60 acast.com Somewhere To Believe In http://greenbelt.org.uk/ en Greenbelt Festivals greenbelt,music festival,spirituality,festival,faith,debate,music,interview,discussion Greenbelt Festivals A Greenbelt Podcast All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey... and we’re back for the second series of Somewhere To Believe In, a podcast by the people who bring you Greenbelt Festival.


Each week we’ll meet brilliant guests and chat to them about their life and work. We want to bring you timely, provocative and funny dollops of hopefulness, to keep us all going in these strange times. This time around we’re celebrating artists that we love and we know you’ll love them too.

 

We’ll also be digging into our love of fields, festivals and communal gatherings – remember those? – and sharing some of the behind-the-scenes Greenbelt stuff. Importantly, too, we want to hear from YOU, whether you’ve danced in a field with us or not.

 

Our plan is to release this second series of eight episodes in the run-up to Christmas – with a new episode coming out each Friday. We’ve called it ‘Somewhere to Believe in’, because maybe more than ever, we all need that right now. We really hope you like it.

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]]> All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey... and we’re back for the second series of Somewhere To Believe In, a podcast by the people who bring you Greenbelt Festival.


Each week we’ll meet brilliant guests and chat to them about their life and work. We want to bring you timely, provocative and funny dollops of hopefulness, to keep us all going in these strange times. This time around we’re celebrating artists that we love and we know you’ll love them too.

 

We’ll also be digging into our love of fields, festivals and communal gatherings – remember those? – and sharing some of the behind-the-scenes Greenbelt stuff. Importantly, too, we want to hear from YOU, whether you’ve danced in a field with us or not.

 

Our plan is to release this second series of eight episodes in the run-up to Christmas – with a new episode coming out each Friday. We’ve called it ‘Somewhere to Believe in’, because maybe more than ever, we all need that right now. We really hope you like it.

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]]> false Derek Hill somewheretobelievein@greenbelt.org.uk 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 somewhere-to-believe-in episodic https://assets.pippa.io/shows/5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217/1593611464063-100c2e7b8d143ed976899747641d5997.jpeg http://greenbelt.org.uk/ Somewhere To Believe In In the Bleak Midwinter In the Bleak Midwinter Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:01:30 GMT 35:16 639721cbb39f5700101ecbc8 true https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 639721cbb39f5700101ecbc8 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 in-the-bleak-midwinter A personal story, woven with song full 3.5 2 This episode of Greenbelt’s ‘Somewhere To Believe In’ comes in the form of a one-off Christmas reflection; brought to you by our friend Beloved Sara Zaltash, a ‘non-denominational rabble-rouser and soul-soother for a world in crisis’.

 

It was our pleasure to welcome Beloved Sara to Greenbelt for the first time this year, along with her heavenly spiritual chants and adaptation of the Islamic Call to Prayer. And now she’s back again, reflecting on Christmas, with personal stories of community, songs of hope and prayers of blessings.

 

As Beloved Sara says, we hope ‘you gather around these sounds in warmth and with whatever is dear to you, and that these words shine a beacon of friendship into your Christmas season.’

 

This episode features strong language and references to drugs.

_


Late this November, Greenbelt Festival’s Creative Director, Paul Northup, called me with a request to collaborate on something like a podcast, that wasn’t quite a podcast, to be shared with the Greenbelt community this Christmastime. 


I wish I could say that the first emotion I experienced was humility. I wish I was that saint! In truth, I was overwhelmed with giddy delight. Was I really being asked to share my thoughts, stories and songs with the Greenbelt community, that vital and gorgeous and exceptionally kind bunch of people that had won my heart this summer when I performed at the festival? In truth, it took a whole afternoon of pinching myself before the thrill of Paul’s request subsided, before I could settle into what was being asked of me. Did Greenbelters really want to hear more from me? What can I give them, poor as I am? 


As the start of Advent loomed, Paul and I realised that the task ahead was greater than the time available, and that we needed a different approach. Paul wondered about centering the not-exactly-a-podcast on my voice, seeing as it was my voice that had been received so kindly by Greenbelters at the festival. It was then that I remembered a piece of storytelling I had written for a guest slot at Sunday Assembly East End in December 2016 - a personal story, woven with song, that was Christmassy and yet not-exactly-Christmassy. This story is what we have chosen to share with you this year. 


Funnily enough, Sunday Assembly thought that the story was actually too Christian for their congregation. For me, this story abridges my whole life’s experience of sincere acceptance, inclusion and welcome into Christian community, regardless of how I have shown up. This story does not promote any specific belief or doctrine, except perhaps the belief in the redemptive power of song. 


That’s what we have to give you; we give our hearts. 


Thank you for all of the support and willingness offered by the Greenbelt team and not-quite-podcast contributors. Thank you especially to Abigail Maxwell, a Greenbelter and Quaker who provides us with a sobering prayer of blessing that we can hold alongside the gladness of the season. I pray that our offering greets you in the finest health, that you gather around these sounds in warmth and with whatever is dear to you, and that these words shine a beacon of friendship into your Christmas season.


Yours ever, 

Your own, 

Beloved Sara Zaltash

_


00:00 - Introduction

01:45 - In the bleak midwinter

07:33 - A Christmas song

10:04 - Eric

16:16 - School

28:10 - Merry Christmas

28:37 - A prayer of blessing

31:04 - ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ song

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]]> This episode of Greenbelt’s ‘Somewhere To Believe In’ comes in the form of a one-off Christmas reflection; brought to you by our friend Beloved Sara Zaltash, a ‘non-denominational rabble-rouser and soul-soother for a world in crisis’.

 

It was our pleasure to welcome Beloved Sara to Greenbelt for the first time this year, along with her heavenly spiritual chants and adaptation of the Islamic Call to Prayer. And now she’s back again, reflecting on Christmas, with personal stories of community, songs of hope and prayers of blessings.

 

As Beloved Sara says, we hope ‘you gather around these sounds in warmth and with whatever is dear to you, and that these words shine a beacon of friendship into your Christmas season.’

 

This episode features strong language and references to drugs.

_


Late this November, Greenbelt Festival’s Creative Director, Paul Northup, called me with a request to collaborate on something like a podcast, that wasn’t quite a podcast, to be shared with the Greenbelt community this Christmastime. 


I wish I could say that the first emotion I experienced was humility. I wish I was that saint! In truth, I was overwhelmed with giddy delight. Was I really being asked to share my thoughts, stories and songs with the Greenbelt community, that vital and gorgeous and exceptionally kind bunch of people that had won my heart this summer when I performed at the festival? In truth, it took a whole afternoon of pinching myself before the thrill of Paul’s request subsided, before I could settle into what was being asked of me. Did Greenbelters really want to hear more from me? What can I give them, poor as I am? 


As the start of Advent loomed, Paul and I realised that the task ahead was greater than the time available, and that we needed a different approach. Paul wondered about centering the not-exactly-a-podcast on my voice, seeing as it was my voice that had been received so kindly by Greenbelters at the festival. It was then that I remembered a piece of storytelling I had written for a guest slot at Sunday Assembly East End in December 2016 - a personal story, woven with song, that was Christmassy and yet not-exactly-Christmassy. This story is what we have chosen to share with you this year. 


Funnily enough, Sunday Assembly thought that the story was actually too Christian for their congregation. For me, this story abridges my whole life’s experience of sincere acceptance, inclusion and welcome into Christian community, regardless of how I have shown up. This story does not promote any specific belief or doctrine, except perhaps the belief in the redemptive power of song. 


That’s what we have to give you; we give our hearts. 


Thank you for all of the support and willingness offered by the Greenbelt team and not-quite-podcast contributors. Thank you especially to Abigail Maxwell, a Greenbelter and Quaker who provides us with a sobering prayer of blessing that we can hold alongside the gladness of the season. I pray that our offering greets you in the finest health, that you gather around these sounds in warmth and with whatever is dear to you, and that these words shine a beacon of friendship into your Christmas season.


Yours ever, 

Your own, 

Beloved Sara Zaltash

_


00:00 - Introduction

01:45 - In the bleak midwinter

07:33 - A Christmas song

10:04 - Eric

16:16 - School

28:10 - Merry Christmas

28:37 - A prayer of blessing

31:04 - ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ song

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]]> The Job of Paradise The Job of Paradise Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:05:50 GMT 46:28 61278005cddf5c0012151f60 false https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 61278005cddf5c0012151f60 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 the-job-of-paradise You have a gift, who are you serving? full 3.5 1 This episode of Greenbelt’s ‘Somewhere To Believe In’ podcast takes a different form. It’s a one-off.


It knits together 45-minutes of reflection, conversation, music and prayer in the form of a listen-and-share service to mark the festival’s 2021 August Bank Holiday weekend incarnation (its 48th) – when only a fraction of the wider Greenbelt community could actually physically be together at the Prospect Farm pop-up camping gathering. 


The hope is that the audio form of the service will give everyone the chance to share and be connected in a unifying act of remembrance – wherever they are. Ideally, the audio is designed to be shared in and listened to at 11am on Sunday 29th August. But, of course, it can be listened to at any time. Again and again.


The podcast takes its title from a wonderful poem by the poet Roger Robinson. It also features music from Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir and the Wild Goose Resources Group, conversations with activists from Christian Aid, Trussell Trust and Refuweegee and readings and prayers led by Greenbelt’s from all corners of the UK. It is lovingly curated and narrated by Pádraig Ó Tuama – poet, theologian, and conflict mediator. (Pádraig also presents 'Poetry Unbound', a podcast from On Being studios.)


____


ORDER OF SERVICE


Download the order of service here

____


SUPPORT


Last year – despite our not being together – you gave an incredible £33,000 in response to our service appeal. This year, let’s see if we can top that generosity!


This year, your generous giving will be split 50/50 once again.


50% will go towards the vital work that our partners Christian Aid and Trussell Trust do to challenge, advocate, develop and support – globally and domestically.


And 50% will stay with us here at Greenbelt as we work to make sure the festival remains sustainable in these most challenging of times. So we can be back in the fields at Boughton House for a fully-fledged festival in 2022 – and beyond.


Give here


____


LINKS AND RESOURCES


Pádraig Ó Tuama


Roger Robinson


Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir


Christian Aid in South Sudan


Trussell Trust


Glasgow protesters praised for blocking UK immigration officers


Refuweegee


Wild Goose Resource Group


____


FEATURED TRACKS


‘Lenten Psalm Tone’ by Soul Sanctuary

‘Heaven Shall Not Wait’ by WGRG, Iona Community

‘People Get Ready’ by Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir

____


00:00 - Prayer for the earth

00:35 - Welcome to ‘The Job of Paradise’

01:49 - ‘The Job of Paradise’ read by Roger Robinson

02:30 - Pádraig speaks to Roger Robinson

10:33 - Prayer for the artists

11:35 - ‘Psalm 27’ by Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir

16:26 - Chine McDonald and James Wani on aid in South Sudan (Christian Aid)

21:32 - Prayer for those affected by war

22:34 - Pádraig and Jonathan Lees on food banks (Trussell Trust)

27:19 - Scriptural reading

28:31 - Confession

29:50 - Prayer for those responsible for racism

30:26 - ‘Heaven Shall Not Wait’ by Wild Goose Resource Group

32:39 - Pádraig speaks to Selina Hales (Refuweegee) about Glasgow immigration standoff

38:21 - ‘Heaven Shall Not Wait’ by Wild Goose Resource Group

38:56 - Prayer for friendship

39:40 - ‘People Get Ready’ by Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir

42:34 - Prayer for our societies

43:17 - A chance for conversation and response

43:57 - Welcome back

44:13 - Giving

45:19 - Blessing

46:15 - Thank you and credits


____


WITH HUGE THANKS TO ALL OF OUR CONTRIBUTORS


SERVICE WRITER, NARRATOR AND HOST

Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet, theologian, and conflict mediator. He presents Poetry

Unbound, a podcast from On Being studios.

