Erin Bolens
Erin is a poet and performer from Leeds who writes from places of observation, exasperation and celebration. Erin's first collection 'Alternate Endings' has been recently published by Burning Eye...
Fred Apps
Fred has spent many years in advertising and publishing , illustrating many children's books. He has had a number of local exhibitions, one of which has been running for over a year in Plaistow...
Greenbelt Reading List 2019 . . . Part 3
By now you should have seen the first two parts of this years' pre-festival reading suggestions, courtesy of our friends at Church House Bookshop who run our festival bookstore, G-Books. If you...
Hand-picked… and nearly here
One of the joys of putting together our hand-picked, handmade festival is seeing the programme come together as August approaches. We've been carefully assembling our biggest, boldest bill yet this...
Small acts of rebellion
We live in unprecedented times. And it seems only right that, in spotlighting the concerns we have as a festival around issues like climate emergency, migration, UK poverty and inequality and...
Wit and Wisdom – g-books part 2
Still looking for some holiday reads ahead of Greenbelt? Church House Bookshop, who run G-Books, our onsite bookshop at the festival, have a few more suggestions and offers for you... Don't Touch...
The power of young voices
A guest blog from Reuben Watt, associate partner the United Reformed Church (URC) Youth Assembly Moderator-elect, on the power of young people in the world... Greta Thunberg and Louis Braille are...
Letters of defiance, letters of hope
A blog from our associate partner CSW... ‘Separate me from my wife and children, ruin my reputation, destroy my life and my family – the authorities are capable of doing all of these things....
Fuel for the Journey
Space to Breathe (S2B) is returning to Greenbelt this summer to bring their own unique brand of arts, spirituality and wellbeing to the festival. Here, Andy Freeman of S2B shares a little more...
5 uplifting reads to help you change the world
Over the next few weeks, we'll be highlighting some of the books you might like to read before this year's festival. Our friends at Church House Bookshop (who look after our G-Books onsite bookshop...
Ms. Mohammed
Born in Trinidad of Indian descent, the London based MS Mohammed is fast becoming known for pushing boundaries with her lyric writing, genre-expanding music & powerful live gigs-armed with her...
Resis’Dance
Resis'Dance are a diverse group of women taking hold of the tech and decks and supporting under funded groups. We came together to organise amazing party nights - whilst challenging gender norms...
Best Praxis
Best Praxis is a DIY grungy/funky/synth-punk band born 2017 from the womb of First Timers Festival, London. We are women and non-binary people of colour taking up space and making emotional noise.
Charismatic Megafauna
Charismatic Megafauna want to light up the dancefloor and destroy it. With drum-punk-powered missives about guys in spandex, the s**tness of Theresa May and female ejaculation, Susannah Worth,...
Out at Greenbelt
A blog from Tracey Byrne, former head of LGCM and then OneBodyOneFaith and the leader of the OuterSpace LGBT+ group at Greenbelt for many, many years ... For many of us, Greenbelt has been the...