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Pulling the Levers

How do we address the climate emergency? What are the essential levers for change? What are our points of influence? From Politics to Finance, Diplomacy to Activism, Campaigning to Comedy and so much...
Speaker(s): Simon Sharpe, Gail Bradbrook, Jon Long, Pickwell Foundation

Whose Dream Are We Living?

A diverse panel of guests discuss conformity and exclusion in the Church and society. Can the Church ever be a good ally for people on the margins, or are we destined to forever keep people ‘not...
Speaker(s): URC

Transfigured

Sophie Grace Chappell (as far as she knows the UK's first openly transgender Christian philosophy professor) has literally written the book on what it's like to be trans as you face multiple...
Speaker(s): Sophie Grace Chappell

Dreaming of a Church that copes with difference

What if we disagree on scripture? Can LGBTQIA+ people share a church with conservative evangelicals? What about political differences? Let's dream about what a Church that can cope with difference...
Speaker(s): URC

Communion: Dreaming of Home

If you were forced to flee your home, what would you take with you? Photographs for memories? Documents for identity? Food for sustenance? Almost certainly you would carry with you the hope of a...
Speaker(s): Festival Communion, Daoud Nassar

Simon Howard

Contemporary Country artist Simon Howard currently based in London tells heartfelt stories through his effortlessly passionate vocals. After spending a secluded summer writing in Texas, Howard...

Dr Sharon Jagger

Dr Sharon Jagger is Senior Lecturer in Religion at York St. John and author of ‘Presiding Like a Woman: Menstruating at the Altar', in Cocksworth, et al. (eds.) From the Shores of Silence, SCM...

Nessie Ramm

Toadflax, woundwort, goat's-beard, viper's bugloss: these centuries-old plant names evoke the richness of this once wild land. But if you're looking for our native wildflowers these days you...

Ruth Harvey

Ruth Harvey was born in Glasgow, lives in Cumbria, and has crossed many borders in between. She is a Member of the Iona Community, and works for the Community as Leader.

Legacies

This year, our theme is Hope in the Making. And what is hope if not an act of the imagination – a way of seeing the world not only as it is, but as it could be? Greenbelt is an act of the...

Swingsters Dance

Swingsters Dance teach people to dance together to music ranging from the Charlestons of the roaring 20's through to the big band swing of Count Basie and Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and the...

Sarah Rowe

Sarah Rowe is the Greater Manchester campaigner for Clean Cities, an organisation campaigning to get the most polluting vehicles out of European cities. She would love to live in a world where owning...

Sue Wallace

Sue Wallace started doing Alternative Worship in 1991, was part of the Greenbelt worship committee for ten years and brought the Visions Service to Greenbelt many times (Visions still happens). Sue...

Doug Gay

Doug Gay is a Church of Scotland minister who is Senior Lecturer in Practical Theology at Glasgow University. He is author of a number of books including Alternative Worship (with Jonny Baker)...

Junior Smart

Junior Smart joined St Giles Trust in 2006 upon his release from prison from where he served a 10 year sentence for a drug and gang related offence. With support from St Giles Trust he is credited in...