Spread your wings a little wider
The wings you've given us have helped us navigate the stormy skies in which so many other small, independent festivals have struggled to stay aloft. We're reaching out to all our Angels to...
Dreaming of Home
If you were forced to flee your home, what would you take with you? Photographs for memories? Documents for identity? Food for sustenance? Almost certainly you would carry with you the hope of a...
Legacies
DREAMING ON. MAKING SPACE FOR GREENBELT IN YOUR WILL.
Ruth Hathway
Forts, tunnels and towers. Maybe robots and computers, flowers and trees? Physical, imagination-led, creative play for children and their grown-ups — all with cardboard boxes.
Apples in Winter, presented by Lynchpin Theatre
Imagine someone you love did something unspeakable. This is a play about one mother's love. One last request. One apple pie. Miriam's son committed a horrendous crime. Caught, tried and convicted,...
Who’s new on our dream ticket?
During the last month we've been slowly introducing you to this year's line-up. Lots of you have got in touch to say how much you're enjoying the slower approach this year, and the extra time...
Ooberfuse
Ooberfuse are a songwriting band composed of Hal St John and Cherrie Anderson. They are unafraid to deep-sea dive into the deepest oceans of human emotions to colour-up drab contemporary life. Their...
Elephant Sessions
From humble beginnings in the Highlands of Scotland, to playing around the world, Elephant Sessions celebrated their 10th year as band in 2022. Creating a progressive blend of intricate tunes, with...
Jenny Mitchell
Jenny Mitchell is winner of the Poetry Book Awards 2021, the Bedford Prize, the Ware Prize and joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize 2019. Her poems have been widely published and she...
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...
How religious – or not – is our future together?
With UK census data showing that increasing numbers of people - especially those under 40 - have no religion, and 20 years on from Alastair Campbell saying, of Tony Blair's New Labour government...
Speaker(s): Andrew CopsonHow religious – or not – is our future together?
With UK census data showing that increasing numbers of people - especially those under 40 - have no religion, and 20 years on from Alastair Campbell saying, of Tony Blair's New Labour government...
Speaker(s): Andrew CopsonGreenbelt 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...
Judy Reith
Greenbelt veteran Judy Reith is a writer and life coach. Her last book was co-written with her husband Adrian about the art of growing older. Judy and Adrian had mapped out their hopes for ageing...
Greenbelt through the decades: the 2010s
To celebrate our 50th anniversary, we've asked some of the folk who've helped bring Greenbelt Festival to life over the last 50 years to write a little something about their festival experiences....