Website: padraigotuama.com

Twitter: @duanalla


GUEST ARTIST

Roger Robinson is a writer, educator, and performer. His most recent collection of

poems, A Portable Paradise, won the TS Eliot prize in 2020.

Website: rogerrobinsononline.com

Twitter: @rrobinson72


GUEST ACTIVISTS

Selina Hales is the Founder and Director of Refuweegee, a Glasgow-based charity

equipping the local community to welcome and support refugees and asylum

seekers making their homes in the city.

Website: refuweegee.co.uk

Twitter: @SelinaHales


Greenbelt Partner Christian Aid is a UK-based charity whose mission is the

creation of a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty.

Chine McDonald is Christian Aid’s Head of Public Engagement. She was in

conversation with James Wani, Christian Aid’s country director in South Sudan.

Website: christianaid.org.uk

Twitter: @ChineMcDonald @christian_aid


Greenbelt Partner The Trussell Trust is a charity working to eliminate poverty and

hunger in the UK. They support a nationwide network of Foodbanks.

Jonathan Lees is manager at Epsom Foodbank

Website: trusselltrust.org

Twitter: @jonathanlees55 @TrussellTrust


MUSIC

Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir is a London-based gospel choir committed to creating

and sharing gospel music of the highest standard, especially in the places where

gospel’s power to raise the human spirit is most needed. You can find more of their

music via their website.

Website: soulsanctuarygospel.com

Twitter: @soulsanctuarygc


Lenten Psalm Tone

Music Edwin Fawcett, Lyrics Psalm 26/27 copyright Grail Psalter, performed by

Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir, from the album With All Your Soul (2013).


People Get Ready

Music and Lyrics Curtis Mayfield, arranged Peter Yarde Martin, performed by Soul

Sanctuary Gospel Choir

Wild Goose Resource Group (WGRG) is a semi-autonomous project of the Iona

Community. The Iona Community is a dispersed Christian community working for

peace, social justice, the rebuilding of community and the renewal of worship.

Website: iona.org.uk

Twitter: @ionacommunity


Heaven Shall Not Wait

Words: John L. Bell & Graham Maule

Music: John L. Bell copyright © 1987 WGRG, Iona Community, Glasgow.

wildgoose.scot

Recording from the CD ‘Heaven Shall Not Wait’ copyright ℗ 1991 WGRG, Iona

Community, Glasgow.


PRAYERS AND READERS


Uriel, Felice and Evodie Thornbury – young family members of the Hilfield Friary

Franciscan Community in Dorset

Vicky and Eve Allen, Greenbeters from East Lothian

Geraint Rees, Greenbelter and CODA festival team member from Rhondda Cynon Taf


Producer

Paul Northup


Engineer

Josh Clipsham, Greenbelt Volunteer

Recorded Talks and Podcast Team


Recordist

Jake Bussell, Greenbelt Volunteer

Recorded Talks and Podcast Team


Publisher

Daisy Ware-Jarett, Greenbelt Digital

Comms Officer


Additional support

Emily Rawling, Executive Assistant and

Copy Editor for Pádraig Ó Tuama

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/


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]]> This episode of Greenbelt’s ‘Somewhere To Believe In’ podcast takes a different form. It’s a one-off.


It knits together 45-minutes of reflection, conversation, music and prayer in the form of a listen-and-share service to mark the festival’s 2021 August Bank Holiday weekend incarnation (its 48th) – when only a fraction of the wider Greenbelt community could actually physically be together at the Prospect Farm pop-up camping gathering. 


The hope is that the audio form of the service will give everyone the chance to share and be connected in a unifying act of remembrance – wherever they are. Ideally, the audio is designed to be shared in and listened to at 11am on Sunday 29th August. But, of course, it can be listened to at any time. Again and again.


The podcast takes its title from a wonderful poem by the poet Roger Robinson. It also features music from Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir and the Wild Goose Resources Group, conversations with activists from Christian Aid, Trussell Trust and Refuweegee and readings and prayers led by Greenbelt’s from all corners of the UK. It is lovingly curated and narrated by Pádraig Ó Tuama – poet, theologian, and conflict mediator. (Pádraig also presents 'Poetry Unbound', a podcast from On Being studios.)


____


ORDER OF SERVICE


Download the order of service here

____


SUPPORT


Last year – despite our not being together – you gave an incredible £33,000 in response to our service appeal. This year, let’s see if we can top that generosity!


This year, your generous giving will be split 50/50 once again.


50% will go towards the vital work that our partners Christian Aid and Trussell Trust do to challenge, advocate, develop and support – globally and domestically.


And 50% will stay with us here at Greenbelt as we work to make sure the festival remains sustainable in these most challenging of times. So we can be back in the fields at Boughton House for a fully-fledged festival in 2022 – and beyond.


Give here


____


LINKS AND RESOURCES


Pádraig Ó Tuama


Roger Robinson


Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir


Christian Aid in South Sudan


Trussell Trust


Glasgow protesters praised for blocking UK immigration officers


Refuweegee


Wild Goose Resource Group


____


FEATURED TRACKS


‘Lenten Psalm Tone’ by Soul Sanctuary

‘Heaven Shall Not Wait’ by WGRG, Iona Community

‘People Get Ready’ by Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir

____


00:00 - Prayer for the earth

00:35 - Welcome to ‘The Job of Paradise’

01:49 - ‘The Job of Paradise’ read by Roger Robinson

02:30 - Pádraig speaks to Roger Robinson

10:33 - Prayer for the artists

11:35 - ‘Psalm 27’ by Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir

16:26 - Chine McDonald and James Wani on aid in South Sudan (Christian Aid)

21:32 - Prayer for those affected by war

22:34 - Pádraig and Jonathan Lees on food banks (Trussell Trust)

27:19 - Scriptural reading

28:31 - Confession

29:50 - Prayer for those responsible for racism

30:26 - ‘Heaven Shall Not Wait’ by Wild Goose Resource Group

32:39 - Pádraig speaks to Selina Hales (Refuweegee) about Glasgow immigration standoff

38:21 - ‘Heaven Shall Not Wait’ by Wild Goose Resource Group

38:56 - Prayer for friendship

39:40 - ‘People Get Ready’ by Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir

42:34 - Prayer for our societies

43:17 - A chance for conversation and response

43:57 - Welcome back

44:13 - Giving

45:19 - Blessing

46:15 - Thank you and credits


____


WITH HUGE THANKS TO ALL OF OUR CONTRIBUTORS


SERVICE WRITER, NARRATOR AND HOST

Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet, theologian, and conflict mediator. He presents Poetry

Unbound, a podcast from On Being studios.

Website: padraigotuama.com

Twitter: @duanalla


GUEST ARTIST

Roger Robinson is a writer, educator, and performer. His most recent collection of

poems, A Portable Paradise, won the TS Eliot prize in 2020.

Website: rogerrobinsononline.com

Twitter: @rrobinson72


GUEST ACTIVISTS

Selina Hales is the Founder and Director of Refuweegee, a Glasgow-based charity

equipping the local community to welcome and support refugees and asylum

seekers making their homes in the city.

Website: refuweegee.co.uk

Twitter: @SelinaHales


Greenbelt Partner Christian Aid is a UK-based charity whose mission is the

creation of a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty.

Chine McDonald is Christian Aid’s Head of Public Engagement. She was in

conversation with James Wani, Christian Aid’s country director in South Sudan.

Website: christianaid.org.uk

Twitter: @ChineMcDonald @christian_aid


Greenbelt Partner The Trussell Trust is a charity working to eliminate poverty and

hunger in the UK. They support a nationwide network of Foodbanks.

Jonathan Lees is manager at Epsom Foodbank

Website: trusselltrust.org

Twitter: @jonathanlees55 @TrussellTrust


MUSIC

Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir is a London-based gospel choir committed to creating

and sharing gospel music of the highest standard, especially in the places where

gospel’s power to raise the human spirit is most needed. You can find more of their

music via their website.

Website: soulsanctuarygospel.com

Twitter: @soulsanctuarygc


Lenten Psalm Tone

Music Edwin Fawcett, Lyrics Psalm 26/27 copyright Grail Psalter, performed by

Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir, from the album With All Your Soul (2013).


People Get Ready

Music and Lyrics Curtis Mayfield, arranged Peter Yarde Martin, performed by Soul

Sanctuary Gospel Choir

Wild Goose Resource Group (WGRG) is a semi-autonomous project of the Iona

Community. The Iona Community is a dispersed Christian community working for

peace, social justice, the rebuilding of community and the renewal of worship.

Website: iona.org.uk

Twitter: @ionacommunity


Heaven Shall Not Wait

Words: John L. Bell & Graham Maule

Music: John L. Bell copyright © 1987 WGRG, Iona Community, Glasgow.

wildgoose.scot

Recording from the CD ‘Heaven Shall Not Wait’ copyright ℗ 1991 WGRG, Iona

Community, Glasgow.


PRAYERS AND READERS


Uriel, Felice and Evodie Thornbury – young family members of the Hilfield Friary

Franciscan Community in Dorset

Vicky and Eve Allen, Greenbeters from East Lothian

Geraint Rees, Greenbelter and CODA festival team member from Rhondda Cynon Taf


Producer

Paul Northup


Engineer

Josh Clipsham, Greenbelt Volunteer

Recorded Talks and Podcast Team


Recordist

Jake Bussell, Greenbelt Volunteer

Recorded Talks and Podcast Team


Publisher

Daisy Ware-Jarett, Greenbelt Digital

Comms Officer


Additional support

Emily Rawling, Executive Assistant and

Copy Editor for Pádraig Ó Tuama

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Grace with Nadia Bolz-Weber Grace with Nadia Bolz-Weber Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:05:25 GMT 1:04:49 60f945a56836f20013762d79 true https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 60f945a56836f20013762d79 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 grace-with-nadia-bolz-weber On not giving people illusory hope full 3 8 It’s the final episode in series three of our podcast *cries*, and some might say we’ve saved the best ‘til last. We get to it with festival friend and everyone's favourite Lutheran minister, Nadia Bolz-Weber.


With her usual candour, humour and joy Nadia talks about her experiences growing up within a very particular, conservative Christian tradition, her journey away from Christian faith as a young adult and into other spaces that helped her heal, and her return to the fold later on; building a church from the ground-up, based on all the ‘good bits’.


Plus, we have a refreshingly honest chat about religion, sin, struggle and sex. And that time Nadia had a sculpture of a vagina made from melted down purity rings. (You can play along at home by having a drink of your choice every time Nadia says “vagina”.)


