Akram Abdulfattah
Akram Abdulfattah is a young Palestinian-American violin master who combines jazz with middle eastern and Indian music. Akram is influenced by Hindu, Turkish, and Persian styles, reflecting the rich...
Run The Wall
Our Creative Director, Paul Northup, tells the story of Greenbelt's ties to the Palestine Marathon, and the origins of Run The Wall, a global event taking place this March that calls for you to run,...
The Fringe at Greenbelt 2024
We're excited to be opening up submissions to perform at this summer's Greenbelt. But this year, we're doing things a little differently. We're creating a brand new Fringe venue stage at...
Submissions
Open call for programme submissions for Greenbelt 2025 Submissions will close at midnight on Friday March 28th and any successful submissions will hear from us by Friday 25 April.
Greenbelt 2024 – Dream On
Our Creative Director, Paul Northup, blogs about our festival theme for this year – Dream On. In those two long years of the pandemic, when we were unable to host a full-blown festival, it was...
Climate Assembly – Greenbelt 2023
Did you know? We hosted a participatory 'Climate Assembly' at this year's festival. Thanks to Jamie Kelsey Fry, Clare Farrell and co. Here are the most popular outcomes from the...
Louise Jones
Trustee Louise Jones is a former frontline child protection Social Worker who now works as a Service Manager for Cafcass, advising the family courts about the welfare of children. She's also...
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...
Amy Diana Poole
Partnerships and Content Coordinator Amy Diana Poole has been attending Greenbelt Festival since 2003. She has volunteered at Greenbelt in the Communion Team, The Orchard Stage and via...
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...
The Rise of Rishi (et al)
Yasmin digs into the phenomenon of Black and Asians who rise to the top, asking: is this entryism?; an example of post-racial Britain? Or is it, once again, co-option by white power merchants? Are...
Speaker(s): Yasmin Alibhai-BrownWhat would Jesus eat?
Cooking is part of the daily routine for most of us, providing sustenance and comfort. Yet most of us cook only nine different meals on rotation.So the prospect of changing those habits and moving...
Speaker(s): YCCN (Young Christian Climate Network)