Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] OK, so we might not be coming together face-to-beautiful-face at the end of August in Boughton's grounds, but we will still be coming together for a virtual weekend-long shindig. Wild at Heart might not be happening, but #WildAtHome🌱 will be. Also there will be t-shirts. So get your…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Welcome to another week of #WildAtHome🌱. We’re really excited to finally take the dustsheets off our brand spanking new podcast this week and show you what we've been working on. The first episode will be released on Friday 10th July, but you can listen to the trailer and…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Back on 18th June, we had the privilege of hosting a transatlantic conversation with black Christians from the UK and US on the church’s complicity in racial injustice. It was an amazing conversation, hosted by Greenbelt trustee, Chine McDonald, together with Anthony G Reddie, Selina Stone, Jemar Tisby…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We've got a very special Rising show on Tuesday 7th July. Our friend @martynjosephwales is welcoming the brilliant @crysmatthewsmusic onto his show and… We. Cannot. Wait. Jokingly referring to herself – the black lesbian daughter of a preacher – as "the poster child for intersectionality", Crys is the…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] As talk of Annexation builds, throwing the idea of a two-state solution into even more disarray, we thought it would be good to revisit the urgent words from Palestinian community leader and activist Sami Awad, speaking at last year’s sun-baked Greenbelt 2019. While the occupation of Palestinians continues…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Here’s a guest blog from our partner Christian Aid, written by Rev. Alton P Bell, senior pastor at the black majority Wembley Family Church in London. In it, he reflects on Pentecost in the light of Covid-19, Windrush and George Floyd – reminding us that lament is sometimes…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Joining Harry Baker tonight for his Woken Spurred showcase is Longfella: Poet Tony Walsh – an ordinary bloke with an extraordinary talent and a remarkable story. Overcoming childhood poverty and illness, then working everyday jobs in the communities of his beloved home city of Manchester, he has risen…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We’ve got loads coming your way again this week as part of #GBWildAtHome🌱 – starting with Harry Baker's spoken word show, Woken Spurred. This time Harry is joined by Manchester-born poet Longfella: Poet Tony Walsh. Later in the week, we’ll be reflecting on Sami Awad's talk from last…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] In 2017 a young girl took her life believing that God didn’t love lesbians. At the same time, the church continued to give the impression that the ‘gay’ debate is all about what clergy can and can’t do, rather than how we all deal with diversity. Every year…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] June is Pride Month, so it is the perfect time to share The Reading Agency's favourite LGBTQ+ positive books for children and young people as part of the #SummerReadingChallenge. These books highlight family dynamics and stories to help develop the values of acceptance and kindness towards themselves and…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Our YouTube Channel is where it’s at for much of our #GBWildAtHome🌱 digital summer (livestream and pre-record). But it’s always been somewhere to take a look at who and what Greenbelt is and who we’re for. From short-form talks to exclusive acoustic performances and in-conversation pieces to poetry…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Continuing to keep a welcome in the hillside in these socially distant times, one of Greenbelt’s favourite sons, Martyn Joseph, welcomes his latest singer-songwriter guest to share their craft and their material with him in The Rising. His guest tonight has been described by The Guardian as ‘one…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We're delighted to be able to publish this excerpt of an in-depth High Profiles interview with David Lammy MP on Windrush Day. In the full interview, conducted by festival friend Huw Spanner on Skype in May, David talks openly and at length about his upbringing, his views on…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Today we pause and look back to our festival communion service at #gb18 – Windrush and Carnival Communion. We livestreamed the service that year and the film is on our Youtube here: https://bit.ly/gb-windrush In a summer that is likely to lack any carnival gatherings and where many of…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We’re really thrilled and privileged to be able to stream a transatlantic conversation between black faith leaders, writers, thinkers and activists on both sides of the pond – curated and hosted by Greenbelt trustee, Chine McDonald. Here’s what Chine says about the conversation … Martin Luther King famously…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Martin Luther King famously once said: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Stirred by the injustice of George Floyd’s killing in the US, churches and faith leaders in this country have been moved to action along with thousands of protestors here and abroad. But what role…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] The Summer Reading Challenge launched on Friday 5th with a free new digital platform. If you missed the Let’s Get Silly launch party then take a look at this video from Harry and Chris performing the Summer Reading Challenge theme song! #GBWildAtHome #SIllySquad2020 [fb_vid autoplay= “true” id=”photo_id”:”262241944838515″”][fb_vid autoplay=…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] This summer we’re commissioning festivalgoer-writers to reflect on their experiences of learning to live with the new normal, of continuing to find heaven in ordinary. Subscribe to our blog to be alerted to all the latest thought-pieces from great Greenbelt writers. http://greenbelt.org.uk/dispatches/ In our #GBWildAtHome🌱guest blog today, Katherine…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Our youngest Greenbelt trustee, Molly Boot, goes head-to-head with other young hopefuls in the second annual Theology Slam. Go Molly! The final will see the best young theological minds in the country grappling with some of the biggest issues of our day: Sam Hodson will speak on theology…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We’ve got a lot of #GBWildAtHome🌱 goodness for you to get involved with this week, including Harry Baker's Woken Spurred – this time with his special guest, the powerful and inspirational poet Josh Idehen. Later in the week, we’re proud to be bringing black faith leaders, writers, thinkers…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] As the eighth in the series, last weekend’s edition of Simon Cross’ Liturgy in Dangerous Times focuses on #BlackLivesMatter and the struggle for racial justice in the face of continued white supremacy and features only the voices of people of colour. Download it here: https://bit.ly/gbwah-blm-liturgy With thanks to…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Make sure you don’t miss out on livestreams, films and brilliant archive material this summer. