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A Beautiful Human Life: Remembering Pip Wilson

With the blessing of Pip's family and of the writer, Martin Wroe, here's an edited version of the tribute that Martin gave at Pip Wilson's funeral earlier this October. ‘They say you're...

Ending the cycle of violence

Top image: Art by Gazan artist Malak Mattar on display at Greenbelt Festival 2022 Paul Northup, Greenbelt's Creative Director reflects on the current situation in Israel-Palestine. We've been...

Remembering Pip Wilson

Love has no off-switch: it's not about like or dislike. Love can help us see that people are beautiful. We learned of the death of our dear Pip Wilson overnight (Friday 22 September). We will...

Theology For the End of the World

It feels like the world is ending. In the midst of apocalyptic times it's tempting to cling on tightly to what we still have. But what if our desire to save the world is part of the problem? Marika...
Speaker(s): Marika Rose

It’s Not Me… It’s You.

How come so many of us have broken up with church? We take part less and less often. Or not at all. It used to be part of our lives… until it wasn't. What's your story? Why did you call time on the...
Speaker(s): Marika Rose, Dave Tomlinson

Palestinian Rights: an anti-Apartheid campaign

In 2022, joint reports from Amnesty International and Israeli and Palestinian human rights organisations B'Tselem and Al-Haq stated that Israel was pursuing apartheid policies - a view long held by...
Speaker(s): Diala Isid, Amos Trust

How religious – or not – is our future together?

With UK census data showing that increasing numbers of people - especially those under 40 - have no religion, and 20 years on from Alastair Campbell saying, of Tony Blair's New Labour government...
Speaker(s): Andrew Copson

Next Year’s Tickets. This Year’s Prices.

We've just turned 50 but (as it turns out) we've already had our mid-life crisis, when we completely rethought our ticket prices last year. We knew times were tight (and still are), so we...

Greenbelt Act of Communion 2023

THANKS, LOVE AND GIFT What is Greenbelt's gift to the world? What do we as a community want to give away? We're not just talking about money here, but hope, beauty, vision for the life of the...

Fifty-Thirty: Greenbelt and Christian Aid

A guest blog from our longterm main partner, Christian Aid. As we get ready to celebrate Greenbelt's 50th anniversary, this year's festival also marks another major milestone — 30 years of...

Greenbelt Is A Real Drag This Year

Pictured: Kitty Scott Claus We had the original ‘Drag Queen Storytime' troupe to Greenbelt back in 2019. Both they and our audience really loved the experience. So, given the mounting...

Storm Cecile

Storm Cecile is an international spoken word poet who helps brands share meaningful stories and messages with their clientele through performance poetry. She is the Founder of the Winning Poem 'Men...

10 festival unforgettables (no we’re not talking about the performers)

Not long to go now. As you read this, our small army of volunteers are already at Boughton House beginning to build the bones of our festival. So we thought this would be the perfect moment to put...

Hybrid hopes

When you reach a significant age and throw a party you want as many people there as possible. But what if everyone can't make it? What then? The festival takes a very particular, physical form....

10 things you won’t want to miss this Greenbelt

Just two weeks out and perhaps you're starting to think about your packing for this year's Greenbelt. You are, we suspect, definitely starting to think about who and what and where you're...