Heaven in ordinary 24—27 August Cheltenham Racecourse www.greenbelt.org.uk Festival Guide £7
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Useful information Welcome Don’t Miss Angels Christian Aid Campaign Music Youth All-age Greenbelt The Tank Talks The Hub Literature The Hub Visual Arts Film G–Store Generous G–Source Partners Comedy Performing Arts Worship Trust Greenbelt Volunteers Credits Angels form
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Before you get started… some useful information about Greenbelt 2007
Welcome to Greenbelt Sit and relax in the new style Arena and enjoy a short film specially made for the opening of the Festival. Friday 17.20 Mainstage
Come along to these sessions if… it’s your 1st time at Greenbelt A panel of Greenbelt veterans and planners will do their best to answer any questions that you might have and help make your Festival experience a little less overwhelming. Friday 18.00 Sovereign
you’ve come on your own? Don’t let it stay that way! Pop into the Angel Lounge for a cuppa, a chat, to meet others and to get some tips on enjoying the Festival to the max. Saturday 11.15 Angels
or visit the Solo Greenbelter session. Whether you’ve been coming to Greenbelt for years or it’s your first time, you are welcome to come and meet others who are on their own. Positively NO speed dating, but a chance to mingle and talk to others. Run by Christian Connection. Friday 20.30 Sovereign
you’ve got something to say about Greenbelt Have your say about the Festival this year – the good, the not so good and the beautiful. Monday 16.00 Sovereign
you would like to become a volunteer Find out more about joining our volunteer team (or visit the Angel Lounge and sign up) Monday 10.30 Winged Ox
Access Greenbelt welcomes those with disabilities or special needs and is committed to making the Festival as accessible as possible. An Accessibility Guide – with access routes and other useful information - is available from the Info Booth as well as some large print information for the visually impaired. They will also try to sort out any problems you have. Also available is The Ark– a rest and recuperation room for those with disabilities and their carers. Run daily by L’Arche. 10.00–17.00
Bus service
Information
A free environmentally-friendly shuttle bus is available all weekend, running on 100% Bio-Diesel. In conjunction with EBICo Ltd. Route – Cheltenham Spa train station, Cheltenham coach station, town centre, Hardwick campus, and the Racecourse.
Located near the Arena, the Info Booth is the place to go with all your Festival questions.
Friday–Sunday: 09.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12.00, 20.00, 21.00, 22.00, 23.00 Tuesday: 08.00, 09.00, 10.00, 11.00
Cash Points Can be found in the Hall of Fame and the Centaur Foyer (please be respectful of exhibitions and events when queuing). Access to Centaur is limited. Cash-back is also available in the G-Store.
First Aid Facilities and treatment are available in the Medical Centre (in the Weighing Room by the Arena) from experienced firstaiders and health professionals.
Food Collection Please bring unwanted, non perishable to the designated place in the G-Source from 16.30 on Monday until 11.00 on Tuesday. Sealed packets, tins etc only please. This is to be distributed amongst destitute asylum seekers and others in need.
Lost Property Find out where it can be retrieved at the Info Booth during the Festival. Afterwards go to www.loststuff.co.uk/ festivals/greenbelt
Organic Beer Tent and Winged Ox Please be aware that as these venues are licensed to sell alcohol, under 18s will only be admitted if accompanied by a supervising adult.
Our Stuff We invest lots in ‘vibing’ the site and making it look great each year. So please don’t mistreat the banners, flags, sculptures etc as we will lovingly re-use them. We know people like to take reminders home, but please buy something from the G-Store! Also no stickers or flyers please or we’ll slap the cleaning bill on you! Thanks.
Pastoral Support If you need someone to talk with about current struggles, a difficult experience or issues emerging over the weekend, you can talk with one of our professionally qualified counsellors, male or female, in private. Sessions last up to an hour and can be booked to suit you. This is a free service offered for the duration of the Festival only. 17.00–19.00 Friday; 10.00–19.00 Saturday & Sunday; 10.00 –19.00 Monday Hatton’s Grace
(If you need emergency support outside these times please go to Medical Centre.) Also in Hatton’s Grace Outerspace Affirming Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Transgendered Christians. Hosting interviews, Q&A’s, reflection and worship for anyone wanting to understand more of what it means to be a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Straight or Transgendered Christian. Friday & Sunday 19.30
S:VOX Support groups for abuse survivors. Sessions only for people who have experienced abuse – sexual, emotional, physical or spiritual – as a child or an adult. S:VOX comes together to share our experiences, recognising
that we are all at different places in our journey. You are welcome to come along at any time, to share or just listen and ‘be’. The groups will run for two hours, and then the space will remain open for informal support. There will also be information about support and healing resources available nationally; and the opportunity to network informally with S:VOX members at other times during the Festival. Saturday & Monday 19.30
Photography & Filming In attending Greenbelt, you give permission for the Festival to use photographic and video footage that may include you – deliberately or inadvertently. Explicit permission will always be sought before under 18s are filmed or photographed without their parent or guardian.
Showers Run by the YMCA, showers are available all weekend. Pop into the YMCA 24-hour cafe from 17.00 Friday and purchase a £3 ticket for a 15-minute shower. Tickets are sold on a firstcome-first-served-basis.
Special dietary needs
Tickets for GB08
Ask at the Info Booth about onsite caterers who offer suitable dishes.
Can be purchased at the best discounts onsite at the Box Office.
Speed Dating Back by popular demand, Christian Connection is running its Speed Dating event. Unattached Greenbelters get together for a succession of 10–15 mini dates, each lasting about three minutes. Saturday Sign up 13.30–16.00 Winged Ox Speed dating 19.15 Blake
Student Space Panel discussions just for students brought to you by SCM, Christian Aid, SPEAK and others. A Lazy Student’s Guide to Activism 20.00 Saturday Sovereign Out of the PJs and into the World 21.00 Sunday Sovereign
Taxis Want to get to Mainstage in a hurry? Don’t fancy walking back to the campsite? Then hop aboard a Greenbelt Taxi! Electric golf buggies are available to transport festivalgoers around the site, for only £1 a ride. Book a taxi by calling the number advertised on the buggies or alternatively stop one as they roam the site. In conjunction with EBICo Ltd.
Monday 11am–4pm.
Venue clearing Following feedback, wherever possible most venues won’t be cleared between performances this year. However, if you arrive early for something, you may still be asked to queue to avoid disrupting the performance.
a welcome from the chair.
Dear Greenbelter, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Things Welcome once again to Cheltenham Racecourse for the 34th Greenbelt Festival. What a way to end the summer! This year’s theme ‘Heaven in Ordinary’ reflects many things – one of which is how this extraordinary event is all made possible by the generous work of countless ‘ordinary’ people: volunteers, staff members, speakers, musicians … and you. So thank you, all of you, for making Greenbelt what it is – the most colourful, hopeful and inspiring Festival we know of. So, what about some of the heavenly highlights? John Tavener has interwoven divine music and voices and ordinary people into his very extraordinary body of work. Sister Francis Dominica has made it her life’s work to bring a bit of ordinary life to children suffering incurable illnesses. Marc Ellis’ heart is to see normal life restored to the countless broken lives in the land supposedly called ‘Holy’. And Chas and Dave are the very definition of what is heavenly about the ordinary. It would be too easy to hallow these people as extraordinary, and resign ourselves to never reaching their heights. But each has simply taken the gifts they have, and woven something amazingly hopeful out of the ordinary stuff of life. We, too, can weave hope from our everyday actions. And in our vigil on climate change in the Arena on Saturday night, we invite you to join us to reflect on how we can together, through very ordinary things, make a huge difference. As ever, with the help of your feedback, we continue to develop the site. The Arena stage has been switched around to give better views and access and we have a brand new literature and arts hub. We’ve continued to make special efforts to ensure all festival-goers of all ages are made to feel as welcome as possible. One group of extraordinary people who do make a direct, tangible difference to Greenbelt are our regular supporters, the Angels. We’d love you to join them and become an Angel this weekend. You’ll not only be contributing to the future life of Greenbelt, but feel more involved in the Greenbelt community year-round. Finally, I must say thank you to the Racecourse and its Managing Director Edward Gillespie; to our hardworking office staff; to the Trustees and Management Group; to the Programming Group, who have worked particularly hard this year to pull in some of the best that all the arts have to offer; to our marvellous Festival Operations Team; to the 1000s of volunteers who help make the Festival happen; to our partners Christian Aid and DFID, and our Festival Associates; to Cheltenham and the local community for its support; and to you all for making Greenbelt such an amazing and very-far-from ordinary place. So enjoy the weekend! Enjoy the colour and celebration of four festive days, all to prepare ourselves to continue to find heaven in the ordinary stuff of life when we, unfortunately, have to leave!
Karen Napier on behalf of the Greenbelt Trustees, Management Group and Staff
This is no ordinary time.
It seems our summer has become awash with festivals. From May right through until September hardly a weekend goes by without some under-canvas celebration of music or the arts. Perhaps you’ve been to a festival already this summer. Or perhaps this is your first. Either way, you’ll have felt the excitement build, and put out special clothes to wear, and reconciled yourself to eating some slightly different things for the next few days. This is what festivals are: times to step out of the ordinary. So why have a festival themed around ‘Heaven In Ordinary’? In the Christian calendar, ‘Ordinary Time’ is the time when there are no special colours around the church… the time when there isn’t a festival to celebrate. What?! No festival? For Greenbelters, that means that ‘ordinary time’ is over 51 weeks of the year. Is one week enough? Can our faith’s lectionary survive on one festival a year? Can our souls cope with one week of colour, one annual glimpse of heaven? Of course not. And here’s the secret, here’s why we called this Festival ‘Heaven In Ordinary’: while you’ve been travelling here to Cheltenham, we’ve been out and hidden heaven back where you live. And all we’re going to give you this weekend are clues about how to find it when you return. Back at work. Back at school. Back in the everyday. We come to celebrate with our bags packed with special clothes, our stomachs ready for special food and drink, our ears and eyes ready for four feast days, our hearts hoping for some sunny sign from heaven. And we’ll enjoy sharing every minute of that. But we
must also come to prepare ourselves to go. To go back and find heaven in the ordinary. A dictionary would tell you that the opposite of ‘spiritual’ is ‘mundane’. But we disagree. Dig below the surface and we know that, as the writer of the underground comic American Splendour put it, ‘ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.’ From the explosion of blogs right back to the birth of a boy to a carpenter in a nowhere town, we want to affirm the spirit in the everyday, to acknowledge that history is changed through the sum-total of ordinary people’s actions. In 1937 a letter to the New Statesman invited people to join in a project of ‘anthropology at home.’ Asking ordinary people to watch and study ‘the behaviour of people at war memorials, shouts and gestures of motorists, beards, armpits, eyebrows and female taboos about eating’. The organisation ‘Mass Observation’ was born, and with it a challenge to the notion that history consists solely of the lives of great men. There are some great men and women here this weekend. But the greatness of this Festival, and its power to change the world, lies right here in the ordinary. Where have we put heaven? Here is the first clue: heaven is not about observing Mass; it is about a place where, as John Davies would put it ‘ordinary human beings are accepted as they are, and where what they do, however routine, is valued and affirmed.’ What a great place to begin this Festival of four very extraordinary days. Kester Brewin
Heaven in a Box Pick out seven things not to Heaven in a Box is a large-scale participatory arts miss at this year’s Festival. project that will grow and develop over the Festival. Each package that went out with wristbands from the It’s like one of those office this summer contained a flat-pack box for you to up. Each box is your very own tiny gallery space, impossible questions down the make with your very own art exhibition entitled ‘Heaven in pub. Do you go for the blinding Ordinary’. you add your box to the thousands of others, they brilliant, but obvious, stuff. Or As will form an evolving installation, which will, when finished, only be viewable by hand-held torches dig out some hidden treasures it’s - a magical chamber never visible as a whole, with multiple ‘takes’ on this year’s theme. Small is no one will have thought of? beautiful. Either way, it’s bound to cause debate. That’s the point: there Bassline are thousands of wonderful You won’t be able to miss the Big Top in the middle of the Racecourse. But don’t expect old-fashioned things to see this weekend. clowns or juggling elephants, because inside is a manic experiment in genetically modified circus. How could anyone possibly Cleverly combining mind-blowing high-wire antics filter the highlights down to with street arts and beats, ‘Advertigo’ demolishes the culture of commercial advertising and provides a a few pages? Well, to have a dizzying rollercoaster ride of multi-media madness mayhem with some of the best breakbeat, digital stab at the impossible, here’s and graffiti, vj-ing, scratching and circus acts you’re likely see all year. Drawing from their roots in raves in the my ‘Not To Miss’ selection for to90’s, which saw them take free parties into war zones, Bassline are a circus the likes of which you’ve never you to argue over. Ben da Costa Programme Manager
seen before. There are spectacular skills on display: trapeze, bungee, Chinese pole, juggling and silks, but these are all re-imagined, with a thumping bassline, as part of ‘Mr Everyman’ – the luckiest consumer in the West. Fun, funny and bursting with energy, you’ve got to experience it to believe it! May contain some strong language and mild sexual reference.
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Peterson Toscano
Duke Special
Peterson Toscano, a US-based performance activist, uses comedy and theatre to explore the spiritual dimensions behind difficult issues. Lauded for his flawless transformations between characters, his piece last year exploring his attempts to ‘become heterosexual’ was a huge hit at the Festival, drawing people through laughter and tears towards broader understanding of sexuality.
While he may not quite be a real Duke, he certainly makes up for it in specialness. Dynamic, musically ambitious and charmingly eccentric, Duke Special is wowing the world with his lush but intimate musicality. Hailing from Belfast, any man who can rhyme the words ‘clown’ and ‘Frankenstein’ and call their sound ‘hobo-chic’ must be one to look out for.
Peterson is back this year with his new piece ‘The Re-Education of George Bush.’ Through a lively series of lessons, he playfully instructs President Bush and his cabinet on history, the economy, privilege, environmentalism, the Bible and humanity. Promising to be bitingly funny and painfully insightful, Peterson will take no prisoners as he speaks to the George W. Bush in all of us.
Mona Siddiqui Mona Siddiqui is the Professor of Islamic Studies and Public Understanding and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Islam at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Glasgow. One of the UK’s leading Muslim theologians, she is uniquely placed to address some of the most important theological questions of our times: whether theology itself is always destined to be a divisive force in society, or whether it can actually work to bring us together. Exploring classical and contemporary Islamic thinking on God and faith, society and authority, pluralism and mission, this promises to be a hugely significant talk. Get there if you can, or buy or download it after the Festival. Either way, you know this one cannot be missed.
Go4th&X ‘Go Forth and Multiply’ is the very cheeky title given to an equally cheeky way of getting round our sound curfew: bring your own little radio to Bassline each night after hours, tune it to Greenbelt FM (87.7) and the fine people of Cardiff’s Graceland will serve up a delicious late-night platter of tunes, fun and games. Wind-up radios available in G-Store.
‘My sound is a bit vagabondy, but pure and soulful too,’ explains Peter Wilson, as he’s known to his friends. ‘Before this I was desperately trying to find my voice and the kind of music that really sat well with who I was. I’d been in a couple of rock bands, but I always imagined people of all ages at our concerts.’ You can generally find Peter surrounded by an old gramophone, a velvet-encased piano, Stumpf fiddles and a collection of makeshift instruments. He is often joined by a small coterie of equally eccentric musicians including show-stealing percussionist Chip Bailey. The Duke has also shared a stage with a host of artists including Rufus Wainwright and Van Morrison - the latter a big influence. ‘What I’m trying to put across is something that’s more than just a singer-songwriter playing his songs. I want it to be a show that moves people, but entertains them too.’ Moving and entertaining? That’ll be Special.
Black Gold ‘Wake up and smell the coffee’ is the tired cliché. ‘Wake up and pick it’ is the tiring, back-breaking work that millions of coffee farmers have to endure to make sure we get our tall-skinny-lattes. While they live on less than 25p per day – and what does that get you in Starbucks? – the £40 billion profits the coffee industry creams off are making some cats very fat. A powerful and moving documentary, Black Gold brings light to these truths, and makes it clear what we need to do about it. Full-strength, fresh and with a powerful kick, this is a caffeinated wake-up call for all of us.
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Who are the Angels?
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Greenbelt Angels are committed friends of the Festival who put their money where their heart is by making regular gifts to the festival.
Angels can be found in G-Source with their own lounge right next to Pru’s Café and the chocolate fountain – what a heavenly spot! This is the place to meet other Angels, sign up to become one, spread your wings, update your details or sort out any queries with Jo Thompson and her team.
They currently provide nearly 15% of our income, which is genuinely securing Greenbelt’s future, making sure there will be a Festival here for the next generation. But being an Angel isn’t all about cash. Angels are close to the beating heart of the Festival throughout the year. They get news and updates in Wing and a Prayer as well as an exclusive area on the Greenbelt website. Angels receive special offers, and there are occasional get-togethers featuring some of our best-loved speakers. So, if you’d like to do a heavenly ordinary thing this weekend, fly round to the Angel Lounge in G-Source and join the throng. Or you can fill in the form at the back of this guide or download a form from the Angel section of our website, contact the office on angels@greenbelt.org.uk
It’s our way of saying peace and thanks for Greenbelt An Angel
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You can also collect an Angel discount card, which enables Angels to bag some special offers around the Festival, or snap up a specially designed Richard Baxter mug, or even get a booking form for the 2008 Greenbelt / Iona pilgrimage. Other special events include: Festival newcomers coffee If this is your first visit to Greenbelt and you need a little help orientating yourself, or want somewhere to hook up with someone, then Dean Ayres and Alex Logan will be on hand to hold your hand. 11.15 Saturday Afternoon tea with the Angels Scripture Union’s new ‘Wise Traveller’ books are for anyone seeking wonder in ordinary life – come and be inspired. 16.00 Daily Perfect Pairings Divine Chocolate and fairly traded wines. We’ll tell you what goes with what. 14.30 Sunday The knitting circle! Bring wool, needles, patterns and some chatter! 11.00 Monday
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Saturday 10am Surefish pub quiz 11am Q&A with Bishop Nelson from Uganda Sunday 12.30 Am I a commodity? Monday 10am Get to know an overseas marcher from the Cut the Carbon march 11am Spark up to change the world!
climate changed Christian Aid? Campaigning on Global Warming? So is Trade Justice passé now, and climate change just another bandwagon to jump on? That’ll be a no. We’re not done with Trade Justice, but that’s precisely why we’re emphasising environmental issues: Trade Justice and climate change are intimately connected. We have had some important wins in the Trade Justice campaign. The UK government has promised to stop forcing poor countries to open up their markets as a condition attached to British aid, and to press the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to do the same. These steps forward are excellent, but we are concerned that climate change may undermine some of the progress. Many of the farming communities we work with in Africa, for instance, struggle not only because of too many cheap imports, but also
because of lower yields due to drier weather and more unpredictable rains. Trade is extremely important to these people, but to trade effectively they also need reliable, good quality crops. Christian Aid is campaigning on climate change because it is already happening and it is hitting the poor hardest. Our emissions are not just an environmental issue. They are a Trade Justice issue. So our aim is to commit the government to cut the UK’s CO2 emissions by at least 80% by 2050, and to require companies to report their annual carbon footprint accurately. It’s time to Cut the Carbon. There will be lots of campaigning activities that we will be hosting around the site, so look out for them and get on board!
Carbon Dating Family game (see opposite)
14.00 Saturday Arena
Climate Change Vigil All programming stops as we reflect on what we can do to bring hope (20 minutes). Congregate in the Arena or pause where you are. 23.00 Saturday Arena (and around site)
The Travelling Eco-House Based on Christian Aid’s eco-house at Grand Designs Live (NEC) and the Eden Project, this installation exhibition represents hope in the face of climate change. It highlights how Christian Aid is helping communities all over
the world to embrace low cost sustainable ways of living, adapt to climate change and reduce the risk of disaster. Explore the four room-cumcontinents of the Eco-House to see what you can do to adapt your home and become more eco-friendly, curbing your carbon emissions.
All weekend Hall of Fame
Climate Change Panel See p.54 16.30 Monday Blake
Climate Changed: Let’s Cut the Carbon.
Ordinary this won’t be, and even if heaven is in the ear of the beholder, we’re bound to have something that’ll pick you up by the lobes and transport you into musical paradise.
shake down your tympanic membrane. music
Rosie Thomas
Billy Bragg
Soweto Kinch
Sir John Tavener
Her first solo record label was the ultra-hip Sub Pop, and she’s just worked with best mate Sufjan Stevens on her new album; endorsement enough for us! Rosie Thomas’ trademark is a folksy, breathy, fragile vocal sprinkled over sparse musical arrangements; simple yet captivating.
Billy Bragg released his first album, Life’s a Riot, almost twenty-five years ago. Dubbed ‘Britain’s finest rock poet’ by the NME, he has collaborated with Johnny Marr, Natalie Merchant, REM and the late lamented Kirsty MacColl. But almost as much as for his music, Billy is known for his humanitarian commitments – politicised by Margaret Thatcher, he supported the Miners’ Strike of 1984/85 and formed Red Wedge, an alliance of left-leaning musicians, in support of Neil Kinnock’s Labour party in 1987.
Soweto Kinch is the very definition of hot stuff. Blending jazz and hip-hop - alto sax in one hand, mic in the other - the buzz around him just keeps getting louder: Best Jazz Act at MOBO 2003; first album nominated for the 2003 Mercury prize; best instrumentalist and best band at the 2004 BBC Jazz Awards, and that’s just for starters. He’s feted by jazz cognoscenti on both sides of the pond but he won’t be tied down to narrow categories: Soweto ‘kicks pure jazz and authentic rap into a brave new world’, reckons the Guardian.
There are very few composers who have made a large impact on music in their own lifetimes; fewer still who can be said to have impacted the wider public consciousness. John Tavener is one such musician. Exploding onto the scene in 1968 he premiered no fewer than six works, one of which – ‘The Whale’ – was released on The Beatles’ own label, Apple. Only a year later, and still in his midtwenties, Tavener was installed as Professor of Composition at Trinity College.
Billy has been a busy boy ever since, and recently released his part-autobiography, partpolemic ‘Progressive Patriot’ – which, like all his work, examines questions of identity, belonging and Britishness.
Soweto Kinch - his real name; how cool is that? - counts Gary Crosby, Courtney Pine and Denys Baptiste as mentors, and his musical style is often likened to that of Joe Harriott, the legendary alto sax-playing free-form jazzer. Growing up on Birmingham’s tough Handsworth estate, and going on to study History at Oxford, Kinch is a living and breathing melting pot of influences who draws inspiration from a wide range of sources.
She started her musical career in Seattle, the town that brought us Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain, playing with a band called Velour 100 in the late 90s before going down the solo route, during which she’s brought out four albums. Her latest release, ‘These Friends Of Mine’, consists of recordings made over a twoyear period with no particular timetable and no initial thought of releasing them. ‘Whether you are a musician, painter, or whatever, there is a passion that sometimes gets lost because all of the sudden you have to clock in or have deadlines,’ Rosie says. ‘I sort of wanted to get back to that time when I played music for nothing.’ This laid-back approach to her craft has produced an organic thing of beauty including, among many delights, a take on REM’s ‘The One I Love’ which wouldn’t be out of place on the soundtrack of The Wicker Man. Rosie also performs as a stand-up comedian under the alter ego of Sheila Saputo. We don’t know if she’ll be cracking one-liners at Greenbelt, but we do know that Entertainment Weekly calls her “a moonlighting comic with an earth-angel voice”. Heavenly. 15.45 Sunday Centaur
Live, the Bard of Barking is a captivating performer. Greenbelt 2003 saw him sharing a mainstage billing with The London Community Gospel Choir, Aqualung and The Polyphonic Spree (the latter including – did you spot him? – Billy in full choir robes at the back) – a defining moment in the Festival’s selfunderstanding and history. The thousands who joined him singing Jerusalem (the hairs on the backs of their necks standing as straight as the crowd) will treasure the gig, the moment, for a long time to come. It is a great pleasure to welcome back so soon someone we are proud to call a friend. 21.35 Friday Mainstage + Talk on Bill of Rights 11.00 Saturday Centaur
He’s recently developed an interest in Britain’s black population of the 17th and 18th centuries and the African influences they would have brought to bear on the music of the era. Soweto’s not afraid of making difficult music. He’s aware this might hamper his commercial success - ‘the shops won’t put my album in the urban music section. They put it in the jazz basement’ - but his output is all the more glorious for its diversity. Let’s leave the last word to the New York Times. ‘[Soweto] demonstrates what England has to teach us about narrative hip-hop...[and has] one of the best sounding new jazz groups I’ve heard lately. Don’t sleep on Mr Kinch.’ 20.00 Sunday Mainstage
The avant-garde style of his early work was gradually replaced by works of intense, contemplative beauty — a deeply intuitive, heart-centred approach to composition being compounded by his conversion to the Orthodox Church, in 1977. The universally spiritual nature of his more recent works have drawn people to call on him in times of great public significance – ‘Song for Athene’ at Diana’s funeral and ‘A New Beginning’ at the Dome as the last minutes of the millennium drew to a close. Now knighted, he is currently working on a large-scale choral work ‘The Beautiful Names’, celebrating the ninety-nine names of Allah, and a Requiem to be premiered in 2008 in Liverpool for the city’s European Capital of Culture celebrations. All of which makes us even more grateful that he has found the time to come to Greenbelt 07. 21.00 Sunday Centaur + Interview 12.30 Monday Blake
music 17–17
Coldcut presents Journeys by VJ The Guardian’s Alexis Petridis calls them ‘dance producers at the top of their game’ - quite a feat when you consider they’ve been at it twenty years. The Times reckons their most recent release ‘recalls Massive Attack at their distant peak’, but Coldcut represent something considerably more eclectic. Matt Black and Jonathan More, in collaboration with a host of artistes across the years, have made, and continue to make, music which is deep, funky and clever, all spun with groundbreaking visuals which they ‘VJ’. This is music for your head and your feet and your eyes in equal measure. ‘Sound Mirrors’ may only be their fourth album in two decades, but the boys have not exactly been idle. They’ve set up three record labels, released their own sampling software, produced a play for Radio 3 and produced art installations across a range of galleries, all the while running awardwinning club nights. Coldcut have pulled in contributions from a huge range of musicians across the years. The latest album alone features performances from Jon Spencer, Robert Owens, Saul Williams, Soweto Kinch and Roots Manuva. What’s more, to celebrate twenty years as a duo, Coldcut are releasing the unmixed stems from each of the tracks on ‘Sound Mirrors’ for any have-a-go mixing heroes to have a go at - with a prize for the best efforts. ‘Let the data be free!’ says Matt. ‘Set your dancing feet free!’ we say. 21.30 Sunday Mainstage
Delirious?
