One Democratic State In Palestine/Israel: It’s Time
One country, one citizenship, one parliament and one shared civil society, in which the national, ethnic and religious identities of all the country's peoples also find expression. What would such...
Speaker(s): Jeff HalperNomad Century: How To Survive The Climate Upheaval
Migration is not the problem, it is the solution The climate crisis is upon us and billions of people are at risk. Gaia Vince's book Nomad Century, for the first time, promotes the idea of...
Speaker(s): Gaia VinceTransgender Marxism
Spotlighting the pressures, oppression and persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies, this session will help you understand the tenuous positions trans people hold in the...
Speaker(s): Elle O'RourkeWhy The Climate Crisis Is a Racist Crisis
Wake up! Climate change, although something which will affect us all, is a deeply racialised phenomenon. As highlighted in Christian Aid's landmark 'Black Lives Matter Everywhere' report, black and...
Speaker(s): Christian Aid, Robert Beckford, Chine McDonaldThe Soul Of Climate Activism
Opening by reading her 'Letter to the Earth', a confessional Caroline Lucas MP chats with Pádraig Ó Tuama about the inspirations that have sustained her decades-long public life in green politics...
Speaker(s): Caroline Lucas, Pádraig Ó TuamaIn The Metaverse As In Heaven
As we move towards the metaverse and Web3, how should we prepare? How will virtual, augmented and meta ‘realities' affect our spiritual experiences and religious rites? What new opportunities...
Speaker(s): Andrew JonesCommunion: …And Now, the Weather…
Every day on the news there are stories of doom and destruction; wars and rumours of wars; poverty, child abuse, corruption … and then a smiley soul slides on to tell us what the weather will be...
Speaker(s): Azariah France Williams, Pip Herbert, Electric Cabaret, Peter Graystone, Christian Aid…and now, the weather…
For our 2022 festival communion, we met to express the planet's fear and distress, to give words to creation's grief, and to ask for God's mercy. It was a service about climate care and climate...
Richard Dawkins at Greenbelt 2022
Over the course of our festival weekend, a few people once again raised concerns with us on our social media over inviting Professor Richard Dawkins to Greenbelt. The same concerns were raised way...
Life begins at 50
Greenbelt turns 50 next year: a landmark moment that offers us a chance to reflect. To take stock but also to glimpse the future ahead. So in 2023 we'll be making two changes to Greenbelt that...
Trans and non-binary – inclusion, support and programming at Greenbelt 2022
When we announced our lineup, concerns were raised about the inclusion of some speakers on the bill who it was claimed had shared gender critical views as part of their public and platformed...
Marie Calvert
I am an experienced Arts Psychotherapist in private practice and a passionate artist and photographer, regularly exhibiting my work in various settings. I love painting expressive paintings in...
DIY Rolling Activities
Over the weekend we will have simple crafts to the more complex, quick and easy to those that take that little bit longer. Sock Monkeys Have you missed making your yearly sock monkey?? Never fear,...
To bring or not to bring? That is the question.
When we first moved to Boughton and away from Cheltenham Racecourse back in 2014, our festival theme was ‘Travelling Light'. We wanted festivalgoers to think carefully about what they really...
Vicki Hird
Vicki Hird MSc FRES is Head of the Sustainable Farming Campaign for Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming (over 100 non-profit organisations), is a published author and she also runs an...