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Akram Abdulfattah

Akram Abdulfattah is a young Palestinian-American violin master who combines jazz with middle eastern and Indian music. Akram is influenced by Hindu, Turkish, and Persian styles, reflecting the rich...

Run The Wall

Our Creative Director, Paul Northup, tells the story of Greenbelt's ties to the Palestine Marathon, and the origins of Run The Wall, a global event taking place this March that calls for you to run,...

The Fringe at Greenbelt 2024

We're excited to be opening up submissions to perform at this summer's Greenbelt. But this year, we're doing things a little differently. We're creating a brand new Fringe venue stage at...

Greenbelt 2024 – Dream On

Our Creative Director, Paul Northup, blogs about our festival theme for this year – Dream On. In those two long years of the pandemic, when we were unable to host a full-blown festival, it was...

Climate Assembly – Greenbelt 2023

Did you know? We hosted a participatory 'Climate Assembly' at this year's festival. Thanks to Jamie Kelsey Fry, Clare Farrell and co. Here are the most popular outcomes from the...

A Beautiful Human Life: Remembering Pip Wilson

With the blessing of Pip's family and of the writer, Martin Wroe, here's an edited version of the tribute that Martin gave at Pip Wilson's funeral earlier this October. ‘They say you're...

Ending the cycle of violence

Top image: Art by Gazan artist Malak Mattar on display at Greenbelt Festival 2022 Paul Northup, Greenbelt's Creative Director reflects on the current situation in Israel-Palestine. We've been...

Remembering Pip Wilson

Love has no off-switch: it's not about like or dislike. Love can help us see that people are beautiful. We learned of the death of our dear Pip Wilson overnight (Friday 22 September). We will...

The Rise of Rishi (et al)

Yasmin digs into the phenomenon of Black and Asians who rise to the top, asking: is this entryism?; an example of post-racial Britain? Or is it, once again, co-option by white power merchants? Are...
Speaker(s): Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

All Talks 2023

The complete set of all the talks recorded at Greenbelt 2023.

Theology For the End of the World

It feels like the world is ending. In the midst of apocalyptic times it's tempting to cling on tightly to what we still have. But what if our desire to save the world is part of the problem? Marika...
Speaker(s): Marika Rose

It’s Not Me… It’s You.

How come so many of us have broken up with church? We take part less and less often. Or not at all. It used to be part of our lives… until it wasn't. What's your story? Why did you call time on the...
Speaker(s): Marika Rose, Dave Tomlinson

Bashar Murad in conversation

Performing on the Glade mainstage later, this is your chance to hear from the wonderful Palestinian artist Bashar Murad - in conversation with Palestinian writer, researcher and cultural curator...
Speaker(s): Bashar Murad

Tech for Good

For good or bad, tech is a dominant feature in our lives. Hear stories about how tech has been used to facilitate social and spiritual growth. Come and bring your questions and share your own...

On Death and Dying

Drawing together threads from our festival focus on death and dying, join a conversation with experts and practitioners from the programme. Connecting with work Theos think tank have done on public...
Speaker(s): Ru Callender, Kathryn Mannix, Lisa-Jayne Lewis, Chine McDonald