Kanda Bongo Man
Over The Rhine
Still crazy after all these years, anthemic rock outfit Delirious? have fans a-plenty and critical acclaim from secular and religious critics alike. Radio 1 once reckoned them ‘pop’s best kept secret’ and Q magazine calls their Christianity ‘forceful rather than force-fed’. From humble beginnings as an in-house worship band they’ve taken their music far and wide, including support slots for Bon Jovi and Bryan Adams, and now make a welcome return visit to Greenbelt.
Born in 1955 in the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), Kanda Bongo Man joined a local Kinshasa band on leaving school, playing the hot rhumba sound of the time. Seeking a wider audience, he moved to Paris in 1979 where his big breakthrough came in 1981 with the release of ‘Iyole’. At the heart of the Parisian Soukous* scene ever since, he is one of the most famous exponents of this totally infectious sound. He has also gifted the world with a new variety of dance called Kwassa Kwassa!**
Taking their name from a downtown Cincinnati neighbourhood, Over the Rhine first got together in 1989 and have been making extraordinarily beautiful music ever since. The fact that the really big time has eluded them is either a sad indictment of the the music industry or a result of their failure to compromise on their musical vision, take your pick: either way, once you’ve discovered them, like a pearl of great price, you can congratulate yourself on being party to a criminally well-kept secret.
In 1983 Kanda played the WOMAD Festival and his international reputation was born. He has sold thousands of albums worldwide to a following of devotees who, once having heard his music, are smitten, not able to wipe the smile from their faces.
OTR have opened shows for Bob Dylan and toured extensively in the US and Europe. They’ve also kept up a steady schedule of recording, with their 5-star 2003 album ‘Ohio’ and the equally brilliant 2005 offering ‘Drunkard’s Prayer’. Their new album ‘The Trumpet Child’ is out now.
If you’ve ever been in a church with more than just a pipe organ for accompaniment, chances are you’ve sung along with a Martin Smith composition. Smith and his coconspirators started making music together in the early 90s, as a house band for a youth church event called Cutting Edge, on England’s south coast. The band eventually decided to go professional, adopting the Delirious? name in 1996 and releasing a string of albums. On the back of widespread grass roots support and with relatively little traditional promotion, Delirious? albums and singles have charted impressively. They’ve spread their wings well beyond the UK, with a fanbase on both sides of the pond. Christianity Today calls them ‘a galvanizing force that changed the face of worship’. We call them our best stadium-rocking mates, guaranteed to send us home on a high. 21.30 Monday Mainstage
Kanda makes some of the most joyful, irresistible music you are ever likely to see and hear. The New York Times writes: ‘Zairean soukous is a lilting, rippling, dance groove that seems to smile from every register …’ We say: it’s party time; time for the glad rags. Because this is no ordinary time – this is Soukous time. Greenbelt has never seen the like. Be there. Some explanations: * Soukous is characterised by its shimmering dual guitar parts that build a musical intensity that is vibrant, even hypnotic – and sure to set you dancing. **Kwassa Kwassa is a dance where the hips move back and forth while the hands move to follow them. Practise it beforehand. 21.35 Saturday Mainstage
‘We try to write music that in little ways helps to heal the wounds that life has dealt us or the wounds we’ve dealt ourselves’, says Linford. And we can thank them for sharing those beautiful little ways with us. 20.10 Friday Mainstage
music. Mainstage Our Mainstage is still shaking from the incredible funking it got at the hands of Michael Franti’s Spearhead at the close of last year, but it’s all geared up again and ready for another onslaught of crowd-jumping tunes, protest songs and musical mayhem, not forgetting some more gentle sounds in our classical line-up too. Leading the very un-liturgical dance will be Joe Fisher.
Friday Kathryn Williams Some artists grab you by the throat and force you to listen; Mercury Prize nominated Williams prefers the art of slow seduction. Her gentle voice drips honey over delicate songs of intelligent beauty which worm their way into your affections. Her love of Americana has surfaced on her latest offering, ‘Leave to Remain’. Originally planned as a stripped-down affair, the album includes woodwind and strings, arranged by Kate St John, formerly of The Dream Academy. ‘We just miked everyone and up and played. It was like a cheaper version of Bacharach. Really exhilarating.’
Linchpin
Christafari
Linchpin are one of the most exciting young bands in Britain. Despite their youth, they’ve already had praise heaped on them by Kerrang!, Metal Hammer, the Independent and rock legend Dave Grohl. With an arsenal of incendiary tunes from their debut ‘Small Town Theory’, a storming live show fuelled by passion and commitment and youth most certainly on their side, you’d be a fool to bet against Linchpin taking over the world. The blue touch paper is lit, now watch them go off.
Two decades on Christafari still manage to sound as fresh as Marley’s best output. After a youth spent dabbling in Rastafarianism – by his own admission primarily for the narcotics – American-born Mark Mohr became a Christian and founded the band in 1989. They mix contemporary dancehall reggae with traditional roots. Their third album, ‘Valley Of Sound’, became a best-seller and their recordings continue to garner critical respect, winning Album of the Year at the 2005 Urban Gospel Industry Awards.
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Verra Cruz rock, and hard. They’re busy touring and building up a loyal fan base on both sides of the pond. Their 2006 debut album Emancipation Day got them plaudits a-plenty. Catch them at Greenbelt before they go supernova. Radio 1’s Zane Lowe and XFM’s Ian Camfield are among those championing the band. Come on, feel the noise. 19.10 Saturday
thebandwithnoname
Sarah Masen
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Bearing a guitar, a wistful voice and a nice turn of phrase, songstress Sarah Masen weaves words into songs that are delicate yet arresting, dreamlike yet earthed. She has a ‘God-given ability to express the light and the dark and the shades where we all walk in between.’ Now based in Nashville her music is born of a fascination with ‘our miraculously mundane lives’, which sounds nigh on perfect.
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Kathryn Williams? Sarah Masen Christafari One Nation
Based in Manchester and serving up great fab slabs of rock and breakbeat, thebandwithnoname was launched in 2002 by Innervation – the brainchild of the founders of the World Wide Message Tribe. They’ve continued to bring the noise, and the Word, to venues big and small ever since. Their mission started in Manchester but has taken them around the world, having toured Europe and the USA. They’ve recorded three albums to boot, with the latest – 2007’s ‘Dying To Be There’ - being awarded a perfect 10 by Cross Rhythms magazine. 18.00 Saturday
One Nation Described as ‘one of the most exciting crossover funk acts in Britain today’ who ‘leave the audience stunned by their brilliance’ One Nation return with their global sound, blending Latin and jazz with funk and world rhythms. One Nation originally formed in 1997 and quickly established a strong following. The addition in 2005 of the ‘stunningly sublime vocals’ of Emma Howard saw the nine-piece move into a new era. They have headlined packed-out stages at Greenbelt, opened Coventry’s Jazz Festival, and supported Radio 1’s Gilles Peterson. 17.30 Sunday
Psalm Drummers Over the past 10 years, Psalm Drummers developed into an international movement which sees drummers gathering together to worship God. Psalm Drummers have played at almost every large Christian event in the country, and continue to stir into the life the rhythms inside us all. Bring a drum and join the beat! 12.00 Sunday
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Chas and Dave
Iain Archer
Rockney before Damon Albarn was Mockney, until recently the guiltiest of guilty pleasures, Chas and Dave have been endorsed by Pete Doherty and are riding a new crest of popularity over 30 years after the release of their debut LP ‘One Fing ‘n’ Annuvver’. So, get your thumbs in your braces and get ready for a proper Cockney knees-up, Gawd bless yer. Chas and Dave’s big break came after the release of their 1978 album ‘Rockney’. They were spotted by an advertising exec at a pub gig playing ‘Gertcha’, and before long the tune was helping shift gallons of Courage beer and winning the boys their first Top Twenty chart entry. Their two most successful singles, ‘Rabbit’ and ‘There Ainít No Pleasing You’ in the early 80s were both songs utterly and beautifully out of step with the prevailing musical winds of the era. Nothing has changed. And we love them because of that.
Iain is not only one of the most technically accomplished guitarists working today, nor is he just an Ivor Novello award-winning song writer who regularly guests with Snow Patrol. For many, these would be accolades enough; laurels to rest their careers on and taglines to sell their wares by. But Iain is more than these things. Growing up in the ‘tight religion’ of Northern Ireland, Iain’s music is as fragile and broken and beautiful as that place; just as it is tender, redemptive and healing. Shying away from the constant temptation to sell out and just write decorative music, Iain is the real thing: an artist with true depth whose live performances reach incredible heights. 18.50 Monday
This Beautiful Republic Poised on the brink of hugeness, these downhome boys from a small American town have a big sound and a growing following and they’re coming to rock Greenbelt. With expansive choruses, muscular guitars and hugely energetic shows they’ve drawn comparisons with Switchfoot and Foo Fighters. Building up a noise locally they’re now set for the big time, marked by the release of their first album, Even Heroes Need A Parachute. As for the name, ‘We want all to know that there is a real beautiful republic beyond this world, waiting for us to take hold of it in the here and now.’ 17.45 Monday
Centaur Just so you can experience the wonderful ambience and great sound quality of the South West’s premier music venue, we’re presenting some very special gigs for you to savour.
Hummingbird Hummingbird – comprising Cathy Burton, Amy Wadge and Edwina Hayes – are no collection of doe-eyed teenagers, whose mother sent them to stage school and who are now looking to marry a footballer: these are three professional musicians who have amassed 9 record deals, 11 lawyers and 14 managers between them. Occupying a territory somewhere between Kirsty Macoll and a female Crosby Stills and Nash, the three teamed up with the Mighty Vibration production team in January 2006 to make their debut album ‘They Dont Make Mirrors Like They Used To’ – a collection of 11 songs that shows off their combined experience of thirty years on the road.
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Michael McDermott
Iain Archer The Beautiful Republic Hummingbird? Michael McDermott
Rolling Stone Magazine labelled him ‘a very hot prospect’. He’s gone from coffee house hero to critically acclaimed troubadour, and Michael McDermott continues to captivate audiences on both sides of the pond. Imagine a triangle described by Dylan, Springsteen and Waits, and McDermott will be sitting in the middle of it. He writes observational songs of a brutal honesty about himself and those he encounters. He’s shared a stage with Van Morrison and The Cowboy Junkies, and we’re glad to welcome him back to Greenbelt where he’ll be playing songs from his new release ‘Noise From Words’. 14.00 Saturday
Underground (Stage 2)
The Rising: Martyn Joseph The best singer-songwriters onsite join Greenbelt favourite Martyn Joseph each day to talk about their musical inspirations, the way they go about writing their songs, and play their songs. If you’re a songsmith or aspiring musician of any sort, you know you have to be there.
More explosive than a subterranean particle accelerator, and just as hot, Underground is the place to check out the best up and coming rock and roll acts in the country.
The Gentlemen Sandman Magazine - early champions of the Kaiser Chiefs and the Arctic Monkeys - reckon ‘you’ll find it difficult not to like them’ and, dammit, we’ve tried, but nattily-dressed pop tunesters The Gentlemen have won us over. Intelligent lyrics served on a bed of tight, chewy riffs and a side order of manic energy.
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Denison Witmer Patience is a virtue, and Denison Witmer knows this well from personal experience. Until recently, only a small audience has had the good fortune to hear him live or on record. All of that is changing, however, due to the company he keeps and his steadfast dedication to making worthwhile music. Witmer’s circle of talented peers includes Sufjan Stevens and My Morning Jacket, and some of whom appear as guest musicians on his new record ‘Are You A Dreamer?’ Entertainment Weekly, for one, was impressed: ‘We are smitten with these sweet drowsy ditties.’ Get in there while you still can.
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Lucius Led by Total Rock artist of the week singer/songwriter Luke Morgan, Lucius’s melodic mix of driving guitars, gutsy lyrics, loops, sounds and beats is a contagious combination. ‘Frenetic indie pop rock with big choruses and an imagination’ say BBC Wales. ‘In the running for Best British newcomer’ reckon Cross Rhythms 21.30 Friday
to a crust of soaring melodies and poetic lyrics. They hope to have cooked up their first LP by the end of the year, so get a slice now while it’s fresh. 19.00 Friday
Audiocalm They’ve got folk roots but Audiocalm have done the Dylan thing, plugging in the electric guitars and sacking the cellist (OK, so Dylan didn’t have a cellist to sack, but you get the idea), and they now splash epic tunes across a big canvas. Their music has been called ‘very lovely’ on Radio One, to boot. 17.55 Friday
Ric Hordinski Former Over The Rhine guitarist Ric has more guitars than anybody should be allowed and knows what to do with them. Releasing a body of solo work under the name Monk, as well as guesting with many other artists, his playing has earned himself two Cammy awards, a Dove award and a Grammy nomination, and his fretwork leaves you struggling for metaphors. 21.45 Saturday
Bell Jar
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The Guild
Beth Rowley
From the beats of the Bristol trip-hop scene to the Beastie Boys and back via Japanese hip-hop, the legendary composers and a range of filmic influences, The Guild’s tastes spread far beyond their Sheffield roots. They’ve got the songs, they’ve got the talent; this is music for anybody with ears and a heart. Use both.
Bell Jar are 10 years old this summer. In that decade they’ve only released three albums and done no more than 50 gigs. Some might blame the lack of record company investment; the band put it down to old age. But this Cheltenhambased outfit can still groove. Mature and more often than not melancholic, Bell Jar are always melodic. More than just a local band for local people.
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Hangman Charlie
Elliot Jack
Got the blues? We know someone who’s going to soothe your worried soul, name of Beth Rowley. Oh yeah momma. With an exquisite vocal style and a gift for discovering the heart of a song, she breathes new life into the genre. For the past six years performing her unique blend of self-written songs and traditional soul/gospel tunes, Beth has a voice to give Mahalia Jackson a run for her hardearned. Signed to Blue Thumb Records, she is currently recording her debut album. 15.15 Monday
The Gentlemen The Guild Audiocalm Martyn Joseph
Hangman Charlie were formed during a trip to Pizza Hut, and their indie base is generously sprinkled with toppings of juicy hip-hop and succulent rock. Funky bass-lines add stuffing
Elliot Jack make heartwarming electronica. They have a wide range of obsessions, including love and loss, Doctor Who, travelling to far-off places and decorating St Paul’s Cathedral (whether the latter
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is realised or imagined we have yet to be informed). Meanwhile keen fans of BBC1’s übertrendy ‘Countryfile’ will have heard them on the soundtrack, and endorsements don’t come much more glowing than that. 19.15 Saturday
Eben Eben produce beautiful, anthemic faith-filled songs that have captured many hearts since the band’s creation in April 2006. Be prepared for an intimate, dynamic and uplifting journey with soaring choruses string crescendos and vocal-sampling, all with a hint of frontman Olly’s folk influences. With their music already gracing an awardwinning Hollywood short, they’re set for the big stages. 18.15 Saturday
Blacktop Blacktop throw together traditional instruments and electronics to splice kinetic energy with killer tunes in a melting pot of styles, genres and disciplines. And it’s ace! Funeral for a Friend frontman Gareth Davies nearly lost an eye at one of their gigs, but still thought it was worth it. 17.00 Saturday
Redemption Awaits Redemption Awaits play positive Hardcore, with sections ranging from elegant melodic to straight up fierce breakdowns that convey their personal lives and experiences with brutal honesty. 16.20 Saturday
Ignited Bursting from the heart of the midlands, fusing speed with melodic riffs and combining harmonies with frenzied screams, Ignited have something to say and they want to say it loud...and with a catchy chorus! 15.40 Saturday
Back Pocket Prophet
Echo Park
Described by Whistler as loud, VERY loud after a recent show, BPP have only been playing live for a few months but have hit hard and fast with their brand of Fist In The Air Metal and energetic live shows.
Female-fronted indie young guns Echo Park put equal measures of guitar, keyboard, energy, Muse, Coldplay, Radiohead and none-too-shabby songcraft into the blender, and pour out something akin to a 1981 U2, if Bono had been a girl.
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The Repercussion
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Combining ethereal vocals and piano with a expansive rock sound that evokes a female-fronted Radiohead, The Repercussion have recently signed to Risen Records and are busy touring their latest release, Rushing Away.
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Phil Pilot Phil Pilot is one half of Ireland’s The Amazing Pilots. Usually to be found behind the drumkit for artists such as Iain Archer and Psapp, his debut album ‘Love like an Ambulance’ will be released next year. He sounds like ELO skinny-dipping with Jean Michele Jarre, while a baffled Evan Dando fires a pea shooter at the head of an unsuspecting Scissor Sister. Well, sort of.
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diAgusto diAgusto may hail from Scotland’s wet west coast, but, according to Scottish Television, ‘there’s not one cloud in their sky.’ Watch out, The Magic Numbers, this sunny pop act are rising fast.
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CL6
They’ve packed clubs in Germany, festivals in Norway, beaches in Durban, and coffee shops in London. Now it’s Greenbelt’s turn to watch them lean right over the edge of musical boundaries.
Brimming over with soul, sweet-voiced CL6 grew up on a diet of Boyz II Men, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie. Originally a cappella they’ve lately been adding instruments to the mix in the studio with Kylie’s musical director.
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Electralyte
Where on Earth
Electralyte call themselves ‘a crowning glory in intelligent rock’. They cite a dizzying range of influences, but may we invoke Robbie Williams covering The Divine Comedy? Hummable tunes a-plenty.
Where On Earth formed in January 2006 to perform some covers at a friend’s birthday party. 15 months later, the lads are still having a laugh having played 50 shows around the UK and been commended by the BBC, NME, Rolling Stone and MixMag. 11.20 Saturday
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Tankus the Henge Don your rave gear, bring a torch and let Tankus zonk your reality through the little holes in your head that they will reveal. Luminous energy will be shared. 17.30 Sunday
Atomic Doris
Jessi Markee
Through Solace
Battle-of-the-Bands winning Atomic Doris have impressed judges and audiences for two years now, and are set to do the same here.
Already featured in Company and New Magazines, and having appeared on ITV’s This Morning, Jessi Markee and her band are making quite a name for themselves. Making a welcome return from last year, Jessi will be showcasing new material from her forthcoming album. Jessi Markee is an up and coming singer/songwriter with a great band supporting her.
Warning! Following tours across Europe, Through Solace are preparing to launch a devastating metal attack on an unsuspecting Greenbelt.
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Metallic Soap Metallic Soap have taken their songs detailing the life of the urban Christian to Leicester Square and Revelation TV. And now it’s our turn. 15.40 Sunday
[Crave] Benefiting from exemplary production from Trevor Michael, [crave]’s debut album ‘Carve’ swept aside all comers to win Sonya Mac’s Locally Grown competition on Northern Ireland’s biggest radio station. 14.50 Sunday
SomethingABOUT nothing somethingABOUTnothing are a four-piece from Kent who Cross Rhythms likened to Oasis at their peak. Winners of Greenbelt’s battle of the bands last year, there’s definitely something going on here. 14.00 Sunday
Rubber Duck Rubber Duck may line up as a standard four-piece, but the sound coming out of their beaks is driven by funk, reggae and jazz too. Sounds quacking. 13.10 Sunday
Dweeb Cross Rhythms think Dweeb are ‘the most entertaining band on the whole British scene’ and their funky music and stage show, although delightfully mental and wonderfully entertaining, exudes a passion and sincerity. 20.30 Monday
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When a member of Skunk Anansie says you’re ‘one of the most original up and coming bands I’ve heard this year’ then who are we to say more about their dark-disco indie sound? Damo from Juice FM pays them ‘the ultimate compliment... I would play them in my car.’ And is that Ben Thatcher we spy on bass? 18.00 Monday
My Spoon My Spoon are what happens when Rage Against The Machine meets Busted…These guys have all the ingredients to turn a gathering of people into a party! 17.00 Monday
Stairway Unabashedly influenced by the 1080s hey-day of Christian metal, stairway deliver whitehot, pure-power metal music at its biggest and best. 16.20 Monday
Third Day Rising With friendships forged by faith and electronic metal music to melt your hearts, Third Day Rising are coming a long way, fast. 15.40 Monday
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Zerostar Charismatic,uplifting,catchy and stratospheric..a Zerostar are a Hillsong based band not to be missed who count Feeder’s Grant Nicolas as a fan.
Julia Harris Brought up on James Brown and Paul Simon, Julia’s folkfunk sound may be hard to pin down, but it’s earned her support slots with Damien Rice. 13.00 Monday
Fijidots Fijidots are a Middlesborough based rock band that mix the punk style melodies of the modern rock scene, with riffs and solos that honour the 70’s style hard rock of Deep Purple, and Led Zeppelin. Pure rock caviar. 12.10 Monday
Strangeday Strangeday and their wideranging racous sound are ‘a damn classy act with a respectable pedigree’ according to The Forum. 11.20 Monday
King Coma King Coma reckon they sound like ‘heaven’; we think the Northern Irish boys’ big guitars, pounding rhythms and soaring vocals should get you to cloud nine at the very least. 10.30 Monday
Julia Harris Rubber Duck Kevin Max Esther Alexander
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Performance Café Top-notch vegetarian nosh from Nuts Café, with a gorgeous vintage of music to wash it all down with – the Performance Café is just the place to fill up on great things.
Lleuwen Every day, when she wakes up, she thanks the Lord she’s Welsh. Then belts out a hymn and a Bob Dylan classic before breakfast. The Observer calls the result ‘bewitching… strangely beautiful’ and her last album fused jazz and Welsh Revivalist hymns in collaboration with pianist Huw Warren and saxophonist Mark Lockheart. Spine-tingling stuff. 22.00 Friday
Lovers Electric Having just finished a European tour with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, these two young travellers started a casio revolution whilst in Germany and plan on continuing around the globe. Acoustic set. 21.00 Friday
Rachel Taylor-Beales Soulful and resonant like some fallen chorister, Rachel’s is a voice thick enough to stand a spoon in. Here is a blend of the acoustic and the jazz, the soft and the skeptical. ‘I loved it from the moment I heard the first note. It literally stopped me in my tracks’ said Martyn Joseph, and promptly signed her. 20.15 Friday
Adam Carpenter Adam’s music is influenced by American and English folk traditions and all that goes along with that, from Bert Jansch to The Band and the Grateful Dead! When not at home, Adam can often be found playing at Catweazle club,
Oxford’s weekly performance space for music, poetry and esoterica. If you enjoy soulful acoustic music, don’t miss. 19.30 Friday
Kevin Max He’s sold over 9 million records worldwide, won four Grammy Awards, had a US Top 40 hit with ‘Just Between You and Me’; and the Morrissey-esque swagger of his second solo album ‘The Imposter’ proves that Kevin Max is much more than one-third of dcTalk. ‘I want to bridge the gap between Christian and mainstream audiences,’ says Max. ‘I believe the only way I can have an impact on both is to take off the mask – no hiding my weakness and no apologies for my faith.’ 22.00 Saturday
Willard Grant Conspiracy (solo set) WGC have been called the world’s first proto-garagefolk-rock band, and when you’re dealing with that many hyphens you know you’re onto something eclectically special. A musical constellation that orbits around the singular talents of gravel-voiced songwriter and all-round wonder-beard Robert Fisher, this is a solo set (from him) not to be missed. 21.00 Saturday 17.30 Sunday
The Queensbury Rules The Queensberry Rules bring together double bass, guitar, percusion, mandolin, bouzouki, fiddle, harmonica and watertight harmonies – which is no mean feat for a trio. From their working-class Stoke-on-Trent roots they mine rich seams of history and tradition. 20.15 Saturday
Edwina Hayes
Beneva
Dividing her time between the UK and America, Edwina has toured with Van Morrison, Ricky Ross, Loudon Wainwright III, and Jools Holland. In 2006 she recorded an album with Amy Wadge and Cathy Burton for Hummingbird. Time Out praises her ‘haunting vocals’.
If you like harmonies and tunes in the same vein as Supertramp, Ben Folds, The Beatles or Simon & Garfunkel then Beneva may just do it for you.
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Kathryn Williams See Mainstage p.18 for details 13.15 Saturday
Amy Wadge
Sarah Masen
Her last single being released in both Welsh and English, Amy’s musical background is broad and strong, right from Joni Mitchell to Elton John.
See Mainstage p.18 for details
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Foreign Slippers Foreign Slippers play haunting folk lullabies, gospel-tinged ruminations on love and loss that make you think of snowdeadened forests during long, dark Scandinavian winters. 18.00 Saturday
Esther Alexander Sweet-voiced songstress Esther Alexander has performed with Steve Winwood, Ruby Turner and the London Community Gospel Choir - but that’s just the beginning of her talents. 17.00 Saturday
Gareth Davies-Jones With undertones of James Taylor, Gareth’s crisp guitar style and mature voice, these are justice songs well worth listening carefully to. 16.00 Saturday
Helen J Hicks A Cambridge Choral Scholar and winner of the Best Newcomer at the 2005 Marlborough Jazz Festival, Helen J Hicks is a ‘... a Joni Mitchell on the cusp between folk and jazz’ according to the Sunday Times. 15.00 Saturday
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Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo Fresh from Glastonbury and The Cambridge Folk Festival, award-winning Australian Emily has been hailed as ‘one of those talents that comes along once in a lifetime, if you’re lucky’ and many others concur, loving her ‘sharply observed, original songs... adventurously embellished by gypsy flourishes.’ (Uncut) 21.00 Sunday
In Camera Songwriter David Perry’s last project was a noisy pop band produced by Alabama 3’s guitarist. Now, with singer Leah Ayliffe, he’s discovered (relative) quietness. In Camera offer soulful, folk-tinged songs of love and anger in the vein of Neil Finn, Joni Mitchell and Billy Bragg. 20.00 Sunday
Rebecca Worthley Described as like the musical love-child of Dido and Enya, Rebecca’s first album was named one of the top 25 Independent albums of 2006 by Indie-Music.com. Her current EP has received frequent national airplay on BBC Radio 2 with DJ Bob Harris tipping Rebecca as a breakthrough act for 2007. 19.15 Sunday
Blue Jar
Ezio
After The Fire
Playing festivals throughout Europe and Africa, Blue Jar combines the panache of Grappelli with Gypsy flamboyance, yet balances this passion with a ‘dreamy, atmospheric classical sound’.
Ezio prove that two acoustic guitars can make a big, big sound. ‘Deep, honest, emotional songs that hit a raw nerve’, over the years Ezio have shared the stage with Joan Armatrading, Paul Young and Big Country.
Enjoying their busiest year since 1982, when they toured the world with rock icons Queen, ELO and Van Halen, ATF have been revitalised by their ‘one-off’ performance here in 2004. Joining them will be some very special guests.
Erin Starnes
Dan Wheeler
With catchy songs and a rich sound Erin’s music has been likened to that of KT Tunstall and Alanis Morrisette, and in a great tradition of female singer songwriters, her songs are simple, honest and appealing.
Dan has co-written songs with Paul Field, Tim Hughes, Cathy Burton, Graham Kendrick and Chris Eaton, and has three albums to his name.
Kit Ashton
Armed with ‘her best album so far’, Cathy Burton sees ‘Silvertown’ as like a Panther: sleek, dark, but with its eyes wide open.
