Great art is everywhere at Boughton
A guest blog from Jim Harris, Greenbelt compere on August Bank Holiday weekend, but in his professional life a fine art curator and teacher at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology...
Showcasing young talent at GB16
We're excited to be able to showcase some great young talent at this year's festival – with our own set of youth short talks, Tell It Like It Is, and the return of the XLP Showcase.GTV YOUTH: TELL...
Scriptural Reasoning returns to Greenbelt 2016
This year, Greenbelt is pleased to be teaming up with the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme and Coexist House to bring you six Scriptural Reasoning (SR) workshops in the Canvas venue, a new space at...
YMCA at Greenbelt
A guest blog from YMCA, who this year will be supporting us with our youth work at the festival, hosting the Den youth venue, and doing all sorts of great stuff with young people across the...
Herstory at Greenbelt 2016
Alice Wroe blogs about bringing her Herstory project to Greenbelt this year ...Herstory uses feminist art to engage people with women's history. It is a project that aims to disrupt the history we...
A first-timer’s Guide to Greenbelt
Here's a handy guest blog from our sponsors Christian Connection ...------------------------------Tickets bought? Travel plans made? Tent cleaned? It's almost time to start packing for Greenbelt...
The boy who lived
A guest blog from associate partners Embrace the Middle East ...Ten-year-old Shadi was preparing breakfast with his family when the missiles hit. Ten members of his family, including his mother,...
Bread, wine and lego. The Greenbelt 2016 Communion Service
At Greenbelt we like to try new things – especially when it comes to worship. Gathering thousands of people together in a single act of worship is always going to bring new experiences (and...
Student Christian Movement
In association with SCM
Alrowwad Youth Theatre
14 young people from Alrowwad Centre for Culture & Arts in Aida Camp, Bethlehem, Palestine will be with us all festival as part of a cultural exchange this summer through which they will get to to...
Following up on the Bogside Artists back in Derry
A guest blog from Greenbelters Fiona and John Cheek ...One of the highlights of Greenbelt for John and I last year was The Bogside Artists. We were just blown away with their exhibition and talk....
The great Greenbelt quilting bee
A guest blog from Miranda Threlfall Holmes and Anne BennettAs soon as the Silent Stars theme was announced, we wanted to run a Quilting Bee. Stars are a classic theme in patchwork and quilting. But...
Javier Costales
Javier Costales is talked about as surreal, absurdist, observational, daft and satirical; but he doesn't stand as a novelty, neither does he mirror what you think you know about Stand-up...
Panels conversations and debates at Greenbelt 2016
Greenbelt is a great space in which to hear different perspectives on an issue. Here's a summary of the panel debates and conversations on offer at the festival this year.SCRAP THE CHURCH?With Nadia...
Priests, poets, protestors, ravers, radicals, artists, musicians, and a scientist or two
A guest blog from Simon Cross, who has worked with us to curate our devotion and spirituality programme for the 2016 festival – Greenbelt : Silent Stars.Some people call it worship, others prefer...