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The Top 10 Reads from #gb17

Our Christian media partner Church Times reveals your Top Ten Reads from #gb17 ...  Drumroll please ... from G-Books (the festival bookshop), here are the ten best-selling books at Greenbelt this...

Jack Monroe at Greenbelt 2017

This year, we were thrilled to welcome Jack Monroe to Greenbelt. Jack falls into the you-need-to-ask-four-or-five-years-in-a-row category of festival contributor. Along with the likes of Billy Bragg....

Charles Handy at Greenbelt 2017

A personal reflection on the great man's visit to Greenbelt 2017 from Paul Northup, Greenbelt's Creative Director … If you're of my vintage (clears throat: half a century or so on this...

9 ways to hang on to that festival feeling

The Greenbelt weekend – with its reams of talks, art and conversation – can be a pretty mind-altering, life-changing experience. But even the most intense experiences fade over time as summer...

Murmuration at Greenbelt 2017

One of the most amazing things about this year's festival was Murmuration, a commissioned, site-specific installation of delicate birds, suspended above the walkway towards the 'Other Side of the...

Hot House: Religion leads to violence. It always has and always will

Since 9/11, and stretching back centuries before, the worst atrocities committed against humanity have been motivated by religious conviction and difference. And things don't seem to be getting...
Speaker(s): Salma Yaqoob, Clive Stafford Smith, Sahar Vardi

Israel / Palestine: No Fit State

Two State? One State? Not fit state? What hope is there for a just peace in Israel-Palestine, when the world (and Israel) seems so content with the status quo? And might the brazenness of Trump...
Speaker(s): Peter Oborne, Robert Cohen, Sahar Vardi, Muhanad Al Qaisy, Karen Chalk

Two degrees of separation

Following the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, when the world committed itself to safeguarding a 'two-degree world' (not allowing global warming to rise by more than two degrees centigrade because...
Speaker(s): Natalie Bennett, Christian Aid, Most Revd Dr Winston Halapua, Mohamed Adow

Hidden in plain sight? Bringing black women into focus

Rozella Haydée White, Chibundu Onuzo and Saraiya Bah.The film Hidden Figures highlighted the wider truth about women of colour being largely invisible despite the crucial roles they have played in...
Speaker(s): The 9 Beats Collective: Rozella Haydée White, Chibundu Onuzo, Saraiya Bah, Chine McDonald

Women in Herstory

Herstory is a project that connects art, activism and education by using famous examples of feminist art to engage people of all genders with women's (often forgotten) history. Join founder, Alice...
Speaker(s): Alice Wroe

Israel and Palestine: How did we end up here?

After 6 decades of conflict, the situation in Israel and Palestine continues to be marked by occupation, fear, violence, poverty and the routine denial of human rights. How did we end up here? In the...

The Art of the Collect

The form of collect is as elegant as a sonnet. It's got five folds, and has poetry and intention at its heart. Join Pádraig Ó Tuama reading poetry and prayers from his new collection of Collects,...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó Tuama

INTER-ACT: Loss, Cancer, and Minecraft: A playable poem about saying goodbye

Andy Robertson, Adam Clarke, Victoria BennettJoin Minecraft artist and Stampy collaborator, Adam Clarke, and poet, Victoria Bennett, as they share their unique playable Minecraft poem “My...
Speaker(s): Andy Robertson

INTER-ACT: Where video games go next

Games and culture don't usually mix. But what if they did? We ask Simon Parkin, New Yorker writer and Iain Simons, CEO Nation Videogame Foundation, whether video-games offer more to society than...
Speaker(s): Andy Robertson

INTER-ACT: How Video- games matter

Call of Duty, Minecraft, Grand Theft Auto, Pokemon or Roblox. You or someone you love plays a lot of video-games, or watches hundreds of hours of other people playing them on YouTube. Join Andy for a...
Speaker(s): Andy Robertson