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Fight the Power

Just a few years older than Greenbelt, Greenpeace were named after a small boat that set sail in 1971 to stop a US nuclear weapons testing off Alaska. Today, they are still fearlessly committed to...
Speaker(s): Greenpeace

Charity Begins At Home?

As the UK's finances struggle, cuts to the government's overseas development spending and increasing demand on foodbanks, debt centres and other services in the UK are pitted against one another....

In conversation with Jack Monroe

Jack Monroe is a food writer and anti-poverty campaigner. She has joined us at Greenbelt twice before. With rocketing food inflation and energy prices, more households than ever are struggling to...
Speaker(s): Jack Monroe

Theology and the cost of living crisis

Jayme and Susie from Sarum College present a fresh and thought-provoking workshop on Sabbath and Jubilee. Prepare to be theologically inspired to think and act differently in the midst of our modern...

Profits vs Prophets? How we make polluters pay

The fossil fuel industry is making millions every day, while people in climate-vulnerable countries pay the bill. How can the prophetic voice of the church challenge the profiteering of the fossil...

Climate Assembly

Join Extinction Rebellion's Jamie Kelsey Fry has he facilitates a closing 'Climate Assembly' in the Hot House, together with three expert 'witnesses' to open the session - Clare Farrell (XR), Roberto...
Speaker(s): Jamie Kelsey Fry, Clare Farrell, Roberto Martinez, Greenpeace

White Supremacist Antichrist Poltergeist

David Dark believes the infrastructure of toxic conceptions of God, self, and others into which many Americans are born can be helpfully characterized as a poltergeist. We become what we host in our...
Speaker(s): David Dark

Robot Souls

In her new book, Robot Souls, Eve looks at what we've been deliberately leaving out of the design of AI. It turns out that all that 'junk code' left on the floor contains the very essence of our...
Speaker(s): Eve Poole

A country where poverty does not exist

Poverty in the UK is an avoidable, solvable problem - but it's one we have failed to fix for far too long. As a society we must do better. Former prime minister Gordon Brown will talk about our moral...
Speaker(s): Gordon Brown

Panning For Gold

Does God give the church everything we need? And if so, why are we so bad at recognising what we're being given? This workshop will equip you with the skills to 'pan for gold' in your church and...
Speaker(s): HeartEdge

We Become What We Normalise

I suspect we become what we sit still for, what we play along with, and what we abide in our attempts to access more perceived power and more alleged influence That's David Dark's read on the cost of...
Speaker(s): David Dark

Palestinian Rights: an anti-Apartheid campaign

In 2022, joint reports from Amnesty International and Israeli and Palestinian human rights organisations B'Tselem and Al-Haq stated that Israel was pursuing apartheid policies - a view long held by...
Speaker(s): Diala Isid, Amos Trust

A Lasting Legacy: Remembering Gustavo Parajón

He's the reason Bono once came back to Greenbelt festival, disguised as a steward. He was the inspiration behind one of the festival's iconic gigs - Cabaret Nicaragua. He changed the hearts and minds...
Speaker(s): Garth Hewitt, Roberto Martinez

Compassion

Many of our churches deliver compassion through programmes and networks. Dave explores what it means to live in compassion and to centre our churches on connection with our neighbourhoods. He will...
Speaker(s): Dave Andrews

Becoming A Weirdy, Beardy, Kind-Old Elder

I don't want to merely become 'older' but become an 'elder' - not simply 'age-ing' but 'sage-ing' - nurturing regenerative engagement in our world on the margins of my own religion and other...
Speaker(s): Dave Andrews