Submissions
Perform at Greenbelt Festival. Open call for programme submissions for 2025.
Submissions will close at midnight on Friday March 28th and any successful submissions will hear from us by Friday 25 April.
Apply to performThis year, we’re doing things differently
We’re inviting submissions throughout February and March to be part of this year’s 2025 Greenbelt Festival programme.
This year we don’t have a set number of submissions’ slots in mind, or a specific venue (or time) where we plan to stage successful submissions. Instead, we’ve briefly described some of our venues below and we’re inviting those submitting to think carefully about where their performance, their art, their ideas would ‘fit’ best.
We’ll engage carefully with all the submissions we receive, wanting to be convinced that a submission is a real fit with and would add value to the programme in a particular venue – bringing something into the mix that we’re missing otherwise.
Being completely transparent, we will be able to accept fewer submissions this way (than we could for our Fringe stage which we trialled in 2024), but we feel this approach provides a genuine opportunity to be an integrated part of our overall festival programme.
Submissions will close at midnight on Friday March 28th and any successful submissions will hear from us by Friday 25 April.
We’re inviting submissions throughout February and March to be part of this year’s 2025 Greenbelt Festival programme.
This year we don’t have a set number of submissions’ slots in mind, or a specific venue (or time) where we plan to stage successful submissions. Instead, we’ve briefly described some of our venues below and we’re inviting those submitting to think carefully about where their performance, their art, their ideas would ‘fit’ best.
We’ll engage carefully with all the submissions we receive, wanting to be convinced that a submission is a real fit with and would add value to the programme in a particular venue – bringing something into the mix that we’re missing otherwise.
Being completely transparent, we will be able to accept fewer submissions this way (than we could for our Fringe stage which we trialled in 2024), but we feel this approach provides a genuine opportunity to be an integrated part of our overall festival programme.
Submissions will close at midnight on Friday March 28th and any successful submissions will hear from us by Friday 25 April.
Our venues
Canopy
Our second music stage.Acoustic-style and folkier acts / singer-songwriters. Large capacity, stretch marquee.
Caravan of Love
Spoken word poets for pop-up open air performance.
Commons
Our outdoor performance stage. Simple area of vele steel deck in the open air. Suitable for street theatre – from juggling to acrobatics.
Den & Engine
Youth workshops and sessions for 11 to 17 year-olds that resonate with our wider programme and festival vision for creating a space where people can feel safe, seen and included at the same time as challenged, inspired and provoked. Somewhere to believe in and belong to that celebrities artistry, activism and belief.
Forum
Our new people’s theatre, comedy and film venue – for theatre, think one- and two-handers, easy-on-easy off, work that can tour to libraries and community centres as well as established receiving houses.
Hot House
Climate emergency and migration – workshops and talks by day. No AV.
Rebel Rouser
Up-and-coming, grassroots unsigned bands with a punk-inspired DIY ethos and attitude and ‘something to say’. Workshops, talks and spoken word by day, bands by night. Open air setting in a clearing in the woods with handmade stage and set.
Shelter
Our worship and spirituality venue – large and flexible capacity in a stretch marquee with open sides, hosting a wide range of sessions encompassing a gamut of spiritual practice and tradition – from yoga to meditation and chants.
Ta Dah!
Our children and families performance venue – staging all-age shows across the day with a capacity of some 200 or so.
Village Hall
Music and movement / physical / all-age workshopping. Tented venue. Capacity 100 or so max.
Canopy
Our second music stage.Acoustic-style and folkier acts / singer-songwriters. Large capacity, stretch marquee.
Caravan of Love
Spoken word poets for pop-up open air performance.
Commons
Our outdoor performance stage. Simple area of vele steel deck in the open air. Suitable for street theatre – from juggling to acrobatics.
Den & Engine
Youth workshops and sessions for 11 to 17 year-olds that resonate with our wider programme and festival vision for creating a space where people can feel safe, seen and included at the same time as challenged, inspired and provoked. Somewhere to believe in and belong to that celebrities artistry, activism and belief.
Forum
Our new people’s theatre, comedy and film venue – for theatre, think one- and two-handers, easy-on-easy off, work that can tour to libraries and community centres as well as established receiving houses.
Hot House
Climate emergency and migration – workshops and talks by day. No AV.
Rebel Rouser
Up-and-coming, grassroots unsigned bands with a punk-inspired DIY ethos and attitude and ‘something to say’. Workshops, talks and spoken word by day, bands by night. Open air setting in a clearing in the woods with handmade stage and set.
Shelter
Our worship and spirituality venue – large and flexible capacity in a stretch marquee with open sides, hosting a wide range of sessions encompassing a gamut of spiritual practice and tradition – from yoga to meditation and chants.
Ta Dah!
Our children and families performance venue – staging all-age shows across the day with a capacity of some 200 or so.
Village Hall
Music and movement / physical / all-age workshopping. Tented venue. Capacity 100 or so max.