Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Like us, lots of festivals are working hard to imagine and build a world where we can return to the fields even more environmentally and socially conscious than before the pandemic. Hearing your thoughts about sustainability post-pandemic is crucial to help us figure this out. So, if you…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] It’s #TransAwarenessWeek, and we’re reminded of our series one podcast conversation with Baroness Ruth Hunt back in the summer where she shared openly about her battle, as CEO of Stonewall, to get the organisation she led to take the T of LGBT as seriously as the LGB; and…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Phoebe Rison and her legendary Mama are going to be back in the kitchen on Thu 3 Dec, cooking up a delicious Palestinian Christmas meal. The mother-daughter duo are inviting us to create a taste of Palestine in our own homes, by teaching us how to make these…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] When there are so many global injustices Greenbelt could focus on, why do we make such a big deal about peace, justice and equal rights in modern-day Israel-Palestine? It’s a question we get asked a lot (understandably, when there is so much need, suffering and injustice in the…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Let’s face it, Christmas will feel different this year. To help us navigate this, we’re turning back to the story of that first Christmas, as told in the four gospels. But we’re adding a fifth, sixth and seventh gospel of our own, as we mine the creativity and…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] It’s #LivingWageWeek and we’re celebrating the strides that have been made in hundreds of thousands of low paid workers receiving pay rises because of the Living Wage UK movement! This year, more than ever, Greenbelt is proud to be a living wage employer and to be partnered with…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Buy your tickets before midnight on Saturday to get them for the reduced price of £150, what’s more, you can spread the cost of your ticket over six monthly instalments. We’ve got a huge range of offers for young people, leaders, +65s and more. https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/buy-tickets/ 27-30 August… More…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Back in episode 5 of our new podcast, Somewhere To Believe In, we talked with our friend Abdul-Rehman Malik about his love of coffee, the rituals of making it and drinking it, and the Muslim Sufi roots of the drink itself. It was a fascinating conversation and it…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] There’s just one week left to take advantage of our earlybird ticket offer. Get your tickets before 31 October and save £45. We’re offering subsidised tickets for 18-25 year-olds and a range of concessions, as well as £50 tickets for first-time faith and community leaders. In addition, you…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We know the world is a very strange place right now, but we’re still somewhere to believe in. Get your earlybird ticket now and join us next August for what we hope will be Greenbelt Festival IRL. Four days where art, faith and justice collide, and where artistry,…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Loving the look of this ‘The Power of Cultural Resistance’ webinar next Thursday (22nd Oct) at 6pm BST hosted by our good friends at Amos Trust and featuring Greenbelt speakers Ruth Daniel of In Place of War and Wisam Salsa, manager of Banksy’s The Walled Off Hotel in…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] In the first season of our new podcast we spoke with Ruth Hunt, the former CEO of Stonewall, lifelong campaigner for LGBTQI+ rights and a committed Catholic. Ruth talked clearly and passionately about the obsession of the institutional church and its leadership with human sexuality, when there is…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Given what we're living through right now, you'd be forgiven for not making plans for tomorrow, let alone next year! We get that. These are anxious and precarious times. But we all still need things to hope for, places to believe in. So we wanted to gently remind…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Is a feminist future in tech possible? On 13th October Greenbelter and Herstory founder Alice Wroe will be hosting a virtual event that stands against perpetuating the power structures of the past and looks into the technology of the future. Alice brings thought leaders from around the world…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Today, we're remembering our amazing conversation with Christian Aid CEO and all-round superwoman Amanda Khozi Mukwashi in episode two of our podcast Somewhere To Believe In http://bit.ly/gbpod-dignity Amanda now has her book out 'But Where Are You Really From?' in which she writes about her experience as a…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] In episode 7 of our podcast Somewhere To Believe In, we talked at length with Amelia Womack – Green Party Deputy Leader about her motivations, inspirations and vision. http://bit.ly/stbi-climate As a festival, Greenbelt has a long and committed interest in the environment, sustainability and climate change. The pandemic…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] While we can't predict what the world will look like next year, we're determined to bring Greenbelt Festival back to Boughton in 2021. Buying your ticket before 31 October not only means that you're getting the best price, but you can also choose spread the cost over six…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] If you were one of the lovely people that bought a pass for our Wild At Home digital festival – either for the August bank holiday weekend or during September – you will have received an email through our Box Office provider today asking you to take 10…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] "..we are tattooed with otherness yet still invisible…encountering a mountain of unconscious prejudice". These words, shared during the Greenbelt Festival 2018 Windrush-themed communion remain a strong reminder of the experiences faced by many Black women of the Windrush generation and the diaspora. One such woman was Averill Wauchope,…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] On the eve of Black History Month, we recognise that this year has been painfully significant for black communities around the world: disproportionately ravaged by Covid-19; suffering brutality and