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...
Breakdance with Rob Stanley
Rob 'Stan' Stanley has been dancing since 1982 when the breakdance scene kicked off in the UK. After a break he got back into it in the early 2000's. Dancing for Birmingham crew, he travelled round...
LUMA
LUMA is a DJ from SE London, who has been coming to Greenbelt from an early age. Her DJ career kickstarted after playing at Greenbelt at the age of 16, and she has continued to DJ at Greenbelt...
The wisdom of Nadia Bolz-Weber
A Guest blog from our partners at Canterbury Press ...--------------------------What if the annoying person you try to avoid is actually seconds away from becoming an accidental saint in your life?...
Philippa Hanna
She's supported the likes of Lionel Richie; and with songs like I Am Amazing, Philippa is a champion of self-esteem in young people (she is also an advocate for children's charity Compassion...
Barbarella’s Bang Bang
Barbarella's Bang Bang take the audience on a fantasy journey into a musical world about puppets, gypsies, clowns and lost children. The band are both aurally and visually tantalising to all ages....
Thistle Farms (and the Sisters of Magdalene)
Thistle Farms is a multi-faceted social enterprise of women who have survived prostitution, trafficking and addiction.
The Travelling Band
With smatterings of McCartney (the beard years) and Crosby Still & Nash (shimmering harmonies), The Travelling Band have become firm favourites for people with ears and good hearts. “Marvellous...
The Utterly Butterly Ukulele Project
The Utterly Butterly Ukulele Project runs music and junk instrument making workshops that amaze and amuse, and help you learn.
Theo Simon
Theo is a singersongwriter with radical folk band Seize the Day, and campaigns for social and ecological justice.
The Man Who Planted Trees, Puppet State Theatre
Puppet State Theatre Company, based in Edinburgh, was founded by Richard Medrington. After performing his one-man puppet shows for 20 years he joined forces with puppeteer Rick Conte and puppeteer...
The Observatory, Jump Cannon Productions
The Observatory is a new kind of opera that explores how sound can be translated or interpreted for deaf audiences, as well as how sound can be manipulated to speak to a hearing audience about the...
The Order of the Black Sheep
The Order of the Black Sheep is a Christian community based in Chesterfield, exploring and living out the gospel together.
The Tombola Theory (with Ben Castle)
The Tombola Theory, a brand new project from critically acclaimed jazz musician and songwriter Ben Castle, plays original pop music inspired by obscure trad jazz clarinettist Tommy "Tootles" Truman....
Sam Wells
The Rev Dr Sam Wells is a preacher, pastor, writer, broadcaster, and theologian. He has served as a Church of England parish priest for 19 years. He also spent seven years in North Carolina, where...