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 HayesChildren, 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 RaúfLosing 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 JonesThe 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 PassarlayThe 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 BradburyWhy 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 BeckfordThe 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 LauraThe 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 TuamaThe 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 GreerCommunion: …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...
Richard Dawkins at Greenbelt 2022
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...
Life begins at 50
Greenbelt turns 50 next year: a landmark moment that offers us a chance to reflect. To take stock but also to glimpse the future ahead. So in 2023 we'll be making two changes to Greenbelt that...
Trans and non-binary – inclusion, support and programming at Greenbelt 2022
When we announced our lineup, concerns were raised about the inclusion of some speakers on the bill who it was claimed had shared gender critical views as part of their public and platformed...