murder at the hands of those who are paid to protect and maintain the law; the face of the…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We’re wishing all Jewish communities a wonderful holy day today #YomKippur. We’re reminded of the wonderful diversity of Jewish voices we have been privileged to hear at Greenbelt over the years – from (dissident) speakers like Marc Ellis http://bit.ly/gbtalks-ellis to more mainstream Jewish leaders like Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] “I think, if you really step back, you see that the judicial process – the criminal law – is just kind of crazy. It doesn’t even attempt to do what it says on the packet… Of course prison doesn’t make people better, it’s a pointless process that tends…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] When we spoke to human rights lawyer and campaigner Clive Stafford Smith in episode 8 of our ‘Somewhere To Believe In’ podcast, he said that “true pacifism requires real courage.” On this #InternationalDayofPeace we want to remember and honour all those who have spoken at the festival over…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] “We need lots of forms of activism, but I think if we can be gentle we should start there. If we have to be more aggressive as a last term option then, possibly. But where possible I think we can be gentle, and thoughtful and considered.” Sarah Corbett,…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] “Life always provides reasons to not die if we listen hard enough.” Matt Haig Back in 2015 author Matt Haig introduced us to his book ‘Reasons to Stay Alive’. In the book, and his Greenbelt talk from that year, Matt speaks honestly about a breakdown that he suffered…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] “We’re a country obsessed with the idea that we were special and that the British Empire was a wonderful thing – something to be immensely proud of… [but] Brexit is part of the process of Britain finally realising that this is complete bunkum and always has been.” Danny…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] If you want all of our digital goodness in one place – Wild at Home livestreams, our free talks archive, our complete first series of podcasts, the whole kit and kaboodle, basically – then look no further than our Greenbelt App, which is available to download on the…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] The festival weekend might be over, but the g-store is still open! If you missed out on getting your Greenbelt Festival tee – for the first ever digital edition of the event! – do-not-fear, you can still order yours now. Best of all, *this weekend is free shipping*.…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Our earlybird tickets for Greenbelt Festival 2021 are now on sale! We don't have a crystal ball, but like everyone we're determined to bring the full-on hugging, singing, dancing, loving, sweating, shivering, drinking, crying, eating, praying and cheering version of Greenbelt back to Boughton next summer. (And if…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] If you’d like to make an offering today (as you would in the field at Greenbelt), you can online. Your giving will be split 50/50 – to support Christian Aid's vital Covid Relief work in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and for our Greenbelt ‘Imagination Fund’ – to commission…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] As well as the picnic, today is your last chance to watch the films in our cinema. Don't miss out on any of these… 🎬 Gaza – pictured – (2019, 1h 40m, Age 15+) Gaza brings us into a unique place beyond the reach of television news reports…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] I don't know about you, but after yesterday we're ready to slow down a bit! At 12:30 today we'll be streaming our pre-recorded *GREAT* Big Festival Picnic to our YouTube and Facebook channels. All are welcome to join, even if you didn't get a pass for the festival…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We’re on BBC Radio 4‘s Sunday Worship programme at 8:10 this morning – you can listen live or catch up here: BBC Radio 4 – Sunday Worship, Wild at home Paul Kerensa leads prayers and preaching from this year's online Greenbelt festival. [ad_2] Greenbelt Festival Source MORE RECENT…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] And it goes on! What’s been your favourite part of today? There are lots of wonderful events to choose from and still great things to come. #GBWildAtHomePeople’s Palace Projects, Hope&Social, Anna Tivel, Jake Isaac [ad_2] Greenbelt Festival Source MORE RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We wanted to let you know that we will be hoisting up the ‘Sold Out’ signs at some point in the next hour. We’ve been genuinely bowled over (and thrilled) at the huge demand for our virtual festival. Capacity isn’t an issue for the streamed shows and talks,…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Matthew David Morris first came to Greenbelt in 2018 and he stole our hearts away. As well as having the voice of an Angel, his pastoral sensitivity and wisdom akin to Brené Brown soothed our troubled minds. We’re pretty sure he’ll do the same again at Wild at…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] After his Greenbelt debut last summer, we’re delighted that the insightful and provocative Jamie Bartlett is back to help us think about what a post-pandemic world might look like. Author of three books – The People Vs Tech, Radicals and The Dark Net, Jamie’s main interests are in…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] In Place of War works with grassroots arts-activists all over the world, using their creativity as a form of resistance and hope in the face of violence and conflict. We’re privileged to welcome three of their change-makers – Brazilian cultural producers Ana Karla and Thiago Jesus (People's Palace…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We’re so excited that our all-Palestinian panel as part of Wild at Home will include teenage activist Ahed Tamimi, from the village of Nabi Salih in the occupied West Bank in the Palestinian territories. Best known for confronting Israeli soldiers, in December 2017 she was detained by Israeli…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Next Sunday, we’ll be inviting you to share in The Great Big Festival Picnic with us at 12.30. To make the most of our time together, you’ll need: a 10x10cm piece of paper (and things to decorate it with); a picnic; people to share it with (within the…
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