Katherine and Paul reflect on a year of podcasting and lockdowns and we respond to some messages from you lovely lot.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

____


ABOUT NADIA BOLZ-WEBER

Nadia Bolz-Weber is an ordained Lutheran Pastor, founder of House for All Sinners & Saints in Denver, Co, the creator and host of The Confessional Podcast and the author of three NYT bestselling memoirs: Pastrix; The Cranky, Beautiful Faith Of A Sinner & Saint (Re-released 2021), Accidental Saints; Finding God In All The Wrong People (2015) and SHAMELESS; A Sexual Reformation (2019). She writes and speaks about personal failings, recovery, grace, faith, and really whatever the hell else she wants to. She always sits in the corner with the other weirdos. Read more from Nadia in The Corners or connect with her and other spiritual misfits in a pop-up Chapel for conversation, daily prayer, and exclusive content by visiting thechapel.io.

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

____


LINKS AND RESOURCES


Nadia’s talks at Greenbelt


Fresh Expressions


House for All Sinners and Saints


Confessional podcast


Feminist Pastor Unveils Vulva Sculpture Made Of Old Purity Rings


More Graves Found At New Site, Canadian Indigenous Group Says

____


00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:47 - Katherine and Paul catch up

05:58 - Introducing Nadia Bolz-Weber

06:32 - Nadia joins the conversation

07:10 - Nadia on Greenbelt Festival

10:30 - Nadia on the Lutheran church

20:40 - Nadia on founding House for All Sinners and Saints

29:14 - Nadia on struggle and optimism

33:00 - Nadia on sex

36:54 - Nadia on negative feedback

39:49 - Nadia on grace

41:10 - Nadia on insults

44:33 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Nadia

01:02:04 - How to get in touch with us

01:02:39 - Thank you’s

01:03:28 - Hidden tracks

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> It’s the final episode in series three of our podcast *cries*, and some might say we’ve saved the best ‘til last. We get to it with festival friend and everyone's favourite Lutheran minister, Nadia Bolz-Weber.


With her usual candour, humour and joy Nadia talks about her experiences growing up within a very particular, conservative Christian tradition, her journey away from Christian faith as a young adult and into other spaces that helped her heal, and her return to the fold later on; building a church from the ground-up, based on all the ‘good bits’.


Plus, we have a refreshingly honest chat about religion, sin, struggle and sex. And that time Nadia had a sculpture of a vagina made from melted down purity rings. (You can play along at home by having a drink of your choice every time Nadia says “vagina”.)


Katherine and Paul reflect on a year of podcasting and lockdowns and we respond to some messages from you lovely lot.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

____


ABOUT NADIA BOLZ-WEBER

Nadia Bolz-Weber is an ordained Lutheran Pastor, founder of House for All Sinners & Saints in Denver, Co, the creator and host of The Confessional Podcast and the author of three NYT bestselling memoirs: Pastrix; The Cranky, Beautiful Faith Of A Sinner & Saint (Re-released 2021), Accidental Saints; Finding God In All The Wrong People (2015) and SHAMELESS; A Sexual Reformation (2019). She writes and speaks about personal failings, recovery, grace, faith, and really whatever the hell else she wants to. She always sits in the corner with the other weirdos. Read more from Nadia in The Corners or connect with her and other spiritual misfits in a pop-up Chapel for conversation, daily prayer, and exclusive content by visiting thechapel.io.

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

____


LINKS AND RESOURCES


Nadia’s talks at Greenbelt


Fresh Expressions


House for All Sinners and Saints


Confessional podcast


Feminist Pastor Unveils Vulva Sculpture Made Of Old Purity Rings


More Graves Found At New Site, Canadian Indigenous Group Says

____


00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:47 - Katherine and Paul catch up

05:58 - Introducing Nadia Bolz-Weber

06:32 - Nadia joins the conversation

07:10 - Nadia on Greenbelt Festival

10:30 - Nadia on the Lutheran church

20:40 - Nadia on founding House for All Sinners and Saints

29:14 - Nadia on struggle and optimism

33:00 - Nadia on sex

36:54 - Nadia on negative feedback

39:49 - Nadia on grace

41:10 - Nadia on insults

44:33 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Nadia

01:02:04 - How to get in touch with us

01:02:39 - Thank you’s

01:03:28 - Hidden tracks

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Liberation with Danté Stewart Liberation with Danté Stewart Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:05:00 GMT 58:37 60f016e47d135c001208f314 false https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 60f016e47d135c001208f314 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 liberation-with-dante-stewart A time for rebuilding will come full 3 7 This week – in what may be the best recommendation we’ve ever had – we’re talking to theologian, former American footballer, and probably Rowan Williams' biggest fanboy, Danté Stewart.


With fire in his belly, Danté “takes us to church”, telling us the story of his own faith journey; from his childhood spent learning of Black revolutionary power, to his full immersion into white evangelical culture as a college football star. And, ultimately, his decision to turn his back on white evangelicalism and to re-nourish and re-build his spirituality and identity as a Black man instead.


Plus, all this gets Katherine and Paul asking: what does healthy religion look like? And how can Greenbelt go beyond showcasing diverse performers and do more to create spaces that are designed for everyone?


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT DANTÉ STEWART

Danté Stewart is a writer and speaker whose voice has been featured on CNN, The Washington Post, Religion News Service, Christianity Today, Sojourners, The Witness: A Black Christian Collective, Comment Magazine, and more. As an up-and-coming voice, he writes and speaks into the areas of Black literature, embodiment, and theology. He received his B.A. in Sociology from Clemson University. He is currently studying at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. 

Website | Twitter | Instagram 


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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Under The Skin With Russell Brand: #105 Alienation and Extremism w/ Angela Nagle


Rowan Williams


Where to Start with Octavia Butler


Culture And Imperialism by Edward Said


Harry and Meghan detail royal struggles, from discussions of baby's skin tone to suicidal thoughts


The Divided Mind of the Black Church: Theology, Piety, and Public Witness


The Black Arts Movement (1965-1975)


It is like growing up black one more time by Toni Morrison


Clemson University


Two Days, Two Deaths: The Police Shootings Of Alton Sterling And Philando Castile


The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin


Audre Lorde

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:47 - Katherine and Paul catch up

08:08 - Introducing Danté Stewart

08:06 - Danté joins the conversation

09:40 - Danté on the pandemic 

13:40 - Danté on staying resilient

20:00 - Danté on history and change

24:50 - Danté on growing up

28:00 - Danté on white institutional spaces

32:10 - Danté on exile from those spaces

37:50 - Danté on his faith journey

43:08 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Danté

55:35 - Next week on the podcast

56:32 - How to get in touch with us

57:10 - Thank you’s

58:00 - Hidden track

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> This week – in what may be the best recommendation we’ve ever had – we’re talking to theologian, former American footballer, and probably Rowan Williams' biggest fanboy, Danté Stewart.


With fire in his belly, Danté “takes us to church”, telling us the story of his own faith journey; from his childhood spent learning of Black revolutionary power, to his full immersion into white evangelical culture as a college football star. And, ultimately, his decision to turn his back on white evangelicalism and to re-nourish and re-build his spirituality and identity as a Black man instead.


Plus, all this gets Katherine and Paul asking: what does healthy religion look like? And how can Greenbelt go beyond showcasing diverse performers and do more to create spaces that are designed for everyone?


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT DANTÉ STEWART

Danté Stewart is a writer and speaker whose voice has been featured on CNN, The Washington Post, Religion News Service, Christianity Today, Sojourners, The Witness: A Black Christian Collective, Comment Magazine, and more. As an up-and-coming voice, he writes and speaks into the areas of Black literature, embodiment, and theology. He received his B.A. in Sociology from Clemson University. He is currently studying at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. 

Website | Twitter | Instagram 


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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Under The Skin With Russell Brand: #105 Alienation and Extremism w/ Angela Nagle


Rowan Williams


Where to Start with Octavia Butler


Culture And Imperialism by Edward Said


Harry and Meghan detail royal struggles, from discussions of baby's skin tone to suicidal thoughts


The Divided Mind of the Black Church: Theology, Piety, and Public Witness


The Black Arts Movement (1965-1975)


It is like growing up black one more time by Toni Morrison


Clemson University


Two Days, Two Deaths: The Police Shootings Of Alton Sterling And Philando Castile


The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin


Audre Lorde

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:47 - Katherine and Paul catch up

08:08 - Introducing Danté Stewart

08:06 - Danté joins the conversation

09:40 - Danté on the pandemic 

13:40 - Danté on staying resilient

20:00 - Danté on history and change

24:50 - Danté on growing up

28:00 - Danté on white institutional spaces

32:10 - Danté on exile from those spaces

37:50 - Danté on his faith journey

43:08 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Danté

55:35 - Next week on the podcast

56:32 - How to get in touch with us

57:10 - Thank you’s

58:00 - Hidden track

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Humanism with Andrew Copson Humanism with Andrew Copson Fri, 09 Jul 2021 00:05:27 GMT 1:09:41 60e6da426b59de00120e3de1 false https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 60e6da426b59de00120e3de1 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 humanism-with-andrew-copson divine]]> full 3 6 Get your best philosophical hats out for this episode because we’re doing a deep dive into the not-so-holy-trinity of dinner table topics – religion, politics and belief – with Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of Humanists UK.


Andrew gives us the 411 on what it means to be a Humanist. And we wrestle with some meaty questions, like: Where does morality come from? Are religions dying out? Can good ever come from causing offence? And does it really matter what we choose to believe?


Plus, Katherine, Paul and Andrew share in their admiration for Frank Turner, a proud humanist and iconic Greenbelt Festival headliner. And Katherine gives us our first lesson in the history of Anarchism... and it might not be what you expect.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT ANDREW COPSON

Andrew Copson was appointed Chief Executive of Humanists UK in 2009, having previously been its Director of Education and Public Affairs. He is also the current President of Humanists International, a position he’s held since 2015. His books include The Little Book of Humanism (2020) and The Little Book of Humanist Weddings (2021) with Alice Roberts; Secularism: a very short introduction (Oxford University Press, 2019); The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Humanism (2015) with A C Grayling. His writing on humanist and secularist issues has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Times and New Statesman as well as in various journals.

Website | Facebook | Twitter

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Methodist Church allows same-sex marriage in 'momentous' vote


Humanists UK


Frank Turner - Glory Hallelujah


Little Book of Humanism


humanist (n.)


Anarchism


Two Monkeys Were Paid Unequally: Excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED Talk


Nicholas Walter


Teacher suspended for showing a picture of Prophet Muhammad refuses to return to work over fears for his life 


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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:47 - Katherine and Paul catch up

05:16 - Introducing Andrew Copson

05:46 - Andrew joins the conversation

06:10 - Andrew on lockdown

07:06 - Andrew on Frank Turner

08:35 - Andrew on Humanism

12:30 - Andrew on morality

16:20 - Andrew on restoration

19:30 - Andrew on social codes

21:20 - Andrew on religious trends

27:22 - Andrew on his Humanism

30:27 - Andrew on blasphemy and offence

35:52 - Andrew on beliefs and values

40:30 - Andrew on certainty

42:20 - Andrew on challenging power

49:05 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Andrew

01:06:05 - Next week on the podcast

01:07:05 - How to get in touch with us 

01:07:38 - Thank you’s

01:08:24 - Hidden track

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Get your best philosophical hats out for this episode because we’re doing a deep dive into the not-so-holy-trinity of dinner table topics – religion, politics and belief – with Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of Humanists UK.


