
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
How To Dream While Awake
Will the dreams we have for our lives, our communities and our society ever come to pass considering the state things are in now? Hear the panel discuss how they keep dreaming despite the present...
Speaker(s): United Reformed Church
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, Daoud Nassar
URC: LGBT+ Christians are more than welcome to come as you are
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...

Josie Field
I am a blues inspired singer songwriter based in south Birmingham. I was born in South Africa but moved to the UK 4 years ago and live on a narrowboat. I performed at Upton Blue Festival in 2022 and...

Mischief
We're a tight six-piece band from Bradford playing original rock music with an Emo edge. Our music is influenced by funk, jazz, metal and prog rock. Bands like Maneskin, Dream Theater, and legends...

Simon Howard
Contemporary Country artist Simon Howard currently based in London tells heartfelt stories through his effortlessly passionate vocals. After spending a secluded summer writing in Texas, Howard...

Moon Landing
Moon Landing is the musical workings of multi-instrumentalist Jake McCrea. Moon Landing first appeared in 2022 with the single ‘The Room is Spinning,' which created a soundscape that peeked...

The Ragged Hearts
We're a Norwich-based alt folk band with origins in New York State and North East UK, blending soul, blues, world and folk influences to write songs that are personal and vulnerable, socially aware...

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

Clara Pople
Clara Pople, a soul/trip hop looper with the lungs of a deep-sea diver, the heart of a Barbary Lion and the voice of an English choir girl. Blending the influences of early trip hop, electronica and...
