Join the fun with YMCA at Greenbelt
See what our Associate YMCA will be up to at GB17, The Common Good ... As the largest and oldest youth charity in the world, working to support, empower and improve the lives of young people in the...
Saraiya Bah
Saraiya Bah is a London based poet and writer who draws on the traditional West African storytelling style of the griot to wax lyrically about identity, faith, the relationship with self and...
U-Cef
U-Cef, the Moroccan Digitiser blends together Arab and Middle Eastern sounds and beats with urban & traditional fusion. U-cef has a special focus on the fusion of North African Gnawa with modern...
Randa Ghazy
Randa Ghazy was born in Italy to Egyptian parents and studied International Relations, Economics and Political Science at the University of Milan. In 2002, at the age of 15, she wrote her first...
Rumi’s Circle
Rumi's Circle presents poetry, music and whirling events that highlight the wisdom of Mevlana Rumi, the 13th century Sufi Mystic. Rumi's Circle is part of The Threshold Society and the Mevlevi...
Ismael Lea South
Ismael Lea South is the Director of The Salam Project, a BME youth and community initiative. This initiative promotes employment opportunities, accredited training, volunteer opportunities and UK...
Faisal Salah
Faisal Salah, the man with the voice, now 23 years of age, has journeyed with his unique voice and thought provoking lyrics all over the world. From Iceland to orphanages in Malaysia he has used...
Asad Ali Jafri
Asad Ali Jafri is a cultural producer, global arts leader and interdisciplinary artist with a creative vision for sustainable social change. Since 2001, he has worked passionately with artists,...
Ed Mayo
Ed is Secretary General of Co-opera ves UK. He has a track record of innova on and impact in his work to bring together economic life and social jus ce. Ed is Chair of the par cipa on charity Involve...
Ella Al-Shamahi
National Geographic Explorer and palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi specialises in fossil hunting in unstable, hostile and disputed territories… is also a stand-up comic. She believes that...
Fahad Khalid
Fahad Khalid is a singer, songwriter, musician & a multi-instrumentalist, deeply inspired by the sufi wisdom of Rumi which he tends to transform within the sufi Qawali music of South Asia. Whilst...
Ahmad Ikhlas
Ahmad Ikhlas is a British born Jamaican convert to Islam who has used his heritage and love for the Prophet (pbuh) to generate an expressive unique style of music and poetry. Ahmad Ikhlas also...
Ansari Qadri Rifai Sufi Order
The Ansari Qadiri Rifai Tariqa is an international non-profit spiritual organization recognizing that we are one humanity, and in service to the Divine we bring good works to the world we live in by...
Video-Games Aren’t What You Think They Are
GeekDad Gamer Andy Robertson writes about this year's plans for video-game programming at the festival ... Greenbelt took a risk on video-games last year with its Interact programme, and it...
Mohamed Adow
Mohamed Adow, a Kenyan, leads Christian Aid's global climate policy and advocacy work. He observes the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and other climate change and...