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Michael McDermott See Centaur p19 for details 16.45 Sunday
Ric Hordinski See Underground p21 for details 15.45 Sunday
Andy Yorke Former Unbelievable truth frontman Andy Yorke calls himself a serial band-quitter, having abandoned his longsuffering colleagues on more than one occasion to pursue his interest in all things Russian, included a spell as a translator for Greenpeace. But the music has continued to flow ‘despite himself’ and he releases a solo album,’Simple’, later this year. (His ever-forgiving bandmates will be accompanying him once again.) 14.45 Sunday
Julie Mckee Despite a Masters in Jazz, glamorous songstress Julie’s determined to keep her original songs funny, touching and not a little bit cheeky. 13.45 Sunday
Kato After taking 2006 off to build his charity - Bigskytrust, Keith is now planning his return with a recording early in 2008. His regular slot as ‘last artist of the festival’ is always a treat, and a loyal following always makes it a moment to remember. Expect some sublime acoustic moments. 22.00 Monday
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‘In training to contend with Elvis Costello as rock and roll’s Scrabble champion’, Kit’s passionate if wordy music has been described by none other that Sir Paul McCartney as ‘Brilliant. Great stuff – really beautiful songs.’ 19.30 Monday
Justin Grounds Mothered by Dylan, fathered by Beethoven and now compared to Buckley, whether solo, or with his eclectic band, Justin’s music is always marked by a sponteneity and artistry which reflect Justin’s generous soul. 18.45 Monday
The Social Services The Social Services are twothirds Glaswegian and one third Swedish – explaining their combined love of nature and cholesterol. Their nomadic lifestyle and frustration with the world inspire them to write songs about war, death, consumerism, being an immigrant, storage solutions, potatoes and swimming. They rant without being shouty and they love it when everybody joins in on the sing-a-long choruses. 18.00 Monday
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Cathy Burton
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Jon Bilbrough Often found with tabla, xylophones or violins, eastern-influenced Jon fills a big space with a a guitar and an enchanting voice built for Cathedral halls. 14.00 Monday
Lobelia & Steve Lawson Discovering eachother’s music on MySpace, Lobelia and Steve set about recording together, swapping files across the web, before they performed together in New York in January of this year. They’ve now gigged in 6 countries and recorded a live album. 13.00 Monday
Nizar Al-Issa Rooted in Ramallah, Nizar Al-Issa is a singer with extraordinary range and control as well as being a virtuoso on the oud (a cousin of the lute). He likes to mix up Middle Eastern music - a habit he puts down to his refugee background. 12.00 Monday
Andy Yorke Ezio Nizar Al-Issa Nu:Tone
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Around the Site
Blue Rinse mix performance art, interactive text and visuals
Dance Music
18.00 Sunday Arena
This year bursting out all over the site you’ll find rare grooves and beats to inspire.
21.30 Monday Arena
StageBus New this year by the skate park, StageBus is full of DJs spinning urban and beats music all weekend, plus ‘hip-hop your mum can listen to’ from Austin Francis Connection 18.00 Saturday. Club Night
20.00 Friday YMCA 24Hr Café Humanic
Indie Disco
22.45 Sunday Underground
Winged Ox Dance music for grown ups, with tunes from the 70s, 80s and beyond – featuring the all girl soundsystem Daft Pink as a special on Sunday. (18yrs+) Organic Beer Tent A funky reggae party with DJ Bam Bam.
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Go4th&X Party with Graceland’s quiet disco, where they’ll serve up some delicious sounds via Greenbelt FM 87.7fm. Bring your radio or you can buy one from the G-Store. 23.00 Friday, Saturday, Sunday & 22.00 Monday Bassline
Logistics & Nu:Tone Award-winning Drum ‘n’ Bass brothers will be cranking up the levels to get the place bouncing. With Logistics winning the ‘BBC 1xtra album of the year 2007’, expect a liquid funk soundclash. Guaranteed. 19.00 Monday Bassline
Big Screen VJing Fuse Factory delivering 3D symphonies 21.30 Friday Arena
Big-Chill-touted Cntrst DJing with Mark Waddington visuals 21.30 Saturday Arena
DJ Transfiguration and Aorta DJ as James Bragg gets visual Stick It On Bring along your CD or iPod and turn DJ: 20.30 Friday Organic Beer Tent 20.30 Saturday Winged Ox 14.00 Sunday Humanic Café 20.30 Monday Bus Stage
If you need the practice, look out for the DJ and Beatbox workshops too: Adult/All ages 14.00 Monday National Hunt Humanic 13.00 Saturday & 16.00 Sunday National Hunt The Mix 14.00 Saturday & 15.00 Sunday National Hunt
Folk Club Come along to sing a song, play a tune, tell a story or simply listen. Our definition of folk is broad. Beards and sandals welcome but not compulsory. 14.00 Daily Winged Ox
The Angels’ Share Steve Stockman returns with the perfect way to round off the Greenbelt day: a genial mix of late-night banter, musical guests, interviews and poetry. Get a taste of what’s happening around site and witness intimate performances from Festival favourites, as Steve gets under the skin. 23.00 Friday Cabaret
Lies Damned Lies Greenbelt stalwarts LDL have been making music together since 1989. The past year or so has seen them quite literally taking the music to the people with a series of wonderful living room gigs in front of audiences of 30 or so. The spine-tingling intimacy of these wonderful events can now be shared with you all. If you would like them to come to your living room contact charlieirvine@btinternet.com 22.00 Saturday Cabaret
The Recycle Collective Steve Lawson’s ambient improv night has played host to some of the finest improvisers in the UK and beyond. He brings the project back with a set that will include solo and duo pieces culminating in collaborations with special guests including Patrick Wood. 23.20 Saturday Cabaret
dfg Their restless creativity knows no bounds as they perform a dark, epic ‘masterpiece’ which may well be their swansong. An exploration of what it means to be human and to stare death, life (or the lack of it) and God (or the lack of one) in the face and still carry on singing. 21.30 Monday Cabaret
Psalters A nomadic community of psalmists, currently comprising eight people, two dogs, one robot and two ships. 14.00 Saturday Bassline 14.00 Sunday Children’s Area
Surefish Big Hymn Sing There’s nothing like a really good hymn-sing – hundreds, even thousands, of people, singing classic, traditional, hymns. That is why Surefish is organising the Great Big Hymn Sing. Online voting has been fierce, and now the top ten hymns will be revealed… and sung! The Love and Joy Choir and other special guests will be there to sing and talk about their own favourites. 14.30 Sunday Arena
Fischy Music Back with their unique blend of top quality music, entertainment and emotional and spiritual sensitivity. Catchy, easy to learn and fun to sing, their songs encourage children to think and feel more deeply about the world, its beauties, mysteries and challenges. 16.30 Sunday Arena
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Classical With Sir John Tavener joining us Classical music has really hit the headlines at Greenbelt this year. But that’s just one jewel in our crowning programme of concerts for the well-versed, and events for everyone to join in.
John Tavener A performance of his music featuring Patrica Rozario & Gavin Sutherland See p16 for John Tavener. Born in Bombay, Patricia Rozario’s unique voice and artistry has inspired several of the world’s leading composers to write for her, most notably Arvo Pärt and Sir John Tavener, who alone has now written over thirty works for her, making the collaboration unique in the contemporary field. She was awarded the OBE in 2001 and the Asian Women’s Award for Achievement in the Arts in 2002. Gavin Sutherland has established a flourishing and varied career and is in international demand as a conductor, composer/arranger and pianist. Born in County Durham, England, in 1972, he graduated from Huddersfield with first-class honours, as well as gaining the Kruczynski Prize for Piano and the Davidson Prize for Distinction Brought to the Institution. He is married to the clarinettist Verity Butler. 21.00 Sunday Centaur
Emerald Strings Comprising guitarist Robin Burgess violinist Jonathan Acton, Emerald Strings Duo return by popular demand to fuse contemporary classical music from South America with the emphasis on Argentine tango. Their latest CD Libertango features the music of Astor Piazzolla. 14.00 Saturday Mandarin
Sussex Piano Trio
Youth Scratch Choir
Lively and interactive performances in the Children’s Festival, with lots of opportunity for musical involvement, featuring ‘the up and down man suite’ by Howard Blake, Sussex born composer of the Snowman.
For the first time at Greenbelt we’ll be encouraging the younger voices (11-18s) to take to the scratch stage with a medley of gospel classics and timeless pop – and a few surprises too.
Children’s Area
A varied programme with minatures by Frank Bridge and a new piece called ‘Beside the lake at Taize’ by Sussex composer Guillian Carcus. The concert will also perform the sumptious trio by Clara Schumma. 14.00 Monday Mandarin
Open Chamber The audience is invited to watch as a group of Greenbelt musicians come together to rehearse and perform a classic piece of chamber music. 18.00 Mandarin Venue
Music to participate in: Scratch choir with Craig McLeish This is the 10th Year of the Greenbelt Scratch Choir, and we welcome back Craig McLeish who will be taking the rehearsals. This year we will be performing John Tavener’s ‘Funeral Ikos’‚ and ‘The Lamb’‚ as the composer visits the Festival. As an interesting side-dish we shall also serve up two motets by his 15th Century almostnamesake John Taverner. Meet-up 20.30 Friday, Rehearsals 16.45 Saturday & Sunday Children’s Area
John Tavener Performance 21.00 Sunday Centaur
Rehearsals 14.00 Saturday, Sunday & Monday Humanic Academy Performance 17.00 Day YMCA 24-hour café Humanic
Dalcrose workshops Ever wondered why your big toe starts to join in with that surging beat on Rock FM or your insides feel like swaying to Friday Night is Music Night? Led by Bethan James, come and find the answer and experience for yourself at this unique music workshop which will rejuvenate your ears and put a spring in your step! Numbers limited to 20. 10.00 Monday Festival Suite
Hear, move, look, touch, feel … LISTEN! A musical journey for children aged 7-9 yrs through songs, words, rhythm games and creative movement. Led by Bethan James. Numbers limited to 20. 13.00 Sunday National Hunt
I could sing ofyour love forever stories, reflections and devotions by the band
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Lets keep up the pressure – add your voice to SPEAK’s MP3 Petition this weekend in the Root & Branch area!
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Soul Survivor Tour 2007
22nD – 27th OCTOBER
BIRMINGHAM MONDAY 22 OCTOBER
St. John’s Harbourne, B17 9PT
MANCHESTER TUESDAY 23 OCTOBER Elmwood Church, M6 8AG
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WEDNESDAY 24 OCTOBER Queens Park Baptist, G42 8QD
CARDIFF FRIDAY 26 CTOBER
Glenwood Church, CF23 6UW
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SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER Spires Conference Centre, BT1 6DW
SUPPORTING
For all venues: Price: £3 Tickets available on the door Time: 7-9.30pm Doors open at 6pm
The Soul Survivor tour is a taste of the summer events with worship, teaching and ministry. Hosted by Mike Pilavachi, each night he will be joined by Andy Hawthorne (The Message) or Roy Crowne (YFC) to tell you a bit about the Hope 2008 vision and how you can get involved. Come along and pretend it’s the summer!
BOOK NOW! To book your tickets online and find out more about Soul Survivor and Hope 08 visit: www.soulsurvivor.com/uk/tour email: info@soulsurvivor.com / telephone: 0870 0543331
Everyone wants to look young these days. Plastic surgery, anti-aging creams, grannies in leggings... They can try all they like, but only you genuine, born-in-the-90’s young people can get yourselves into our amazing Youth programme.
a weekend less ordinary. just for you. youth
humanic 14–18s YMCA 24-hour café The legendary YMCA café is open 5,760 minutes of the Festival. Whether you want to grab a late-night lemonade or an early morning mango juice, this always-open venue is here for you to chill and chat, meet and greet, or hang and hustle. And, if it’s top entertainment you’re after, it’s home to the Humanic Stage, too.
Kickstart Join us to kick start your weekend and find out what we have to offer young people and youth leaders this year 18.00 Friday
Tropical Inc. Tropical Inc. travel all over the UK rescuing unwanted or mistreated exotic animals. Onsite all weekend, there will be shows and talks offering a rare chance to get close up with meerkats, Pythons, Tarantulas, lizards, and parrot.
Skatepark If heaven is in a halfpipe for you, then Bath Youth for Christ is bringing a little piece of the divine to Greenbelt 07. Skateboarders, rollerbladers and BMX bikers are all welcome to enjoy the latest in portable skatepark technology, courtesy of the One-Eighty project.
Humanic Stage
Music
Girls’ Night In
Each night we have a dazzling array of music and great bands for your personal delectation.
Girls’ Night In is being held to mark the launch of Caris, the new teenage magazine for girls. So grab a pillow and your teddy and head down to Humanic for a good old girly gossip. Should you need further persuasion, there’s free chocolate and goody bags too.
Club Night Get your dancing shoes on and come and throw some shapes as you listen to top tunes from our finest DJs. 20.00 Friday
Witness Appearing alongside the likes of Delirious?, Ms Dynamite and Beverly Knight, Birmingham based Witness is one of UK’s most prolific Gospel influenced Reggae/Dancehall artists. 16.00 Sunday
Stick It On Bring along a CD or your iPod and DJ for us. 14.00 Sunday
19.00 Saturday
Sounds of Salvation
Boys night out
An energetic 10-piece ska band deliver an exciting mix of well-known worship songs and powerful, original material.
One Nation
blushUK
22.00 Monday
Come and join Phil and the boys on a Boys Night Out. There will be giveaways, jokes about farting and toilets, football news, and drinking games… and some discussion about what it is to be a boy, and why we always have to make the first move. 19.00 Sunday
CAdance Central Africa dance group are a young refugee group who we gave a Trust Greenbelt grant. People screamed for more last year so they are back by popular demand. Be there early to get a front row view.
17.00 Saturday & Sunday
If you’re into Girls Aloud and Sugababes, you’ll think you’ve died and gone to pop heaven when you hear blushUK. 20.00 Saturday
Kevin Max He’s sold over 9 million records worldwide, won four Grammy Awards, had a US Top 40 hit with ‘Just Between You and Me’. Kevin Max is the max! 18.00 Saturday
14.00 Saturday
thebandwithnoname
Get up, stand up
Brainchild of the founders of the World Wide Message Tribe, they’ve continued to bring the noise, and the Word, to venues big and small.
Phil Shepherd heads up this comedy event. Sit back, relax and have a laugh! 19.00 Monday
OCC Worship Oxford Community Church lead morning worship to start the Humanic day. 09.00 Saturday 09.00 Monday
Veritasse Fancy a career in the arts? Join founder of Veritasse, Aiden Mellor, as he interviews one of their artists about the inspiration and frustration of the job. 10.00 Monday
16.00 Saturday
Kato After taking 2006 off to build his charity, Keith plans to return with a recording in 2008. Expect some sublime moments. 15.00 Saturday
Electralyte Electralyte call themselves ‘a crowning glory in intelligent rock’ with a dizzying range of influences and hummable tunes a-plenty. 15.00 Sunday
One of the most exciting crossover funk acts in the country, One Nation return to get us grooving.
Retrofect When a member of Skunk Anansie says you’re ‘one of the most original up and coming bands I’ve heard this year’ then who are we to say more about their dark-disco indie sound? 20.00 Monday
Dweeb Delightfully mental and wonderfully entertaining, Dweeb exude a passion and sincerity not to be missed. 18.00 Monday
Jessi Markee Find out why Jessi Markee and her band are making a name for themselves having been featured in ‘Company’ and ‘New’ magazines, and on ITV’s This Morning. 13.00 Monday
Sacri Sacri once lived a life of heavy drug use and petty crime. Four years ago he was he stopped when he gave his life to Christ. His music is his message – an amazing story to tell backed up by a great hip-hop soundtrack. 21.00 Monday
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The Academy This venue is dedicated to trying it out, having a go, doing something new, improving something old. Open to anyone between the ages of 14 and 18, we’ve laid on a packed programme of interactive workshops led by a pantheon of professional artists and performers. No need to sign up, just turn up. Check out Daily Diary for times
Tribal Groove Stomp! Move! Make Noise! Create rhythms with nothing but your own body! African Body Percussion combines urban dance, rhythm and music in one by using your own body like a drum kit. Practise the slaps, claps, stamps and jumps, then together the whole group create an African Body Percussion routine.
Circus skills Juggling, diabolo, devil-stick toothbrush whirling, plate spinning, asteroid balls and, new for this year, hat manipulation, hula hoops and ball cups.
Balloon Modelling Learn the tricks of the trade and create your own designs to take away with you at the end of the session.
T-shirt art Create a unique, wearable masterpiece that reflects your Greenbelt experience — your very own, custom-made, oneof-a-kind, painted, fabric Tshirt — that can be taken away at the end of the session.
Samba drumming Let your hair down and try samba-style drumming. No drumming experience is needed to have lots of fun.
Kite making
Academy After Hours
Make your own kite and decorate it with images that reflect your hopes and dreams. At the end of the weekend we will fly en masse as a celebration of daring to hope.
The weekend begins here! Find out what’s happening in Humanic for the rest of the weekend and meet lots of new friends. We’ve got all the usual games and activities to start the weekend off in style.
Drama with Faith, Hope and Gaffertape A great opportunity to hone your acting skills under the guidance of the directors and cast of ‘Return to the Forbidden Planet’ — a show being created and premiered over the weekend.
Art and craft God in my looking: come and wonder at God’s creativity as we draw and sketch natural forms together. God in my thinking: make a wearable, personal reminder that helps you to think about God in the busyness of everyday life. God in my breathing: respond to a ‘breathing prayer’ with oil pastels; creating art as we pray.
Youth Scratch Choir Do you enjoy ssinging? Are you aged 11-18? If so we need you to create Greenbelt’s very first youth scratch choir. As well as having great fun and making a whole lot of new friends, you’ll get to perform a medley of gospel classics and timeless pop.
Grafitti and Street Dance with SIN Cru Bboys and Bgirls, if you want to improve your ‘writing’ and breakin’ then it doesn’t get any better than this. Members of one of the UK’s premier crews will be there to inspire you.
Then each night come and chill out at the end of a busy day. Just sit and chat, catch up with old friends, or make some new ones. Refreshments available. Time
Plus: Anything You Always Wanted to Know About Drugs but Didn’t Dare Ask Hope UK is a leading Christian charity working to educate young people about the effects of drug use. They tell it like it is — the good, the bad, and the ugly. The Romance Academy You may have seen it on TV. If you are lively, up for anything, full of ideas and opinions then we are looking for 6 lads and 6 ladies to take part in a mini Romance Academy. Sign up for an audition. Pub-style Quiz Nights Come and enjoy a fun night with friends. Bring a team or just turn up and we’ll help you find a team to join when you arrive. Hosted by ? If you’re wondering what your Youth Leader might get up to, why not politely direct them to the talks programme, to the great array of talks aimed at making them that tiny bit better.
the mix 11–14s
The Mix has its very own Big Top and a programme jampacked with speakers, bands, animals, games, workshops and theatre from early ‘til late each day. And yes, mum, stop moaning, of course it’s all supervised!
Talks This year, what with it being summer and all, and what with all this climate change stuff about, we decided the best theme we could take was… Christmas! Let’s hope it doesn’t actually snow. Much. (Just enough for a snowball fight would be nice though.)
Gavin Robinson Gav has so much experience doing talks for 11-14’s it would actually be rude to list it all. Coordinating Youth For Christ’s School’s work in Northern Ireland, Gav is in schools the whole time doing all sorts of amazing stuff; he then goes home for Yorkshire puddings. Christmas Eve – Waiting for Him!
Saturday 12.00-13.00
Christmas Day – Yes He’s arrived!
Sunday 12.30-13.30
New Year’s Day – He’s Coming Back Again! Monday 12.00 – 13.00
Big Issues! with Christian Aid A series of interactive sessions on the big issues from Greenbelt Partner Christian Aid. Do They Know It’s Christmas Time At All? Make Poverty History seems a distant memory, but has anything really changed? 14.00 Saturday
Everyone wants children at Greenbelt to have a safe and enjoyable Festival, and we’re sure you understand that this is a shared task. So while we take full responsibility for them in the Children’s Festival and The Mix, we’d ask that you do so at other times and in other areas.
On The First Day of...Eid Four intrepid explorers visited Christian Aid partners in Tajikistan. Where?! Find out more about this fascinating country. 14.00 Sunday
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Let it Snow, let it Snow, let it Snow Climate change could transform more than just the songs we sing at Christmas. And its the poorest who are feeling the heat first. 14.00 Monday
Workshops The Mix is the place to get stuck into new stuff. Get up and involved!
Kite-making workshops Make the kite of your dreams! Design and build a kite, and decorate it with your hopes for the future. We’ll have a mass kite-fly as a celebration on the Monday.
Youth scratch choir Learn songs from scratch with a medley of gospel classics and timeless pop – and a few surprises too. For 11-18s.
Samba drumming Let your hair down and experience a samba style of drumming. You don’t have to be an expert drummer, just come and have lots of fun!
Tribal Groove Stomp! Move! Make Noise! Create rhythms with nothing but your own body! Practise the slaps, claps, stamps and jumps, then together the whole group will create an African Body Percussion routine.
Bibliodrama It’s theatre. It’s Bible study. It’s Bibliodrama. Peterson Toscano will lead you through a Bible passage scene by scene, and you’ll direct, act, photograph, report or observe, getting right inside the message.
Music
See Humanic for times
The Gentlemen
Puppetry
Sandman Magazine - early champions of the Kaiser Chiefs and the Arctic Monkeys - reckon ‘you’ll find it difficult not to like them’ and we’ve tried, but nattily-dressed pop tunesters The Gentlemen have won us over. Intelligent lyrics served on a bed of tight, chewy riffs and a side order of manic energy.
Join the craze - learn how to be a puppeteer! The only thing you need is to be able to keep your arm straight up in the air for three minutes! Make up your own sketch or learn a song, and give a performance at The Mix closing show!
Modern dance A chance to create some choreography of your own! By the end of the session (hopefully) you’ll be able to perform your dance to the rest of The Mix!!
Circus skills Steve Washington returns with instruction on the diabolo, plate spinning, the devil stick, juggling on a string, ball juggling and fun wheels, while Thomas Trilby – aka Jem Maynard Watts – will be showing us some stilt walking. Suitable for beginners and beyond!
20.00 Friday
blushUK If you’re in urban pop heaven when you hear Girls Aloud, Pussycat Dolls, Pink and the Sugababes, then you’ll think you’ve died and gone when you hear blushUK. 21.00 Saturday
Plus Tropical Inc. Tropical Inc. travel all over the UK rescuing unwanted or mistreated exotic animals, and have brought some here for us to get to know! Onsite all weekend, Tropical Inc will be giving shows and talks that offer a unique insight into the world of exotic animals. It’s a rare opportunity to get close up and personal with meerkats, Pythons, Tarantulas, lizards, parrots…even a skunk.
Reflective Worship The Precious Present. Have you found it? Do you know where to look? Take a little time out of your busy weekend to explore and reflect. 21.00 Sunday
Look at me go! Do you have a hidden talent you’re just itching to share with the world? Can you sing, play an instrument, tell poems, dance, mime, play the spoons, breakdance, eat a bowl of jelly upside down? Whatever your talent is, come and share it with us in our very own Talent Show! 19.00 Day
Kevin Max He’s sold over 9 million records worldwide, won four Grammy Awards, had a US Top 40 hit with Just Between You and Me; and the Morrissey-esque swagger of his second solo album The Imposter proves that Kevin Max is much more than one-third of dcTalk. And he’s right here just for us, reading some of his amazing poetry. 15.15 Saturday
Renowned for being one of the best family festivals on the planet, we have an amazing all-age programme packed with fantastic festival moments.
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all-age greenbelt Children’s Festival A stimulating programme and top-quality care for our 0–10 year olds. Run by very dedicated, fully CRB-checked workers, we aim to give every child a great time. Come and join in the fun. Make puppets, do junk sculptures, watch films, sing songs, go to the Farm and do some dancing – but not necessarily all at the same time!
Shows and Events Roly Bain This holy fool has been clowning around for nearly 25 years. Roly Bain draws on slapstick, circus skills and storytelling to speak of the ‘topsy-turvydom of the Kingdom of God’, as only a clown can. The Sticky Kids Show C’mon, Sticky Kids, join in! When Molly Muddle gets together with her good friend Old Macdonald the fun really begins. Strong visual characters, lively action songs, slapstick humour and lots of participation. Fischy Music Fischy Music are back with their catchy, easy to learn and fun songs that encourage children to think and feel more deeply about the world, its beauties, mysteries and challenges. St. Marks Puppet team Meet Robbie and Jane and a bunch of weird and wonderful animals, including Vinnie the vulture and Cheryl crow. Tropical Inc Onsite all weekend, Tropical Inc give a rare opportunity to get close up and personal with meerkats, Pythons, Tarantulas, lizards, parrots and even a skunk.
The Children’s Festival is divided into age-specific venues. Crèche 0–18mths Full baby sleeping and changing facilities, pushchair services (for crying children), bottle and food warming, and bathing every night 19.00–21.00 (Monday 19.00–20.00). (Any food/ drink provided for crèche children must be made up and in clearly labelled containers.) Toddlers 19mths–2yrs, 11mths Action-packed with sticky finger craft, music and movement sessions, puppets, toys, games and fun. Pre-School 3yrs–starting school in Sept ’07 Toys, trikes and games, with face-painting, fun and lots of laughter. Infants Post-reception/Yr1/Yr2 Jam-packed with circus skills, puppets, parachute games, visits to the Farm and singing with Fischy Music. Juniors Just completed Yr3/Yr4/Yr5 Visits to the Farm and workshops from clowning to drumming and sculpture to dance, plus our very own outside stage with performances from Fischy Music. Snacks and Sun Healthy snacks for children under 3 are provided. For children over 3 there probably won’t be time for snacks, but please provide them with a drink! Sunhats are also advisable, and please pre-apply sun cream when necessary. Special Needs If your child has a special need please let us know at the gate as sessions begin. Permission will be needed in writing and arrangements made with the SEN team to administer antidotes, e.g. adrenalin pen, to severe allergies. Asthma inhalers should be clearly labelled.
Registration All children need to be registered before their first session. Registration begins at 18.00 and goes on until 21.00 on Friday when children and parents are welcomed into the area to have a peep and to fill in the registration forms. Registration will take place within the appropriate age group venue. Once the Festival has started it is still possible to register at the start of a session. However it is better to come along to the Friday session if possible. This year you also have the option for register for Free For All. Registration will take place at the same time. Free for all - The story of slavery, told by children Winning plaudits across the UK, this outstanding show re-tells the story of how slavery was overcome, using a cast of over 300 ordinary children drawn from Britain’s schools. Brought to Greenbelt by CMS and Big Intent Theatre Company, Free For All is open to all those in school years 5 to 8 or equivalent. Enjoy physical theatre, music and dance workshops, whilst you learn about the history of the transatlantic slave trade and the reality of modern day slavery. Entry to the Children’s Festival Although we can cater for nearly 700 children in a session, some age groups do get oversubscribed and so we operate an entry system. One hour before each session we give out entry passes at the desk outside the main entrance, where we will have enough passes to match the team that we have on duty for that session. Once you have collected your pass, feel free to circulate around the area or join one of the queues at any of our three entrances. When you get to your age group venue please hand in your entry pass.
