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Confounding the Mighty: Dreams for a Different Church

Join a panel of people who have lived experience of poverty, led by Luke Larner. How can we be church in a way that makes sure everyone can belong and have agency? How do we shift the power balance?
Speaker(s): Trussell Trust, Luke Larner

The Climate Battle

While the world's most powerful countries compete militarily and industrially, can they work together to win the climate fight? Do they even need to, asks Simon Sharpe, Director of Economics for...
Speaker(s): Simon Sharpe

Just Worship

Join author Stef Benstead for the launch of her new book, in which she asks: what is God like, and how do we live lives that reflect God's character? Passionate about social justice and God's love...
Speaker(s): Trussell Trust, Stef Benstead

Pulling the Levers

How do we address the climate emergency? What are the essential levers for change? What are our points of influence? From Politics to Finance, Diplomacy to Activism, Campaigning to Comedy and so much...
Speaker(s): Simon Sharpe, Gail Bradbrook, Jon Long, Pickwell Foundation

Whose Dream Are We Living?

A diverse panel of guests discuss conformity and exclusion in the Church and society. Can the Church ever be a good ally for people on the margins, or are we destined to forever keep people ‘not...
Speaker(s): United Reformed Church

Transfigured

Sophie Grace Chappell (as far as she knows the UK's first openly transgender Christian philosophy professor) has literally written the book on what it's like to be trans as you face multiple...
Speaker(s): Sophie Grace Chappell

Dreaming of a Church that copes with difference

What if we disagree on scripture? Can LGBTQIA+ people share a church with conservative evangelicals? What about political differences? Let's dream about what a Church that can cope with difference...
Speaker(s): United Reformed Church

If You’re Not At The Table, You’re On The Menu

Many of our government-funded systems are failing the most vulnerable and disadvantaged. At the same time, we are side-lining our greatest asset, local people. We have a stark choice – to keep...
Speaker(s): Steve Chalke, Julie Siddiqi, Trussell Trust

Communion: Dreaming of Home

If you were forced to flee your home, what would you take with you? Photographs for memories? Documents for identity? Food for sustenance? Almost certainly you would carry with you the hope of a...
Speaker(s): Festival Communion

Changes to today’s programming

Hey everyone. Here's a summary of adjustments we've had to make to Friday's morning programming schedule, due to the later opening of the main Festival Village.  Scroll down for venue-by-venue...

Lead photo: Revd Dr John Bradbury speaks to the Open Table community in Cambridge in 2019. A minister of the church where Open Table Cambridge began, he became the General Secretary of the URC later...

Naomi Kelly

Naomi Kelly is an 18-year-old singer-songwriter with their roots firmly in Greenbelt soil. They've been attending the festival since they were a year and a half old, and they're thrilled to be...

h. eldritch

I'm a South London based folk/rock/electronic artist with a brilliant 4-piece band of acoustic guitars, thunderous drums, bass, synth bass, violin and four-part harmonies. Last year we played at...

Rhona Macfarlane

I am a solo singer/songwriter performing with acoustic guitar or piano/keyboard.

Hala Hanina

Hala Hanina, a social and political activist from Gaza, left Gaza a few days before the beginning of the Israeli genocide over Gaza, she is a PhD researcher in politics and sociology and has led a...