Andrew gives us the 411 on what it means to be a Humanist. And we wrestle with some meaty questions, like: Where does morality come from? Are religions dying out? Can good ever come from causing offence? And does it really matter what we choose to believe?


Plus, Katherine, Paul and Andrew share in their admiration for Frank Turner, a proud humanist and iconic Greenbelt Festival headliner. And Katherine gives us our first lesson in the history of Anarchism... and it might not be what you expect.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT ANDREW COPSON

Andrew Copson was appointed Chief Executive of Humanists UK in 2009, having previously been its Director of Education and Public Affairs. He is also the current President of Humanists International, a position he’s held since 2015. His books include The Little Book of Humanism (2020) and The Little Book of Humanist Weddings (2021) with Alice Roberts; Secularism: a very short introduction (Oxford University Press, 2019); The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Humanism (2015) with A C Grayling. His writing on humanist and secularist issues has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Times and New Statesman as well as in various journals.

Website | Facebook | Twitter

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Methodist Church allows same-sex marriage in 'momentous' vote


Humanists UK


Frank Turner - Glory Hallelujah


Little Book of Humanism


humanist (n.)


Anarchism


Two Monkeys Were Paid Unequally: Excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED Talk


Nicholas Walter


Teacher suspended for showing a picture of Prophet Muhammad refuses to return to work over fears for his life 


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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:47 - Katherine and Paul catch up

05:16 - Introducing Andrew Copson

05:46 - Andrew joins the conversation

06:10 - Andrew on lockdown

07:06 - Andrew on Frank Turner

08:35 - Andrew on Humanism

12:30 - Andrew on morality

16:20 - Andrew on restoration

19:30 - Andrew on social codes

21:20 - Andrew on religious trends

27:22 - Andrew on his Humanism

30:27 - Andrew on blasphemy and offence

35:52 - Andrew on beliefs and values

40:30 - Andrew on certainty

42:20 - Andrew on challenging power

49:05 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Andrew

01:06:05 - Next week on the podcast

01:07:05 - How to get in touch with us 

01:07:38 - Thank you’s

01:08:24 - Hidden track

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Interdependence with Mpho Tutu van Furth Interdependence with Mpho Tutu van Furth Fri, 02 Jul 2021 00:05:45 GMT 1:05:12 60dd9e82fded090012859a80 false https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 60dd9e82fded090012859a80 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 interdependence-with-mpho-tutu-van-furth We all need each other full 3 5 We’re feeling humbled and full of love this week as we chat to artist, speaker, writer and priest, Mpho Tutu van Furth.


Mpho tells us about her experiences living under apartheid as a young girl and the freedom and justice that so many South Africans, including her family, fought for.


We also hear about Mpho’s journey into priesthood and how she reluctantly handed her license back to the church after their (unfortunately unsurprising) reaction to her ‘lovely can of worms’ – AKA falling in love with a woman. Perhaps most importantly, Mpho reminds us how interconnected and interdependent we all are, and that showing a little bit of care can do a whole lot of good.


Plus, Katherine and Paul reflect on some similarities they see between Mpho’s apartheid memories and life in modern-day Palestine. Like the rest of us, Paul and Katherine jump on the football bandwagon, and Katherine officially joins the #FreeBritney movement. 


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT MPHO TUTU VAN FURTH

The Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu van Furth is an episcopal priest, an artist, an author, an accomplished public speaker and retreat facilitator. She has had many roles in non-profit leadership. She was the founding executive director of the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation. She continues to work for environmental justice, human rights and equal access to opportunity for all people without regard to race, class or gender. With her wife, Marceline, she has established and is Executive Director of the Tutu Teach Foundation to enhance access to opportunity for women and girls. Ms. Tutu van Furth and her wife live in the Netherlands. They have four children and two (amazing) grandchildren.

Website | Instagram | Facebook

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Why Longtime Britney Spears Fans Are Demanding to #FreeBritney


Did Rudiger try and bite Pogba?


A history of Apartheid in South Africa


Domas: Carrying Apartheid’s book


The June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising


Space and power in South Africa: The township as a mechanism of control


The Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation


What does ubuntu really mean?


Truth and Reconciliation Commission


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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:48 - Katherine and Paul catch up

00:00 - Katherine and Paul on Prospect Farm

08:49 - Introducing Mpho Tutu van Furth

09:52 - Mpho joins the conversation

10:05 - Mpho on lockdown

13:27 - Mpho on South African identity

16:49 - Mpho on the living under apartheid

23:33 - Mpho on privilege

27:05 - Mpho on her journey to priesthood

29:00 - Mpho on Marceline

33:58 - Mpho on church and her sexuality

36:00 - Mpho on small acts of kindness

38:00 - Mpho on personal spirituality 

40:56 - Mpho on being loving

43:47 - Mpho on ubuntu

44:50 - Mpho on enjoying the journey

47:18 - Mpho on forgiveness

48:13 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Mpho

01:01:20 - Next week on the podcast

01:01:58 - How to get in touch with us 

01:02:35 - Thank you’s

01:03:24 - Hidden track

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> We’re feeling humbled and full of love this week as we chat to artist, speaker, writer and priest, Mpho Tutu van Furth.


Mpho tells us about her experiences living under apartheid as a young girl and the freedom and justice that so many South Africans, including her family, fought for.


We also hear about Mpho’s journey into priesthood and how she reluctantly handed her license back to the church after their (unfortunately unsurprising) reaction to her ‘lovely can of worms’ – AKA falling in love with a woman. Perhaps most importantly, Mpho reminds us how interconnected and interdependent we all are, and that showing a little bit of care can do a whole lot of good.


Plus, Katherine and Paul reflect on some similarities they see between Mpho’s apartheid memories and life in modern-day Palestine. Like the rest of us, Paul and Katherine jump on the football bandwagon, and Katherine officially joins the #FreeBritney movement. 


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT MPHO TUTU VAN FURTH

The Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu van Furth is an episcopal priest, an artist, an author, an accomplished public speaker and retreat facilitator. She has had many roles in non-profit leadership. She was the founding executive director of the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation. She continues to work for environmental justice, human rights and equal access to opportunity for all people without regard to race, class or gender. With her wife, Marceline, she has established and is Executive Director of the Tutu Teach Foundation to enhance access to opportunity for women and girls. Ms. Tutu van Furth and her wife live in the Netherlands. They have four children and two (amazing) grandchildren.

Website | Instagram | Facebook

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Why Longtime Britney Spears Fans Are Demanding to #FreeBritney


Did Rudiger try and bite Pogba?


A history of Apartheid in South Africa


Domas: Carrying Apartheid’s book


The June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising


Space and power in South Africa: The township as a mechanism of control


The Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation


What does ubuntu really mean?


Truth and Reconciliation Commission


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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:48 - Katherine and Paul catch up

00:00 - Katherine and Paul on Prospect Farm

08:49 - Introducing Mpho Tutu van Furth

09:52 - Mpho joins the conversation

10:05 - Mpho on lockdown

13:27 - Mpho on South African identity

16:49 - Mpho on the living under apartheid

23:33 - Mpho on privilege

27:05 - Mpho on her journey to priesthood

29:00 - Mpho on Marceline

33:58 - Mpho on church and her sexuality

36:00 - Mpho on small acts of kindness

38:00 - Mpho on personal spirituality 

40:56 - Mpho on being loving

43:47 - Mpho on ubuntu

44:50 - Mpho on enjoying the journey

47:18 - Mpho on forgiveness

48:13 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Mpho

01:01:20 - Next week on the podcast

01:01:58 - How to get in touch with us 

01:02:35 - Thank you’s

01:03:24 - Hidden track

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Community with Rabbi Herschel Gluck Community with Rabbi Herschel Gluck Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:05:40 GMT 1:00:45 60d45bebe251ac0019c4e7bf false https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 60d45bebe251ac0019c4e7bf 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 community-with-rabbi-herschel-gluck Your spiritual vaccine full 3 4 This week we bask in the warmth of Rabbi Herschel Gluck – an incredible Orthodox Jewish leader  – whose entire life seems to be one big act of love. 


Aside from being in awe of Rabbi Gluck’s gentle soul and kind nature, we talk about his life-long dedication to his community, his outlook on the good that could come from the pandemic and his belief that we can work together to create a better future; without losing sight of our own traditions, cultures and values.


Rabbi Gluck also shares how he still struggles to grasp the effect that the Holocaust had on his family, and speaks of the continuous trauma generations of Jewish communities still experience because of it.


Plus, Katherine and Paul update us on the plans for Prospect Farm and get an unexpected visit from our new podcast sponsors, Hello Fresh.

Promo code: JustKidding.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT RABBI HERSCHEL GLUCK

Rabbi Herschel Gluck OBE is a British Rabbi based in Stamford Hill in North East London. Born in London and based in the city for most of his life, he is a committed member of a wider ‘global village’, having studied at Yeshivos in France, Canada and the USA and working with communities across the world. Rabbi Gluck was appointed an OBE in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to interfaith understanding. In the past year he has been quoted in British Parliament for his lifetime commitment to inter-communal understanding and his work countering Anti-Semitism in the UK.

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Oysgezoomt: The Yiddish word of 2020


Holocaust


Kindertransport


Tzedakah


The Scream


Rabbi Herschel Gluck’s talks at Greenbelt Festival


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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:48 - Katherine and Paul catch up

05:00 - Katherine and Paul on Prospect Farm

06:46 - Introducing Rabbi Herschel Gluck

07:22 - Rabbi Gluck joins the conversation

08:10 - Rabbi Gluck on becoming a Rabbi

09:47 - Rabbi Gluck on duty and care

11:40 - Rabbi Gluck on finding precious moments

12:45 - Rabbi Gluck on lockdown

14:09 - Rabbi Gluck on community

15:30 - Rabbi Gluck on modern Judaism

20:30 - Rabbi Gluck on generations of Jewish experience

23:50 - Rabbi Gluck on change

27:00 - Rabbi Gluck on Greenbelt Festival

28:10 - Rabbi Gluck on being interfaith and refugees

34:00 - Rabbi Gluck on charity

36:50 - Rabbi Gluck on being humble

38:08 - Rabbi Gluck on art as connection

40:57 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Rabbi Gluck

57:54 - Next week on the podcast

58:41 - How to get in touch with us 

59:30 - Thank you’s

01:00:19 - Hidden track

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn



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]]> This week we bask in the warmth of Rabbi Herschel Gluck – an incredible Orthodox Jewish leader  – whose entire life seems to be one big act of love. 


Aside from being in awe of Rabbi Gluck’s gentle soul and kind nature, we talk about his life-long dedication to his community, his outlook on the good that could come from the pandemic and his belief that we can work together to create a better future; without losing sight of our own traditions, cultures and values.


Rabbi Gluck also shares how he still struggles to grasp the effect that the Holocaust had on his family, and speaks of the continuous trauma generations of Jewish communities still experience because of it.