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Sunday afternoon We won’t be supervising them, but on Sunday afternoon there will be loads of activities in the Children’s Festival for you to come along to with your children.
Plus The Festival site is designed to be family friendly, with plenty to look at and interact with. A by-no-means exhaustive list of other family-friendly fare to look out for in the programme:
Small tents
Messy space
13.45 Open air sculpture
Like a huge version of your living room over the summer holidays, the Messy Space is the place for the whole family to hang out and do stuff. There will be games for kids all weekend, special events, bedtime stories, family talks and a café next door too. You don’t even have to clear up. Hurrah!
Wander off to the wild space on the edge of the site (with up to 100 other people, and artist Ian Long) for open air sculpture! We will use natural materials and then photograph the results. 14.30 Storytelling
Play tent 13.45–16.15 Playtime
Come along with your under 5’s if it is all getting a bit much, and give them a chance to play with our toys.
Infant tent 13.45 Kite workshop
Come along and make kites. 15.00 Tropical Inc
Weird and wonderful animals
Godly Play Godly Play is an interactive telling of the ancient stories of our faith, using props and prompts the story forms, the basis of a time of creative wondering and worship. Suitable for wonderers of all ages – children must be accompanied by an adult. Run by L8r.
Junior tent
Please book in advance in Messy Space. Various times.
13.45 & 15.00 Marionette workshop
Miller’s Ark Animals
Design it, make it and fly it. Suitable for age 7 up.
Activities tent 14.00 Psalters
A mixture of Music and Poi (New Zealand Fire Dancing) for all the family. 15.15 Sticky Music Show
A show especially for the under 6’s. So come along with your little ones to see Molly Muddle and her friends.
Sunday Tea Time The Children’s Festival will, for the first time, be offering tea for families with young children. Plain simple food that children love will be on offer to buy. Sit and eat in the comfort of the Children’s Festival team tent. 16.00
We’re really excited about having Miller’s Ark back at the Festival again this year. Their ‘mobile farm’ concept is simple: bring animals and children into close contact to inspire respect and interest in the environment, in a really exciting and safe way. The Ark includes lambs, calves, African pygmy goats, piglets, donkeys, huge Brahma chickens, ducks, geese, giant rabbits, Maori Kune Kune pigs, guinea pigs and a farm dog!.
Picnic on Mainstage Straight after Sunday’s Communion, why not sit on the grass around Mainstage, get your sandwich out and enjoy some top class entertainment from Psalm Drummers!
Joe Fischers Family Fun Fest 11.00 Saturday Arena 13.00 Monday Arena
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Cartoon and Animation Workshops 12.30, 14.00, 16.00, 18.00 and 20.00 Sunday
Say ‘I Love Greenbelt’ in Sign Language 12.30 Saturday & Sunday Big Screen
Kite-making We will be running three workshops over the weekend. Sign-up 18.00 Friday, Workshop 10.30 Saturday Messy Space 13.45 Sunday Children’s Festival 16.00 Sunday Humanic Academy
Mass kite fly Bring your kite, bought or handmade, and join in. We will also be joined by some professional kite flyers, with some very large kites indeed (weather and wind permitting). 13.00 Monday Mainstage
And… ‘Heaven in a Box’ installation, Gorillas in the Midst street theatre, Thomas Trilby the stilt walking entertainer, Puppet skills workshops, SIN Cru Breakdancers, MC and grafitti collective, Faith Hope and Gaffer Tape, Wild Goose Big Sing, Body percussion workshops, Shaun the sheep – episodes on the Big Screen, Steve Price all age magic show, Love & Joy Gospel choir, Romeo and Juliet puppet show, Q&A with best selling author G P Taylor.
Himalayan Trek January 2008 In the heart of the Himalayas, discover the Annapurna range and join CMS for the trip of a lifetime. You’ll pioneer new routes through the mountains, trek through lush forests, visit CMS projects in Nepal, and raise sponsorship money to enable local mission work in the global South.
Challenge yourself. Make a difference.
When: 12th – 24th January 2008 Cost: £1350 + sponsorship raised Email: challenges@cms-uk.org Tel: 01865 787518 Web: www.cms-uk.org
Registered Charity Number 220297
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Keeping you in touch with what’s happening on-site, throughout the weekend, Greenbelt FM will be broadcasting from morning ‘til night.
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Greenbelt Minstrels Headed by singer/songwriter Kit Ashton, the Greenbelt Minstrels will be popping up all over the site. If you fancy being serenaded whilst washing the dishes, cooking your tea or just standing in a long queue, let Greenbelt FM know, and our minstrels will come to you. Text us on 07938 615 107.
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Workshops Tank workshops tend to be very popular, so please reserve your place in the venue. Stop frame animation Fashions come and go, but Plasticine® is always in. Come and make a minor epic using the squidgy stuff. 20.00 Friday (18+ only) 12.30 14.00 16.00 18.00 20.00 Sunday Screenings Monday night
Animation Express yourself on screen or on the web in glorious 2D. No experience necessary!
12.00 14.00 16.00 18.00 20.00 Sunday. Screenings Monday night
Ritual and Electronic music Veteran musician, sound designer, and liturgist Isaac Everett explores innovative ways to incorporate music into worship. Backing tracks for liturgy, congregational singing, sampling, pop music, ambiance, live mixing, and making electronic music on a budget. Pros and newcomers welcome. 20.00 Saturday, 10.00 Monday
Ten killer apps for PC and Mac A showcase of applications that you really should have on your hard drive. 10.00 Saturday, 14.00 Monday
Web Series Building and managing websites 1/3 Talking technical turkey about building, uploading and hosting a site for your church or organisation. 12.00 16.00 Saturday, 20.00 Sunday, 16.00 Monday
Words on the web 2/3 Is copy for the web any different to copy anywhere else? What makes a reader stick around your site?
20.00 Saturday, 10.00 Monday
Digital Imaging 3/3 A bit of a catwalk to show-off the digital image manipulation tools available. Crop that top! 10.00 Saturday, 14.00 Monday
Podcasting A practical look: creating, downloading and using podcasts. 18.00 Saturday, 12.00 Monday
Presentation Techniques Don’t hide behind presentation aids. Add music, videos and web resources to grip your audience. 18.00 Friday, 14.00 Saturday
PC and Mac Housekeeping How do you keep your computer in tiptop condition? 14.00 Saturday, 16.00 Monday
Networking for churches Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to harness the creation of hard-wired and wireless networks… 20.00 Friday, 12.00 Saturday
Electronic worship Demonstration of some of the best worship systems available for displaying lyrics and liturgies, slides and fractals. 20.00 Saturday, 12.00 Monday
Technology catch-up Don’t get left behind – find out how your youth or community work could benefit. 18.00 Saturday
Grand Animation Premiére The directors cut! Enjoy the red carpet treatment as we showcase the animations from the weekend. 18.00 Monday
The Breakfast Show Wake up with Charlie and Jamie, guaranteed to put you in a good mood. Festival focus Featuring the key themes of Greenbelt 2007 and the people and reasons behind them. Campfire Culture Life. Spirit. Passion. Adventure. Creativity. Be inspired whilst cooking your tea. Music hour Interviews and acoustic sets from your favourite artists, including some behind-thescenes interviews TalkBack Another chance to hear some of your favourite speakers Live Lunch Top guests debate big issues. Why not have your say? Go4th&X
Every night in Bassline Big Top
Go Forth And Multiply Bring a radio, your friends, your dancing feet and a smile. Offkilter Cardiff crew Graceland cheekily navigate the late-night sound curfew to serve up vinyl platters and party vibes under canvas, all transmitted to your radio via Greenbelt FM.
Going to hear someone you’ve heard before, saying what you already believe? Our ordinary lives are made extraordinary by hearing the ordinary stories of others. So browse carefully and catch something different.
the sound of a better world being born. talks
Fran Beckett & Bob Holman It’s all very well for the government to talk about devolving decision-making to local community groups, but what is this really going to mean in practice? Will Chipping Norton Neighbourhood Watch be levering their own taxes, and Byker Grove be demanding more rights over the use of their name? The issue is, of course, a very serious one. And none more so than for the poorest communities who rely heavily on multi-agency support. Where should the church fit in to all of this? Fran Beckett and Bob Holman are both hugely qualified to talk about, and personally engaged in, this debate that strikes at the heart of the question of state intervention. Fran has been Chief Executive of the Church Urban Fund since 2002; a committed inner-city dweller and church leader, she is no ivory-tower policymaker. Bob combines brains and hands-dirty involvement equally well too. Leaving the chair of the University of Bath in 1976 to become the leader of the South Downs Community Project, he later left to work with the Easter House Estate in Glasgow, where he lived out his mantra to simply ‘be here’. Be there, we say. Saturday 12.30 Foxhunter
John O’Donohue It is a peculiarity of Ireland – God’s Country – that no venomous animal, no frog, toad, spider or lizard, lives there. It’s perhaps why, soaked in the hills and salt air of his Connemara home, John O’Donohue’s words seem to drip with some life-enhancing elixir, leaving us wondering how we had coped up to that point without the language he gifts us. A poet then, John, and a very fine one at that. But this is serious verse, steeped in Celtic spirituality and German philosophy. His is a voice ‘unencumbered with religious dogma, unafraid to intelligently challenge prevailing assumptions, bringing them to earth with stories and other human experiences’ and his best-selling titles ‘Anam Cara’ and ‘Eternal Echoes’ speak such wisdom so gently that it is impossible to resist their lovely enfolding. ‘I would love to live like a river flows,’ John writes, ‘carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.’ Here are mysteries to dive headlong into, cool pools of couplets to lie down and drink in; here are words for the weary, and a place to rest. Sunday 16.30 Herbert Monday 10.00 Centaur
Rev. Fuad Dagher & Wisam Salsaa
Sister Francis Dominica OBE
You may have seen the wall encircling the Palestinian territories on television, but you probably haven’t seen it in real life. You may even have been one of the brave pilgrims to go to the birthplace of our faith and seen the wall for yourself, but you probably haven’t begun to know the shattering impact that it has had on communities on both sides. This is the spiritual ‘family home’. That we are not more concerned about it as a world-wide Church is scandalous. Putting some of that right are Rev Fuad Dagher, an Israeli Arab from Nazareth, musician and passionate advocate for equal rights for his community, and Wisam Salsaa, quite simply the most engaging tour guide you are ever likely to meet. He knows his stuff; his family’s Christian roots go back into the mists of history in a little town they call Bethlehem. All of us of faith need to hear these local stories about our global faith, local stories of an horrific injustice impacting on a problem that, be in no doubt, has global repercussions. And you couldn’t ask for better guides.
The women and men of the old orders walked with God into some of the places we never wanted to experience or imagine. Deserts. War zones. Slums. Sister Francis has continued this tradition by daring to minister in a place so dark and troubling that few others had ever had the courage to go there: terminally ill children. What it must feel like to know that you are going to bury your own child is impossible to imagine, but with Sister Francis’ work at Helen House, where she opened the world’s first children’s hospice, that journey is now navigable with more care, more dignity and more support than ever before. A genuinely remarkable and inspirational women hiding inside a humble and selfeffacing body, Sister Francis is coming to speak not only about parental grief, but about the grief siblings feel too. After 25 years being alongside brothers and sisters who face the death of their sibling, she has learned to refute old wisdom – children are resilient, they’ll get over it – and tapped into a much older wisdom that knows that all grief is profound and idiosyncratic. As you may have seen from her recent BBC series, here is a moving and gracious host for what will no doubt be a powerfully moving voyage through some dark waters.
Sunday 15.15 Blake
Monday 15.15 Herbert
Interview: Jonathan Mayo meets Sister Frances Dominica OBE Monday 11.15 Centaur
talks 45–45
Raj Patel
Angela Sarkis
Peter Rollins
Mark Yaconelli
When so many people like to talk the ‘diversity’ talk, Raj Patel is someone who walks it too. The Asdal Institute, of which he is director, works tirelessly across the UK and South Asia helping organisations advance by putting diversity and equality at the top of their agendas. He chairs Wholeness International and the Alliance of Asian Christians, and is also a prolific author with an eye for a great title, having published ‘Why Do Christians Wear Ties’, ‘Stealing Other People’s Decisions is Wrong!’ and ‘Asians Can’t Play Football’. But enough of the talk: Raj wants to help us walk the walk, especially when it comes to dealing with conflict. Drawing on his vast experience and cases he is involved in, Raj will be setting out how we can cope with it, resolve it, or even utilise it for good. And in a still-divided world, what could be better than that?
It’s a whole decade of Greenbelts since we could talk about a new era in British government. With Blair gone and Brown having to find his feet quickly, what is the legacy of ‘New Labour’ really going to be? They promised to redistribute wealth and end child poverty within a generation. So at around the half-way point, how well have they delivered, and what hope is there for the future? An important question requires a wise answer, and we can think of no one better to provide one than Angela. Currently YMCA’s National Secretary, she has also been a BBC governor, CEO of the Church Urban Fund and member of the Correctional Services Board at the Home Office. Angela will be bringing this wealth of experience to enrich our understanding of this issue which will surely be crucial to how this period in British politics will be remembered.
Monday 15.15 Sovereign
Saturday 15.15 Blake
Peter used to be Christian, an evangelist and a card-carrying charismatic. Now a freelance lecturer in philosophy and sought-after speaker, he is actively committed to becoming Christian. And watching endless re-runs of Columbo. The church needs people like Peter like a wounded person needs a doctor. An expert in the areas of postmodern thought, phenomenology and ethics, Peter is helping to create a robust and vital theology to help literally resurrect Christian thought out of its modernist stupor. A founding member of Ikon, a community which describes itself as apocalyptic, heretical, emerging and failing, Peter has set out the first part of a path to recovery in his book ‘How (Not) To Speak of God’. For all of us who struggle to believe, and those who want to be confident that what they do believe is worth pursuing, we are so fortunate to have Peter back with us to map out the next stage of the journey. Getting right to the heart of the matter, Peter will be examining the debate about whether Christianity is ‘true’ or not, and drawing us to much deeper questions that may well radically transform our understanding of faith.
Like other Yaconellis we’ve been blessed by at Greenbelt in the past, Mark knows how to get to the nub of an issue: ‘Being a human being is problematic’, he says ‘We fail to live up to the world’s aspiration to be sexy and successful and yet most of us feel equally inadequate at imitating the poverty and charity of Jesus.’ A director of the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project, Mark is fully equipped not to leave us understanding our problems better, but with tools to deal with them. His groundbreaking book ‘Contemplative Youth Ministry’ radically challenged current practice by taking the spirituality of young people seriously, but Mark’s passion for the practical contemplative way doesn’t just stop at 18. Just finishing a book for declining congregations entitled ‘Letter to a Dying Church’ he wants us to discover that within our aging congregations is a capacity for wonder, for kindness, for telling the truth, for giving and receiving love that longs to be released. You’ll probably not hear more encouraging words this whole weekend.
Sunday 17.45 Foxhunter
Saturday 11.15 Herbert Sunday 12.30 Blake Monday 14.00 Herbert
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Christian Aid Meet the ‘Cut the Carbon’ Marchers! It’s the biggest campaign event Christian Aid has ever attempted – a 1,000 mile, 80-day protest march around Britain, calling on businesses, individuals and the UK government to cut their carbon emissions. Come and meet some of the intrepid team who are taking on this amazing challenge to highlight how climate change is hurting the world’s poor. 10.00 Monday Performance Café
The Church Urban Fund Guns and knives and bleeding hearts What do you do when your community is confronted by shootings and stabbings and is under siege by the media? A panel including Ann Morisy and Bob Holman unpack the problems of violence, explore the imaginative responses of Christians and consider the implications. Sunday 14.00 Insurance
Douglas Alexander MP Douglas Alexander MP was appointed Secretary of State for International Development in June. He was previously Secretary of State for Transport and Secretary of State for Scotland. Born in Glasgow in 1967 he was educated in Scotland and Canada and worked as a lawyer before entering Parliament in 1997. He is married with two children. In conversation with BBC Five Live’s Simon Mayo. Monday 10.00 Blake
James Alison James Alison is a Catholic priest, theologian and author, described by Stanley Hauerwas as ‘frighteningly profound’. Using the thinking of René Girard he is developing an ‘Introduction to Christianity’ for adults. Exploring the New Testament clobber texts Following on from dealing with the Old Testament clobber texts last year, James explores what the New Testament has to say about homosexuality. Saturday 10.00 Herbert
Stand up and be Godless: on receiving the gift of faith Is the gift of faith just a form of emotional blackmail, or something that can set us free? Sunday 15.15 Insurance
Sabina Alkire Sabina Alkire is an economist and a non-stipendiary Anglican priest. She directs the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, a new research centre at the University of Oxford, and is a Research Associate at Harvard’s global equity initiative. Extreme poverty and the MDGs A fact-filled but easy listening briefing on global poverty and the millennium development goals. Have we been able to reduce AIDS and put more children in school? Where are we with malnutrition? Is Africa really worse off than other places? What has the Make Poverty History campaign achieved? Sunday 15.00 DFID
Nick Baines Nick Baines is an author, Bishop of Croydon and a regular on Radio 2. He travels extensively and has done interfaith work in Central Asia and Zimbabwe.
Hungry for hope. Zimbabwe has gone from breadbasket to basketcase in a generation. From the politics to the personal, how does a theology of hope address individuals in a complex world? Saturday 15.15 Herbert
Dilly Baker & Wahida Shaffi Dilly Baker works for Scargill, an ecumenical centre celebrating identity and diversity among school- age children. She has been a church minister and is a member of the Christian Muslim Forum, specialising in community and public affairs. Wahida Shaffi is a freelance consultant and researcher. She is a qualified social worker and coordinates the Women Working Towards Excellence project in Bradford. With an MA in International Politics she lectures internationally on a range of issues. Women at the well: Muslim and Christian women in dialogue A well is a place of encounter. Taking this image as a starting point, Wahida and Dilly reflect on their faith, their sacred texts and their nourishing exchange with ‘the other’. Sunday 14.00 Sovereign
John Baxter Brown, Doug Howland and Steve Martin John Baxter-Brown is an Executive Officer for Churches Together in England. He has worked with young people and churches for more than 25 years. Douglas Howland has been a Canadian missionary with YWAM for the last two years, focusing on youth work, leadership development and post modernity.
Steve Martin has been Worcester Diocesan Youth Officer for the last seven years. He is a Church Army Evangelist and is training to be an ordained pioneer minister. Distinct or extinct? Developing a strategy for joined up work with children and young people. Monday 17.45 Insurance
Fran Beckett and Bob Holman See p.44 Under pressure Bob Holman and Fran Beckett focus on the pressures faced by small local neighbourhood groups and organisations as the Government emphasises their decision-making roles. How much real influence do they have anyway and where would our poorest communities be without them? Saturday 12.30 Foxhunter
John Bell John Bell was born and lives within smelling distance of a distillery and a brewery. But he leads an abstemious life, emulating St Augustine and St Francis in his affection for car-driving, mobile phones and spam. The Iona Community employs him as a vagrant. Assault on glory The early stories of Genesis have caused more heat than light. Are they historical records of our memory, or gifts for our imagination with relevance to faith in today’s world? Monday 11.15 Herbert
God among her girls When we think of disciples or heroes of faith, male names normally rise to the surface. Does this mean that females don’t exist, or that they are all called Mary, or that it is time to air some conspiracy theories? Friday 19.00 Herbert
talks 46–47
The vocation to protest In an era of soft-soap spirituality where some Christians are looking for palliative care, it’s maybe time to look at a more radical expectation of God, in the company of John Lennon, the Dixie Chicks and others. Saturday 16.30 Herbert
Jo Berry Jo Berry’s father was killed in the IRA Brighton bombing. Since then she has visited Ireland many times and worked with victims and former combatants from all sides, including Pat Magee, the man responsible for her father’s death. Making peace with the enemy within Jo will draw on her experiences of meeting the man who killed her father as she discusses empathy and how the only real enemy is within. Sunday 16.30 Insurance
Miles Blackley, Julie Noon, Simon Dinsel, Sam Farmar, Debs Gardner-Paterson & Louise Spicer Miles Blackley has careered through the media and the church. His broadcast credits include Panorama and Tonight with Trevor McDonald and a short foray into religious broadcasting that included Channel 4’s God Bless Ibiza. He is also a curate in London. Julie Noon is a filmmaker whose latest documentary follows an RAF squadron in Afghanistan. Inspired to make films that matter, one recent programme looked at missing legal evidence after the New Orleans flood, and the consequences for a death row prison.
Simon Dinsel makes commercials for a living but recently went to Jerusalem with Rowan Williams and other spiritual leaders to do a film for ITV about reconciliation. Sam Farmar’s career includes radio and TV with credits at C4 and the BBC. He recently secured the first broadcast interview with the head of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Debs Gardner-Paterson started her media career by presenting Match of the Day for television in Singapore. She now directs drama and her passion for untold stories has taken her to Africa for a tale of genocide in a Rwandan school. Louisa Spicer worked on a Channel 4 film about sex addiction with Ulrika Jonsson. What sounded like a superficial tease ended up with some profoundly spiritual things to say. Filmakers: faith for the frontline How does faith impact the way Christians work and get involved in the media? Five young filmmakers talk to Miles to share their experiences of working in a demanding industry. Includes film clips and discussion. Saturday 16.30 Foxhunter
Naima Bouteldja Naima Bouteldja is a journalist and researcher exploring the involvement of ethnic and religious minorities in social movements in France and the UK. Being a Muslim in the West Why there’s more to being a Muslim than a Muslim’s religious beliefs. If we are to avoid a polarised society and challenge prejudice and media stereotyping, we need to recognise the diversity of identities that Muslims represent. Monday 11.15 Foxhunter
Billy Bragg
Niall Cooper
Billy Bragg is a singersongwriter from Essex. Politicised by the 1984/5 Miners’ Strike he has been a campaigner for a number of years and is the author of ‘The Progressive Patriot: A Search For Belonging’.
Niall Cooper is the national coordinator of Church Action on Poverty and has written, spoken and broadcast extensively on the themes of housing, community, poverty and the relationship between faith, action and social justice.
Can Britishness be defined in a new bill of rights? The new Prime Minister encourages discussions over the ‘British values’ in our society. How are these defined? And do we need a new Bill of Rights to articulate the fundamental principles?
Making UK poverty history Make Poverty History helped raise our aspirations to make global poverty history, but while this battle goes on is it time to focus our attention on poverty much closer to home?
Saturday 11.00 Centaur
Graham Cray
Rhidian Brooke
Graham Cray is Bishop of Maidstone, a former chair of Greenbelt and now chair of Soul Survivor. He led the team that wrote ‘Mission-Shaped Church’ and speaks on citizenship, among other things. He is the only Bishop with 50 days of rock music on his Mac.
Rhidian Brook is a writer and broadcaster. His first novel, ‘The Testimony Of Taliesin Jones’, won several awards and his television film ‘This Easter’ received excellent reviews. He also contributes to BBC’s ‘Thought for the Day’. More than eyes can see: A nine-month journey through the AIDS pandemic Rhidian will be presenting thoughts and pictures from the incredible journey that took him, his wife and two children to Africa, India and China. Monday 12.30 Foxhunter
Leon Coates & John Baxter-Brown Leon Coates is a director of AMAZE, Personnel Officer for Youth for Christ, and has a professional history in personnel and management. Stopping the s**t hitting the fan Looking at how to run youth work to maximise the impact and minimise the risks for young people, while protecting ourselves as youth workers. Run by the Association of Christian Youth and Children’s Workers. Monday 15.00 G-Source
Saturday 15.00 Sovereign
Disciples and Citizens Public life and citizenship in Britain are being corroded by consumer society. Citizenship depends on a shared value base which governments cannot create. What might a distinctive Christian contribution to the public square look like? Sunday 15.15 Sovereign
Working for the church while your family dies? The fatal attraction between rock and religion carries on unabated, with the usual cast of believers and critics. Graham Cray reviews its current status, starting from Arcade Fire’s ‘Neon Bible’. Saturday 12.30 Bassline
Revd Fuad Dagher & Wisam Salsaa See p.44 Both sides of the wall Wisam and Fuad talk of the shattering impact of the Separation Wall on both their communities. Sunday 15.15 Blake
John Davies John Davies is an Anglican priest interested in exploring the riches of the urban mundane. After Greenbelt he will begin a two-month walk across Northern England following the M62 motorway, from Hull back to his home in Liverpool. Heaven in ordinary Is everyday life a grind, or a gift? We spend most of our time doing mundane things, so why not turn that into a celebration? With help from various artists, thinkers - and that great trickster Jesus Christ - we can learn to find riches in everyday life. Sunday 17.45 Herbert
Maggi Dawn Maggi Dawn is Chaplain and Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge University. A longtime Greenbelter, she is also an occasional broadcaster for the BBC, and writes for a number of publications, including the Church Times. Angels & Announcements People in the bible always seemed to have it easy because God provided a clear instruction in the voice of an angel. Maggie will be taking a closer look at some of those stories to see what we can learn about listening to God in the contemporary world. Saturday 11.15 Bassline
Dr Hany El-Banna & Matthew Reed Dr Hany El Banna is co-founder and President of Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), an international relief and development organisation which aims to alleviate the poverty and suffering of the world’s poorest people. Matthew Reed is the church and community director for Christian Aid.
I was hungry and Islamic Relief fed me In a world of religious division, directors from Islamic Relief and Christian Aid ask if Muslims and Christians can work together to eradicate poverty. With Hany El-Banna. Saturday 11.15 Blake
Marc Ellis Marc Ellis is Professor of Jewish Studies and director of the Center of Jewish Studies at Baylor University. He lectures and travels extensively and is the author of more than 20 books. His most recent is ‘Reading the Torah Out Loud: A Journey of Lament and Hope’.
David Ford & Micheal O’Siadhall David Ford is Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University and director of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme. He is the author of, among other works, ‘Theology: A Very Short Introduction’ and ‘Self and Salvation’. Micheal O’Siadhail has published 12 books of poetry; his latest is ‘Globe’. Formerly a professor at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, his awards include the Irish American Cultural Institute Prize and the Marten Toonder.
Is Israel different? From its inception in 1948, questions have swirled around Israel’s existence and policies. How should it be regarded within the international community? And what do the different understandings mean for peace in the Middle East?
Shaping memory, seeking vision: scripture and poetry Memory is crucial to who we are; faith, hope and love are rooted in it. In this fusion of scriptural and contemporary poetry David and Micheal O’Siadhail explore a vision for the 21st century.
Monday 9.00 Herbert
Sunday 14.00 Bassline
Towards a Jewish theology of liberation What does the concept of liberation mean for Judaism and Jewish life? What does it mean to be faithful today as a Jew and what is the role of the prophetic in that fidelity?
