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Some of us have been coming here our whole lives. Some of us are back after a break, and some are brand new to the party. Whether it's your first time, or your 15th, here's all the Greenbelt...

Decolonizing Gospel Music: A Practical Guide

Is the lyrical content of Black British gospel music – from choral music to Christian hip-hop – colonial? Does it express ideas of God shaped by the necropolitical Christian categories imposed...
Speaker(s): Robert Beckford

Right To Roam

Like a modern-day Woody Guthrie, Nick Hayes wants us to rediscover that 'this land is our land'. Find out how to cut through centuries-old power and privilege and reconnect with the countryside that...
Speaker(s): Nick Hayes

Children, Activism and Our Hope on the Horizon

How childhood experiences of activism and storytelling put Onjali Q Raúf on the road to writing the modern classic, The Boy At the Back of the Class, and her first non-fiction guide for children,...
Speaker(s): Onjali Raúf

Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild Sunday

For centuries, we have acted on an intuition that we need communion with the wild to feel well. Now, as we migrate away from the rest of nature, scientific evidence is emerging to confirm its place...
Speaker(s): Lucy Jones

The Lightless Sky: An Afghan Refugee Boy’s Journey of Escape to a New Life in Britain

Former child refugee Gulwali Passarlay tells how he miraculously survived the harrowing year-long journey from Afghanistan to the UK on his own. Young and old alike will come to understand the...
Speaker(s): Gulwali Passarlay

The Bright Side Of The Apocalpyse

Speaker(s): Baroness Lola Young

Dwellbeing: Finding Home In The City

Sustainable futures expert and wellbeing advocate Claire Bradbury passionately believes city dwellers need wilderness in all its forms to thrive. From guerrilla gardens and rooftop farms to the...
Speaker(s): Claire Bradbury

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

The Power Of One

Does being the UK's first and only ever Green Party MP really make any difference? Come and hear from the widely respected Parliamentary representative for Brighton Pavillion, Caroline Lucas, about...
Speaker(s): Caroline Lucas, Less Waste Laura

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

The Fire This Time – My Taxi Ride With James Baldwin

A belief in creativity and equality have been the hallmarks of Bonnie Greer's career. Combining passion, honesty and fascinating true stories from the arts and sciences, as well as her own life,...
Speaker(s): Bonnie Greer

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...

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...