Plus, Katherine and Paul update us on the plans for Prospect Farm and get an unexpected visit from our new podcast sponsors, Hello Fresh.

Promo code: JustKidding.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

____


ABOUT RABBI HERSCHEL GLUCK

Rabbi Herschel Gluck OBE is a British Rabbi based in Stamford Hill in North East London. Born in London and based in the city for most of his life, he is a committed member of a wider ‘global village’, having studied at Yeshivos in France, Canada and the USA and working with communities across the world. Rabbi Gluck was appointed an OBE in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to interfaith understanding. In the past year he has been quoted in British Parliament for his lifetime commitment to inter-communal understanding and his work countering Anti-Semitism in the UK.

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Oysgezoomt: The Yiddish word of 2020


Holocaust


Kindertransport


Tzedakah


The Scream


Rabbi Herschel Gluck’s talks at Greenbelt Festival


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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:48 - Katherine and Paul catch up

05:00 - Katherine and Paul on Prospect Farm

06:46 - Introducing Rabbi Herschel Gluck

07:22 - Rabbi Gluck joins the conversation

08:10 - Rabbi Gluck on becoming a Rabbi

09:47 - Rabbi Gluck on duty and care

11:40 - Rabbi Gluck on finding precious moments

12:45 - Rabbi Gluck on lockdown

14:09 - Rabbi Gluck on community

15:30 - Rabbi Gluck on modern Judaism

20:30 - Rabbi Gluck on generations of Jewish experience

23:50 - Rabbi Gluck on change

27:00 - Rabbi Gluck on Greenbelt Festival

28:10 - Rabbi Gluck on being interfaith and refugees

34:00 - Rabbi Gluck on charity

36:50 - Rabbi Gluck on being humble

38:08 - Rabbi Gluck on art as connection

40:57 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Rabbi Gluck

57:54 - Next week on the podcast

58:41 - How to get in touch with us 

59:30 - Thank you’s

01:00:19 - Hidden track

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn



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]]> Radicalism with Yvonne Ridley Radicalism with Yvonne Ridley Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:05:23 GMT 1:01:58 60cb301405e3f0001a57e790 false https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 60cb301405e3f0001a57e790 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 radicalism-with-yvonne-ridley If you’re not radicalised, you haven’t been paying attention full 3 3 This week on the podcast it’s our absolute privilege to chat with Yvonne Ridley, a journalist and activist who has one of the most fascinating life stories we think you’ll ever hear. Plus, her very enthusiastic peacocks have their say, too.


We talk about Yvonne’s experience as a prisoner of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, the promise she made to her captors to study Islam and read the Quran if they released her, and her unexpected faith journey thereafter, as she decided to leave the Christian faith and embrace Islam.


Plus, as well as talking about her decades of work to combat harmful Muslim stereotypes, we dig into her relentless activism for issues as wide-ranging as Scottish independence, peace in Gaza, justice for Rohingya Muslims, and more generally, what it means to be a ‘radical’.


Meanwhile, Katherine and Paul reflect on one year of podcasting – no, we can’t believe it either – and their potential new careers as daytime TV hosts.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT SISTER YVONNE RIDLEY

British journalist Yvonne Ridley made global headlines when she was captured by the Taliban in 2001. Since then she has moved from London to Scotland, becoming active in the independence movement. She has published a number of books including her harrowing experience with the Taliban and another on the Rise of the Prophet Muhammad. She worked as a senior editor to establish Al Jazeera's English website in Qatar before returning to the UK to play central roles in the start up TV projects Islam Channel and Press TV. When she's not working as a journalist in humanitarian and conflict zones she writes historical fiction from her remote farm in the Scottish Borders. She was nominated for a Nobel peace prize in 2019 for humanitarian work involving Syrian women prisoners and helping Rohingya refugees compile evidence of war crimes.

Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

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TAKE ACTION


Fundraiser: Gaza Children's festival (Amos Trust)


Fundraiser: Rebuild Gaza's Samir Mansour Book Store (Clive Stafford Smith)

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Free Radical: Yvonne Ridley


Why is there a war in Afghanistan? The short, medium and long story


Historical anti-war protest in London: 15 February 2003


The Day I Realized I Would Never Find Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq


Respect Party


Scottish National Party


Action for Independence 


All Under One Banner


Timeline: the humanitarian impact of the Gaza blockade


Peace Activist Boats Sail Into Gaza Sand


Myanmar Rohingya: What you need to know about the crisis


Malak Mattar


Clive Stafford Smith Podcast episode


Reprieve


Books by Yvonne Ridley


Eden Burning


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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:47 - Katherine and Paul catch up

04:50 - Introducing Yvonne Ridley

06:32 - Yvonne Ridley joins the conversation

06:42 - Yvonne on her animals

07:44 - Yvonne on her experience in Afghanistan

13:16 - Yvonne on pro-war propaganda

17:37 - Yvonne on the movement against the Iraq War

20:38 - Yvonne on ISIS and religious extremism

22:04 - Yvonne on media accountability

25:50 - Yvonne on radicalism

28:32 - Yvonne on grassroots politics

32:28 - Yvonne on activism in Gaza

36:10 - Yvonne on Zionism 

38:40 - Yvonne on being hopeful

43:55 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Yvonne

58:30 - Next week on the podcast

59:21 - How to get in touch with us

59:58 - Thank you’s

01:00:48 - Hidden track

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> This week on the podcast it’s our absolute privilege to chat with Yvonne Ridley, a journalist and activist who has one of the most fascinating life stories we think you’ll ever hear. Plus, her very enthusiastic peacocks have their say, too.


We talk about Yvonne’s experience as a prisoner of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, the promise she made to her captors to study Islam and read the Quran if they released her, and her unexpected faith journey thereafter, as she decided to leave the Christian faith and embrace Islam.


Plus, as well as talking about her decades of work to combat harmful Muslim stereotypes, we dig into her relentless activism for issues as wide-ranging as Scottish independence, peace in Gaza, justice for Rohingya Muslims, and more generally, what it means to be a ‘radical’.


Meanwhile, Katherine and Paul reflect on one year of podcasting – no, we can’t believe it either – and their potential new careers as daytime TV hosts.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT SISTER YVONNE RIDLEY

British journalist Yvonne Ridley made global headlines when she was captured by the Taliban in 2001. Since then she has moved from London to Scotland, becoming active in the independence movement. She has published a number of books including her harrowing experience with the Taliban and another on the Rise of the Prophet Muhammad. She worked as a senior editor to establish Al Jazeera's English website in Qatar before returning to the UK to play central roles in the start up TV projects Islam Channel and Press TV. When she's not working as a journalist in humanitarian and conflict zones she writes historical fiction from her remote farm in the Scottish Borders. She was nominated for a Nobel peace prize in 2019 for humanitarian work involving Syrian women prisoners and helping Rohingya refugees compile evidence of war crimes.

Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

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TAKE ACTION


Fundraiser: Gaza Children's festival (Amos Trust)


Fundraiser: Rebuild Gaza's Samir Mansour Book Store (Clive Stafford Smith)

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Free Radical: Yvonne Ridley


Why is there a war in Afghanistan? The short, medium and long story


Historical anti-war protest in London: 15 February 2003


The Day I Realized I Would Never Find Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq


Respect Party


Scottish National Party


Action for Independence 


All Under One Banner


Timeline: the humanitarian impact of the Gaza blockade


Peace Activist Boats Sail Into Gaza Sand


Myanmar Rohingya: What you need to know about the crisis


Malak Mattar


Clive Stafford Smith Podcast episode


Reprieve


Books by Yvonne Ridley


Eden Burning


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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:47 - Katherine and Paul catch up

04:50 - Introducing Yvonne Ridley

06:32 - Yvonne Ridley joins the conversation

06:42 - Yvonne on her animals

07:44 - Yvonne on her experience in Afghanistan

13:16 - Yvonne on pro-war propaganda

17:37 - Yvonne on the movement against the Iraq War

20:38 - Yvonne on ISIS and religious extremism

22:04 - Yvonne on media accountability

25:50 - Yvonne on radicalism

28:32 - Yvonne on grassroots politics

32:28 - Yvonne on activism in Gaza

36:10 - Yvonne on Zionism 

38:40 - Yvonne on being hopeful

43:55 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Yvonne

58:30 - Next week on the podcast

59:21 - How to get in touch with us

59:58 - Thank you’s

01:00:48 - Hidden track

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Dissent with Sister Teresa Forcades Dissent with Sister Teresa Forcades Fri, 11 Jun 2021 00:05:23 GMT 1:04:04 60c1e4f8831e5f00123b378d false https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 60c1e4f8831e5f00123b378d 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 dissent-with-sister-teresa-forcades The world is upside down full 3 2 The second conversation in our ‘Keeping the faith’ series is with Sister Teresa Forcades who – with good reason – has been dubbed ‘Europe’s most radical nun’.


Sister Teresa joins us from her Monastery on the mountain of Montserrat, near Barcelona in Catalonia, where she lives with thirty Catholic Benedictine sisters. We discuss her open criticism of the very Catholic Church she serves, her feminism, her politics, her general mission to speak out in order to create a more loving and fair society, and her experiences of being silenced for doing so.


Plus, as a physician and expert in public health, it would have been rude not to ask Sister Teresa for her professional thoughts on the pandemic, the vaccination programme and the role of big pharmaceutical companies. Which, as you may have guessed already, she has a lot of alternative (some would say ‘controversial’) things to say about.


Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Sister Teresa and Katherine, in particular, is taken aback by how refreshing Sister Teresa’s views are in comparison with her Catholic schooling. And Paul is reminded by Sister Teresa about just how important it is to be made to look more closely and think again.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT SISTER TERESA FORCADES

Teresa Forcades i Vila (1966) is a physician, theologian and Benedictine nun in the mountain monastery of Sant Benet de Montserrat (Catalonia, Spain). Master of Divinity (Harvard, 1997), doctor in Medicine (U. Barcelona, 2004) and doctor in Sacred Theology (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, 2007). From 2015-18 she took a leave of absence from her monastery (exclaustration) to become politically active in the Catalan movement for independence. Since 2017 she has been the director of the journal of Christian critical thought Iglesia Viva and hosts a weekly radio program on Catalan radio. She is also the principal of the Sinclètica Monastic School of theology.

Website

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Sister Teresa Forcades: Europe's most radical nun


Europe: a Nun’s Eye View (2017) - Greenbelt recorded talk


Teresa Forcades i Vila in conversation with Martin Wroe (2017) - Greenbelt recorded talk


Núria Calduch - First woman appointed Secretary of Vatican Biblical Commission


Jan Brueghel The Elder – The Crucifixion


On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil


A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke


The Peril of Not Vaccinating the World


Ivermectin for Covid-19

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:49 - Katherine and Paul catch up

03:01 - Introducing Sister Teresa Forcades

05:50 - Sister Teresa joins the conversation

06:19 - Sister Teresa on her monastery

07:24 - Sister Teresa on young women wanting to become nuns

12:19 - Sister Teresa on feminism, misogyny and sexuality

22:00 - Sister Teresa on vaccines and public health

31:14 - Sister Teresa on being silenced

33:40 - Sister Teresa on politics and democracy

39:00 - Sister Teresa on church and politics

45:08 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Sister Teresa

1:00:40 - How to get in touch with us

1:01:25 - Thank you’s

1:02:10 - Hidden track

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> The second conversation in our ‘Keeping the faith’ series is with Sister Teresa Forcades who – with good reason – has been dubbed ‘Europe’s most radical nun’.