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and receive gentle (we promise) digital nudges each time we’ve got something new to share. We’re opening up the vaults this summer with everything from GTV shorts to…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Today we’re sharing a powerful talk from Sahar Vardi, an Israeli who refused military service and was imprisoned in 2008. Today she’s an activist based in Jerusalem, and in this 2017 Greenbelt talk ‘Israel, its Military, and Us’, she probes militarism in Israeli society. How are children taught…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We’re honoured and beyond excited to have Joshua Idehen joining Harry Baker for next week’s edition of Woken Spurred (Tue 16th @ 8pm on YouTube). But before that, make sure to watch Idehen reading his incredibly powerful poem #blacksays [ad_2] Greenbelt Festival Source MORE RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Join us tonight at 8pm on YouTube for a livestream of Martyn Joseph‘s The Rising with special guest John Smithhttps://bit.ly/gblive-rising-3 #GBWildAtHome🌱 [ad_2] Greenbelt Festival Source MORE RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Tuesday is looking like a pretty special one. We’re proud to be bringing you Martyn Joseph and The Rising, with John Smith, one of the UK’s finest guitarists and songwriters, as his special guest. Ben Howard calls him ‘a magician’. So join Martyn, John (and us) for some…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] The shocking murder of George Floyd is the latest horrific example of a centuries-old sickness we all suffer from to some extent, whether we realise it or not. As a predominantly white festival we need to keep working to better understand our complicity in the systemic racism that…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Reading makes us better humans. As Neil Gaiman says about the power of fiction on children: “You get to feel things, visit places and worlds you would never otherwise know. You learn that everyone else out there is a me, as well. You’re being someone else, and when…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] ⚡️ EPISODE 05 ft. Basement Jaxx – Homeskool Beatbox Adventures with Shlomo This week we're asking everyone at home to be part of a unique experiment so you'll need to bring some extra bits with you: 1. 🎥 a second device to film yourself on during the show…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We’re cancelling our Woken Spurred show with Harry Baker and Erin Bolens tonight. We and the poets need to stand in solidarity with all those muting their own voices and agendas today so that we can listen harder to all the voices of those whose struggle is for…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We really hope you've enjoyed the last five weeks of #GBWildatHome🌱, our daily attempt to bring you a light dusting of festival magic during lockdown. We’ll be carrying on through June, but with a different rhythm. We'll be alternating our Tuesdays livestreams with two of our favourite performers,…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Space2Breathe works with us to create the spirituality and wellbeing programming and provision we offer. Through their curation of the festival Chapel space and their own Sshhh… sessions they have become a much-loved staple of our weekend. They should have been with us again this year, but we…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We’re so excited to partner with In Place of War for their show at 8pm on Saturday. IPoW use artistic creativity as a tool for positive change. Tonight they take over our Facebook and YouTube to bring us something very special. Via Tunisia and now NYC, singer Emel…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Garry Rutter is a member of St Luke’s Church, Holloway and a long-term Greenbelter. In fact, he was a co-host on the festival’s first ever podcast series, way back in 2009. He’s a modest and unassuming contributor to The Book of Queer Prophets and we love this little…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] ⚡️ EPISODE 04 ft. Dr Radha – Homeskool Beatbox Adventures with Shlomo Record-breaking beatboxer SK Shlomo is hosting weekly mass beatbox lessons right here to help kids and raise money for NHS Charities Together Weekly special guests include KT Tunstall, Bill Bailey, Basement Jaxx, Jason Mraz, Bastille and…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] We love the work that Sarah Corbett does through her gentle form of activism, craftivism, and the Craftivist Collective – and the spirit with which she does it. It might just be that her ‘activism for introverts’ is the perfect form of protest right now. After all, if…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] Martyn Joseph, our very own talisman and troubadour, is back tonight with his inimitable warmth and artistry, in a songwriting circle show he’s made all his own – The Rising. His very special guest for this week’s edition is Boston-based singer-songwriter Antje Duvekot. Having toured extensively in the…
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Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt [ad_1] What happens when everything stops? We’ve got poet and long-term Greenbelter Anthony Wilson today on learning to live with lockdown and what he’s rediscovered. “Gradually and sometimes painfully, sitting in silence is teaching me to shed my activist-self for something much quieter and more present. I don’t always…
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