day
As an arts, faith and justice festival we work each year to create a space in which works of the imagination can be born, take root and grow. We're working hard on booking next year's programme...
Greenbelt is a gift
A blog written by Martin Evans, one of Greenbelt's elder statesman and festival manager in the 80s and 90s I write this having just returned from Greenbelt 2016 and wondering why I'm missing some...
Creative Conversations
Creative Conversations: beliefs shaping action for change We are very pleased to support and point to think-tank Ekklesia's Creative Conversations featuring an array of key public...
The Greenbelt Top Ten
From festival bookshop G-Books: the ten bestselling books at Greenbelt this summer: Accidental Saints – Nadia Bolz-Weber Unlikely pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber was our bestselling author at...
The Lemonade Effect… Read On
It was a full house and one of the most compelling conversations at Greenbelt in years. ‘Forced the audience to confront the idea of white discomfort and move beyond 'not seeing colour' – a...
We Laughed, Cried And Danced To Video-Games
A blog from Andy Robertson, curator of InterACT ... the digital gaming strand at this year's festival ... This year was the first time Greenbelt (or any major Arts festival in the UK) handed over...
Discover Interactive Art at Greenbelt
A blog from Andy Robertson, curator of our InterACT programme at Greenbelt 2016 ... I could have called this Video-Games at Greenbelt, but I don't want to put off people who “don't play...
Bread, wine and lego. The Greenbelt 2016 Communion Service
At Greenbelt we like to try new things – especially when it comes to worship. Gathering thousands of people together in a single act of worship is always going to bring new experiences (and...
The great Greenbelt quilting bee
A guest blog from Miranda Threlfall Holmes and Anne BennettAs soon as the Silent Stars theme was announced, we wanted to run a Quilting Bee. Stars are a classic theme in patchwork and quilting. But...
The Sound of Conversation
Back again for 2016! This exciting and fast paced presentation format will allow you to feast on a smorgasboard of creative inspiration, taking in a festival's worth of new ideas in one...
Sheena Cruse
Painting and drawing from observation have always been at the heart of Sheena's art. Her work includes landscape, portraiture and the human figure. As a practising artist she painted murals on...
Snö by Carla Chan
Carla Chan is a contemporary artist living and working in Hong Kong and Berlin. Her art is minimal in style and form.