Sister Teresa joins us from her Monastery on the mountain of Montserrat, near Barcelona in Catalonia, where she lives with thirty Catholic Benedictine sisters. We discuss her open criticism of the very Catholic Church she serves, her feminism, her politics, her general mission to speak out in order to create a more loving and fair society, and her experiences of being silenced for doing so.


Plus, as a physician and expert in public health, it would have been rude not to ask Sister Teresa for her professional thoughts on the pandemic, the vaccination programme and the role of big pharmaceutical companies. Which, as you may have guessed already, she has a lot of alternative (some would say ‘controversial’) things to say about.


Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Sister Teresa and Katherine, in particular, is taken aback by how refreshing Sister Teresa’s views are in comparison with her Catholic schooling. And Paul is reminded by Sister Teresa about just how important it is to be made to look more closely and think again.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

____


ABOUT SISTER TERESA FORCADES

Teresa Forcades i Vila (1966) is a physician, theologian and Benedictine nun in the mountain monastery of Sant Benet de Montserrat (Catalonia, Spain). Master of Divinity (Harvard, 1997), doctor in Medicine (U. Barcelona, 2004) and doctor in Sacred Theology (Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, 2007). From 2015-18 she took a leave of absence from her monastery (exclaustration) to become politically active in the Catalan movement for independence. Since 2017 she has been the director of the journal of Christian critical thought Iglesia Viva and hosts a weekly radio program on Catalan radio. She is also the principal of the Sinclètica Monastic School of theology.

Website

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Sister Teresa Forcades: Europe's most radical nun


Europe: a Nun’s Eye View (2017) - Greenbelt recorded talk


Teresa Forcades i Vila in conversation with Martin Wroe (2017) - Greenbelt recorded talk


Núria Calduch - First woman appointed Secretary of Vatican Biblical Commission


Jan Brueghel The Elder – The Crucifixion


On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil


A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke


The Peril of Not Vaccinating the World


Ivermectin for Covid-19

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:49 - Katherine and Paul catch up

03:01 - Introducing Sister Teresa Forcades

05:50 - Sister Teresa joins the conversation

06:19 - Sister Teresa on her monastery

07:24 - Sister Teresa on young women wanting to become nuns

12:19 - Sister Teresa on feminism, misogyny and sexuality

22:00 - Sister Teresa on vaccines and public health

31:14 - Sister Teresa on being silenced

33:40 - Sister Teresa on politics and democracy

39:00 - Sister Teresa on church and politics

45:08 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Sister Teresa

1:00:40 - How to get in touch with us

1:01:25 - Thank you’s

1:02:10 - Hidden track

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Service with Leroy Logan Service with Leroy Logan Fri, 04 Jun 2021 00:05:49 GMT 1:03:35 60b8b587b14cc8001a5cc62f false https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 60b8b587b14cc8001a5cc62f 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 service-with-leroy-logan full 3 1 Welcome back to Somewhere To Believe In! We’re calling this series ‘Keeping the faith’ because this time around we’re having no-holds-barred conversations with people who get stuck in BECAUSE of what they believe.


Arguably, no one has done more to keep the faith than our first guest; former superintendent in the Met police, man-on-a-mission to change a racist police system from within, subject of one of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe films and general truth-to-power-speaker, Leroy Logan.


We talk about Leroy’s incredible life. From some of his formative years being spent as a young boy in Jamaica seeing Black people in positions of power to his short career in science and his ultimate ‘calling’ to the police force – a decision which resulted in him joining the ranks of the officers who beat-up his father, and a decades-long mission to call out toxic police culture and replace it with love, respect, service and care.


Plus, a lot has happened since we last had a podcast chat, so Katherine and Paul get us up-to-date on all things Greenbelt Festival, Prospect Farm and – most importantly – which lockdown hobbies have stuck and which haven’t.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT LEROY LOGAN

Dr Leroy Logan MBE is a former superintendent in the Metropolitan police. He retired in 2013 after 30 years' service. He is also a former chair and founding member of the Black Police Association. Leroy is one of the UK’s most highly decorated and well known black police officers. A highly respected and well regarded commentator on policing in black communities, he believes that there is still much work to do in creating a more equitable and fair criminal justice system.

Website | Twitter | Book

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Leroy Logan’s book ‘Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop’


Small Axe: Red, White and Blue


Black Police Association


Macpherson report: what was it and what impact did it have?


VOYAGE (Voice of the Youth and Genuine Empowerment) PROGRAMME


Damilola Taylor investigation and report


Stephen Lawrence Steering Group


Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities: The Report


Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill


Parm Sandhu speaking on Channel 4 News about racism in the MET


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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:56 - Katherine and Paul catch up

04:25 - Katherine and Paul on cancelling Greenbelt Festival (again)

07:10 - Katherine and Paul on Prospect Farm

08:45 - Katherine and Paul on why we’re not doing a digital festival this year

09:44 - Introducing Leroy Logan

11:39 - Leroy joins the conversation

12:37 - Leroy on East London

13:16 - Leroy on moving to Jamaica

15:59 - Leroy on growing up

16:30 - Leroy on faith and policing

19:40 - Leroy on feeling called to join the police

22:30 - Leroy on hostile environments and standing up to make a difference

25:46 - Leroy on racist and toxic police culture

31:30 - Leroy on George Floyd and Derek Chauvin

37:48 - Leroy on reflecting, learning and improving

42:40 - Leroy on Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series

46:35 - Leroy on speaking for those who don’t have a voice

48:56 - Leroy on police and protest

53:03 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Leroy

59:52 - Katherine and Paul on protecting your right to protest

1:01:40 - Next week on the podcast

1:02:27 - How to get in touch with us

1:03:05 - Thank you’s

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Welcome back to Somewhere To Believe In! We’re calling this series ‘Keeping the faith’ because this time around we’re having no-holds-barred conversations with people who get stuck in BECAUSE of what they believe.


Arguably, no one has done more to keep the faith than our first guest; former superintendent in the Met police, man-on-a-mission to change a racist police system from within, subject of one of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe films and general truth-to-power-speaker, Leroy Logan.


We talk about Leroy’s incredible life. From some of his formative years being spent as a young boy in Jamaica seeing Black people in positions of power to his short career in science and his ultimate ‘calling’ to the police force – a decision which resulted in him joining the ranks of the officers who beat-up his father, and a decades-long mission to call out toxic police culture and replace it with love, respect, service and care.


Plus, a lot has happened since we last had a podcast chat, so Katherine and Paul get us up-to-date on all things Greenbelt Festival, Prospect Farm and – most importantly – which lockdown hobbies have stuck and which haven’t.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

____


ABOUT LEROY LOGAN

Dr Leroy Logan MBE is a former superintendent in the Metropolitan police. He retired in 2013 after 30 years' service. He is also a former chair and founding member of the Black Police Association. Leroy is one of the UK’s most highly decorated and well known black police officers. A highly respected and well regarded commentator on policing in black communities, he believes that there is still much work to do in creating a more equitable and fair criminal justice system.

Website | Twitter | Book

___


LINKS AND RESOURCES


Leroy Logan’s book ‘Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop’


Small Axe: Red, White and Blue


Black Police Association


Macpherson report: what was it and what impact did it have?


VOYAGE (Voice of the Youth and Genuine Empowerment) PROGRAMME


Damilola Taylor investigation and report


Stephen Lawrence Steering Group


Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities: The Report


Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill


Parm Sandhu speaking on Channel 4 News about racism in the MET


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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:56 - Katherine and Paul catch up

04:25 - Katherine and Paul on cancelling Greenbelt Festival (again)

07:10 - Katherine and Paul on Prospect Farm

08:45 - Katherine and Paul on why we’re not doing a digital festival this year

09:44 - Introducing Leroy Logan

11:39 - Leroy joins the conversation

12:37 - Leroy on East London

13:16 - Leroy on moving to Jamaica

15:59 - Leroy on growing up

16:30 - Leroy on faith and policing

19:40 - Leroy on feeling called to join the police

22:30 - Leroy on hostile environments and standing up to make a difference

25:46 - Leroy on racist and toxic police culture

31:30 - Leroy on George Floyd and Derek Chauvin

37:48 - Leroy on reflecting, learning and improving

42:40 - Leroy on Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series

46:35 - Leroy on speaking for those who don’t have a voice

48:56 - Leroy on police and protest

53:03 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Leroy

59:52 - Katherine and Paul on protecting your right to protest

1:01:40 - Next week on the podcast

1:02:27 - How to get in touch with us

1:03:05 - Thank you’s

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Exile with Rafeef Ziadah Exile with Rafeef Ziadah Fri, 18 Dec 2020 01:05:42 GMT 1:11:14 5fdb27ff749a0928c14de4f5 false https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 5fdb27ff749a0928c14de4f5 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 exile-with-rafeef-ziadah People don’t cross borders, borders cross people full 2 8 In our final episode in this series, we talk to Palestinian spoken word artist, human rights activist and our new favourite politics teacher, Rafeef Ziadah.


We dig into poetry, art, trauma, displacement, equality and justice as Rafeef shares her experiences of being a third-generation Palestinian refugee, exiled from her home and now living in London. Rafeef reminds us that issues like climate change and the pandemic do not respect borders, which makes us reflect on the entire ‘nation-state’ system.


Above all, Rafeef tells us of the strength she gets from the Palestinian people whose resolve and resilience is undiminished despite great challenges, and who continue to tell their stories and create art in the face of occupation.


Plus, Katherine and Paul reflect on their first year of podcasting and Katherine’s new favourite hobby. 


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT RAFEEF

Rafeef is a Palestinian spoken word artist and human rights activist based in London, UK. Her performances of poems like ‘We Teach Life, Sir’ and ‘Shades of Anger’ went viral within days of release. Her live readings offer a moving blend of poetry and music. Since releasing her first album, Rafeef has headlined prestigious performance venues across several countries with powerful readings on war, exile, gender and racism. Her long awaited third album Three Generations is out December 2020. It can be pre-ordered here: https://www.pozible.com/profile/rafeef-ziadah 


We Teach Life, her second album, was a powerful collection of spoken word with original music compositions, which she brings to the stage with Australian guitarist and producer Phil Monsour.  Rafeef received the Ontario Arts Council Grant from the Word of Mouth programme to create her debut spoken-word album Hadeel. She regularly conducts spoken word workshops with the aim of empowering expression through writing and performance. 

