Greenbelt Festival

Ockhams Razor theatre

For its 42nd consecutive year, the Greenbelt Festival takes place this coming August Bank Holiday. Settling into its second residency in the idyllic grounds of Boughton House, this year the festival 'reflects and celebrates the grassroots'. The ecumenical programme introduces a rich and diverse array of thinkers, poets, musicians, theologians, covering themes including peace, ecology, climate change, community, forgiveness, immigration, fashion, mental health, interfaith, sexuality, and media.

On the programme alongside the Bogside Mural Artists, best-selling writers AL Kennedy, Tobias Jones, Rev Giles Fraser, Rector of St James Piccadilly, Lucy Winkett, journalists Abdul-Rehman Malik, Peter Stanford, and Paul Vallely, biographer of Pope Francis. A diverse musical line up brings together symphonic rock choir The Polyphonic Spree, India-inspired international singer Kiran Ahluwalia and Mercury- nominated The Unthanks. Irish singer-songwriter Duke Special will be performing his Under the Dark Cloth, a work originally commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The publicity states: 'Greenbelt festival started in 1974 and has a vision to engage with culture, be inspired by the arts and sustained by faith. Greenbelt aspires to be an open, generous community reimagining the Christian narrative for the present, with an inclusive approach and wide-reaching, all-age and multi-disciplinary programming. Greenbelt aims to make links with people in situations around the world struggling for justice and peace and provide a stage for voices to be heard. Founded first and foremost as a Christian Arts Festival, Greenbelt has continued to evolve to create a vibrant space to explore faith and imagination. In its diversity and imagination, the festival attempts to reflect and mirror something of its understanding of the mind and heart of God.'

All events take place at Boughton Hall, Northamptonshire, 28th-31st August 2015

For more information and tickets see: www.greenbelt.org.uk