Sister Frances Dominica OBE
Friday 20.30 Blake
Unholy alliance: religon and atrocity in our time Can religion free itself of power? Instead should we be thinking of people of faith across religious lines who, distant from the Constantinian formations of religion, come into a solidarity of conscience? Sunday 14.00 Blake
See p.44 How do children cope with death and bereavement? We used to opt out of facing children’s distress by saying ‘children are resilient’, but we realise now that children’s grief is as profound and idiosyncratic as adult grief. Sister Frances draws on her 25 years of experience being alongside grieving children. Monday 15.15 Herbert
Interview: Jonathan Mayo meets Sister Frances Dominica Monday 11.15 Centaur
Janey Lee Grace John Bell Keith Wrad Carolyn Hayman OBE
talks 48–49
Becky Garrison
Paula Gooder
Carolyn Hayman OBE
Morna Hooker
Becky Garrison is the senior contributing editor for the satirical magazine ‘The Wittenburg Door’ and author of the forthcoming ‘Rising from the Ashes: Rethinking Church’ and ‘The New Atheist Crusaders and Their Unholy Grail’.
Paula Gooder teaches New Testament at the Queen’s Foundation in Birmingham and also works as a freelance writer and lecturer. She is a member of the General Synod.
Carolyn Hayman has been involved with Peace Direct since 2002 and is now its Chief Executive. She has also worked at DFID, the Cabinet Office and been on the board of the Commonwealth Development Corporation.
Morna Hooker is a retired Cambridge University theologian. She helped revise the New English Bible and continues to edit Black’s New Testament Commentaries. Among her books are ‘Commentary on St Mark’ and ‘Paul: A Short Introduction’.
The spiritual discipline of religious satire A holy and yet heretical quest for a satirical tradition that goes from Jesus to Jonathan Swift. Featuring music by Isaac Everett. Saturday 10.00 Foxhunter
The new atheist crusaders and their unholy grail A satirical analysis of the four Horsemen of the atheist apocalypse (Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and Dennett) and their misguided quest to rid the world of religion. Featuring music by Isaac Everett. Monday 15.15 Blake
Doug Gay Doug Gay is a lecturer in Practical Theology at the University of Glasgow and a Church of Scotland Minister. A long term Greenbelter, he used to be a member of the band Calvin’s Dream, whose ‘difficult second album’ is now 15 years late. Learning to be Church: Unpacking the Emerging Project Unpacking ‘emerging Church’ as an ecumenical model for change and reform in the life of contemporary churches. Saturday 10.00 Blake
Breaking up Britain: how to be a Christian nationalist A reflection on the recent election success of the Scottish National Party, making a case for why and how Christians should support nationalist parties. Monday 11.15 Bassline
Pie in the sky: can believing in heaven change the world now? Some Christians still look upwards like the disciples did when Jesus ascended. What did heaven mean at the time of the New Testament and how do we translate those beliefs into our modern world? Saturday 11.15 Sovereign
Janey Lee Grace Janey Lee Grace has been waxing lyrical about holistic living on the Steve Wright in the Afternoon show for over seven years. Her first book, ‘Imperfectly Natural Woman’, was an Amazon bestseller and her second, ‘Imperfectly Natural Baby and Toddler’, is out now. Imperfectly Natural: How to ‘green up’ your life How to ‘green up’ your life without beating yourself up. Janey’s tips and ideas for sourcing the best chemicalfree products and services. Plenty of time for questions. Monday 15.15 Insurance
Andrew Graystone Andrew Graystone is the director of the Churches’ Media Council and a prolific producer, writer and presenter for BBC Religion and BBC Radio 4. I know it’s true - ‘cos I saw it on TV The digital world poses new challenges for viewers, listeners, surfers and programme-makers. In a media-saturated culture how can we make sense of the hundreds of stories that amuse, bemuse and confuse us every day of our lives? Can we learn to engage with the media better and ultimately grow through it? Sunday 12.30 Foxhunter
Inspired by Allah: Muslim peacebuilders in the UK and overseas Stories of Muslim peacebuilders in conflict situations around the world. Find out what you can do to support Muslims building peace in the UK. Sunday 16.30 Foxhunter
John Henson John Henson is a graduate in theology from Oxford and is now a Baptist minister. A member of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, he has lectured on faith and gender at the invitation of the EU. He is married with three children and is the author of ‘The Gay Disciple’. The Church and Chinese whispers To what extent has the Church’s message suffered from Chinese whispers? Who was the gay disciple? John Henson unpacks these questions and others, exploring the Church’s subverted message through two millenia. Saturday 17.45 Insurance
Bob Holman See p.44 Airbrushed out of history: F B Meyer today Bob Holman reveals the unknown radilcalsim of F B Meyer and discusess his relevance for a generation dealing with climate change and inequality. Saturday 15.15 Insurance
A Voice from Heaven In his opening verses, Mark offers us the key to understanding the story he is about to relate. What does he tell us about Jesus, who ‘came from Nazareth in Galilee’, and why is it so significant? Saturday 10.00 Bassline
Stars and Angels How are we to understand the birth narratives in Matthew and Luke? As fairy stories, that we can safely discard, as factual accounts, or as Gospel Truth? Sunday 16.30 Blake
Shannon Hopkins & Aimee Littler Shannon Hopkins helped develop ‘The Truth Isn’t Sexy’ campaign against sex trafficking. For the last decade she has been involved with projects around mission, arts, culture and business in the UK and USA. Aimie Littler directs ‘The Truth Isn’t Sexy’. She also acts, develops artistic projects and exhibitions, mentors young women and runs workshops on the sacred feminine. ‘The Truth isn’t Sexy’ campaign ‘The Truth isn’t Sexy’: if not you then who? The campaign against sex trafficking starts with challenging the demand culture at home. Aimie and Shannon discuss how to get involved and make TTIS happen in your area. Saturday 11.15 Foxhunter
Tobias Jones
Cole Moreton
Ched Myers
Andrew Nugent
Tobias Jones is the author of ‘The Dark Heart of Italy’ and ‘Utopian Dreams’. He has written and presented documentaries for Italian and British television and is a regular contributor to the Guardian, the Independent and the Telegraph.
Cole Moreton is lead writer for the Independent on Sunday, appears regularly on BBC Radio Five and is the author of two books (one of which was shortlisted for the prestigious John Lewellyn Rhys Prize).
Ched Myers is an activist and theologian. He has written half a dozen books, including ‘The Biblical Vision of Sabbath Economics’. He is a co-founder of the Word and World School and of the Sabbath Economics Collaborative.
Andrew Nugent was a trial lawyer and is now Prior at Glenstal Abbey school in Limerick. He is the author of the best-selling thrillers ‘Second Burial’ and ‘The Four Courts Murder’.
Rediscovering community Why did it disappear and how do we find it again? A provocative mini-manifesto with debate and discussion on the notion of community. Monday 11.15 Sovereign
Tony Juniper Tony Juniper has been an environmental campaigner for nearly 20 years. He is the executive director of Friends of the Earth UK and the vice chair of Friends of the Earth International. Is it too late to stop climate change? Rising sea levels, floods and heat waves, apocalyptic weather forecasters... maybe this time we’ve really gone too far and it’s too late to stop climate change. Not so says Tony, and here’s how and why. Monday 12.30 Herbert
Mark Montgomery Mark Montgomery is a youth officer for the Diocese of Chester. He spends his time helping the diocese engage with their youth. He is also editor of ‘Young people and worship: a practical guide’. 168 lost sheep: joined-up programme planning How many times do you hear the story from 0–18? Mark develops a strategy for joinedup work with children and young people. Monday 16.30 Insurance
Reading the news How is the big story reported, why is that so, and how should we respond as citizens and believers? Cole decodes the headlines, explodes the myths and roots out the deeper meanings in the news. Monday 10.00 Insurance
The Devil and me One in three people in Britain say they believe in the Devil, but what do they mean? From exorcisms and child abuse to films, folklore and the real-life Church of Satan, Cole investigates what the Great Adversary is (or isn’t) up to. Saturday 17.45 Blake
Ann Morisy Ann Morisy is a freelance community theologian and lecturer. She directed the Commission on Urban Life and Faith and has written two best selling books: ‘Beyond the Good Samaritan’ and ‘Journeying Out’. Living well locally Is there any evidence that faith makes a positive contribution to the wellbeing of individuals and neighbourhoods? Why do so many people think religion is a bad thing? Sunday 17.45 Blake
Now we are 60 A sideways consideration of long life and the aging population. An opportunity to make friends with old age – it’s better than than the alternative! Saturday 14.00 Insurance
Ambassadors of reconciliation: gospel witnesses to restorative justice Portraits of four cutting edge faith-based practitioners of ‘restorative justice.’ Friday 19.00 Foxhunter
Hope is where your arse is The story of how Ched got started in peace and justice work – how he heard the gospel from a dumpster and why he seeks a new generation of evangelical activists. Saturday 12.30 Herbert
Abraham under the ‘Teaching Oak’ The biblical story is far greener than we thought. How to embrace deep ecological insights without the fuzzy New Age cosmology. Monday 10.00 Herbert
Sally Nash Sally Nash is director of the Midlands Centre for Youth Ministry and has been involved in training and support of youth workers for over 20 years. She recently published Grove Booklets on ‘Supervising Youth Workers’ and ‘Sustaining Your Spirituality’. I never expected this! The ups and downs of youth worker management – a session looking at some of the issues that arise in youth worker employment from the perspective of both the youth worker and the manager. Saturday 14.00 G-Source
A murderous monk Has Death a Meaning? Monk and murder-novelist Andrew explores where his murder and mysticism come from. Saturday 20.00 Sovereign
Finding myself through murder Having started writing murder mysteries in Africa at the age of 60, Andrew felt at first as if he was just being escapist. Find out how he actually became present to himself in a new way. Saturday 16.30 Insurance
John O’Donohue See p.44. Imagination as the Path of Spirit ‘As you enter the future with freedom, possibility comes to meet you...’ John explores the future you never imagined. Sunday 16.30 Herbert
A Conversation with John O’Donohue ‘I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding...’ Martin Wroe hosts your questions for the acclaimed Irish poet, philosopher and best-selling author of ‘Anam Cara’ and ‘Eternal Echoes’. Monday 10.00 Centaur
Bishop Nelson Onono-Onweng Bishop Nelson Onono-Onweng was consecrated Bishop of Northern Uganda Diocese in 1988. He is a founding member of the Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative and was selected for the UNESCO peace award in 2001.
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A powerful voice for peace Bishop Nelson explores the aftermath of the civil war in Northern Uganda, and how reconciliation is becoming more of a reality. Sunday 15.15 Herbert
Simon Parke Simon Parke was a priest in the Church of England but now works in a supermarket, where he chairs the shop Union. He leads retreats, contributes a weekly column to the Church Times, and recently wrote ‘The Beautiful Life: Ten new commandments’. The Beautiful Life: Ten new commandments When we become disconnected from who we are it is a long journey home. Simon offers ten new commandments to help us back to a beautiful life. Sunday 16.30 Sovereign
Martin Parkes Martin Parkes works for Christian Aid in Bristol, helping inspire young people and resource youth workers about global issues such as climate change and international trade. Am I a commodity? Have we bought the myth that consumerism equals happiness? What can we learn about life from our brothers and sisters around the world? A session for youth leaders and young people on how to avoid selling your soul. Sunday 12.30 Performance Café
Andrew Pendleton Andrew Pendleton is Christian Aid’s senior policy officer on climate change and sustainable development. Previously he was a producer on the Jimmy Young programme on BBC Radio 2 and has produced and reported for programmes on BBC Radios 4 and 5. Climate change makes poverty permanent Andrew discusses why Christian Aid has turned its attention to climate change with its ‘Cut the Carbon’ campaign. Monday 11.30 DFID
Ann Pettifor Ann Pettifor is the campaigns director for Operation Noah, the climate change operation at Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. She also led Jubilee 2000, which resulted in the cancellation of $60bn of developing country debt. The coming first world debt crisis With the housing slump in the US and the widening credit crunch, a global debt crisis looms larger. With money lenders as the masters of the economy, what role do faith organisations have to play in restoring the balance; should we be reviving the sin of usery? Monday 11.15 Blake
Is there a green movement in the UK? There is widespread awareness of the threat of climate change but is concern mobilised behind a movement for change?
Raj Patel
Monday 14.00 DFID
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Anthony Reddie
Confront or walk away? A look at how Christians can deal with conflict. Raj will draw on cases he is involved in and get people thinking about how they may cope with, resolve or even utilise situations they find themselves in.
Anthony Reddie is a proponent of black theology inside the Methodist Church and the Queens Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education in Birmingham. He is the author of a number of books and edits ‘Black Theology: An International Journal’.
Monday 15.15 Sovereign
Towards the practice of freedom: black theology & the slave trade What can we learn in retrospect from the transatlantic slave trade? Here, we take a broadbrush, interactive tour through black theology and focus on the different ways in which Christians have made sense of their role in Africa’s tragic past. Saturday 14.00 Blake
Pete Rollins See p.45 Faith with/without God: towards a heretical othodoxy Today we witness a passionate debate between those who would claim that Christianity is true and those who would claim that it is not. Pete will show that deeper questions lead us toward an answer that renders the above debate obsolete and radically transforms our understanding of faith.
Andrew Rumsey Andrew Rumsey is a South London vicar and seasoned Greenbelt speaker. He also writes for the satirical website shipoffools.com. He is wellplaced to speak on genealogy, being a direct descendent of Henry VIII’s sixth wife’s cousin. Back to my roots With genealogy enjoying a resurgence in popularity, Andrew shins up the family tree and considers our search for identity and belonging in the light of Christian belief. Sunday 12.30 Insurance
Angela Sarkis See p.45 What happened to the new dawn? In 1997 New Labour promised to redistribute wealth and end child poverty within a generation. After ten years is the government delivering on these pledges?
Sunday 17.45 Foxhunter
Saturday 15.15 Blake
Philip Roderick & Ruth Regan
Mona Siddiqui
Philip Roderick is a priest and Afro-Celtic percussionist. He is the leader of Contemplative Fire and founder-director of The Quiet Garden Movement. His book and CD, ‘Beloved: Henri Nouwen in Conversation’ is published this summer.
Does theology matter for peaceful coexistence? Mona explores classical and contemporary Islamic thinking on God and faith, society and authority, pluralism and mission to ask how theology can be both a cohesive and a divisive force in society.
Ruth Regan is a poet, educator and coach. She left the Church four years ago and has since been engaged in a creative journey of recovery and discovery. Embodied mysticism: what does it mean to be fully and divinely human? An idiosyncratic and improvisational journey through conversation and percussive performance into knowing and not knowing, being and doing, silence and sound. Monday 12.30 Insurance
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Sunday 14.00 Herbert
John Smith John Smith is the founding director of Concern Australia and God’s Squad Christian Motorcycle Club. He is an elder of the radical discipleship movement, a defender of the poor, a prominent social commentator and a blues, jazz, rock and punk lover. Pop McWorship versus the real thing Is relevance all there is? What’s left when a coke and a coffee are awesome? How the hype has eclipsed the holy and sacred in life. Saturday 17.45 Herbert
The greatest environmentalists in history What on earth has heaven got to do with earth? John sets out why we need another Apostles’ Creed, and why creationism misses the point. Sunday 12.30 Herbert
Friday 19.15 Blake
Andy Tate Andrew Tate lectures in Literature at Lancaster University. This year he has written a book on Douglas Coupland and another entitled ‘Contemporary Fiction and Christianity’. Heavenly fictions Visions of hell have preoccupied writers from Dante to Dickens but few have dared to imagine heaven. Andrew will explore the afterlife and apocalypse as discussed by contemporary writers from Douglas Coupland to John Updike.
Bruce Stanley
Saturday 12.30 Insurance
Bruce Stanley ran away from the circus to become a life coach and run embody.co.uk, an umbrella for creative project development focussed on emerging models for spiritual direction and experiential positive psychology.
John Tavener
Happiness can move mountains too From pleasure to purpose the desire for happiness is in our blueprint. Although many wrestle with this subject, happiness might just show a way to discover God in the ordinary very much by accident so what’s the Church doing about it?
Doug Howland Bishop Nelson Onono-Onweng Ann Pettifor Mona Siddiqui
Seeger, Springsteen and hymns in rock and protest Bruce Springsteen revived the civil rights songs of Pete Seeger, many of which happened to be old Baptist hymns. Stocki explores the significance.
Classical music royalty will be in our midst as Greenbelt is privileged to welcome Sir John Tavener, one of the country’s most popular living composers. A prodigious talent, Tavener was installed at Trinity College as Professor of Composition when in his twenties and has over his career been honoured with numerous TV specials, festivals dedicated to his music, a Grammy, and a Knighthood. A Conversation with John Tavener. Bring your questions Monday 12.30 Blake
Monday 17.45 Foxhunter
G P Taylor
Steve Stockman
G P Taylor is the author of the best-selling novels ‘Shadowmancer’ and ‘Wormwood’. Before taking up writing full-time, he was an Anglican priest in the village of Cloughton, North Yorkshire.
Steve Stockman is a bestselling author, songwriter, poet and social activist. He is a chaplain at Queens University Belfast and author of ‘Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2’
How to write a Christian bestseller for a secular market G P Taylor went from being an Anglican priest to a publishing sensation. He discusses why it is the duty of people of faith to proclaim their good news through the print media, giving plenty of time to grill the author too. Sunday 12.30 Sovereign
The Media and the mind battle for of our children Taylor explores the issues that face the individual and the church as the mind battle for our children continues. Sunday 19.00 Blake
Q & A with G P Taylor Sunday 19.45 Blake
Vic Thiessen Vic Thiessen is director of the London Mennonite Centre, lecturing regularly on themes in film and theology. For the past eight years he has also hosted a weekly film night where screening a film is followed by an hour of discussion. Jesus in Technicolor: introducing change from the margins In our post-Christian age, Christians are once again trying to influence society from the margins. Using film clips, this talk will explore the potential for change in our churches and the wider society. Monday 15.15 Foxhunter
Bev Thomas Bev has worked for the last 20 years in the UK and internationally as a trainer/ speaker on social justice and race issues. She has been a project development officer for the Churches’ Commission for Racial Justice and is now the chair of the Christian Socialist Movement, which supports a Christian witness within the Labour Party.
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Can political activism survive in a potentially cynical age? In an age of cynicism and lack of engagement in the democratic process, Bev Thomas explores whether political activism can play a central role in transforming our communities.
The Gospel of falling down We hear a lot about the gospel of success, but most of us are more accustomed to failure. For all those who feel unworthy or just ‘can’t make the grade’, Mark speaks with brutal honesty, and offers some symbolic magical effects.
Is religion dangerous? Many recent writers like Richard Dawkins have written vitriolic tracts against religion, which they regard as dangerous and immoral. Have they really looked at the facts about the effects of religion in world history?
Jeremy Thomson
Sue Vallente-Kerr
Tess Ward
Jeremy Thomson is the national leader of the Oasis Youth Work & Ministry Course. He has worked as an engineer, bookseller, marriage counsellor and church leader, but has also discovered the joys of theological teaching.
Sue Vallente-Kerr is a youth and children’s worker in the Rochester Diocese. She initiated The Big Project, a ‘fresh expression’ of how to reach unchurched families. She is also a qualified teacher.
Tess Ward is a hospital chaplain in Oxford. She was co-celebrant of the Greenbelt Communion 2005 and is the author of ‘The Celtic Wheel of the Year’.
Sunday 19.00 Herbert
It’s hard being emotional Many people struggle with relationships because they find difficulty recognising or handling emotions. Jeremy will draw on theology and psychology to help explore this vital aspect of human life. Saturday 19.00 Insurance
Dave Tomlinson Dave Tomlinson is a writer, speaker and vicar of St Luke’s church in North London. He has written several books including ‘The Post-Evangelical’, ‘Running into God’ and ‘Still Waters and Skyscrapers’. Finding a second innocence How to become re-enchanted with Christianity, discover a grown-up faith you can believe in, develop a spirituality that is liberating and life-affirming, and find ways to grow as a person. Monday 11.15 Insurance
Mark Townsend Mark Townsend is a magician who conjours expressions of the deep human search for meaning and wonder. His first book is ‘The Gospel of Falling Down’, in which magic and spirituality are drawn into a compelling self-help guide on discovering our inner gold.
Saturday 11.15 Insurance
Are we special? Feel left out? Want to be included? No idea what is going on? Come and learn how to help young people with special needs. Sunday 19.00 Insurance
Nigel Varndell
Sunday 15.15 Bassline
Exploring the wheel of the year as a Christian The Celtic wheel can be a helpful way of exploring the inner and outer landscapes of the Christian journey. A look at Solstices, Equinoxes and the cross-quarter festivals and how they weave with the Christian seasons.
Nigel Varndell has worked at Christian Aid for over ten years in fundraising, advocacy and Church relations before ending up as the inter-faith manager. He now deals with issues of justice with people of all faiths and none.
Monday 16.30 Sovereign
Jesus was a liar Sometimes in the Gospel Jesus appears to be ‘economical with the truth’. Why? And what do Jesus’ lies teach us about living faithfully as Christians today?
Slavery today: join the fight for freedom Slavery has not gone away. Contemporary forms affect at least 12.3 million men, women and children in the 21st century. What can the campaign against the Atlantic slave trade teach us as we seek to tackle modern-day slavery?
Saturday 10.00 Sovereign
Keith Ward Keith Ward was ordained in 1972 and was Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford for 12 years. He has written many books including ‘God; a Guide for the Perplexed’, ‘Christianity: a Guide for the Perplexed’ and ‘What the Bible Really Teaches’.
Sarah Williams Sarah Williams is the campaigns officer at AntiSlavery International, helping to co-ordinate the Fight for Freedom 1807–2007 campaign.
Saturday 17.45 DFID
Lucy Winkett Lucy Winkett is Canon Precentor of St Paul’s Cathedral in London and used to be a professional singer. She is also a founding advisor for the public theology think-tank Theos, a columnist in Third Way magazine, and a trustee of the Amos Trust.
Martyr, virgin, mystic, wife What do Christian women have to say to 21st century British society? The feminisation of football and the first female Home Secretary are signs of a changing landscape. Where do we go from here? Monday 16.30 Herbert
Mark Yaconelli See p.45 How to ensure your funeral is well attended ‘Love,’ as Jean Vanier, once wrote, ‘is to reveal the beauty of another person to themselves.’ How do we become love? How does our legacy in this life become a legacy of love? Saturday 11.15 Herbert
Failure, frustration and loss: the common person’s path to holiness Being a human being is problematic. If ‘success is not a name for God’ as Martin Buber once asserted, then how do we measure a life? Is there a way to experience our failure, frustration and loss as openings to a new way of being human? Sunday 12.30 Blake
Message to a dying church What if we could confess that after all these years, the truth remains that we’re not very good at Christianity? We might be surprised to find that within our aging congregations is a capacity for wonder and kindness. Monday 14.00 Herbert
Panels Supporting Church Leavers Building on the work of ‘A Churchless Faith’ and ‘Spirited Exchanges’ in New Zealand, a UK network of groups for church leavers has been growing over the last two years, with strong connections to the Greenbelt Festival. This seminar will provide an opportunity to meet a panel of people involved in ‘Spirited Exchanges UK’, and discuss with them relevant concerns and issues, as well as giving an experience of the ‘Spirited Exchanges’ ethos. Chaired by Malcolm Chamberlain 19.30 Friday Insurance
Turning up the heat on climate change Campaigners argue that current government targets fall short of the drastic change which is needed to avoid catastrophic climate change. Is there a moral basis for pushing the targets higher? With Tony Juniper, Ann Pettifor, Michael Northcott & reps from CA & DFID. Chaired by Jo Rathbone 16.30 Monday Blake
How to be a Foster Carer Maybe you’ve thought about it, maybe you’ve done it, maybe you’re doing it. In the UK nearly 50,000 children and young people are being looked after by foster carers every day. But there’s a shortage of 8,000 carers to look after other children. Bring your wisdom or your questions and hear from a group of practitioners and professionals. Chaired by Greenbelt Festival Director, Beki Bateson. 10.00 Monday Foxhunter
Pop Is Dead – Long Live Pop! The Changing Face Of The Music Industry Record companies heamoraging staff! Music sales at an all time low! Or is it millions of downloads a week and gigs selling out in minutes? Record Producer Steve Levine and A&R bigwig Gordon Charlton are among the guests joining Radio Producer Jude Adam to discuss whether this is the beginning of the end, the end of the beginning, or - like Holly Valance - just a lot of hype.
13.45 Saturday Sovereign Lounge
Children Rise A short preview of a major new release which follows the day to day life of a small group of South African Street Children. Director Billy Raferty worked with a small group of former street children to make this unsettling and poignant film that captures street children’s dignity despite the treatment they receive and the steps they need to take to survive. 14.00 Saturday Foxhunter
Does forgiveness resolve conflict? Is conflict a given in the world? And whether it ends in murder, the redrawing of national boundaries, extremism and violence or simply argument how do we resolve it? Panelists who have each been involved in different forms of conflict and its aftermath discuss how do we live with and after it. Chaired by Simon Fanshawe 15.15 Saturday Foxhunter
Can Christians, Jews and Muslims share a theology of liberation and justice? Following on from Marc Ellis’ talks, panelists from different faiths looks for common theological ground between Abraham’s children on the subject of liberation theology. With Garth Hewitt, Marc Ellis and Fuad Dagher. 16.15 Saturday Sovereign
Ethical consumer? Non-sequeter? Now M&S are making sure lots of their clothes are fairly traded, aren’t we all ethical shoppers? Or is there more to do? With the help of Traidcraft CEO Paul Chandler, and Fiona Gooch, formerly on the Government’s Competition Commission, this panel will refuse to recycle old clichés, and will take a look behind the fair trade label. In association with Traidcraft. 10.00 Saturday Insurance
Am I bovvered? A chance to hear why the Church of England’s Liturgical Commission is really bovvered about worship. Come and make your views heard, telling members of the Commission what you love about liturgy - or would love if they could make it happen. 13.45 Sunday Foxhunter
Can We Coexist? Leading theologians bring wisdom from three different religious traditions to the vexed question of how Muslims, Christians and Jews can live peacefully together in the 21st century. With Mona Siddiqui and Marc Ellis. 16.30 Sunday Bassline
Dealing with the past in Northern Ireland After decades of conflict, the Northern Ireland peace process has reached a significant point with the establishment of a powersharing government. But the legacy of suffering still remains to be addressed. How can this community move on from its experience of violence and trauma and what responsibility do people from Britain have to help transform this society? This panel discussion will include senior political representatives from Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party and Gerry Adams’ Sinn Fein, as well as Healing Through Remembering, a project dedicated to assisting with dealing with the past. It will be chaired by Gareth Higgins, who led the zero28 project peacebuilding initiative for almost ten years until its successful closure earlier this summer. with Alex Easton, Dawn Peavis & Daithi McKay (Northern Ireland Assembly) and Kate Turner. Chaired by Gareth Higgins 17.45 Sunday Insurance Lounge
Taking Liberties – ‘Freedom, Justice, Activism’ Is the pursuit of freedom being used to silence dissent? Hear how faith communities, trade unions and activists can work together to maintain our right to campaign. With Sue Plater, Betty Hunter, Ibrahim Hewitt, Dan Judelson and Naime Bouteldja 17.45 Sunday Sovereign Lounge
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Spirituality in ordinary In the last decade, trends in media and culture have started to move back to a recognition of the role of spirituality; popular imagination is again seeking the mystical, the exotic, the inspiring; we have seen the rise of the ‘mind, body, spirit’ industry. Is this all meaningless escapism, or a taste of the divine? In association with Scripture Union’s Wise Traveller Series. With Graham Cray and Steve Hollinghurst 10.00 Monday Cabaret
Can the 18th Century abolitionists teach us anything in the campaign against 21st Century slavery? There are now more people being trafficked around the world in sexual slavery or bonded labour than ever were at the heights of the 18th Century slave trade. What can the abolitionists from that era teach us about campaigning against this new, and far more widespread, form of slavery? With Anthony Reddie. Chaired by Bev Thomas 14.00 Monday Blake
Workshops Jo Rathbone Jo Rathbone has a background in social work and world development issues, and has been running the Ecocongregation programme for three years. Greening your congregation Feeling guilty about global warming? Great suggestions for getting your congregation into green gear.
