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The Greenbelt weekend – with its reams of talks, art and conversation – can be a pretty mind-altering, life-changing experience. But even the most intense experiences fade over time as summer...

The contemplative organiser: developing a spirituality of action

Community organising is rooted in multiple traditions, and inseparable from their spiritual practices. In this workshop, we explore how contemplation can nurture action, and how organising should...
Speaker(s): Citizens UK

Communion: Bring a Body

Gather from 10am for our annual festival communion service. All are welcome. This year's communion service – entitled “Bring a Body” is designed to reflect and celebrate how radically...
Speaker(s): Fischy Music

Business as usual?

Almost 10 years on from the financial crash of 2008 and the resulting longest, deepest recession in living memory, it seems like the banks, the financial institutions (and those of us who use them,...
Speaker(s): Ann Pettifor, Vivian Woodell

Exchange The Future: where next to build a better business world

How we can make business better? What can we all be doing to help more enterprise to promote the common good? With Vivian Woodell, founder, the Phone Co-op, Joshua Brown, Renewables Manager,...
Speaker(s): Vivian Woodell, Joshua Brown, Cliff Mills

Exchange inspiration: What difference does co-operative ownership make?

Does being a co-operative make you more likely to be for The Common Good? Why?Featuring Vivian Woodell, Founder, the Phone Co-op, Pete Westall, Group General Manager For Colleague & Co-operative...
Speaker(s): Pete Westall, Vivian Woodell

Christian-Muslim Storytelling: Stories of Shared Faith and History

· Flight to Abyssinia. How the Negus, a Christian king, granted safe haven to the first Muslim community.· The Sultan and The Saint. The story of St Francis and Sultan Al-Kamil of Egypt against the...
Speaker(s): Christian-Muslim Storytelling: Stories of shared faith from history presented by Khayaal Theatre

More In Common: How an act designed to drive a community apart, brought it together

When Jo Cox became the first sitting MP to be murdered in her constituency for more than 25 years – in the days just before the EU Referendum in June 2016 – the country was shocked to its core....
Speaker(s): Kim Leadbeater, Fakhara Rehman, Revd Mark Umpleby

Why Culture Matters

Abid Hussain (Arts Council), Syima Aslam (Bradford Litfest), Luqman Ali (Khayaal Theatre), Randa Ghazy (Writer / Producer) A conversation on the importance of culture, cultural leadership and the...
Speaker(s): Abid Hussain, Syima Aslam, Christian-Muslim Storytelling: Stories of shared faith from history presented by Khayaal Theatre, Randa Ghazy, Asad Ali Jafri, Luqman Ali

Europe: a Nun’s Eye View

Spanish Benedictine theologian and activist Teresa Forcades casts her keen eye over the state of Europe's political, economic and religious affairs in the light of Brexit and the lurch to the...
Speaker(s): Teresa Forcades i Vila

Teresa Forcades i Vila in conversation with Martin Wroe

Most often described as “Europe's most radical nun”, come and hear more about the life and devotion of Sister Teresa Forcades i Vila from Barcelona. By turns a trained physician and theologian...
Speaker(s): Teresa Forcades i Vila

Please Bring a Body

The Festival Communion service at Greenbelt 2017 put access and inclusion at its heart. Here you'll find all the words from the service to download and share and use – along with the story and...

Every festival has those things that set them apart. Glastonbury has the Pyramid Stage. End of the Road has its peacocks. Burning Man has, well, a massive burning man.  But what about Greenbelt?...

from Our Partner : The Church Times The Church House Bookshop team are looking forward to returning to Greenbelt later this month. We're bringing our pop-up bookshop, G-books, back to the...

A greener festival

Over the last few years we've got rid of allllmost all our single-use plastic (we're still coming for you, cable ties) and managed to halve our festival fuel consumption. Each year we measure our...