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Arriving + Departing Greenbelt 2017

We know you're getting excited about Greenbelt. We guess you're probably planning and packing ?, making lists and devising menus ?, so we've a few bits of information to help you get onto site...

The Hub : For ALL your campsite needs

As you make your way down into the campsite, you'll find The Hub just before the entrance to the Festival Village on the right-hand side.  The Hub is home for all your campsite needs. Whether it's...

Body Shock

With so much focus on photoshopped body images, is it any wonder that we don't think we make the grade? How can we grow a healthy, relaxed attitude to the way we look as part of who we are?
Speaker(s): Siobhan O'Loughlin, Joanna Jepson, Steve Chalke, Judy Reith

Movements of the Spirit

How come so many of us lost confidence in political parties? Don't believe the system represents us? Aren't convinced our vote will change anything? But how come so many of us think new, looser,...
Speaker(s): Jeff Halper, Dave Andrews, Maya Evans

Hello to the World

Pádraig Ó Tuama has spent 20 years trying to say hello. Join him for this session of prose and poetry as he reads from his latest book and continues greeting what is beautiful, what is true and...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó Tuama

Angels and Cyborgs

As the Christian vision of a new heaven and a new earth gets displaced by science fiction imaginings of technological utopias, what does this shift from angels to cyborgs tell us about being human in...
Speaker(s): Marika Rose

Read the Bible With Your Feet

Reading the Bible isn't always easy. How do we deal with the bits we wish weren't there – and dig for ‘a pearl of great price' instead? Reading not only with our eyes but with our feet...
Speaker(s): Lucy Winkett

Primania: Who’s paying for your clothes?

Fast fashion. The age of Primark. When you buy a T-shirt for £2 who is really paying the price? The Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh showed it's time for a fashion revolution....
Speaker(s): Katherine Maxwell-Rose

Where Are We Headed in Israel/Palestine? ‘Judaization’ and the Rise of the One-State Solution

Israel now effectively rules all of Israel/ Palestine, with the Palestinians of the Occupied Territories left permanently stateless. There seems to be only one option left – but what would a...
Speaker(s): Jeff Halper

Curating the New Politics?

Faith groups are now seen as authentic and creative service providers in ‘austerity Britain'. Does their engagement create a new public space for raising political awareness? Professor Chris...
Speaker(s): Chris Baker

The Jihad Of Jesus – Part One

We are caught up in a cycle of so-called ‘holy wars'. But this is not inevitable: our religions can be a resource for overcoming conflict – if we understand the heart of all true religion as...
Speaker(s): Dave Andrews

The Jihad Of Jesus – Part Two

Open-hearted, compassionate spirituality lets us reclaim jihad from extremists and reconsider Jesus, as he is in the Gospels: a strong-but-gentle Messianic figure who can bring Christians and Muslims...
Speaker(s): Dave Andrews

XLP

After the success of XLP's first X-Mobile recording studio, they are returning to Greenbelt with a brand new, never been used before, X-Mobile studio. The X-Mobile Project is an amazing youth...

Karen Rooms

Karen Rooms is the Canon Missioner at Leicester Cathedral with responsibility for developing the cathedral's social outreach, and Transition Priest in the Holy Spirit Parish Leicester. Karen...

Visual Arts for The Common Good

Greenbelt visual arts volunteer Rich Blake-Lobb takes a look at this year's Visual Arts Line-Up  The visual arts programme doesn't just offer art to gaze upon, but encourages contributions,...