Website | Spotify | Itunes | Facebook | Twitter

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Three Generations


Bandcamp


Passport


Nakba 1948: Ethnic Cleansing of Cities, Towns and Villages


Palestinian Writers Festival


We Teach Life Sir


Palestine Music Expo


Edward Said National Conservatory of Music


Made in Palestine 


If my words


The Walled Off Hotel - Banksy


Jesus Was Not in a Stable Relationship - Pádraig Ó Tuama in conversation with Paul Northup

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:19 - Katherine and Paul catch up

04:00 - Introducing Rafeef Ziadah and her work

10:30 - Rafeef joins the conversation

10:47 - Rafeef on lockdown ‘Three Generations’

15:50 - Rafeef on being a Palestinian refugee

17:35 - Rafeef on art and activism

19:02 - Rafeef on being stateless

21:02 - Rafeef on changing the world

22:50 - Rafeef on politics and social movements

26:45 - Rafeef on building a movement

29:00 - Rafeef on responses to her work

32:10 - Rafeef on writing and performing poetry

34:09 - Rafeef on being denied the right of return to Palestine

35:50 - Rafeef on the wall

38:06 - Rafeef on profit and power over people

39:25 - Rafeef on the US election and Trump

44:37 - Rafeef on the pandemic in Gaza

46:23 - Rafeef on Palestinian resolve and resistance 

48:09 - Rafeef on the Christmas story

50:10 - Rafeef on hope

50:45 - Rafeef on burnout

52:28 - Rafeef on how to support her work

53:19 - Rafeef on Greenbelt Festival

53:52 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Rafeef

01:08:16 - How to get in touch with us

01:08:37 - Thank you’s

01:09:40 - Hidden track

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> In our final episode in this series, we talk to Palestinian spoken word artist, human rights activist and our new favourite politics teacher, Rafeef Ziadah.


We dig into poetry, art, trauma, displacement, equality and justice as Rafeef shares her experiences of being a third-generation Palestinian refugee, exiled from her home and now living in London. Rafeef reminds us that issues like climate change and the pandemic do not respect borders, which makes us reflect on the entire ‘nation-state’ system.


Above all, Rafeef tells us of the strength she gets from the Palestinian people whose resolve and resilience is undiminished despite great challenges, and who continue to tell their stories and create art in the face of occupation.


Plus, Katherine and Paul reflect on their first year of podcasting and Katherine’s new favourite hobby. 


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

____


ABOUT RAFEEF

Rafeef is a Palestinian spoken word artist and human rights activist based in London, UK. Her performances of poems like ‘We Teach Life, Sir’ and ‘Shades of Anger’ went viral within days of release. Her live readings offer a moving blend of poetry and music. Since releasing her first album, Rafeef has headlined prestigious performance venues across several countries with powerful readings on war, exile, gender and racism. Her long awaited third album Three Generations is out December 2020. It can be pre-ordered here: https://www.pozible.com/profile/rafeef-ziadah 


We Teach Life, her second album, was a powerful collection of spoken word with original music compositions, which she brings to the stage with Australian guitarist and producer Phil Monsour.  Rafeef received the Ontario Arts Council Grant from the Word of Mouth programme to create her debut spoken-word album Hadeel. She regularly conducts spoken word workshops with the aim of empowering expression through writing and performance. 

Website | Spotify | Itunes | Facebook | Twitter

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Three Generations


Bandcamp


Passport


Nakba 1948: Ethnic Cleansing of Cities, Towns and Villages


Palestinian Writers Festival


We Teach Life Sir


Palestine Music Expo


Edward Said National Conservatory of Music


Made in Palestine 


If my words


The Walled Off Hotel - Banksy


Jesus Was Not in a Stable Relationship - Pádraig Ó Tuama in conversation with Paul Northup

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:19 - Katherine and Paul catch up

04:00 - Introducing Rafeef Ziadah and her work

10:30 - Rafeef joins the conversation

10:47 - Rafeef on lockdown ‘Three Generations’

15:50 - Rafeef on being a Palestinian refugee

17:35 - Rafeef on art and activism

19:02 - Rafeef on being stateless

21:02 - Rafeef on changing the world

22:50 - Rafeef on politics and social movements

26:45 - Rafeef on building a movement

29:00 - Rafeef on responses to her work

32:10 - Rafeef on writing and performing poetry

34:09 - Rafeef on being denied the right of return to Palestine

35:50 - Rafeef on the wall

38:06 - Rafeef on profit and power over people

39:25 - Rafeef on the US election and Trump

44:37 - Rafeef on the pandemic in Gaza

46:23 - Rafeef on Palestinian resolve and resistance 

48:09 - Rafeef on the Christmas story

50:10 - Rafeef on hope

50:45 - Rafeef on burnout

52:28 - Rafeef on how to support her work

53:19 - Rafeef on Greenbelt Festival

53:52 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Rafeef

01:08:16 - How to get in touch with us

01:08:37 - Thank you’s

01:09:40 - Hidden track

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Humanity with Ben Caplan Humanity with Ben Caplan Fri, 11 Dec 2020 01:05:49 GMT 1:12:20 5fd20aaf165fc12230c6acf0 true https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 5fd20aaf165fc12230c6acf0 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 humanity-with-ben-caplan ‘Be generous with each other as human beings first’ full 2 7 This week we connect with Canadian singer-songwriter and theatre-maker Ben Caplan. Ben joins us from the car park of a Canadian fast-food giant called Tim Hortons, en route to play a socially distanced gig as part of the Small Halls Festival in Ottawa.


We get all the deets about life and lockdown in Canada. Ben has praise for his government’s response to the pandemic – in stark contrast to what we’ve heard from other artists both here in the UK and elsewhere. We talk about Ben’s identity as a Jewish man, his experiences of antisemitism, and how growing up with Jewish values like tikkun olam (literally “repair of the world”) inspires him to make art that leaves a smile on our faces and a question in our hearts.


Plus, after recovering from the shock of hearing someone talk so positively about their government, Katherine and Paul reflect on how heartfelt and eloquent Ben is, which gives us an idea about how we can fix this mess... #BenCaplanForPrimeMinister.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT BEN

Ben Caplan is a songwriter, performer and entertainer in the most time-honoured sense of the word. From the moment he walks onto the stage, you are filled with his infectious spirit, and captivating presence. You can feel Caplan's comfort and ease as he strides in front of the crowd and begins the controlled collective descent into chaos.


In his latest project, Ben Caplan explores themes of immigration, loss, darkness, love, sex, and God. Caplan is touring with a fresh batch of songs which were originally composed for a new musical play called Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story. The award winning play had its international debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it won top festival honours, and has been a smash hit. The play has toured internationally including a seven-week run Off Broadway where it picked up a New York Times Critic's Pick, and six Drama Desk Award nominations, among other accolades.

Website

Facebook

Instagram

Twitter


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FEATURED TRACKS

O Holy Night by Ben Caplan (12:01)

Fledgling by Ben Caplan (21:35)

Plough the Shit by Ben Caplan (28:40)

Truth Doesn’t Live in a Book by Ben Caplan (45:20)

The Happy People by Ben Caplan (50:57)

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Podcast theme - I Can Change by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires


LINKS AND RESOURCES


The Festival of Small Halls


Old stock: A refugee Love Story


Pogroms


Tikkun Olam: Repairing the World


Investigation into antisemitism in the Labour Party


Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu: Commando turned PM


The Talmud


Website


Webstore 


Bowling for Columbine 

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:20 - Katherine and Paul catch up

05:30 - Introducing Ben Caplan and his work

06:03 - Ben joins the conversation

07:51 - Ben on the pandemic in Canada

09:56 - Ben on slowing down

12:01 - ‘O Holy Night’ by Ben Caplan

12:50 - Ben on support for the arts in Canada

15:33 - Ben on creativity

16:29 - Ben on his inspirations

18:05 - Ben on refugees

21:35 - ‘Fledgling’ by Ben Caplan

22:40 - Ben on the power of art

25:40 - Ben on finding moments of joy

26:20 - Ben on telling stories of massacres 

28:40 - ‘Plough the Shit’ by Ben Caplan

30:18 - Ben on Judaism

31:45 - Ben on anti-semitism

40:47 - Ben on literalist readings of religious texts

45:20 - ‘Truth Doesn’t Live in a Book’ by Ben Caplan

46:23 - Ben on commercial music

48:30 - Ben on performing

49:41 - Ben on brokenness

50:57 - ‘The Happy People’ by Ben Caplan

51:20 - Ben on Greenbelt Festival

54:20 - Ben on what he would retrain as

56:56 - Ben on how to support his work

59:08 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Ben

1:10:07 - Coming up next week

1:10:27 - How to get in touch with us

1:11:06 - Thank you’s

1:11:30 - Hidden track

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

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]]> This week we connect with Canadian singer-songwriter and theatre-maker Ben Caplan. Ben joins us from the car park of a Canadian fast-food giant called Tim Hortons, en route to play a socially distanced gig as part of the Small Halls Festival in Ottawa.


We get all the deets about life and lockdown in Canada. Ben has praise for his government’s response to the pandemic – in stark contrast to what we’ve heard from other artists both here in the UK and elsewhere. We talk about Ben’s identity as a Jewish man, his experiences of antisemitism, and how growing up with Jewish values like tikkun olam (literally “repair of the world”) inspires him to make art that leaves a smile on our faces and a question in our hearts.


Plus, after recovering from the shock of hearing someone talk so positively about their government, Katherine and Paul reflect on how heartfelt and eloquent Ben is, which gives us an idea about how we can fix this mess... #BenCaplanForPrimeMinister.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT BEN

Ben Caplan is a songwriter, performer and entertainer in the most time-honoured sense of the word. From the moment he walks onto the stage, you are filled with his infectious spirit, and captivating presence. You can feel Caplan's comfort and ease as he strides in front of the crowd and begins the controlled collective descent into chaos.


In his latest project, Ben Caplan explores themes of immigration, loss, darkness, love, sex, and God. Caplan is touring with a fresh batch of songs which were originally composed for a new musical play called Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story. The award winning play had its international debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it won top festival honours, and has been a smash hit. The play has toured internationally including a seven-week run Off Broadway where it picked up a New York Times Critic's Pick, and six Drama Desk Award nominations, among other accolades.

Website

Facebook

Instagram

Twitter


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FEATURED TRACKS

O Holy Night by Ben Caplan (12:01)

Fledgling by Ben Caplan (21:35)

Plough the Shit by Ben Caplan (28:40)

Truth Doesn’t Live in a Book by Ben Caplan (45:20)

The Happy People by Ben Caplan (50:57)

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Podcast theme - I Can Change by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires


LINKS AND RESOURCES


The Festival of Small Halls


Old stock: A refugee Love Story


Pogroms


Tikkun Olam: Repairing the World


Investigation into antisemitism in the Labour Party


Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu: Commando turned PM


The Talmud


Website


Webstore 


Bowling for Columbine 

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:20 - Katherine and Paul catch up

05:30 - Introducing Ben Caplan and his work

06:03 - Ben joins the conversation

07:51 - Ben on the pandemic in Canada

09:56 - Ben on slowing down

12:01 - ‘O Holy Night’ by Ben Caplan

12:50 - Ben on support for the arts in Canada

15:33 - Ben on creativity

16:29 - Ben on his inspirations

18:05 - Ben on refugees

21:35 - ‘Fledgling’ by Ben Caplan

22:40 - Ben on the power of art

25:40 - Ben on finding moments of joy

26:20 - Ben on telling stories of massacres 

28:40 - ‘Plough the Shit’ by Ben Caplan

30:18 - Ben on Judaism

31:45 - Ben on anti-semitism

40:47 - Ben on literalist readings of religious texts

45:20 - ‘Truth Doesn’t Live in a Book’ by Ben Caplan

46:23 - Ben on commercial music

48:30 - Ben on performing

49:41 - Ben on brokenness

50:57 - ‘The Happy People’ by Ben Caplan

51:20 - Ben on Greenbelt Festival

54:20 - Ben on what he would retrain as

56:56 - Ben on how to support his work

59:08 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Ben

1:10:07 - Coming up next week

1:10:27 - How to get in touch with us

1:11:06 - Thank you’s

1:11:30 - Hidden track

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

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]]> Punk with Dream Nails Punk with Dream Nails Fri, 04 Dec 2020 01:05:50 GMT 1:18:57 5fc8b8b766c9e86f20e8f102 true https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 5fc8b8b766c9e86f20e8f102 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 punk-with-dream-nails Hexing the patriarchy full 2 6 On the podcast this week Katherine and Paul welcome Mimi and Lucy from “queer, feminist, punk-witch band” Dream Nails.


