The Bride and The Alarm Clock
El Gruer returns to Greenbelt with her new poetry performance tour. The Bride and the Alarm Clock will throw you into the powerful tick tock of an eternal body clock. From the Scottish Highlands,...
Speaker(s): El GruerDreaming Under Fire
The launch of a new story collection from homeless exsoldiers. While researching a novel on faith in the battlefield, Jari Moate collected the stories of troops who returned to the UK to find...
Paradise Now
Elektra is a video artist whose day-job at a call centre is killing her. Betrayed by everyone she loves, she flees a disastrous, last-ditch exhibition of her art to be recruited by a controversial...
Letterboxes and Lighthouses
Deborah will be reading from Good Condolences and talking more about her writing inspired by the paintings of 20th century US artist, Edward Hopper. Deborah has been writing short stories and flash...
There’s No Place Like Home
In the techicolored, diverse world of Oz, Dorothy yearns for home – the homogenous, monochrome state of Kansas. In an increasingly diverse world why do so many yearn for homogenous, monochrome...
All Families Are Psychotic
Perennial Greenbelt favourite Dr Andrew Tate leads literature lovers on a journey into the homes of famous families from fiction who are dysfunctional, oppressive and downright nightmarish. Tate's...
Speaker(s): Andrew TateAn evening with Adrian Plass
Adrian Plass is displeased with flippancy. Just as well, some would say. For more than 25 years his benevolently subversive humour has been clearing away the kind of religious rubbish that...
The Still Point: in conversation with Amy Sackville
Amy will be discussing her approach to writing, life as an award-winning author and reading from her work. Amy's debut novel The Still Point was the winner of the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize...
Inside the Ambulance Box
Join Andrew for a reading from The Ambulance Box and from newer works. At the heart of this reading is an exploration of the emotional and spiritual ramifications of loss. His poems ask how we should...
Lost in Translation (Panel)
After all these years and all these versions, has the meaning and authority of the Bible been lost... or found? Maggi Dawn chairs a debate with experts Janet Soskice, Richard Burridge and Pete...
New Monasticism: is it all hype or refriaring the church? (Panel)
In the last ten years new monasticism has bubbled up in different denominations all over the world. This panel of practitioners will explore what it is and what it can contribute in a post-church and...
Speaker(s): Ian Mobsby, Nadia Bolz-WeberSlouching Towards Bethlehem? (Panel)
Is a just peace as far away as ever for the people of Palestine? What are the facts on the ground? How can people of faith accelerate the arrival of freedom and friendship for Palestinians and...
Don’t Bank on It (Panel)
In the church of high finance, the high priests spout their own language and remain an authority beyond question. While our investments can go down as well as up, their bonuses hold steady. They are...
Speaker(s): Loretta MinghellaOut of the Darkness: Ending the cycle of violence
When 16-year-old Jimmy Mizen was murdered in May 2008, the life of his family was changed forever. Yet for his parents that life was not to become one of bitterness, anger and resentment but one of...
From Shame to Pride: My walk of repentance for homophobia
This summer, Symon Hill walked from Birmingham to London as a pilgrimage of repentance for his former homophobia. In rain, heat, hostility and hospitality, he encouraged Christians to accept same-sex...
Speaker(s): Symon Hill