Ismael Lea South
Ismael Lea South is the Director of The Salam Project, a BME youth and community initiative. This initiative promotes employment opportunities, accredited training, volunteer opportunities and UK...
Asad Ali Jafri
Asad Ali Jafri is a cultural producer, global arts leader and interdisciplinary artist with a creative vision for sustainable social change. Since 2001, he has worked passionately with artists,...
Ed Mayo
Ed is Secretary General of Co-opera ves UK. He has a track record of innova on and impact in his work to bring together economic life and social jus ce. Ed is Chair of the par cipa on charity Involve...
Ella Al-Shamahi
National Geographic Explorer and palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi specialises in fossil hunting in unstable, hostile and disputed territories… is also a stand-up comic. She believes that...
Fahad Khalid
Fahad Khalid is a singer, songwriter, musician & a multi-instrumentalist, deeply inspired by the sufi wisdom of Rumi which he tends to transform within the sufi Qawali music of South Asia. Whilst...
Faisal Salah
Faisal Salah, the man with the voice, now 23 years of age, has journeyed with his unique voice and thought provoking lyrics all over the world. From Iceland to orphanages in Malaysia he has used...
Ahmad Ikhlas
Ahmad Ikhlas is a British born Jamaican convert to Islam who has used his heritage and love for the Prophet (pbuh) to generate an expressive unique style of music and poetry. Ahmad Ikhlas also...
Ansari Qadri Rifai Sufi Order
The Ansari Qadiri Rifai Tariqa is an international non-profit spiritual organization recognizing that we are one humanity, and in service to the Divine we bring good works to the world we live in by...
Video-Games Aren’t What You Think They Are
GeekDad Gamer Andy Robertson writes about this year's plans for video-game programming at the festival ... Greenbelt took a risk on video-games last year with its Interact programme, and it...
Mohamed Adow
Mohamed Adow, a Kenyan, leads Christian Aid's global climate policy and advocacy work. He observes the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and other climate change and...
Jasmine Kennedy
‘Introspective, contemplative, armed with a voice to stop you in your tracks.' Jasmine Kennedy is an acoustic singer/songwriter who sings from the heart; her lyrics a collection of throwaway...
Justin Thacker
Former doctor and international development worker Justin is a writer and lecturer in practical and public theology at Cliff College, Derbyshire.
Beauty and the Beast
Starring Emma Watson & Dan Stevens Directed by Paul Condon Disney's Beauty and the Beast is a live-action re-telling of the studio's animated classic refashioning the classic characters from...
Avaes Mohammad
Avaes Mohammad is a writer and poet who has written widely for performance and print. His poetry is influenced by the Sufi Saints of South Asia as much as the Dub-Poets of Jamaica, his essays have...
What we don’t say says a lot
Greenbelt's Creative Director Paul Northup muses about the space for change and transformation that is opened up when things are left unsaid. You can tell people what you believe. You can make it...