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Growing Up In Gaza

Palestinian artist Malak Mattar was six years old when the blockade of Gaza started. Fifteen years later, the siege continues, and Malak has survived four major Israeli attacks. Then, in 2014, as...
Speaker(s): Malak Mattar

Creating Sanctuary Space For Gypsies and Travellers

Jonathan Herbert and Billy Welch outline how the criminalisation of trespass that is part of the new Police Bill is part of a larger picture of racism against Travellers. They introduce a creative...
Speaker(s): Jonathan Herbert

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 Halper

Nomad 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 Vince

Transgender 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'Rourke

Why 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 McDonald

The 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 Tuama

In 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 Jones

Communion: …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,...