Lineup Announcements for 2012

We've got new lineup being announced regularly, as Greenbelt 2012: Saving Paradise begins to take shape...

Music is headlined by pioneering producer Nitin Sawhney, folk collective Bellowhead, and Canadian legend Bruce Cockburn, with rich variety across the rest of the bill - including Speech Debelle, Seth Lakeman, The Leisure Society, Franz Nicolay, Megson, and the return of festival favourites The Proclaimers.

Talks feature Tony Campolo, Shane Claiborne, Peter Tatchell, Tom Wright, Giles Fraser, Lucy Winkett, Caspar Melville, Erwin James, and Rev Richard Coles. See the latest Talks announcements on our blog »

With worship from Rend Collective and Andy Flannagan, comedy from Robin Ince and James Acaster, performing arts from OperaUpClose and Tayo Aluko, and plenty more - including BBC Radio 4's Any Questions coming live from the festival!

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Events

Rebuilding Beit Arabiya

Monday 23 April, 19.00 - All Hallows On The Wall, London

Greenbelt and Amos Trust host Jeff Halper (left) from Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, as he tells the story of Salim Shawamreh, whose home in East Jerusalem was demolished for the fifth time earlier this year.

Free entry, event starts 7pm, more info here »

Paradise: Lost & Found

Sunday 20 May, St James's Church Piccadilly, London

We're hosting a thought-provoking afternoon in which ten speakers will get to grips with our theme for 2012 - Saving Paradise. Speakers including Ann Pettifor, Tamsin Omond, Rose Hudson-Wilkin and Lucy Winkett will look at how to lose paradise and how to find it. There are limited tickets for this event - they will be available from Friday 13 April. More details will be posted here »

Free Talks

We now have over 660 talks recorded at Greenbelt available for free.

All talks recorded between 1999 and 2009 are now available to stream and download absolutely free. We also have video and images in our Media section from across the festival's history, with more to come... See below for a featured Talk of the Month, or head on over to our website...

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News In Brief

Volunteer at Greenbelt

Make Greenbelt 2012 happen by lending us your skills and enthusiasm. Take a look at our Volunteer website for a full list of teams and opportunities that need your help...

We have a particular need for more volunteers with a broad range of safeguarding experience to cover shifts in our Safeguarding Team over the festival weekend. If you have experience in youth work, education, the probation service or police, working with vulnerable adults and/or people with special needs, email volunteers@greenbelt.org.uk to find out more...

Young Greenbelters

Speaking of volunteering, we have a limited number of opportunities for volunteers aged 16 and 17 now available. Click here »

We're also doing some work with and for leaders of youth groups. If you help lead a Youth Group with opinions, we need your help in improving our festival and supporting our youth strategy. If you're interested in finding out more, head to our Information for Youth Leaders page, or register here »

Talk of the Month

What can we do about poverty? | Tony Campolo

Tony Campolo returns to Greenbelt this summer.

We've been listening to Tony and learning from him since his first visit in 1987 - see a rather lovely image of Tony and Gustavo Parajon here. He last visited us in 2001, when he spoke brilliantly in two sessions - one on homophobia and one on poverty. In the second of these, Tony contends that "there are over two thousand passages of Scripture that deal with poverty, so there is no way that Christians can ignore the responsibility to work to end it". This rollicking archive talk is a great way to remind us how far we've come in the battle against poverty, and how far we have left to go...

Listen to What can we do about poverty? »

Partners & Associates

Church House Bookshop

This year, the official bookshop at Greenbelt is once again being run by our friends at Church House Bookshop. As well as a fantastic selection of new releases, best-selling titles, special offers and book signings over the weekend, G-Books also hosts Church Times and Third Way - with a special subscription offer to be snapped up onsite. Subscribe to either Church Times or Third Way at Greenbelt, and they'll give you a £5 voucher to spend on books in G-Books. Yet another reason to drop in and see them over the Bank Holiday weekend.

Children's Society: Responding to the Riots

We have a blog post on our website from Jim Davis, the Good Childhood Advisor at our associates The Children's Society about the riots, and Greenbelt's response in the light of the independent report from the Riots, Communities and Victims panel. Take a read and join the discussion »