A new shape of days for our 50th
For our fiftieth anniversary year, Greenbelt Festival is shape-shifting. Slightly. Beginning and ending things differently so we can create a better festival experience for audience and...
Love imagines something different
On this Good Friday, Greenbelt trustee Marika Rose reflects on the vexed legacies of love we have inherited; how love has so often become inextricable from violence, control, fear and...
What Would Jesus Eat?
Greenbelt makes key decision in favour of its faith and the planet with its new ‘Choose Loaf' initiative, only Gospel-verified food and drink will be available at the festival We're always...
Home for Good
38,000 children and young people come into the care system every year needing safe, stable and nurturing homes and families to belong to. Who Cares? Will you? Because every fifteen minutes in the...
50 years of partnership
We're pleased and proud to be able to share with you the wonderful array of partner organisations who will be present with us this year at our 50th anniversary gathering in various ways. Here's a...
First name terms: initial 2023 lineup announcements
Our Creative Director Paul Northup has penned a blog about what's in store this year, for those of you who want to know what we're particularly excited about. Don't forget you can also use our...
Suntou Susso
Suntou Susso is a multi-instrumentalist: Kora player, percussionist, singer and composer from The Gambia. Born a Griot in a 700-year old tradition, the Kora - harp-lute with 22 strings - is unique...
TC & The Groove Family
TC & The Groove Family are a 10-piece collective whose music celebrates the coming together of cultures, and the community that music can provide for everyone. Originally formed in Leeds, their sound...
The Chosen Haram presented by Sadiq Ali
The Chosen Haram presented by Sadiq Ali produced by Turtle Key Arts Expect a heady mix of love, drugs and Islam. This unique and complex take on circus, performed on two Chinese poles, is...
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown was exiled from her birthplace, Uganda, in 1972 is a journalist, broadcaster, and author. She is a weekly columnist for the I newspaper and has written for the Daily Mirror,...
Milton Jones
Milton Jones was regularly on Mock the Week (BBC2) and has also appeared on Live at the Apollo, and Michael McIntyre's Roadshow. He is currently working his 15th series for Radio 4, as well as...
Oh My God! It’s the Church
The Lord works in mysterious ways. Or so the saying goes, but there is nothing mysterious about the rise of the fabulously original entertainment phenomenon that is - Oh My God! It's The Church....
Rianne Downey
Bursting through the dark clouds and finding rainbow-hued pop music's salvation, is Rianne Downey. A deep-reaching, up-tempo study on life, the ups, downs, break ups with others and make-ups with...
Stefania Maurizi with Ewen MacAskill
Stefania Maurizi is an Italian investigative journalist working for the daily Il Fatto Quotidiano, having previously reported for La Repubblica and l'Espresso. She began working with Julian Assange...
Micha Frazer-Carroll
Micha Frazer-Carroll is a columnist at the Independent. She has previously edited for gal-dem, the Guardian and Blueprint, a mental health magazine that she founded. Micha has also written for Vogue,...