Welcome to The Hothouse
We're really excited to bring you a brand spanking new venue and programme for this year's festival – The Hothouse. Thanks to the generous support of the good people from the Pickwell Foundation,...
Appetite-whetting names for The Table
After its triumphant debut at Greenbelt 2018, we're greedily anticipating the return of The Table, our food demo venue, to Greenbelt this summer. Fondly nick-named 'The Shark' last year, the gaping,...
Amal at Greenbelt 2019
We are delighted to be able to present an ambitious, curated Muslim arts programme once again within Greenbelt festival this year, thanks to the support of Amal (a Saïd Foundation programme). And...
Festival Communion: “…and now, the weather””
We asked writer and broadcaster Andrew Graystone to give us a sneak peak at what's in store for our festival communion gathering for this year… Every day I watch the TV news. There are stories...
Moonlight Benjamin
We've booked a superb French-Haitian artist to play on our Saturday Glade mainstage bill called Moonlight Benjamin. Brought up strictly and colonially Christian, Moonlight Benjamin has, in later...
Make it GlobalVision this Saturday, 18th of May
We know that for many, the Eurovision Song Contest finals night is an annual party gathering designed to celebrate just how music can bring we Europeans together. Or just a downright kitsch and...
Juana: A Story of Hope
A Story of Hope.... a guest blog from our Associate Partner, CSW Juana's world has fallen down around her. Since she was arrested and wrongfully convicted of terrorism, along with her husband...
Tom McLeish
Tom McLeish is an experienced and internationally-known academic leader in biophysics and the ‘Physics of Life', soft matter physics and interdisciplinary research, including radically...
Independent festivals say no to single-use tents
We are really fortunate at Greenbelt that our festival go-ers are a clean and tidy bunch who like to make sure they leave things as they found them (or even better). That's why we are so happy to...
Searching for the young green rebels
We're teaming up with Citizens UK to offer 25 young people a unique training programme to help them take environmental action back in their schools, churches and communities after...
Yvonne Battle-Felton
Yvonne Battle-Felton is a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction. In 2017 she was a recipient of a Northern Writers' Award for her debut novel Remembered, which was published by Dialogue Books...
The Chapel
Set across the Lake, the Chapel provides a reflective space amongst all the hustle and bustle of festival life. It's a space designed to allow you to nourish your soul & to care for your...
Joel McKerrow
Based out of Melbourne, Australia, Joel is an award winning writer, keynote speaker, creativity specialist, educator and, having performed for hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world, is...
Debbie Lewer
Dr Debbie Lewer is senior lecturer in history of art at the University of Glasgow. She teaches and writes widely, especially on the history, politics and theology of the artistic avant-garde in the...
Kitchen Dancing with Jo Porter
Kitchen Dancing is fun, friendly and dance focused! Join in with vibrant dance routines in a disco setting with fun props to brilliant themed music, from the golden decades of soul and disco, to...