Instinctively Wild
Come and try your hand at Shelter Building, work together as family and create an amazing den. Learn how to create a free tanning den and know about the different layers to make it solid and...
Jay Foreman’s Disgusting Songs for Revolting Children
Jay Foreman is an award winning musical comedian whose songs have been heard on BBC Radio 4, Radio 4 Extra, The One Show, London Live TV and Dave Gorman's UK/Ireland tour. Jay provides a devilishly...
Marky Jay’s Monkey Magic Show
Marky Jay's monkey magic show is a rip-roaring kids' show aimed at the under-10s. Full of amazing circus, kids' participation, puppetry and banana-based magic, the Monkey Magic Show has been...
Felix
Felix is an eccentric Victorian chap with a passion for sharing his talents. Not only does he dabble in magic and manipulation, but he is also a master of stunts on his penny farthing bicycle. He...
Fantastic non-plastic
Every year after Greenbelt we see pictures of people proudly wearing their festival wristbands to work, school and play. But what lots of you wouldn't have realised was that woven in with the...
Hopefully devoted
We've blogged about worship at Greenbelt quite a bit over the past few years – about how we're not a worship and teaching conference, but rather a festival that is shot through with a...
Let’s spend Christmas together
Festival communion After 40+ years of festivals, it is hard to come up with something that we have never done before. But somehow we've managed it: this year at Greenbelt – we're going to...
Holy Rebellion
Paul Northup, Greenbelt's Creative Director, reflects on Holy Week and the call to rebellion ... As we head into what Christians call Holy Week – the week when we remember Jesus' Palm Sunday...
Filipino priest “red tagged”
Greenbelt 2018 speaker and peace activist, Rev. Christopher Ablon has recently been included in a list of Filipino priests and human right defenders who have been ‘red tagged' (declared an enemy...
Palestine Music Expo 2019: hope and creativity
For the first two years of the Palestine Music Expo (PMX), our Programme Manager Katherine has represented the festival at this groundbreaking event. This year, it was the turn of our Creative...
Christian Aid Week 2019
A guest blog from our partner, Christian Aid This May, Christian Aid week features the stories of expectant mothers Tenneh and Jebbeh and their nurse, Judith. These women are from Sierra Leone, the...
Dave Tomlinson
The Revd Dave Tomlinson Dave is chaplain to the St Ethelburga's Centre for Peace and Reconciliation and a writer whose books include How to be a Bad Christian and Black Sheep and Prodigals. He is...
15 witty, wise things you have to see this year at Greenbelt
We're really excited about our first lineup announcements for Greenbelt 2019. We want to give you an idea of the kind of bill we're putting together for you this year, so we've handpicked 15 wise and...
Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a Sudanese born author, broadcaster, social advocate and digital influencer with a background in mechanical engineering. Yassmin founded her first organisation, Youth...
Vickie Cooper
Dr Vickie Cooper is a lecturer in criminology and co-director of Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative at the Open University. Vickie's research focuses on homelessness and housing inequality...