Simon Brown
Trustee Simon is currently a full time Senior Lecturer in Arts & Festivals Management at De Montfort University in Leicester. He has over 20 years' experience working within the cultural sector...
Palestine/Israel resources
We've created a sort of living wall of Greenbelt-produced and Greenbelt-connected inspiration and provocation related to the Palestine/Israel conflict. From voices and artists we've been...
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...
Being Home
The Pickwell Foundation and their Asylum and Refugee Director Susannah Baker (MBE) bring you stories of how their community in rural North Devon have welcomed people seeking asylum as well as those...
Speaker(s): Pickwell FoundationCounter-Cultural Community: living a ‘very common life’
The idea of living in community can sound a little odd, perhaps almost impossible. How do you genuinely live 'in common' while treasuring diversity? How can you connect deeply to justice concerns...
Speaker(s): Iona Community, Martin WroeNext 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...