20.00 Friday National Hunt Suite
Philip Roderick See p51 Be the body, syncopate with spirit! A rhythm & chant workshop that aims to integrate the body as an exquisite drum box with the soul as the source of harmony. In the safety of numbers and in the building of community, let your emotions sing their song!
Friday 21.00 National Hunt Suite
Sue Mayfield Sue Mayfield has written eight novels for young adults. Her latest book was nominated for this year’s Carnegie Medal and has been short-listed for several regional prizes. The touching place An hour-long workshop session for all ages exploring tactile and multi-sensory ways to pray, The Touching Place will involve storytelling, movement, chocolate, lemons, knotted rope, strands of wool and messy hands! 09.00 Saturday Festival Suite
Judy Reith & Sarah Rose Judy is a mother of three who works with parents of all sorts, coaching, running courses and workshops. Her passion is to liberate parents to be the best Mum or Dad they can.
Sarah trained as a Youth worker, and is now a systemic family practitioner working in secondary schools and counselling centres. She also has two kids and is passionate about helping families to communicate better. You never listen to me! Who says this in your family? Kids? Parents? Everyone? Why is that? How does that feel to be unheard? How do you want to be able to communicate with each other? How can we listen to each other better? 10.00 Saturday Festival Suite
Andy Mellen Kissing the car keys goodbye The end of the oil age may be sooner than you think. Are you and your church preparing for it? Saturday 10.00 National Hunt Suite
Rachel Morley Rachel Morley is a consultant clinical psychologist working with asylum seekers in Glasgow, and a passionate critic of UK asylum policy. She also teaches courses in narrative therapy. Introduction to narrative therapy Narrative therapy engages with telling and retelling the hopeful stories of people’s lives, and thinks about which stories are marginalised and why. A workshop to practise some of the ideas. 30 attendees only. 18.00 Saturday Festival Suite
Chris Maskens & Jane Chebous Chris Maskens spent his teens and 20s as a classical dancer. He is now a therapist with particular interest in the understanding and treatment of psychological trauma. Jane Chevous is the founder of Reshapers, an ethical business promoting education, training, community development and
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the arts. She is chair of S:VOX, an organisation for survivors of abuse, and lay advisor to the Suffolk Multi-Agency Protection Panel. From trauma to transformation What helps survivors to journey beyond the trauma and suffering and discover a sense of wholeness and of ‘heaven’ in their daily lives? How can these insights help all of us move beyond the traumatic in our lives and discover heaven in the ordinary? An interactive workshop using art, discussion and our shared experiences. 19.30 Saturday National Hunt Suite
The Church Times Are we failing our children? This year’s UNICEF report highlighted the UK’s children as the unhappiest in Europe. What do parents feel are the pressures they are experiencing in bringing up teenagers and is there anything we can do about it together? A structured think-tank session, considering different approaches for boys and girls.
20.30 Saturday National Hunt Suite
The Church Urban Fund Show us the money You want to make a difference but your funding is drying up and recruiting volunteers is challenging. Come and chat through your headaches and hassles and identify solutions with Tim Bissett and Billy Dann of the Church Urban Fund. 20.00 Sunday Sovereign
Julie Johnson Julie Johnson is an independent PSHE consultant, trainer and counsellor working with schools and corporate businesses. She has written a number of children’s books and is working on a series on cyber-bullying for BBC Radio 4 to be aired this autumn.
Teenagers and parents: Why are they so weird? Exploring the issues parents face today, exploding the myth of the adult child, managing that rollercoaster of adolescence and discussing how best to support, give boundaries to, and engage with our teens. Monday 11.00 Festival Suite
Stanley Baxter Stanley is an Anglican priest and a member of the Health and Healing Groups in the Diocese of York, Ripon and Leeds. He is also Chair of the Association of Pastoral, Spiritual Care and Counselling. Spirituality and the creativity of ‘madness’ as a way to the divine In the lives of the saints and other Christians who live with mental illness, their creativity and spirituality has been empowered by their experiences. What should the Church’s attitude to mental health issues be in light of this?
16.00 Monday National Hunt Suite
Wise Traveller’ Meditative Pilgrimages from Scripture Union Scripture Union presents a series of free guided walks around the Cheltenham area rooted in reflections, bits of Scripture, or quotations from spiritual pioneers anthologised in the ‘Wise Traveller’ series of books. Slip away from the hurly-burly of Greenbelt for up to two hours and explore the wide, wild world of the surrounding hills or town, with eye-opening guidance on hand to help you think, reflect, pray and wonder. Minibuses leave at 9.55, 12.55 & 15.55 Saturday, Sunday & Monday. No under-16s. 16–18-year-olds must be accompanied by an adult. Sign-up at the Scripture Union stand in G-Source.
Now you never need miss out on that vital session again. Get your CDs direct from G-Talks this year (situated in G-Books) or pre-order and avoid the queues by picking up an order form. CDs £4.50 Set of 3 CD’s by John Bell, Marc Ellis, Ched Myers, Mark Yaconelli £12 MP3 downloads will be available after the Festival at £3 and £7.50 per set of 3 (speakers as above) talks marked with this symbol will not be recorded
This year for the first time we are offering a DVD of the Sunday Morning Communion Service with Sanctus1. ‘The Official Bootleg Communion DVD’ – available in G-Talks an hour after the service @ £6, or via the website after the festival.
Himalayan Trek January 2008 In the heart of the Himalayas, discover the Annapurna range and join CMS for the trip of a lifetime. You’ll pioneer new routes through the mountains, trek through lush forests, visit CMS projects in Nepal, and raise sponsorship money to enable local mission work in the global South.
Challenge yourself. Make a difference.
When: 12th – 24th January 2008 Cost: £1350 + sponsorship raised Email: challenges@cms-uk.org Tel: 01865 787518 Web: www.cms-uk.org
Registered Charity Number 220297
A brand new venue bringing together Literature and Visual Arts: The Hub is the axis around which these will revolve, novelists, painters, poets and printmakers delight and inspire.
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literature Books to read before you die – a list for GB 07 We banned The Bible, and then allowed you all to nominate and vote for your best books of all time. You wouldn’t want to meet your maker and feel ill-read, would you? The results are in, and Third Way editor Simon Jones hosts a review of the tomes Greenbelters have voted their most essential reads. Monday 12.30 The Hub
The Top Ten Books – as voted for by you, as we went to press: 1 1984 by George Orwell 2 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 3 Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland 4 Life of Pi by Yann Martell 5 The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein 6 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 7 A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving 8 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace 9 Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut 10 The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
G P Taylor Funded by the sale of his beloved Harley Davidson, his self-published, first novel, ‘Shadowmancer’, knocked J.K. Rowling off the top spot in the UK book charts. ‘Hotter than Potter’, it stayed there for a record 15 weeks. In between writing his new ‘Mariah Mundi’ series of books he enjoyed inspiring the next generation of novelists with his creative writing courses. Creative Writing If you’re an aspiring writer of fiction, this session with G P Taylor is not to be missed
Sunday 12.30 Sovereign Lounge Sunday 19.00 Blake
Interview with Q&A Sunday 19.40 Blake
Gillian Allnut Hailed by The Guardian as ‘One of the finest and deepest of our living poets.’ Gillian won the Northern Rock Foundation Writer’s Award in 2005 and has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Oh How the Bicycle Shone Reading from her recently published ‘New and Selected Poems – How the Bicycle Shone’. Saturday 19.30 Foxhunter
Exalted manna Discovering new literary delights is the aim of this session, as Gillian throws a thoughtful spotlight on heavensent authors that feed her inspiration. Saturday 15.15 The Hub
John Haynes John Haynes is a poet who grew up on the piers and pavilions of England’s coast. After a brief spell as a stage manager in a rep company he moved into teaching and worked in Nigeria for 18 years. ‘Letter to Patience’ won the Costa Award (formerly the Whitbread) this year.
Letter to patience John will be reading from Letter to Patience and from a new work in progress, which deals with ‘the poet’s attempt to understand the Christianity of an old dying African woman, whose faith is very clear and direct, and makes him imagine what it might be like to actually meet Jesus the ordinary man.’ Monday 16.30 Foxhunter
Micheal O’Siadhail with David Ford Micheal O’Siadhail has published 12 books of poetry; his latest is ‘Globe’. Formerly a professor at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, his awards include the Irish American Cultural Institute Prize and the Marten Toonder. David Ford is Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge and director of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme. He is the author of, among other works, ‘Theology: A Very Short Introduction’ and ‘Self and Salvation’. Loving change: our global engagement How does our past bear on the present? What kind of people change history? How do we face tragedy and loss? Do our times offer a strange new jazz of possibility? Introduced by David Ford. Sunday 19.00 Sovereign
Chris Sunderland Chris Sunderland runs Agora, a charity that aims to create new opportunities to engage with issues that matter. Agora is currently focusing its work on climate change and the environment and has run three series of events in Bristol this summer.
A voice in the wilderness The prophets of the Bible shook their world. Many of their texts retain the capacity to do the same today. Discover the diverse world of the scriptures through the medium of Bible telling. Friday 20.15 Foxhunter
In touch with the earth Biblical spirituality arose from meditation on the natural world. If we are to grasp the challenge of climate change we need to renew our contact with the earth and its creatures. An interactive presentation using story and Bible telling. Monday 14.00 Foxhunter
Matt Harvey Matt is a regular voice on BBC Radio 4, and writes ‘poems for people who thought they didn’t like poetry.’ The Hole in the Sum of my Parts Tender words of love lost and mislaid, gentle words about haemorrhoids, and the meaning of time. Playful and perceptive, Matt reads from and talks about his work. Sunday 19.30 Cabaret
John Taylor John is a care worker, dad and an Anglican minister who makes up stories with people with learning disabilities who are unable to read books. Storytelling Back by popular demand, and with puppets and props and plenty of joining in, John tells original stories for all ages. Saturday 18.00 Messy Space
Rhidian Brooke Words Into Pictures – how to write for readers and viewers Novelist and screenwriter Rhidian Brook (‘Taliesin’, ‘Mr Harvey Lights a Candle’, ‘Silent Witness’) takes us behind the scenes of writing and adapting for the screen. Monday 10.00 The Hub
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Paul Cookson & Stewart Henderson Even More Tickling In Public Again Greenbelt’s resident poets and punsters return once again with their great big, triumphant family show. With over sixty years of Greenbelt experience between them they are the Status Quo of performance poetry! Old favourites, new favourites, something for everyone. You’ll laugh, you’ll clap, you’ll shout, you’ll listen and you’ll certainly join in. Saturday 12.30 Blake
Anthony Wilson Anthony Wilson was born in 1964. He has published three collections of poetry and held a number of poetry residencies, including Tate Britain and The Poetry Society. He lives and works in Exeter. The Year of Drinking Water Anthony was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma on Valentine’s Day, 2006. Successful treatment and in remission, he has just published ‘The Year of Drinking Water’, a direct and humane account of what living with cancer and its treatment is like, told with a clarifying insight and wit. Friday 19.30 Sovereign
Exalted manna: Raymond Carver, Thomas Transtromer and Jaan Kaplinski Discover three poets who, despite their excellence, should be better known, in Anthony’s genial company. Sunday 15.15 The Hub
Sarah Fordham Sarah Fordham co-presented the widely praised Poetry Theatre genre at the Poetry Society cafe. Since then she has helped lead a range of activities in inner-city congregations, including a creativity and spirituality group for the homeless called Open Space.
In recent work in prisons, rehabs and hospitals, her workshops and book ‘Psalm Readings’ has enabled a wide variety of people to find a voice and connect in a striking way with their inner selves. Faith and Poetry Sarah leads a reflective creative writing workshop, based on poetry ancient and modern from Muslim, Jewish and Christian traditions.
Stewart Henderson & guests Use your Voice to Speak Up Poets Stewart Henderson, David Grubb and Rupert Loydell read from their own work, showcase the finalists in the Church Urban Fund writing competition, which they have been judging, and debate the power of ‘mere words’ to influence change in society.
Sunday 14.00 The Hub
Saturday 16.30 The Hub
Psalm Readings Turns Psalms from the Bible into questions, and on answering the questions, you will find that you have written your own psalm. Sarah passes on creative-writing hints and tips.
Simon Morden
Monday 15.15 The Hub
Garth Hewitt & Wilf Whitty Garth Hewitt is the Director of Amos Trust and Canon of St George’s Cathedral Jerusalem. He established Amos Trust in 1985 to give voice to the untold stories of forgotten communities around the world. Wilf Whitty is a graphic designer for clients in the arts and not-for-profit sector (including Greenbelt). He has been involved with Amos Trust for 10 years and first took his camera on a trip with Garth, in 2004, on a journey across Nicaragua. Making Holy Dreams Come True Garth will be reading from his new, provocative collection of prayers and meditations, written during travels to Amos Trust’s global partners. The images are the work of Amos and Greenbelt designer Wilf Whitty. Together they invoke a highly creative and distinctive spirituality around the themes of hope and justice. 12.30 Saturday The Hub
The secret life of a novel: The Lost Art and other stories From the creator of fine Greenbelt talks such as the now infamous ‘Sex, Death and Christian fiction’ comes a tortuous tale of unpublished work, literary lunches and peeved celebrities – and the surprising amount of sheer hard graft it takes to get a novel from brain to bookshop. Saturday 11.15 The Hub
Cole Moreton, Martin Wroe & Mark Halliday Martin Wroe is a freelance journalist, and co-edits Developments Magazine. He recently wrote ‘A Rough Guide To A Better World’ (co-authored with Malcolm Doney) and ‘The Sky’s Window’. Cole Moreton is an author, journalist and broadcaster and is executive editor of the Independent on Sunday. He wrote ‘Hungry for Home’ (shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) and ‘My Father Was A Hero’ for Penguin. Mark Halliday is a Headteacher. He began writing poetry for children and his recent work looks at the struggle between suffering and hope and the ‘never mundane’ experience of raising an autistic child.
visual arts Speaking Of Heaven Brand new material from three writers brought together by ‘the search for the other, the heavenly, the divine in our daily lives’ woven with live music to ‘occupy the space between poetry and prayer’. Sunday 16.30 The Hub
Rachel Jones Rachel Jones was for several years a freelance journalist, reviewing for the Independent and the Guardian, before writing her first novel, which won an Arts Council award. Writing Workshop: Crossing Borders Drawing on published autobiographical work by those who have been forced to flee whatever has constituted ‘home’, and on fiction in which characters make difficult decisions about crossing personal borders, we will use exercises and discussion to explore creatively the choices we each must make. Saturday 10.00 The Hub
Short Stories ‘Keep it running well,’ said the English short story writer VS Pritchett, ‘keep it lightly clad.’ In this writing workshop we will examine the modern short story and look at what makes a story ‘run’. Saturday 14.00 The Hub
Alison Brumfitt Big Personality, Big Mouth, Big Hair. Over the years, of which there are getting to be quite a few, Alison Brumfitt has performed her unique, insightful and humerous brand of performance poetry around the country, including Glastonbury Festival. Performance Poetry
Monday 16.30 The Hub
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Open Mic Poetry Alison hosts an opportunity for aspiring poets to get up and show off. You’ll get a tight time slot and a supportive audience – but don’t give offence or you’ll be swiftly gonged off!
When even the BBC is rapped on the knuckles for misrepresenting the Queen, how can anyone know what is real? Giles Perry’s video installation, Pope Beats, centres on the play between truth and fiction, the instability around the appearance of things, and difficulties regarding certainty.
Monday 19.00 The Hub
Jan Dean & Coral Rumble Jan Dean was brought up in a Manchester corner shop, is author of ‘Funny Poems’ and ‘Wallpapering the Cat’ and describes her writing as ‘like acting – I pretend all over paper’.
The Forgiveness Project The F Word The Forgiveness Project is a charitable organisation set up to explore forgiveness, reconciliation and conflict resolution through real-life human experience. At its heart is a living archive of personal stories that move, challenge and inspire by their unmediated, raw honesty. This powerful and ultimately hopeful exhibition of words and pictures explores the nature of forgiveness, reconciliation and conflict resolution through real-life human experience.
Coral Rumble has worked as a poet and performer for many years, and specialises in writing and performing for children. Her work can be found in over 100 anthologies for children. Storytelling
Saturday & Monday 12.30 Children’s Festival
Poetry Nightcap Come and grab a drink and wind your day down listening to some wonderful poetry read by Matt Harvey (Friday) Gillian Allnutt (Saturday) and Anthony Wilson (Sunday).
Jake Lever & Chris Thorpe
21.30 The Hub
Dixe Wills & Stephen Tomkins Inside the Industry Stephen will deal with Christian publishers while Dixe deals with the others, the aim for both being to demystify the whole process and give some insider guidance for aspiring writers of all sorts. Monday 11.15 The Hub
Rory Macbeth ‘Thought Bubble’ p60 Jake Lever ‘Magi Hands’
Centre and Circumference Producing art is a contemplative practice for Jake; it is absorbing, physical, spiritual. He uses an intaglio printmaking technique to create ‘contemporary icons, points of stillness amidst a fast-turning world’. Writer and liturgist Chris Thorpe has been a parish priest for 19 years. Over the past three years, Chris and Jake have collaborated to produce a series of invocations and prayers that weave Jake’s images into worship. Created especially for Greenbelt 07, Centre and Circumference blurs the boundaries between gallery and worship space, art and
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prayer. Like contemporary, super-sized icons, a series of giant hands, hand-printed and embellished with gold leaf, surround an inspirational, reflective space where you can rest, pray and be still. Thorpe, has written a series of liturgies (daily offices) to share in this sacred space throughout the Festival. Worship in the installation will offer space to be silent, and use contemporary music, contemplative prayer and reflection. Each lesson lasts 45 minutes. Friday 19.00 with Dan Tyndall Saturday 09.00 with Chris Thorpe Saturday 11.00 with David Runcorn Saturday 19.00 with Nikki Arthy Sunday 19.00 with Chris Thorpe Monday 09.00 with Dr Melanie Clayton Monday 12.00 with David Runcorn Monday 19.00 with Chris Thorpe
Rory Macbeth Thought Bubble Rory Macbeth has exhibited internationally and his work is held in many important collections across Europe and North America. The mismatch between ideals and their ensuing reality is something that unifies his work. This ‘secret but public’ cartoon-thought-made-lifesized is, according to the artist, ‘a homage to the banality we are surrounded by, in spite of our optimistic ideals and the way we actually talk about things.’
Heaven in a Box Each package that went out with wristbands from the Greenbelt office this summer contained a flat-pack box for you to make up. A large-scale participatory work, each box is a festival-goer’s very own tiny gallery space, with their very own art exhibition entitled ‘Heaven In Ordinary’. As each box is added to the thousands of others, they will form an evolving installation, which will, when it’s finished, only be viewable by hand-held torches - a magical chamber never visible as a whole, with multiple ‘takes’ on this year’s theme.
John Hutchinson Weekend Mural John studied at Bradford College of Art before working in London, as a freelance illustrator. As well as painting murals, he has recently finished an animation feature of ‘The Secret Garden’ for S4C. John will be creating a large mural over the weekend in The Hub. Come and watch it happen and you might find yourself in the picture.
Ian Long Life drawing for everyone Ian Long is a freelance artist and designer, and illustrated the ‘Blob Tree’, among other books. He is currently producing a new range of Blob resources with Pip Wilson. Come and spend an hour absorbed in wonder at the human form. Numbers are limited, so you’ll need to apply at The Hub to book a space (£3.00 to cover materials). Paper and pencils supplied. Sign up Friday 18.00 The Hub
Artists Forums This informal and supportive programme offers an excellent opportunity to network with like-minded practitioners and industry professionals. Five
pre-selected artists will show documentation of their artwork each night in a slide show or short film format. This year’s Artists Forums are for established and emerging artists who do not have access to regular feedback and feel they would benefit from some specialist and peer-led critique of their work. Throughout the weekend
Oliver West Printmaking Oliver West is a successful landscape artist, university lecturer and visual thinking specialist. He is the creator of ‘Footnotes’, a unique portfolio of visual thinking techniques, aiding learning and personal development, particularly among dyslexic students. He is also a specialist in intaglio printmaking and has brought his unique studio along with him this weekend so you too can have a go.
Panel Discussions Street Art. Straight Art. Protest graffiti has moved into the art galleries and street art has developed a sophisticated language. Has there been a sell-out or has an important change taken place? Saturday 17.45 The Hub
Can Religious Art ever be any good? Exploring the divide between the spiritual and religious. Sunday 17.45 The Hub
The future of the Visual Arts at Greenbelt Your chance to have your say and to hear about the ideas that are bubbling away in the basement. Monday 14.00 The Hub
Art as therapy Exploring the power of art in the therapeutic - using images, story-telling and some hands on experience. Led by Elaine Wisdom.
Friday 19.00 National Hunt Suite Monday 10.00 National Hunt Suite
Around the Site Open Space Over the past few years, Simon Smith and crew have re-imagined the Stations of the Cross, built TV walls, manipulated Radiohead lyrics, built a big white tree and brought carnival to Greenbelt Communion. This year, they’d like to introduce you to three figures from three of Jesus’s stories. Vinyl Solution [a record of faith through urban art] When artist and philanthropist ‘ASBO’ finishes a piece of art, he leaves it in a public space for somebody to take away and keep. At Greenbelt it’s no different. He’ll be spray-painting 12 old vinyl records with his own stencil designs, displaying them over the weekend, and then giving them away. SIN Cru Sprayin’ it up Sin Cru are one of the UK’s leading breakdance and graffiti collectives. Performance art will meet visual art as they spray up hoardings around the site, throughout the weekend. Big Sculpture Ali Coleman has a dream job: as a commercial Sculptor he makes 3D sculptures of 2D cartoon characters and toys, as well as more conceptual work for leading designers. He’s most recently worked on the 30th anniversary of Star Wars. Launching off from the ‘Heaven in Ordinary’ theme, Ali has become fascinated by the everyday miracle of wings. Come and watch as his thoughts take shape – literally – over the weekend.
Ordinary stories projected and writ large across screens, in the hands of directors and cinematographers, become something more and are enlarged. Here are films that speak our stories back to us.
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Films Amazing Grace (PG) Amazing Grace is a powerful film starring Ioan Gruffudd and Albert Finney based on the life of anti-slavery pioneer William Wilberforce. Described as both a ‘moving and intelligent film’ it has a strong cast and a timely story. 21.30 Sunday Arena
The Rains of Fear (15) A traveller bets his caravan in a fight and ends up losing his family, his pride and his freedom. A chilling insight into violence and its consequences, the film was written by Irish traveller Damo Joe Harmon while at HM Prison Risley and developed as part of Synergy Theatre Project’s work with prisoners and ex-prisoners. The film will be followed by a post-screening discussion with the director Esther Baker, writer Damo Harmon and editor Peter Oliver. 21.00 Saturday Foxhunter
Black Gold (U) A powerful and moving documentary, Black Gold brings light to the truth about the coffee industry, and makes it clear what we need to do about it. Full-strength, fresh and with a powerful kick, this is a caffeinated wake-up call for all of us. 18.00 Monday Arena
The Imam and the Pastor (PG) From vengeance and killing to healing and friendship, The Imam and the Pastor is a moving story of grass-roots peacebuilding in Nigeria, depicting the reconciliation between former militants Imam Muhammad Ashafa and Pastor James Wuye, and the peace-making initiatives which have flowed from it. 15.00 Sunday Foxhunter 15.45 Post-show discussion
Children Rise South Africa 2006. Twelve years post Apartheid and South Africa has the fastest growing street child population in the world. Zulieka and Ariel are two. Children Rise is their story – an intimate journey through their daily lives, and the lives of millions of others. 18.30 Friday Arena Panel discusssion 14.00 Saturday Foxhunter
Shaun the Sheep (U) Episodes showing throughout the weekend on the Arena Stage – courtesy of Aardman Animations. Throughout the weekend
The Church Times presents … just four of the films voted into their Top 50 Religious Films earlier in the year.
Into Great Silence (U) In this extraordinary documentary set in the severely ascetic ‘Grande Chartreuse’ monastery in the French Alps, director Philip Gröning has achieved the remarkable feat of enveloping the viewer in the subject matter. Waiting 16 years to be allowed to record, this is a truly unique film. Contemplative, difficult and rewarding in equal measure. 21.00 Saturday Foxhunter
Plus Gareth Higgins’ Film Review of the Year Get there early for the inimitable Dr Higgins’ popular round-up of the year’s celluloid. Gareth is an activist and author of ‘How Movies Help Save My Soul’. Monday 12.30 Bassline
artSlot on the Big Screen Short films showcasing emerging and established artists at the Festival and beyond. Throughout the weekend
Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (15) This silent film tells four stories of people destroyed by intolerance through the ages. Babylon falls to religious rivalry; the Pharisees condemn Jesus; the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre claims an engaged couple; and US social reformers wreck the lives of another young couple. 14.00 Monday Foxhunter
The Mission (PG) Set in the 1750s, Robert Bolt’s Oscar-winning film focuses on the Church’s involvement in colonialism in Latin America and contrasts Jeremy Irons’ non-violent priest with De Niro’s former slave-driver. 19.00 Sunday Foxhunter
Babette’s Feast (PG) Set in a fishing village in 19thcentury Denmark, a French housekeeper’s warmth and sensuousness gradually have an impact on a frustrated and austere community. 21.30 Friday Foxhunter
Amazing Grace Into Great Silence Babette’s Feast Shaun the Sheep
Heaven.
closer than you think.
