1 week. 4 numbers.
One week on from Greenbelt 2016, here are four numbers that we like: 10 That's how many big buckets full of lego you gave at the Sunday morning communion service to go out to Soweto. Thank you....
A Blessing on a Flattened Patch of Grass
A Blessing on a Flattened Patch of Grass Chosen with care For the gentle incline And the view, And in hope for some space around it, Though there never was As others pitched closer, With...
The Greenbelt 2016 Communion Service: A Little Child Will Lead Us –
A blog from the writer of our festival service this year, Andrew Graystone. The Festival Communion service at Greenbelt 2016 was led from start to finish by children. Let me explain a little of...
Storytelling and community building
A guest blog from our associate partners, Livability ... ‘Up-and-coming' ; ‘a no-go area'; ‘high levels of free school meals'; ‘vibrant and multicultural'. Who is telling the...
Are you having a laugh?
Laugh: noun chuckle, giggle, snigger, hoot, snort, cackle, chortle, guffaw, titter Laughter is an equal opportunities activity. We all do it: children and adults, beggars and kings. Time and...
Discover Interactive Art at Greenbelt
A blog from Andy Robertson, curator of our InterACT programme at Greenbelt 2016 ... I could have called this Video-Games at Greenbelt, but I don't want to put off people who “don't play...
Three things to make your Greenbelt even better
We're nearly there. #3sleeps to go. And here are three (more little) steps to camping and festival-ing heaven. 1. The Greenbelt Village Shop The lovely folk at Milk and Honey will be open for...
Out of sight, out of mind?
A guest blog from Rebecca Boardman, Facilitator – Refugee Response, for our associate partners USPG ... Have you ever stopped to think about the way the media shapes our perception of world...
Great art is everywhere at Boughton
A guest blog from Jim Harris, Greenbelt compere on August Bank Holiday weekend, but in his professional life a fine art curator and teacher at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology...
Showcasing young talent at GB16
We're excited to be able to showcase some great young talent at this year's festival – with our own set of youth short talks, Tell It Like It Is, and the return of the XLP Showcase.GTV YOUTH: TELL...
Scriptural Reasoning returns to Greenbelt 2016
This year, Greenbelt is pleased to be teaming up with the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme and Coexist House to bring you six Scriptural Reasoning (SR) workshops in the Canvas venue, a new space at...
YMCA at Greenbelt
A guest blog from YMCA, who this year will be supporting us with our youth work at the festival, hosting the Den youth venue, and doing all sorts of great stuff with young people across the...
Herstory at Greenbelt 2016
Alice Wroe blogs about bringing her Herstory project to Greenbelt this year ...Herstory uses feminist art to engage people with women's history. It is a project that aims to disrupt the history we...
A first-timer’s Guide to Greenbelt
Here's a handy guest blog from our sponsors Christian Connection ...------------------------------Tickets bought? Travel plans made? Tent cleaned? It's almost time to start packing for Greenbelt...
The boy who lived
A guest blog from associate partners Embrace the Middle East ...Ten-year-old Shadi was preparing breakfast with his family when the missiles hit. Ten members of his family, including his mother,...