Caterers and traders – a vital part of the festival
As we re-imagine our G-Source exhibition venue this year – bringing it out into the festival and making it feel like a street market – we thought it was time to take another look at our traders...
A safe place to call home
A guest blog from our partners Christian Aid.At Christian Aid, we're excitedly putting the finishing touches to our plans for Greenbelt 2016 and wanted to share a sneak peek with you. Christian Aid...
Steve Lawson
Steve Lawson is a musician, academic and writer who has spent the last 20 years exploring via his own music career how the role of music in the world can evolve from one where a handful of voices are...
#BlackLivesMatter at Greenbelt 2016
As well as our thread of refugee programming at Greenbelt this August (see the blog here), we will be looking at what Black Lives Matter means on both sides of the Atlantic, too.With our Sunday night...
John Peck: Presente!
Greenbelt Trustee Martin Wroe remembers one of the great thinkers who helped to shape the festival ...Many years ago a group of us went on a walk in the Suffolk countryside led by John Peck, who in...
8000 issues and counting
A guest blog from our partners, Church Times.How much has the UK changed in the last 150 years? What about the Church?The Church Times has been reporting the news about the Church for over 150 years....
We get to invite you into the world we have created
Greenbelt's Creative Director Paul Northup muses on the 2016 festival programme ...A tough economic climate has forced us to dream harder about the programme we make. And that's been a good thing....
Fear and hope after visiting Gaza
A guest blog from Neil Graham at Embrace the Middle East reflecting on his recent trip to Gaza and sharing what the tiny, shrinking Christian population there is achieving, against the odds: I have...
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...
If you go down to the woods today …
... be sure of a big surprise!The Grove at Greenbelt 2016We may not have a Teddy Bear's picnic at Greenbelt 2016, but we've got a hamper full of goodies all the same.In The Grove venue this...
Children’s and Family Programming
A recent survey discovered that seven out of 10 parents were keen to head to a festival with their kids instead of on a traditional summer holiday this year. The same survey found that over half...
Discover Video Games at Greenbelt
Bringing video-games to an arts festival is a similar challenge to engaging children in poetry. Largely untapped by young people, poetry can offer a rich seam of beautiful and unimagined ways of...
How does your garden grow?
A guest blog from our associate partners, the URC.Why is it easier to be kind to plants than to people, asks Ann Honey, church-related community worker with the United Reformed Church.I work in...
Drew Worthley
Drew Worthley crafts a curious blend of cerebral indie-pop with a twist of lyrical Americana. Getting regular airplay from BBC 6 Music, Drew's songs explore faith, doubt, economics and literature,...