Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Good Friday is always a tricky day to speak into. What to say? How to say it? Given the enormity of the sacrifice we remember on this most terrible of holy days. And yet we know that for many of you, you’ll be with others today – and…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] The world-class contemporary circus act Gandini Juggling will be performing at this year’s festival. And we’re beyond happy to be welcoming them. They are bringing their show Smashed to Greenbelt, where traditional juggling meets contemporary circus. The show takes a witty look at forbidden fruit… More [ad_2] Source
Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] There are two more names joining our music bill for Greenbelt Festival 2024. ➡️ We’re partying from Lagos to London with London Afrobeat Collective The 8-musician strong London Afrobeat Collective will be grooving their way through the fields this summer. Their music is as eclectic and inter-continental as…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Darren McGarvey & Gail Bradbrook are the latest names to join our talks lineup for this year, and here’s why we’re excited about it. ➡️ We’re looking at the state we’re with Darren McGarvey You might have seen his latest BBC series, a passionate analysis of the state…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] It’s time to meet some more of the inspirational artists, activists and provocateurs we’ve invited to join our dream team this summer. Making his Greenbelt debut as part of our Ideas programme is writer, columnist and social commentator Darren McGarvey (aka hip hop artist Loki). You might have…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We’re thrilled that Kate Raworth is in the first raft of announcements for this summer’s festival. She’s a renegade ecological economist, committed to the rewiring of economics to make it fit for 21st-century challenges. If we’re going to make the needs of everyone fit the means of the…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] One of the things we try to do each year at Greenbelt is try to show you a few things you’ve (hopefully) never seen before – or might never see anywhere else. With CODE, we think we’ve found one of them. Created by physical theatre company Justice in…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We’re somewhere to be amazed and inspired. We’ve been down in the darkness with Bryony Kimmings and up on the highest mountain with Mavis Staples. We’ve protested and partied with Pussy Riot, and built Jerusalem with Billy Bragg. #GB24 #GreenbeltFestival #Artistry #Activism #Belief Thu 22–Sun 25 August 2024,…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Only one week now until we start revealing our lineup for this year’s festival! Make sure you’re signed up for our Dispatches newsletter to get the news first. We can’t wait to share it with you. https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/dispatches #GB24 #GreenbeltFestival #Artistry #Activism #Belief Thu 22–Sun 25 August 2024, Boughton…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Volunteering with Greenbelt is your chance to pick up new skills, make new friends (or meet up with old ones) and be part of something extraordinary – as, together, we bring our handmade festival to life. As one of our hi-vis heroes, you’d be the proud owner of…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Next weekend Amos Trust and Right To Movement want thousands of people from around the world to run for Palestine (at the same time the Palestine Marathon in Bethlehem should have taken place). You can run, walk or cycle 5 to 55 km, on your own or with…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Many of you decided to offset your travel to the festival last year. Together, we offset 65 tonnes of CO2. According to our friends at Ecolibrium that’s enough to offset the emissions of a car driving all the way around the world 9.77 times*. These generous donations were…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] You’ve got just over a week to spread the cost of your festival tickets over 6, interest-free, monthly payments. Plus you’re completely free to decide which ticket option is best for you: 🎟️ Supporter – for those able to pay above and beyond to subsidise others’ tickets 🎟️…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We’re part festival, part family. Some of us have been coming here our whole lives. Some of us are back after a break, and some are new to the party. Whether it’s your first time or your 15th, you can expect a warm welcome. 📷 Jacob Lowe #GB24…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] “My job is to try and trap the spirit of things in the scratches of pen on paper and the pulling of notes out of metal.” 50 years of moving music. See Bruce Cockburn at Greenbelt Festival 2023. #GB50 #GreenbeltFestival #Artistry #Activism #Belief Thu 24–Sun 27 August 2023,…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Who better to tell the story of our festival than us, its community? That why we’re working with a panoply of talent on our crowdfunded book to celebrate our 50th anniversary. And there’s less than one week to guarantee your copy! It’ll be a beautiful, large-format full-colour hardcover…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We’ve still plenty of opportunities to be a lanyard-wearing legend and join the huge number of volunteers who help us make the festival happen each summer. We’re particularly keen to recruit stewards – and that can be a great way to hang out with your mates (or make…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] If you want to do something practical and brilliant for some of the millions of Ukrainians displaced by the brutal invasion of their country, then we have some news. To mark Greenbelt’s 50th anniversary, we’ve teamed up with Citizens UK to try and recruit 50 new hosts for…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Whether you are the first to cry or laugh, to agree, to ask, to knit or rap, to roll around in glitter in the grass, there is space for you here. #GB50 #Greenbelt50 #GreenbeltFestival #Artistry #Activism #Belief 24–27 August 2023, Boughton House 🗣️ Words by Erin Bolens 📷…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We are proud to celebrate 30 years of partnership with Christian Aid this year. We support their mission to create a world where everyone can live a full life free from poverty. This week is Christian Aid Week, here’s a video explaining what that means and how it…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] There’s just 11 days left to secure your copy of our large-format hardback book for our 50th. The festival’s story in 50 reflections and tales, poems and prayers. We want it to feel like a symphony of voices. A polyphony. A cacophony. And we hope you’ll be moved,…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] For many of you, Greenbelt is an annual pilgrimage – a time to come together to dance and debate, to pray and to party. How devotional (or not) your time with us is is up to you. But what we are confident of is that, as Adrian says,…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Micha Frazer-Carroll’s book is “a radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health” – Dazed 50 years of radical alternatives. See writer Micha Frazer-Carroll at Greenbelt Festival 2023. #GB50 #GreenbeltFestival #Artistry #Activism #Belief Thu 24–Sun 27 August 2023, Boughton House [ad_2] Greenbelt Festival Source
Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Did you know that our wristbands are made from bamboo? We stopped using plastic wristbands in 2019, as part of our mission to be a single-use plastic-free festival. #greenerbelt is a journey. And we still have a way to go. That’s why we’re asking what your environmental challenge…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Whether you’re an arch-royalist, an arch-republican, or – like most of us – somewhere in between, you’re very welcome at Greenbelt. The important thing is that you can be yourself at Greenbelt and know that any dissenting views you might hold need not be silenced or kept hidden.…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We’re crowdfunding a large-format hardback book to celebrate our 50th. It will be full to the brim with reflections and tales, poems and prayers, each focussing on one word that means something special to Greenbelt and Greenbelters. Fifty different words for fifty years. Fifty different ways to see,…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Do you find camping a little… in tents? Do you, deep down, think that while you may indeed be canvas-curious, you may not be – whisper it – a real camper? As you know, at Greenbelt everyone is welcome. But not everyone has that tent-shaped hole in their…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] For those of you for whom the full four-days-in-a-field isn’t possible, today is – literally – the day. Day tickets are now available! Adult day tickets are £68, concessions are £35, under-18s are £20 and under-5s are completely free.* If you’re a regular day-tripper, then you may already…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Whether you are the first to head to the circus, the first to dance, the first to the bar, the first up at dawn, the last up gazing at stars, there is a space for you here. #GB50 #Greenbelt50 #GreenbeltFestival #Artistry #Activism #Belief Thu 24 – Sun 27…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] “⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Memorable moments from Sir David Attenborough’s wildlife documentaries spring to life on stage in the most surprising and delightful way.” – Adelaide Advertiser 50 years of theatre for all ages. See Attenborough and His Animals at Greenbelt Festival 2023. #GB50 #GreenbeltFestival #Artistry #Activism #Belief Thu 24–Sun 27…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] A friendly reminder that if you buy your Greenbelt tickets before Monday (1 May), you can spread the cost over the next four months. Your final payment would be in July. It’s interest-free, and, by buying now, you also help us out. https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/buy-tickets/ #GB50 #GreenbeltFestival #Artistry #Activism #Belief…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] “Murad laments his place in the world, singing, ‘My fate is out of my hands / No one understands my way of life / But in my hand is a glass of whiskey / And it still doesn’t quench me.’ The frustrations cover many layers between being a…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We’re working on a beautiful, large-format, full-colour, 256 page hardcover book to properly mark our 50th anniversary. We’re commissioning writers and thinkers, who know and value the space we make, to each pen a short reflection on one of 50 key words which cut deep to the heart…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We’re asking some of those folk who helped bring Greenbelt Festival to life over the last 50 years to write a little something about their memories. This month it’s the turn of Dot Reid and Nick Welsh to take us back to the 1990s, a decade that almost…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] “It only takes a little faith To move a mountain from its place Less taking, more giving You’ll be surprised at what you find” – Elles Bailey 50 years of being surprised at what we find. See British blues and roots artist Elles Bailey at Greenbelt Festival 2023.…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] “No matter how unique we may consider our own era, I think that these old tales – fairy, folk tales and myths – contain much of the paradox we face in these stormriven times. And what’s more they have no distinct author, are not wiggled from the penned…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We’re not sure about “endless” humans, but Pip is right: there is plenty to discover at Greenbelt Festival, and finding beautiful connections with other beautiful humans is definitely one of those. #GB50 #GreenbeltFestival #Artistry #Activism #Belief Thu 24 – Sun 27 August 2023, Boughton House [ad_2] Greenbelt Festival…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Get in the mood for summer by listening to our official Greenbelt Festival playlist on Spotify. With everything from American rock legends to a West African instrumentalist, there’s something for everyone. https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/2023-playlist #GB50 #GreenbeltFestival #GreenbeltPlaylist [ad_2] Greenbelt Festival Source
Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We did it! We reached our ticket goal. In fact – thanks to you – we exceeded it and so we don’t need to change our ticket prices. When we first came up with our pay-what-you-can ticketing model we knew it was a risk. And if it didn’t…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Our Easter extension is almost over. Get your tickets by midnight tonight (10th April) to help us prove that this radically fairer model really can work. After today, we’ll make a call on whether we’ll need to increase prices or not. Buying now also means you can pay…
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