Ben Rawlence
Ben Rawlence is the author of The Treeline, City of Thorns and Radio Congo. Rawlence has written for the Guardian, London Review of Books, New York Times, New York Times Book Review, New Yorker and...
Rev Carrie Grant
We're delighted to welcome Carrie Grant back to Greenbelt. Now an ordained minister, Carrie (together with her husband David) has been on a wild and wonderful Christian faith journey. Lament is a...
Mobeen Azhar
Mobeen Azhar grew up in Huddersfield and has been a Londoner for the last decade. He makes access-based documentaries across television and radio. He has produced and presented content across BBC...
The Long Saturday
Easter Saturday. That in-between time. Liminal. Now and not yet. Emotionally, psychologically and spiritually, it's perhaps where most of us live, most of the time. Somewhere between despair and...
We’re playing favourites
Going out with a bang At Greenbelt HQ we are in the thick of programming our final year at Boughton, and when we said we're making it a goodbye to remember, we meant it. We're bringing together...
Meet the second slice of names for this year’s lineup
Just to further whet your appetites and give you a little more of a flavour for how the bill is shaping up, and what to expect at this year's Greenbelt Festival, we're pleased to announce another...
The very heart of Greenbelt
A tribute to Greenbelt volunteer Chris Parker It is with great sadness that we mark the death of one of our own. Chris Parker died in his sleep in the early hours of Tuesday 28 January. His death...
Meet the first names for this year’s lineup
We thought we'd get 2026 off to the best of starts with our very own New Year's Honours list, and share with you a sprinkling of our first, early names for this year's festival, Let It All...
Let it all go
Last summer, John Bell said something that has stuck with us ever since. Explaining his rationale for 2025 being his last festival as an active contributor (so he could make way for others), he told...
Somewhere to be leaving
Alternative Intelligence
A guest blog written by Alice Wroe after being in conversation with Hannah Silva about her book 'My Child, The Algorithm' at Greenbelt this summer. Alice Wroe is XR Lead for Atlantic Institute...
Hope in our Hands
2025 Act of Communion It's said that human beings can survive about five weeks without food, and about five days without water, but we can't survive five minutes without hope.
My Child, the Algorithm
Artificial Intelligence is widely feared but what happens when creative, thoughtful people turn their attention to AI? Join Alice Wroe, XR (Extended Reality) Lead at the Atlantic Institute, and...
Speaker(s): Alice Wroe, Hannah SilvaA Climate of Truth
What, exactly, is holding us back from combatting the climate crisis? Professor Mike Berners-Lee has a roadmap – and believes the most critical step is to raise standards of honesty in politics,...
Speaker(s): Mike Berners-LeeRob Hopkins
Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Network and of Transition Town Totnes, and author of several books including ‘The Transition Handbook‘ and most recently, ‘From What Is to What If:...