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Event Horizon: Faith In The Future

The world's religions have stories about the way the future will go. Those different stories and how literally we take them can have profound implications for our living together in the present....
Speaker(s): Event Horizon: How The Way Faith Sees The Future Affects Us All In The Present, Festival Friends

Peak Inequality and Food Bank Use

The Trussell Trust's CEO Emma Revie will be talking with Danny Dorling on his latest book Peak Inequality, and how we can create a future without the need for food banks in the UK.
Speaker(s): Danny Dorling, Trussell

Wit as a Weapon: Art against Fascism

In the face of today's increasingly extreme politics, what can we learn from how artists have made subversive wit a weapon and deployed absurdity and a truer wisdom in the face of authoritarian...
Speaker(s): Debbie Lewer

Don’t Touch My Hair: crowning glory, power and identity

Charting the cultural history and symbolism of Afro-textured hair, Emma Dabiri's work sweeps from pre-colonial Africa to the dubious provenance of Kim Kardashian's braids, showing how black...
Speaker(s): Emma Dabiri

The Politics Of Climate Change

A politics that looks beyond national borders and seeks to build international cooperation and consensus must play a part in the fight to avert climate breakdown. As the UK teeters on the edge of a...
Speaker(s): Catherine Rowett

What does it mean to love our neighbour?

Mervyn Thomas CMG in conversation with Sarah Snyder When we look deeply into the parable of the Good Samaritan, we are confronted by a picture of radical love for those in need. Come and explore...
Speaker(s): CSW

What’s So Funny About Brexit?

Professor Danny Dorling argues that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche, fuelled by misplaced nostalgia and profound anxiety. Is...
Speaker(s): Danny Dorling

Five Tiny Acts of Revolution

In April 2019 a heavily-armed young man entered two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 52 people and injuring 49 others. That day, armed with a flat cap and a piece of cardboard, Andrew...
Speaker(s): Andrew Graystone

The John Peck Lecture: A Tribute to John Smith

Anthony Wilson reflects on John's legacy at Greenbelt, placing his work in the tradition of the prophetic imagination. Tracing the connection between his vision and Greenbelt's, where the arts...
Speaker(s): Anthony Wilson

Ghost Trees

This is a talk about connections: in time, in space, with other species and in community. Illustrated by stories, Bob explores the importance of attentiveness in observing nature, understanding our...
Speaker(s): Bob Gilbert

Love in the face of Empire

The Festival Communion service at Greenbelt 2019 put the story of Christmas at its heart. Here, you'll find all the words from the service to download and share and use – along with the thinking...

Georgia Latchmore

Trustee Georgia is passionate about sports, the outdoors and getting people active. She currently works in sports marketing and loves being part of getting people active every day. Other than...

...then we'd respectfully suggest you might be doing it wrong. Everyone has to start planning what to see at some point though, so as you browse the huge handpicked bill of fabulous treats that we've...

A guest blog from Central England Co-Operative, a stakeholder in The Exchange venue at Greenbelt 2019 This weekend Central England Co-operative are going to be co-hosting a venue called The...

This year at Greenbelt we're going to host a conversation and workshop aimed at alerting us to and equipping us to counter what we're calling "everyday extremism". Here's what we're...