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Did you know that... all Greenbelt t-shirts are organic, fairly traded and printed by T-Shirt & Sons, the first Soil Associationapproved t-shirt printers in the UK? there are lots of other funky and delicious gifts like wind-up radiotorches, mugs, Divine chocolate, fairly traded footballs, and swanky bags hand-picked by us from ethical and sustainable sources? every penny of profit you create is driven back into future Festivals? Now you do, you can hurry down and find us in front of the Grandstand, next to the Tiny Tea Tent.
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Top 5 Generous Actions Stop Taking Carrier Bags from Shops [437] Turn Off Tap Cleaning Teeth [391] Unplug Your Chargers [323] Shop Local, Organic, Fair Trade [319] Become An Organ Donor [279]
Generous! A drizzly Greenbelt evening in 2004 and a hundred lonely souls arrive in the Sticky Music tent, drawn by the curious claims on some photocopied flyers about ‘The Year of Living Generously’. ‘If we only have one planet to share,’ said the blurb, ‘maybe there is more to life than how much stuff we can pile up.’ Three years on that slightly bewildered gang of a hundred has become a marginally less bewildered community of 1500, all of whom, in different ways, are aiming to become more conscious of the weight of their footprint on God’s good earth. On that first night people asked each other what they already did as a form of modest resistance against the prevailing forces of knee-jerk consumerism and planetary pillaging. The answers stretched from lightbulbs to shopping habits, from washing powders to composting. Slowly a bunch of us translated that communal buzz into an online community – working on the hunch that acting alone we often felt ineffective, but acting together maybe we could make a little difference. The Generous idea caught on – and keeps growing. When you join up (it’s free) you get emailed each month with a few suggested ways to help you change the
direction of our everyday living: from turning off the tap when cleaning our teeth to becoming a blood donor; from trying to shop local to unplugging our phone chargers or offsetting our flights. On your own Generous page on the site you log what actions you’ve committed to and over time watch yourself (and everyone else) slowly make that difference. Nothing is compulsory. Compost, not guilt, is spread around. The idea is to learn from and inspire each other. It was born at Greenbelt but isn’t funded by Greenbelt – in fact it isn’t funded by anyone except the volunteers who nurture it. At the start all our members were Greenbelters,
today most are not. But the shared vibe is that looking after the planet and its people can’t be left to government and business, it has to be taken up every day by each of us. Some Generous actions are more challenging than others - you can become an organ donor online in a minute or two, but it takes longer to volunteer to work with someone who is homeless. It’s pretty straightforward to decline plastic bags at the supermarket, but pretty complicated to get rid of your car. But with almost a hundred Generous actions on the site, members choose what they can manage in their own circumstances.
So what can you do now? Find out more by visiting Claire, Annie and others in the Generous space in G-Source anytime over the weekend. At 4pm on Saturday, Sunday and Monday check out ‘Living Generously’ in G-Source, a time to talk about how Generous is working for you - sharing tips, ideas, and probably chocolate. Sign up as a member of Generous at www.generous.org.uk
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If you’ve left a talk or a gig wondering where to go from here, and how to give your ordinary life something extra, then you need to take some time out to browse our amazing G-Source. This year over 60 amazing organisations will be on hand to help you engage in practical ways to make the world a better, more extraordinary place. You’ll find information, things to sign up for, mini-workshops and opportunities to meet speakers. Refreshments and homemade cakes are available from Pru’s Café and why not join Traidcraft’s wine tasting and pub quiz. A very warm welcome is guaranteed!
Arts Nexus Trust www.nexustrust.co.uk Proost www.proost.co.uk
Churches, Para-Church, Community Agencies Careforce www.careforce.co.uk Church Army www.churcharmy.org.uk Churches Advertising Network www.southwell.anglican.org The Lighthouse Group www.thelighthousegroup.co.uk The Methodist Church and 12 Baskets www.methodist.org.uk Scripture Union www.scriptureunion.org.uk Women’s Co-ordinating Group of Churches Together in England www.churches-together.net Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement www.lgcm.org.uk
Colleges/courses/centres Ripon College www.rcc.ac.uk Scargill House www.scargillhouse.org
Christian Vocations Holy Rood House Centre for Health and Pastoral Care www.holyroodhouse.freeuk.com
Ethical, Environemental, Ecological A Rocha UK/Eco Congregation www.arocha.org.uk Anglican Society for the Welfare of Animals www.aswa.org.uk Christian Ecology Link www.christian-ecology.org.uk Operation Noah www.operationnoah.org.uk Ebico www.ebico.co.uk Generous www.generous.org.uk Divine Chocolate www.dubble.co.uk Traidcraft www.traidcraft.co.uk Housing Justice www.housing justice.org.uk
Networks Network of Christian Peace Organisations www.for.org.uk/www.ncpo.org.uk Rediscovering Palestine www.rediscoveringpalestine.org.uk Root and Branch www.rootandbranch.org.uk
Overseas Aid, Mission Amos Trust www.amostrust.org Cafod www.cafod.org.uk Chaste www.chaste.org.uk Edukid www.edukid.org.uk International Nepal Fellowship www.inf.org.uk Interpal www.interpal.org Medair www.medair.org Micah’s Call www.micahscall.org.uk Mission Direct www.misssiondirect.org Oasis www.oasisuk.org Progressio www.progressio.org.uk Retrak www.retrak.org Send a Cow www.sendacow.org.uk Tearfund www.tearfund.org Time for God www.timeforgod.org Tools with a Mission twam@twam.co.uk USPG www.uspg.org.uk World Vision www.worldvision.org.uk
Politics, Human Rights, Campaigning Amicus www.amicustheunion.org Christians Against Poverty www.capuk.org Church Action on Poverty www.church-poverty.org.uk Church Urban Fund www.churchurbanfund.org.uk CROP www.crop1.org.uk International Justice Mission UK www.ijmuk.org Jews for Justice for Palestine www.jfjfp.org Jubilee Debt Campaign www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk Liberal Democrat Christian Forum www.ldcf.net Life www.lifecharity.org.uk Peace Direct www.peacedirect.org World Development Movement www.wdm.org.uk
Publishing Coalition for Corporate Accountability (New Internationalist) www.newitn.org./www.waronewant.org Piquant Editions www.piquanteditions.com
Students Student Christian Movement www.movement.org.uk
Miscellaneous Ecclesiastical Insurance Group www.ecclesiastical.com Friendsfirst www.friends1st.co.uk The Quiet Garden Trust www.quietgarden.co.uk Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch www.raf.mod.uk/.chaplains Solomon’s Independent Financial Advisers www.planetsolomons.com
In the mass of festivals that seem to be springing up all over the country, what makes Greenbelt such a unique event? Why bother coming here, when you could go to one of the scores of other gatherings to hear music and experience the arts? Simple: Greenbelt may be heavenly, but because of our partners it won’t ever let you get away with living with your head in the clouds.
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partners Our main partner remains Christian Aid, who are ‘inspired by the dream of a new earth where all people can secure a better and more just future’ and have been showing us glimpses of that dream with their excellent work at the Festival for many years. Having banged the drum loudly for justice last year, Christian Aid’s continued collaboration with the Performance Café and Nuts sees it getting right back to the rootsy intimacy feel of an early Dylan coffeehouse. Also serving great coffee in collaboration with Mochamania are our partners the Department for International Development. We are thrilled that this most important of government departments not only have their own venue this year, but have also arranged for their boss, Douglas Alexander MP, to join us! This is a huge affirmation that the Festival is communicating the right things to the right people, so do go and hear Douglas speak and encourage him. YMCA, CMS, The Church Urban Fund and Traidcraft are working with us to promote mission, fighting poverty through trade and working for the whole person. The media is one of the ways these messages can be disseminated, and we are pleased to have The Church Times as our partner in this area too. And for when things don’t go to plan, we’re pleased that Ecclesiastical Insurance are working to put things right!
Our partnerships also give us stability. After the Greenbelt Angels, partners are our second biggest source of non-ticket income, providing a secure financial basis and thus the ability to plan more strategically and think more creatively, all of which makes for a better Festival for everyone. We know that you’ve had a huge choice of festivals to go to this summer, and we’re really pleased that you’ve chosen Greenbelt. We hope it’s not just the great music, talks and atmosphere, but because of the grounding in transforming this world that our partners give us, so I’m sure you’ll join us in thanking them for assuring a great future, not just for Greenbelt, but for countless people around the world too.
Your chance to get involved The Department for International Development (DFID) is leading the UK Government’s fight against world poverty. We recognise that consulting with a wide range of interested people and groups helps to ensure that the impact of our proposals on different sectors of society is taken into account. Our open consultations include: • India Country Assistance Plan • Our new research strategy • UK’s strategy for tackling AIDS in the developing world For more information, and details about how to contribute your views, visit www.dfid.gov.uk/consultations
See it... ...to believe it! Have you ever seen Tajikistani break-dancers before? Have you ever heard a Jew and an Arab making peace in the name of Christ? Have you ever listened to children trading in slaves? No? Better get along to CMS. We’ve got stuff to show you all about setting captives free. Seeing is believing!
Dancing in the street: the Tajikistani break-dancers and their unique form of outreach that is keeping young people away from drugs all over Eastern Europe.
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Dramatic stories of healing Russia’s drug scourge, told by Sergey Oschepkov and his wife Lilia from Exodus.
Sammie Okposo, the multi-award winning Gospel hiphop act brings his sizzling beats.
Late night worship and new forms of church from people at the cutting edge... Mark Berry, Andrew Jones and Richard White. Breaking down the walls: a Jew and a Muslim talk about how they turned to Christ, and an Arab Christian’s experience of faith in the West Bank.
Calling all kids! We need 300 children to perform ‘Free For All’ live on the Arena Stage on Monday, telling the story of slavery. Register on Friday at the Children’s Area. In association with Big Intent.
www.cms-uk.org
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I started committing crime coz I was bored.
I was in prison aged 15 to 18. I lost the best years of my life.
But the YMCA got me through my time, helped me with my thinking skills, and prepared me for the community.
I now think before I act. Michael
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We work with young offenders in prison and help them turn their lives around. We offer training in life and social skills, volunteering opportunities, and housing advice.
When they are released from prison, we support them to resettle into the community, find a job, join an education or training course, and live in suitable accommodation. Through this, we aim to reduce re-offending, promote citizenship and encourage them to respect themselves and others. The YMCA is a Christian charity committed to helping all young people, particularly in times of need, regardless of gender, race, ability or faith. National Council of Young Men’s Christian Associations (Inc). A Limited Company registered in London: no. 73749. Registered office: 640 Forest Road, London E17 3DZ. Charity no. 212810.
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Will there be jokes in heaven? And if so, at whose expense? Will we be allowed to laugh if God trips over, or Peter locks himself out?
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comedy Daliso Chaponda
Jo Enright
Attack of the Colonies Brace yourselves for a culture clash. African comedian Daliso Chaponda jokes his way through the current multicultural minefield in this tongue-in-cheek, no-holdsbarred, satirical assault on Britain. Against a backdrop of racial tension and fear, Attack of the Colonies is an African comedy invasion that assumes every target is legitimate.
Stand Up For more than a decade now, award-winning comedienne Jo Enright (‘Phoenix Nights’, ‘I’m Alan Partridge’, ‘Time Trumpet’) has been crafting her unique style of stand-up comedy. Peter Kay thinks she’s one of the most naturally gifted comic talents he’s ever seen. She’s bringing us her latest solo show, so you can judge for yourself.
Paul Kerensa
Jimmy Cricket
Genesis Award-winning writer, comedian and Greenbelt favourite, Paul Kerensa, returns with a completely new subject: The Book Of Genesis, the first of 66 annual shows culminating in ‘Paul Kerensa: Revelation’, in 2073 (assuming he can get past the trickily uncomedic books of Micah and 2 Kings). For now, from Adam’s figleaf to Joseph’s technicolour dreamcoat — via Sodom’s crotchless pants — Paul will gently dissect the first book of the Bible with the warm and rapier-sharp wit, wordplay and sense of fun that have become his trademark.
Come Closer With a record breaking panto season at the Lichfield Garrick Theatre, an appearance in Peter Kay’s Comic Relief video, and the beginnings of a whole new audience demographic — thanks to YouTube — 2007 has been a good year for Jimmy. Good clean fun from the family entertainment pro.
Monday 16.30 Centaur
Saturday 19.00 Centaur
Friday 21.00 Mandarin Cabaret
Sunday 21.00 Mandarin Cabaret
Daliso Chaponda Paul Kerensa Jo Enright Jimmy Cricket
comedy 88–89
Shows Liquid Lunch with Paul Powell It’s happy hour, every lunchtime. Back by popular demand, writer and comedian Paul Powell and a panel of pundits put you on the inside track to the very best of everything at this year’s Festival. Pull up a bar stool and fill your Daily Diary with the cream of Greenbelt 07. Saturday, Sunday, Monday 12.30 Winged Ox
Family Funfest with Joe Fisher A frantic, fun-filled, energysapping ninety minutes involving challenges for all the family — even your Grandma. Organising the mayhem: Mainstage host and TV warm-up man Joe Fisher and his team. Someone is bound to get wet. Saturday 11.00 Arena Monday 15.00 Arena
Get Up. Stand Up with Tony Vino Hosted by funny man Tony Vino and showcasing the best in modern stand-up, Get Up Stand Up teams the rising stars of the comedy scene with a heavenly host of pro comedians from the mainstream circuit, including: Paul Kerensa, Andy Kind, Jo Enright and Duncan Logan. For 16+ only. Friday 20.00, Saturday, Sunday & Monday 18.30 Winged Ox
The Late Night Twist
Beer & Hymns
Back for the umpteenth year and still with the same great format, Paul Cookson – poet, compere and all-round smart alec – returns with the Prof for poetry, songs and spontaneity!
Far more fun that it sounds. At the time at least!
Paul has been attending Greenbelt since 1977, and has sold over 300,000 of his extraordinary rhymes. He is official poet in residence at the National Football Museum, and might even be able to conjure a rhyme to make penalties go on target. But mostly, it’ll be the usual mayhem and – you have been warned – may contain accordion music! 23.00 Friday, Saturday, Sunday Children’s Festival Area
Last Orders An intoxicating blend of chat, comedy and music served with a tapas-style taster menu of Greenbelt goodies, with ingredients (organic, of course) hand-picked from the Festival, all served with a side order of home-made fun, lovingly prepared and served up by Jude and Andy - who promise not to swear if they cut themselves. The show will include headline acts straight off Mainstage doing special late gigs, headline speakers, interviews, magic and comedy. Confirmed guests include Ched Myers, Ann Morisy, Over The Rhine and Billy Bragg (Friday), Bob Holman, John Smith and Sarah Masen (Saturday), Mark Yaconelli, Fran Beckett, Rosie Thomas and Denison Witmer (Sunday) plus many more on Monday! 23.00 Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday Centaur
Saturday & Sunday 19.00 Organic Beer Tent
Simon Mayo’s Quiz ‘I’m Sorry I Haven’t Another Poo’ Traditional Greenbelt quiz hosted by BBC Five Live’s Simon Mayo and a cast of favourite Festival faces. Saturday 16.30 Blake
The Family Twist More family mayhem with Paul Cookson and the Prof. Spontaneous involvement by the audience alongside regular guests make for a fantastic if unpredictable time. A great chance to burn off some energy and go completely crazy.
Saturday Warning! May contain bad jokes from the under sevens Sunday Warning! May contain a fat man with a beard Monday Warning! May contain fun 18.00 Children’s Festival Area
Speed Christianity You know about Jesus and the disciples. You know about Christianity today – Benedict, Bono, Paris Hilton. But what about that hazy area in between? Steve Tomkins takes us on a laugh-a-century tour of the story of the Church (includes prophetic geese and grass-eating monks).
23.00 Monday Mandarin Cabaret
We have limbs to move and voices to speak, muscles to stretch and faces to express. Yet out of the everyday actions of the performance artist come extraordinary movements.
new worlds are formed.
performing arts
performing arts Shows Bassline Circus Advertigo You won’t be able to miss the Big Top in the middle of the Racecourse, but don’t expect old-fashioned clowns or juggling elephants, because inside is a manic experiment in genetically modified circus. Cleverly combining mindblowing high-wire antics with street arts and beats, ‘Advertigo’ demolishes the culture of commercial advertising and provides a dizzying roller-coaster ride of multi-media madness and mayhem with some of the best breakbeat, digital graffiti, vj-ing, scratching and circus acts you’re likely to see all year. Drawing from their roots in raves in the 90’s, which saw them take free parties into war zones, Bassline are a circus the likes of which you’ve never seen before. There are spectacular skills on display: trapeze, bungee, Chinese pole, juggling and silks, but these are all reimagined with a thumping bass line as part of ‘Mr Everyman’ – the luckiest consumer in the West. Fun, funny and bursting with energy, you’ve got to experience it to believe it! Friday, Saturday, Sunday 20.15 & Monday 14.30 Bassline May contain some strong language and mild sexual reference.
Paul Field, Coco Mbassi & the Springs Dance Company Cargo ‘Nobody is free until everyone is free.’ 2007 marks the bicentennial of the abolition of slavery. Using contemporary music, words, dance and images, Cargo tells the story of the Abolitionists’ fight. But this is not just an engaging and inspiring history lesson; this production raises awareness of the many forms of slavery that still exist today, and offers the hope that in the present – with so many forms of slavery still oppressing many – ordinary people can make a difference again. Would you like to sing in the performance? Singers to make up the chorus are invited to come and rehearse and take part. Rehersals Saturday & Sunday 16.45 Children’s Festival Performance Sunday 19.00 Centaur
Faith, Hope & Gaffertape Return to the Forbidden Planet Faith, Hope & Gaffertape are back with their most ambitious and explosive show ever — an entire production brought to life in one weekend. So check your life support system, strap on your rocket boots and prepare for the most gleefully exuberant theatrical experience of your earth-bound life. The show includes puppetry, projection, model-work and computer animation. Influences range from early 60’s Sci-fi Americana to Shakespeare and Star Wars. This musical extravaganza is a life-affirming trip into the unknown, delivered at warp speed by a cast of talented young actors and musicians from all over the country. Saturday 17.00 Bassline
Theo Hobson George, the Dragon, and the Meaning of Ritual Following the ancient English folk tradition of the Mummers play, this piece of instant theatre relies on some medieval, panto-style participation that is both fun and meaningful. It will get you thinking about the deep connections between theatre and worship. As well as being an accomplished performer, Dr Theo Hobson is a radical writer, academic and theologian, and through this piece he will be telling the story of a folk tradition that has at its heart the conflict between good and evil, and the defeat of that evil, thereby suggesting that Christian worship ought to rediscover aspects of this primitive ritural. Monday 10.00 Bassline
Peterson Toscano See ‘Don’t Miss’ p.8 The Re-education of George W. Bush Through a series of lively lessons, educator and theatrical performance activist, Peterson Toscano playfully instructs President Bush and his cabinet on history, the economy, privilege, environmentalism, the Bible and humanity. Bitingly funny and painfully insightful, Peterson takes no prisoners as he speaks to the George W. Bush in all of us. Saturday 19.30 Mandarin Cabaret
‘Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House - How I Survived the Ex-Gay Movement!’ Back by popular demand – see for yourself what happens behind the doors of America’s zaniest ex-gay residential program. Through seven characters, and based on his own experiences, Peterson takes you on a tour of the Homo No Mo Halfway House, a Christian residential 12-Step program that attempts to save men and women from the ‘evil snares of homosexuality’ through bizarre rules, gender realignment, and brain numbing reconditioning. Sunday 17.00 Mandarin Cabaret Post-show discussion 18.00
Red-i Dance Company Sorrowful strings and pulsating electronic beats provide the soundscape for an hour of innovative and atmospheric dance, as the Red-i Dance Company performs a collection of four original, contemporary dance pieces choreographed by Nadine MacLean. Monday 20.00 Centaur
Woodnote Theatre Company The Going Rate A funny and provocative new play being premiered at Greenbelt before beginning a London run. An MP’s sordid secrets, celebrities’ cocaine-fuelled romps, secret gay parties on an Ibiza yacht: it’s all in a day’s work for morally bankrupt paparazzo Freddie. Or it would be if he didn’t have to baby-sit wannabe snapper Will.
Saturday 17.10 Mandarin Cabaret
performing arts 92–93
Mouth to Mouth Theatre Company Accidental Death of a Terrorist Arriving straight from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Mouth to Mouth Theatre Company presents this stunning, current, satirical and cutting play. Paralysed, deaf and dumb: this detainee could not be a terrorist. But in the absence of medication, and with jailers in place of a jury, all is not what it seems…
Monday 16.00 Mandarin Cabaret
No Nonsense Theatre Company Romeo and Juliet Presenting Romeo and Juliet as you’ve never seen it before, this brand new production is designed to delight and inspire children, young people, and adults of all abilities. Drawing together Shakespeare’s text with clowning and puppetry, this hour-long show is a breathtaking visual treat set to a stirring soundtrack. Saturday 11.00 & 15.30 Mandarin Cabaret
See also workshops
Hannah Dawson Instil Hannah has choreographed and will be performing this solo dance piece – a ‘conversation with rhythm and melody connecting the spirit of the song with that of the dancer.’ Hannah is a Dance Artist and teacher based in Bath who has huge experience both performing and teaching dance to the elderly and those with learning difficulties. In the following workshop she will be helping you to ‘find the dancer within.’ Saturday 15.30 Festival Suite followed by Contemporary Dance Workshop
Around the Site SIN Cru If you can name Adidas, BBC’s Top of the Pops, and Levi’s among your commercial clients, then you’ve got to be pretty hot. Catch the UK’s premier crew of breakdancers, DJs, MCs and graffiti artists around the site, throughout the weekend.
Mark Townsend Fascinated by magic as a child, Mark Townsend uses mentalism as an expression of the deep human search for meaning and wonder. So you better be thinking pure thoughts, as this Church of England priest will be astonishing who ever he meets in the food courts with his extraordinary mind-reading skills.
Gorillas in your Midst
Workshops
This wonderfully entertaining family act highlights the plight of endangered mountain gorillas from central Africa. ‘Astonishingly life-like’ (Daily Telegragh) performances bring this family of gorillas to life in a way that makes the environmental and conservationist message completely engaging. Roaming freely around the site they’ll be with their explorer friend who is full of information about their habitat, habits and struggles.
Scratch Panto with Beth Anderson It’s behind you! Don’t fight the lure of the greasepaint – come and join special guest stars as we work through Aladdin, with all the genies, lamps and, of course, Widow Twanky. Enjoyment guaranteed!
Steve Price Full-time illusionist and member of the Magic Circle, Steve Price will be using his unique mix of comedy, magic and mayhem to amaze and amuse. You’ll need to keep a wary eye on this artful dodger, though, pick-pocketing is a speciality!
Thomas Trilby Look up to the sky: stilt-walker, gentleman juggler, gag man and all-round entertainer Thomas Trilby is on walkabout, all weekend. Fresh from spectacular events such as the Bahrain Grand Prix and the Cheltenham Gold Cup, he’s returning to Greenbelt with his own take on the traditional street show. Stop him and say hello!
Rehersals Saturday 11.00 & Sunday 19.00 National Hunt, Monday 11.00 Mandarin Cabaret Performance Monday 12.30 Mandarin Cabaret
Dance Workshops with Sam Jennings Strictly Come Dancing has created a real buzz for social dancing again. If you would like to learn to Waltz, Tango, or Freestyle, we’ve lined up Sam Jennings from the Royal Academy of Dance to teach you, even if you have two left feet! Waltz Saturday 12.00 Festival Suite Tango Sunday 13.00 Festival Suite Freestyle Monday 13.00 Festival Suite
Salsa Workshop If you want to look hot and yet cool on the dance floor, then Salsa is the dance for you! This saucy, sexy, sizzling, sultry Cuban dance will be taught again at Greenbelt by your very own SalsaSista from London, Chuli Scarfe. Come as you are, or with friends, whether you’re a novice or a pro! Monday 15.00 Festival Suite
Tribal Groove Stomp! Move! Make Noise! Create rhythms with nothing but your own body! African Body Percussion combines urban dance, rhythm and music in one by using your own body like a drum kit. Practise the slaps, claps, stamps and jumps, then together the whole group will create an African Body Percussion routine. Sunday 17.30 National Hunt
No Nonsense Theatre Company An exciting opportunity to learn and develop your puppet skills, in two workshops designed and delivered by the makers and performers of the stunning Romeo and Juliet production, showing at this year’s Festival. Flying Marionette workshop Design, make, and fly your own marionette — within the hour! Suitable for ages 7 to 107. Sunday 13.45 &15.00 Children’s Festival
Puppet Manipulation Workshop: Little & Large Try your hand at tabletop and large rod puppetry. Working in small groups, we’ll be creating a short improvisation using puppets of your choice. Suitable for young people and adults. Monday 12.00 National Hunt
Ordinary words and ordinary actions, offered up, enter the realm of mystery and become something more.
songs. bread. images. drink. words. heaven. worship
worship New Forms with Indulge Café Relax in the ambient environment of the New Forms Café whilst experiencing some of the most innovative worship.
Indulge Café Heavenly chocolate, the world’s best coffee and three delectable tea blends all in one place: the Indulge Café offers not only a great space to relax and enjoy a variety of cutting-edge worship but also a place to sample Monmouth coffee, Pralus chocolate and Hampstead Teas (all fairly traded).
Chronological services All one hour unless otherwise stated
Park Officially nameless, but we are a Christian community living in Park, Sheffield, so that will do. The name’s been given to the area because it doesn’t seem to actually have a name. So it’s quite fitting. It’ll probably stick and we’ll be called this forever. Natal Faith You’ll never understand the mystery of life forming in a mother’s womb or the mystery at work in all that God does. Meditation on feminine images of God and the mystery of birth within ourselves and our communities. 18.00 Friday
Foundation Foundation is an alternative worship community based in Bristol, whose goal is to bring the experience of Christian community into a healthy relationship with contemporary culture.
Unknowing God A service exploring how experience of ordinary life erodes our fixed ideas about God. How can faith be reborn on the other side of weariness and doubt? 20.00 Friday
mayBe mayBe is an emerging church community in Oxford, attempting to follow in the way of Christ by prayer and action for a better world now. Beautiful Day A sacramental journey into the earthy holiness of the present moment. Breathe in and find the unexpected in the ordinary. 10.00 Saturday
Stealing Up A short film about the roles of parent and child, and about love and loss.
Journey Journey is a group of spiritual explorers in the Christian tradition who meet in Birmingham. Stations of the Cross Join Journey as we take you through a guided meditation of art and music based on the ancient practice of the stations of the cross. 12.00 Saturday
Sanctuary (Birmingham) The focus of Sanctuary is unconditional love, acceptance and forgiveness to people of other or no faith. In order to help people feel safe and secure, lighting is low and there is space for private meditation and prayer. Sanctuary meets in a suburb of Birmingham, outside the main Asian areas in order to be safe for people to come without being seen by their community.
Finding Sanctuary Sanctuary is a safe place for British Asians or anyone interested in exploring eastern and western spiritualities in Christ. It is a place of space, peace, meditation, grace and friendship. 15:00 Saturday
Moot Community Moot is a developing spiritual community who seek to find a means of living a life that is honest to God and honest to now. A Divine Sense Of Place Buses, cars, platforms, trains, desks, beds, couches, coffee shops. Meditations for daily life. The divine in the everyday. Come, taste and see. 19.00 Saturday
St Lukes Soul Space Soul Space is a monthly evening service led by Dave Tomlinson and friends at Saint Luke’s Church, West Holloway. It is an ambient multi-media service which offers respite from the frenzied pace of urban life. The Mysterious Distance Man, woman, gay, straight, black, white, Christian, Muslim. Why is difference threatening? An ambient mass, contemplating the mysterious distance that separates and unites. 23.30 Saturday
Sanctuary (Bath) Sanctuary are a group meeting in Bath seeking to explore and build Christian community. This takes the shape of meeting together regularly in Bath for worship, bible study, discussion, art events and food. Family Communion An all-age communion service, particularly appropriate for primary age children. 15.00 Sunday
Embody mayBe (still from ‘Stealing Up’) Proost (Unusual Suspects – Isaac Everett) Ship of Fools (Window into heaven) p.94 Jonah by Rachel Yates (mayBe)
worship 96–97
St Christopher’s Church, Springfield St Christopher’s, Springfield is an Anglican parish in inner-city Birmingham with a Muslim majority community. The congregation consists of old and young, white, black, South Asian, professional and non-professional and believes that diversity within the church is part of the gospel we offer to the world. Distinctly Welcoming This service will reflect some of the efforts being made by the church to offer Christcentred worship in ways that are relevant to other faith adherents seeking God and sharing in our local community. 17.00 Sunday
Dream Dream is a network of seven groups based in the Merseyside area and Bolton. Our focus is on building community that values openness, honesty and freedom in the exploration and pursuit of a spirituality centred on Jesus. A Life More Ordinary An invitation to fishermen, shepherds, vicars and tarts, and all other extraordinary people with ordinary lives: to explore the presence of God and reality of heaven in your story. 19.00 Sunday
The Garden The Garden is a Brighton based project, exploring how to live passionately in response to ‘the other’ in ways that embrace the artistic, the intellectual and the practical and which challenge us to take seriously matters of justice, compassion and the planet.
Face of the Deep Dismantling the God of power through the often overlooked second verse of the Bible, questioning whether our desire for divine omnipotence says more about us than it does about God. 23.00 Sunday
Feig Feig is a rag-tag group of fellow travellers, trying to work out what it means to be following Jesus Christ in 2007 in Gloucester. We meet in homes, pubs and the hidden chapels of Gloucester Cathedral. Emerging Matins Creative, contemplative worship hosted by members of an emerging community from the heart of Gloucester. 09.00 Monday
Suwarta Sangat Suwarta Sangat, meaning ‘good news fellowship’ in Gujarati, is a multi-cultural group of Jesus Devotees (Isu Bhaktas) meeting in the Gujarati Hindu communities of Harrow and Brent in Northwest London. Satsang Suwarta Sangat will lead a Satsang, an Indian style worship gathering of singing (in Gujarati, Hindi and English), devotion and meditation. 12.00 Monday
Sanctus 1 – Sanctus 2nds Sanctus 2nds is an intergenerational service, part of Sanctus 1 in Manchester. It features a cafe space to refresh your body, creative space to inspire your mind and a prayer space to nurture your soul and an under-fives play space. Glimpses of Glory Intergenerational and interactive service with creative space, prayer space and café space exploring ways in which we can discover God around us. 15.00 Monday
Revive Revive: seeking God in the groove. We hold a Christcentred monthly gathering for djs, clubbers or just lovers of dance music and culture. It is jointly hosted by Dj Ayo and Dj Vicar in Birmingham. Revive showcase a Christ centred deck-led worship experience 17.00 Monday
Safe Space (Telford) Safe Space is an emerging/ new-monastic/missional community birthed in partnership between the Diocese of Lichfield and The Church Mission Society in Telford. Heaven in your head:space Is heaven a state of mind, a deep sensual space that goes with me, is me? Can we find heaven in the head:space? Including ‘Bodyparts’ - a film created by the community which reflects moments of heaven in the heart of the ordinary. 19.00 Monday
Other events God’s.mov If you could select four films to watch with God what would they be? The Passion of the Christ, A Clockwork Orange or perhaps Run Lola Run. Gareth Higgins will be talking with Pete Rollins and Sarah Masen abut their choice of four. Sarah Masen: 21.00 Friday Pete Rollins: 22.00 Saturday
DJ Sets Paul Cooper has been involved with DJing and producing electronic dance music right from its birth. He regularly DJs at his church Visions in York playing ambient/chillout tunes for people to worship and pray to. 20.00 Sunday
Manchester writer, DJ and man about town Fat Roland plays an hour of bang up-to-date electronica, IDM, glitch and downbeat. 21.00 Sunday
Proost’s Unusual Suspects Unusual Suspects is a creative new project launched by Proost at Greenbelt this year. To be an Unusual Suspect you have to be under 25, have talent and create resources that fuel faith. Suspects might be working in a range of media as artists, poets, Djs, movie makers, photographers, musicians, liturgists and animators. Greenbelt 2007 sees the introduction of the first three: Cntrst, Isaac Everett and Sophie Dutton Cntrst Cntrst, aka Joel Baker, is 17 and lives in London. He produces graphics and art in a variety of media as well as music and DJing. His first Unusual Suspects contribution is a short film mixing animation, film and photography with his own original soundtrack exploring identity. Separate DJ set: 20.00 Saturday
Isaac Everett Isaac is a musician, composer, audio designer and the cofounder of Transmission an underground church in New York City. His music weaves pop, glitch electronica, acid jazz and traditional liturgical melodies into a unique but familiar tapestry of urban spirituality. Sophie Dutton Sophie is an activist, a geek, a student, an idealist and a writer. Her creative juices really started flowing as a writer when she got involved with alternative worship community Visions in York. She will be sharing poems, prayers and liturgies. Sunday 13.00–14.00
Soul Space Panoramic Rest A place to be still and pray, to worship and meet with God, to share your journey. Enjoy the view and atmosphere of the Panoramic Rest as you explore your faith through contemplation and spiritual direction. Spiritual Direction is available across the weekend, provided by an ecumenical team who will accompany you for a short while on your journey. Come in at any time to make an appointment for a half-hour session, or Spiritual Directors may be available to talk to you immediately. To find out more about Spiritual Direction, come to our workshop.
Bishop of Swindon, Rt Revd Lee Rayfield
Rt Rev Lee Rayfield, Bishop of Swindon
Former Bishop in Argentina, and Southwell, Rt Revd Pat Harris
Love Come Down – Contemplative prayer and everyday life God is with us – but sometimes that reality can seem very distant. How can we seek and find God in the humdrum?
18.00 Saturday
18.00 Monday
Molten Meditation Molten Meditation came out of a desire to find a way of spending quality time with God and with the Bible, using the ancient tradition of lectio divina. Music and Scripture for Full Immersion Combining narrated Bible verses and contemplative, immersive music, an opportunity to absorb God’s Word while escaping the noise of day. 19.00 Friday
14.00 Saturday Soul Space
Diane Craven
First Light
Diane Craven has created educational resources for Save the Children, Christian Aid and the BBC World Service. Her current role is Youth and Children’s Work Adviser in the Diocese of Southwark.
Sanctuary are providing daily morning vigils to wake you up with God, people, and your wonderful surroundings. Holy Space – welcome to the Sanctuary Life Space – exploring our values.
Words of Life Connecting Bible and daily life with some old and some new approaches to scripture.
08.00 Sunday
21.00 Friday
Family Space – exploring our connections.
Nchant
08.00 Saturday
08.00 Monday
Evening Prayer with Bishops’ Thoughts Most evenings we will be having a short service of Evening Prayer, during which a Bishop offers a ‘thought for the day’. We are delighted to welcome the local Bishop of Tewksbury, John Went to join us at Greenbelt this year. 18.00 Friday
Nchant is a young women’s community choir founded in 2002 by singer-songwriter Alison Eve. The singers specialise in medieval and contemporary chants and also arrangements of songs from the likes of Madonna and Evanescence. Night Prayer – Psalms and Songs A dose of ritual, meditation and soaring gothic and medieval chants. Come bathe in the ancient stillness of liturgy. 23.00 Friday and Sunday
17.00 Saturday (followed by Evening Prayer)
hOME hOME are based in Oxford and explore, among other things, the weaving of the Christian and pre-Christian pattern of seasons. Tess Ward and Matt Rees lead. Four Seasons We will turn through the wheel of the year – four seasons of our outer and inner landscapes, weaving the Christian and natural calendars to discover heaven in ordinary. 19.00 Saturday
Night Prayer with hOME 23.00 Saturday
Contemplative Fire Contemplative Fire is a ‘Fresh Expression of Church’, and members community commit to a life-rhythm of contemplation-in-action. Morning Prayer Begin your festival day by rebalancing the Trinity of the Self – body, mind, spirit – through stillness and listening, silence and praise, percussion, gentle movement, chant and sacred posture. 09.00 Saturday and Monday
‘Pray the Body’ Chant + Drumming with Philip Roderick Philip Roderick creates worship-space that feels celebratory! A call to worship that engages the whole of you, using rhythm, syncopated body prayer and haunting chants from the Christian tradition worldwide. 21.00 Saturday
Ship of Fools Simon Jenkins is the editor of the online magazine and community Ship of Fools. His books include ‘Windows into Heaven’ (an introduction to Eastern icons) and ‘The Bible from Scratch’. Simon is an independent writer and designer, and lives in London. God in my corner How can you set up an icon corner in your home as a place for prayer, reflection and meeting God? A creative, practical workshop with video interviews and installations. 17.00 Sunday
Orthodox Community of Bath A small Orthodox Parish based in Bath, belonging to the Greek Archdiocese, they keep up a full cycle of liturgical worship during the year. Every Sunday they share a meal together after the liturgy. Great Vespers 18.00 Sunday
Embody Embody is an inventive and entrepreneurial organisation developing experiential resources as a way into experiencing selftranscendence. Embody is at the forefront of contemporary spiritual direction for anyone in the marketplace from questioning young executives to disillusioned midlifers allergic to religion. How smiley spirituality can change the world Happiness can move mountains as well. Explore where contemplative spirituality meets positive psychology and how the journey leads from the orgasmatron to universal union. 19.00 Sunday
worship 98–99
Divine Space Divine Space are an alternative worship group from Bedford. The service will be led by Paul Cudby, with music from nChant Meditative Eucharist of the Broken Heart and the Franciscan Community. Divine Space’s near-silent Eucharist has become a regular feature of the Contemplative programme. This year we focus on broken hearts, meditating on healing and brokenness. 21.00 Sunday
Simon Parke Simon Parke was a priest in the Church of England for twenty years before leaving for fresh adventures. He currently works in a supermarket where he is chair of the shop union. He has recently written ‘The Beautiful Life – Ten New Commandments’ The Beautiful Life The Beautiful Life – we use observation, silence and conversation, in search of the alchemy of beauty. The kingdom of God is within, and we are far from home.
17.00 Monday (followed at 6pm by Evening Prayer with Rt Rev Pat Harris)
Across Site As well as our dedicated worship venues, services will be taking place across the weekend in various venues. A to Z of contributors
Gothspell Ara (Manchester) and Happygoff (London) both seek to provide sanctuaries for those who prefer black and purple to white and beige. This is acceptance offered to the often unaccepted. Ordinary in the Heavens Come and shake off the dust of the ordinary and ‘basque’ in the extraordinary as you journey towards the Holy of Holies, finding the Light in the darkness and the Word in the silence. 23.30 Saturday Underground
Cheltenham Quakers
The Garden
Cheltenham Quaker Meeting is part of the Religious Society of Friends. Quakers believe that there is something of God in everyone; that God will speak to us if we wait in stillness.
See p.97.
09.00 Sunday Mandarin
Christian Aid Christian Aid are campaigning on climate change because it is already affecting the people they are working with – the poor are already paying the price. They present two very different services about climate change, with music, worship, images, prayer and action.
On the concourse
A Storm is Coming – Part 1 (with John Bell)
You are invited to join us on ‘The Road to Emmaus – by Numbers’. Who will you meet on the way?
09.00 Saturday Centaur
A Storm is Coming – Part 2 14.00 Monday Sovereign
L’Arche
Deaf Greenbelt
L’Arche is a worldwide network of communities in 35 countries founded by Jean Vanier, where people with learning disabilities are welcomed along with those who wish to share their lives with them.
Every year Greenbelt hosts deaf people from across the UK. A team of our deaf friends and some hearing people who can sign will give you a taste of deaf worship – of prayer in sign language – and visual worship. Don’t worry if you can’t sign – full voice-over provided for the signing impaired!
Washing of the Feet Time to wash each other’s feet and find heaven in the ordinary act of being present to another. 12.30 Saturday and Monday Sovereign
CAFOD – Catholic Mass Live Simply With music from children and adults of St Gregory the Great in Cheltenham, using a great variety of instruments, this Mass calls us to look hard at our lifestyles and to choose to live simply, sustainably and in solidarity with the poor. 17.30 Sovereign Saturday (with workshop) 09.00 Sovereign Sunday
‘I never promised you a rose garden’ Discover our impromptu garden, appearing like a wild flower somewhere on site over the weekend. A little heaven in the ordinary that will disappear as quickly as it appeared.
09.00 Saturday and Monday Insurance Lounge
Franciscans The Franciscans form a community on the campsite. The Brothers and Sisters in brown habits come together from their inner city houses to offer time, space and worship to all. Come and join in their regular Franciscan prayers or drop by for a quiet space, a rest, a chat or just for a sit down – you’ll be welcome. Daily
09.00 Morning Prayer 12.30 Eucharist 17.30 Evening Prayer 21.00 Night Prayer
Grace Grace is a Christian community/network that has been creating participative and interactive worship from our base in Ealing, West London since 1993.
For ages 5 and above. 15.30 Saturday Arena + Big Screen
Graceland Graceland are a DIY Homegroup who have been exploring worship through installations and various media for over 10 years. Scatterlyrics Round-the-corner-parables, same-old-same-old-surprises walkabout-prayers x 4 simultaneous-soundtracks humble technology takeme-home-stories shoppingtrolley-sound-system saunter in & check your souls. Around the site
Ikon
The New Place
Inhabiting a space on the outer rim of church experience, Ikon (a group which describes itself as eiconic, apocalyptic, heretical, emerging and failing) is a Belfast-based collective, who offer anarchic experiments in ‘transformance art’. Is this worship? You decide.
The New Place is a Methodist owned and run community centre serving Bristol’s diverse inner-city. They drink tea together, figure out life’s traumas, giggle a lot, eat beans on toast and try their very hardest to love the stranger without getting hurt too badly along the way.
The God Delusion: Where does your Faith Lie? Ikon invite you check your beliefs at the door for a provocative experience of theodrama. Before we ask ‘is Christianity true?’ we must ask ‘what does it mean to claim that it is true?’ 21.00 Saturday Centaur
Jon Birch Jon Birch is a multimedia artist and musician who produce resources for the emerging church through Proost, and for Scripture Union. Jon’s work can be seen in projects such as ‘The Labyrinth’, ‘Worship the Creator’ and ‘Breathe’. Fuel A meditative multi-media service which dares to ask the question, ‘Where is God?’
09.00 Saturday Literature Venue
Love & Joy Gospel Choir First came the Beatles, then Cilla Black, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Las… and now the Love & Joy Gospel Choir. This vibrant, multi-racial choir, based at Liverpool’s Temple of Praise, is the latest incarnation of the Merseysound. The group has even worked with Liverpool FC, releasing a specially extended version of ‘You’ll never walk alone’ – and you don’t get more Scouse than that! 17.15 Sunday Centaur
Heaven under the Motorway Explore if heaven can be in a bathtub or down the back of the sofa. Around site all weekend
Open Mic Worship (OMW) An impromptu trio of musicians from within the GB crew and worship team who’ve never played together before! Bring contributions to the mic, and we’ll offer it up. Low key, low tech and high on God. 16.30 Sunday Children’s Festival
Matt Redman ‘When we face up to the glory of God, we find ourselves facedown in worship.’ Leading a generation of Christians in reverence and humility towards God, Matt Redman invites us to re-commit and refresh our worship. ‘Sing first with an eye towards God - let every melody and word be an inspired heartfelt response to Him. But sing also with the church in mind - crafting that inspiration in a way that might help others give voice to their worship of Jesus.’ 14.00 Saturday Mainstage
theREIGN Formed in 2002, Hull worship band theREIGN have developed a strong ministry, particularly amongst young people, with their blend of original material, popular praise & worship songs and well-known secular covers.
Rock Eucharist With music in the style of Bon Jovi and Snow Patrol, and liturgy in the style of the CofE. 00.15 Friday Underground
Sounds of Salvation Sounds of Salvation are an energetic, 10-piece, skaworship band from Reading, UK. The band play an exciting mixture of material including ‘ska’d-up’ versions of well known worship songs. ‘If you crossed Madness, Bon Jovi and a Salvation Army Brass Band... you’d have a bit of an ethical dilemma. But it might sound a bit like Sounds of Salvation.’ Also appearing in Humanic. 09.00 Monday Underground
Taize The Taize community does not organise a movement around itself. Instead, after a stay at Taize, people are invited to set out on a ‘pilgrimage of trust’ wherever they live, encouratged by an experience of prayer and with greater awareness of their bonds with many others who are involved in a similar search. Join us for two services. 22.00 Friday Blake 09.00 Monday Blake
TranceMass Transfiguration and Visions presents ‘The Light Shines in the Darkness’ – the Trancendant Mass. Come, be-come, touch the expanding space of God’s presence in dance, music, visual art, bread and wine. 20.20 Friday Centaur
Trent Band Trent come from Trent Vineyard, Nottingham and have been writing worship songs together for over five years. This is Vineyard-style worship mixed with the sounds of Interpol and Franz Ferdinand - songs to pick you up and carry you into the God’s Presence. 09.00 Saturday Underground 12.00 Sunday Underground
Worship Works and Wild Goose Wild Goose – aka John Bell and Graham Maule – team up with former Goose Alison who now runs Worship Works in London. 22.00 Saturday Blake 22.00 Sunday Herbert
Big sing The grandstand has become a legendary venue for this magnificent vocal mayhem! Join the crowds and come and sing music from Wild Goose and around the world. 14.00 Saturday Herbert
On a beautiful day over two thousand years ago in Cana, Galilee, a wedding was celebrated. During that wedding feast the miraculous happened, and the guests saw a glimmer of heaven. Today we invite you to join with us as we remember the story, share in the feast and celebrate the guest who brought heaven into the ordinary. So prepare yourselves for a wedding. We go to weddings with expectant hearts, yes, and with enquiring minds. But, above all, we go to share with friends and family. We go for a celebration, for public words of covenant, for a banquet. The food and drink will be provided; just turn up in your finery and the host will meet you there.
Venue Choice Because the gathered Greenbelt can’t physically fit in front of one stage with good views (good eh?), we’ll be hosting our celebration across two venues:
Mainstage On Mainstage there will be a more traditional communion, with the Love and Joy Gospel Choir performing before the service begins, and leading the music throughout.
Arena In the Arena there will be a more alternative experience, Lausanne’s Fuse Factory providing ambient music and blending video loops with a live video feed from Mainstage. Psalm Drummers will be driving the worship beat preservice. But whichever venue you choose to go to, remember that we are worshipping and celebrating together in spirit. Decide as a group where you’d like to be, and gather there in bunches of between 15 and 20. Each group will be given a ‘worship bag’ by one of the stewards. You’ll need to arrive early for either venue. Start to arrive from 9.30, the service starts at 10.30. If you’re heading for the Arena from the campsite, use the crossing of the Racecourse nearest the Grandstand. And please follow the directions from the stewards as they will know where there is free space.
Plus This year for the first time we are offering a DVD of the Sunday Morning Communion Service with Sanctus 1. ‘The Official Bootleg Communion DVD’ – available in G-talks an hour after the service @ £6.
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sustainability We want to be big, loud, vibrant, colouful and life-changing. But we don’t want it to mess the good things up or muck the beautiful things around. Because we believe this earth is both good and beautiful. That’s why we’re committed to making the Festival more and more sustainable, year-on-year – not easy to do for a four-day event. We know we can and should do more. But here’s just a short glimpse of the stuff we’re already doing. We’d love to hear your ideas on what we could improve on in terms of our sustainable practices, and you can email them into us in the office, or call into the Generous Network area in G-Source and let the folks there know.
Offsetting (the easy bit) The total carbon emissions from people travelling by car to the Festival has been estimated at nearly 300 tonnes, so we can make a big difference by offsetting this. In 2008 we’re moving (at long last!) to offset transport related carbon emissions by integrating a carbon offset opt in into the Festival’s online booking system.
Waste The polybag outers that the Greenbelt literature is sent in is oxybiodegradable. A massive recycling operation is in place at the Festival, provided by Network Recycling. And our
site-vibing team uses recycled materials from The ScrapStore.
Printing The Festival Guide and all our year-round publicity is now printed by Calverts, a cooperative printing house in London specialising in working with 100% recycled paper or mixed FSC-approved stocks and committed to sustainable practices.
Caterers and traders All caterers are encouraged to provide healthy, and, wherever possible, organic food from local sources, for fair-trade produce.
Composting As well as glass, plastic and cans, this year we will also be making the move to providing onsite composting. This will be available to all the caterers in the main Festival Village areas and we hope also to extend this so that you can do your bit out on the campsite, too. If we manage this, you’ll be issued with the right set of bags on arrival (an extra cornstarch one if we manage to get the campsites composting) and each recycling pen will carry instructions as well.
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faith. creation. art. liberation. justice. trust.
Greenbelt has experienced the generosity of so many thousands of people over years, and as a Festival we know that that generous spirit must be passed on to others. The gift must keep moving.
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Trust Greenbelt is our way of giving back into local and global initiatives that find ways of combining, in their broadest sense, faith, justice and the arts. With the tens of thousands of pounds collected each year at the Sunday Communion service, we distribute small and medium-sized grants that liberate creativity in the face of exclusion, exploitation and injustice. We know such projects can be risky. But we’re prepared for that. It’s one way that we can ‘walk our own talk’ by helping people to work out the Greenbelt vision throughout the year.
You’ll get a booklet at the Sunday morning Communion service that tells more of the Trust Greenbelt story. You’ll also get an envelope for you to make your gift. If you miss these at Communion then pick them up at the Angel Lounge and at the bigger worship services in the Centaur venue over the weekend. To apply for a grant from Trust Greenbelt, log on to www.greenbelt.org/trust to read about the criteria, what we aim to fund, and what sort of things to include in your bid. We’ve tried to keep the process as simple as possible.
It’s wonderful to be a growing Festival. Every year the event gets bigger and expectations get higher, so in order to keep Greenbelt vibrant and dynamic we need more of you to get involved. Greenbelt is the lifeblood of so many people’s vision, and volunteers are the lifeblood of Greenbelt. The Festival is only made possible because every year hundreds of volunteers give their time and energy to making it happen. And by doing so, they are not just helping Greenbelt to run, they are helping change the world, one generous act at a time. We need your involvement to help us keep up this tradition.
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Every year more than fifteen hundred people work together during the year and over the August Bank Holiday to create Greenbelt. A tiny number of full and part-time staff are supported by this active community of volunteers, whose dedication to the Festival has helped it become what it is today. If you would like to become one of them we’d love to hear from you. Perhaps you would like to be part of one of the programme planning groups and help decide who gets invited each year, or to help out in one of the two largest and most exciting volunteer groups – the Children’s Festival or the Stewarding team. Whatever your gifts are, we would love to be able to use them.
So, please do come along to one of the following:
Volunteer drop-ins June Spindler from our Volunteer Development Team will be on hand to talk to you about what volunteering with Greenbelt involves. 12.00–14.00 & 18.00–19.00 every day Angels Lounge, G-Source
Becoming a G-Maker
My summer would feel incomplete without it. Andrew Smith, Volunteer Venue Manager G-Source
Your opportunity to talk to people from our volunteer teams and to get inspired to play your part too. 16.00 Monday Winged Ox
Or pick up an application form and information from the Volunteer Stand at the Angels Lounge – leave your details in the box provided or post them back to the Greenbelt office.
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There are now hundreds of openings for Christians with the right professional skills to put their feet where their faith is and meet China’s needs 01732 887299 china@omf.org.uk www.omf.org.uk
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SMILE, you can be part of short-term mission Crosslinks' short-term programmes, SMILE for 18-30s, and NEXT for the over 30s, give people a taste of overseas mission. If you'd like to help take God's Word to God's World and be seriously challenged, get in touch.
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A huge thanks to all those who have made Greenbelt 07 happen… for your tireless commitment and time, energy, expertise and resources… especially Patron The Rt Revd Rowan Williams Trustees Chair Karen Napier Vice Chair Andy Turner Treasurer Jonathan Smith Company Secretary Paul Bennett Jenny Baker Jason Barnett Chris Bold Gaynor Bradshaw David Cullen Simon Hall Jude Levermore Dot Reid Paul Wilson Pip Wilson Martin Wroe Staff Festival Director Beki Bateson Acting Festival Director Sue Wrenn Marketing and Development Manager Paul Northup Programme Manager Ben da Costa Programme Co-ordinator Dave King Music Programmer Harvey Jessop Trading and Angels Manager Gill Hewitt Box Office Manager Laura Rawlings Administrator Catherine Cray Finance Administrator Nive Hall Site Manager Pete Allison Development Assistant Emma Bennett Marketing Assistant Shirelle Gayle Summer Box Office Assistant Georgina Turner Outgoing Staff Oliver Carruthers Sarah Dean Child Protection Administrator Judith Castledine
With thanks to Ben Parker Chris Tarren Alison Dreezer Mike Godden Becca Ennis Mark Muggeridge Rob Haworth from E&MS Special thanks to all those who have helped out in the office throughout the year, especially: Dave Constable Ben Mayo Harry Baker Chantal Schofield Rebecca Linden Management Group All Trustees plus Jude Adam Andy Barr Paul Chambers Liz Chapman Emma Gosden Nicola Hambridge Iain Harvey-Smith Ken Montgomery Nicky McGinty John Noble Kirsten Winter Programming Group Chair Emma Gosden Vice Chair Harvey Jessop Nikki Andrews Jonny Baker Adam Baxter Jenny Brown Mary Corfield Gayle Findlay Suzi Fowler Laura Gibbs Darren Goddard Peter Graystone Sue Harvey-Smith Derek Hill Jude Levermore Ros Moody Harry Napier Chris Parker Jonathan Philpott Carole Pugh Ged Tyrell Colin Udall Joe Walker Jeremy Woodham Plus all those on the programme subgroups Festival Operations Management Liz Chapman David Cullen Martin Finey Martin Short
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