We discuss what it means to be punk – in the cliched sense but also in the Dream Nails sense, which includes: writing badass music, creating safe gig spaces where everyone can dance without fear, shouting ‘women and non-binary people to the front’ at the start of every show and placing hexes on the patriarchy; all done with an immense amount of joy.


Describing themselves as ‘four punk witches from London’, we take the opportunity to summon an old Greenbelt tale about the year “the white witch” came to the field and the subsequent fallout. (Spoiler alert: some people weren’t that happy about it.) 


Plus, inspired by Dream Nails’ ‘Gig In a Box’ (complete with a handmade sticky floor tile so you can recreate that small-venue experience at home), Katherine and Paul wonder what a ‘Greenbelt In a Box’ might look like.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT DREAM NAILS

Dream Nails are a punk force to be reckoned with. Founded by feminist activists in 2015, their debut album garnered 4/5 stars from NME, DIY and Kerrang!


The female four-piece have built a reputation across the UK, Europe and Scandinavia for their ‘fierce talent and furious energy’ (Guardian). Dream Nails have taken their riotous live shows on tour with Cherry Glazerr, Bleached and Petrol Girls. In 2019 they headlined Glastonbury's Sisterhood stage for the third consecutive time.


Dream Nails are PRS foundation and PPL Momentum 2020 artists. Having won support from Steve Lamacq, Tom Robinson and Amy Lame (BBC6), Huw Stephens and Jack Saunders (Radio 1), John Kennedy (XFM), and glowing coverage in Billboard, DIY, Upset, Independent, Guardian, VICE, Dazed, NYLON, Clash, i-D, The Skinny and Frieze, Dream Nails’ energy and youthful power promise to set your soul on fire.

Bandcamp

Instagram

Twitter

Facebook

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FEATURED TRACKS


Payback (25:55)

DIY by Dream Nails (30:22)

Vagina Police by Dream Nails (46:24)

Big Dyke Energy by Dream Nails (55:57)

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Podcast theme - I Can Change by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires


LINKS AND RESOURCES


Dream Nails


Feministmas & Gig In a Box


COVID-19: Shops to open 24 hours a day to boost high street pandemic recovery


Poverty in the Pandemic: the Impact of Coronavirus on Low-income Families and Children


Good Night Out


Riot Grrrl movement


Sisters Uncut


Hex the Patriarchy patch


Abortion Support Network


Lonely Star (Christmas Song) by Dream Nails


2young4punks - Don Letts at Greenbelt Festival 2011


Greenbelt at 40 (featuring the year of the witch and the willies)


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TAKE ACTION


Donate to Abortion Support Network

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:20 - Katherine and Paul catch up

09:38 - Introducing Dream Nails and their work

10:48 - Dream Nails join the conversation

11:50 - Dream Nails on releasing their debut album during lockdown

13:54 - Dream Nails on not being able to play live

15:52 - Dream Nails on community

17:36 - Dream Nails on ‘women and non-binary people to the front’

24:07 - Dream Nails on activism and resilience

25:28 - ‘Payback’ by Dream Nails

26:26 - Dream Nails on their music

29:50 - Dream Nails on affirmations

30:22 - ‘DIY’ by Dream Nails

30:55 - Dream Nails on pushback

33:35 - Dream Nails on punk

36:29 - Dream Nails on self-care

39:32 - Dream Nails on witches

45:51 - Dream Nails on Greenbelt Festival

46:24 - ‘Vagina Police’ by Dream Nails

49:08 - Dream Nails on Abortion Support Network

52:47 - Dream Nails on Trump

55:57 - ‘Big Dyke Energy’ by Dream Nails

56:40 - Dream Nails on what’s coming up

59:13 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Dream Nails

01:15:45 - Coming up next week

01:16:30 - How to get in touch with us

01:17:18 - Thank you’s

01:17:58 - Hidden track

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> On the podcast this week Katherine and Paul welcome Mimi and Lucy from “queer, feminist, punk-witch band” Dream Nails.


We discuss what it means to be punk – in the cliched sense but also in the Dream Nails sense, which includes: writing badass music, creating safe gig spaces where everyone can dance without fear, shouting ‘women and non-binary people to the front’ at the start of every show and placing hexes on the patriarchy; all done with an immense amount of joy.


Describing themselves as ‘four punk witches from London’, we take the opportunity to summon an old Greenbelt tale about the year “the white witch” came to the field and the subsequent fallout. (Spoiler alert: some people weren’t that happy about it.) 


Plus, inspired by Dream Nails’ ‘Gig In a Box’ (complete with a handmade sticky floor tile so you can recreate that small-venue experience at home), Katherine and Paul wonder what a ‘Greenbelt In a Box’ might look like.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

____


ABOUT DREAM NAILS

Dream Nails are a punk force to be reckoned with. Founded by feminist activists in 2015, their debut album garnered 4/5 stars from NME, DIY and Kerrang!


The female four-piece have built a reputation across the UK, Europe and Scandinavia for their ‘fierce talent and furious energy’ (Guardian). Dream Nails have taken their riotous live shows on tour with Cherry Glazerr, Bleached and Petrol Girls. In 2019 they headlined Glastonbury's Sisterhood stage for the third consecutive time.


Dream Nails are PRS foundation and PPL Momentum 2020 artists. Having won support from Steve Lamacq, Tom Robinson and Amy Lame (BBC6), Huw Stephens and Jack Saunders (Radio 1), John Kennedy (XFM), and glowing coverage in Billboard, DIY, Upset, Independent, Guardian, VICE, Dazed, NYLON, Clash, i-D, The Skinny and Frieze, Dream Nails’ energy and youthful power promise to set your soul on fire.

Bandcamp

Instagram

Twitter

Facebook

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FEATURED TRACKS


Payback (25:55)

DIY by Dream Nails (30:22)

Vagina Police by Dream Nails (46:24)

Big Dyke Energy by Dream Nails (55:57)

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Podcast theme - I Can Change by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires


LINKS AND RESOURCES


Dream Nails


Feministmas & Gig In a Box


COVID-19: Shops to open 24 hours a day to boost high street pandemic recovery


Poverty in the Pandemic: the Impact of Coronavirus on Low-income Families and Children


Good Night Out


Riot Grrrl movement


Sisters Uncut


Hex the Patriarchy patch


Abortion Support Network


Lonely Star (Christmas Song) by Dream Nails


2young4punks - Don Letts at Greenbelt Festival 2011


Greenbelt at 40 (featuring the year of the witch and the willies)


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TAKE ACTION


Donate to Abortion Support Network

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:20 - Katherine and Paul catch up

09:38 - Introducing Dream Nails and their work

10:48 - Dream Nails join the conversation

11:50 - Dream Nails on releasing their debut album during lockdown

13:54 - Dream Nails on not being able to play live

15:52 - Dream Nails on community

17:36 - Dream Nails on ‘women and non-binary people to the front’

24:07 - Dream Nails on activism and resilience

25:28 - ‘Payback’ by Dream Nails

26:26 - Dream Nails on their music

29:50 - Dream Nails on affirmations

30:22 - ‘DIY’ by Dream Nails

30:55 - Dream Nails on pushback

33:35 - Dream Nails on punk

36:29 - Dream Nails on self-care

39:32 - Dream Nails on witches

45:51 - Dream Nails on Greenbelt Festival

46:24 - ‘Vagina Police’ by Dream Nails

49:08 - Dream Nails on Abortion Support Network

52:47 - Dream Nails on Trump

55:57 - ‘Big Dyke Energy’ by Dream Nails

56:40 - Dream Nails on what’s coming up

59:13 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Dream Nails

01:15:45 - Coming up next week

01:16:30 - How to get in touch with us

01:17:18 - Thank you’s

01:17:58 - Hidden track

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Opportunity with Testament Opportunity with Testament Fri, 27 Nov 2020 01:05:50 GMT 1:09:06 5fbe7d0e07a2345c37c540d6 false https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 5fbe7d0e07a2345c37c540d6 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 opportunity-with-testament Don’t wait, do it. full 2 5 This week we’re talking to “jack of all trades, master of ceremonies” Testament: hip-hop MC, writer, theatre-maker and world-record-breaking human beatboxer. 


Listen in as Testament discusses his cultural upbringing, including his love of De La Soul as well as the Pet Shop Boys, along with his theory why Glee is not only prophetic, but “the real hip-hop”. 


Testament gets real with Paul and Katherine about his own faith, feminism and social justice work. Including his attempts as a rebellious teenager to ‘out-Christian’ his parents, and his acceptance nowadays of his own vulnerability and ‘brokenness’ as a way to help others reflect on their own lives. 


He also belatedly apologises for accidentally stabbing his older brother in his hand with a compass when they were growing up, but that’s another story…


Meanwhile, Katherine and Paul get excited about Dolly Parton’s covid vaccine and have a go at guessing what’s inside Dominic Cummings’ cardboard box.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT TESTAMENT

Testament is a Hip-Hop MC, writer, theatre maker and world record breaking human beatboxer. Born in North London and growing up in Manchester, moving on to study in West Yorkshire where he currently resides. As a lyricist his critically acclaimed work combines strands of rap, song and spoken word. Testament’s work includes the celebrated Hip-Hop album Homecut: No Freedom Without Sacrifice, as well as several spoken word performances for BBC TV and  BBC Radio (1xtra, Radio 4 and 6Music). More recently, 2019 he was Channel 4 Writer in Residence at Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester.

Website

Instagram

Twitter

Facebook

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Testament’s website


Dominic Cummings and his cardboard box


Dolly Parton Vaccine 


Orpheus in the Record Shop


Peace Jam


The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama


Testament And William Blake


Woke


Testament’s interview with Leroy Logan


Leroy Logan and Testament in conversation - Podcast

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:20 - Katherine and Paul catch up

08:39 - Introducing Testament and his work

09:22 - Testament joins the conversation

09:50 - Testament on lockdown

11:34 - Testament on Orpheus in the record shop

14:55 - Testament on creativity

23:28 - Testament on Peace Jam

27:45 - Testament on Desmond Tutu

28:50 - Testament on faith, dogma and trying ‘out-Christian’ everyone

32:16 - Testament on Greenbelt Festival

34:10 - Testament on ego and social justice

37:06 - Testament on classic and contemporary art

40:33 - Testament on ‘Woke’ and feminism

47:42 - Testament on racial justice

52:10 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Testament

01:06:00 - Coming up next week

01:07:54 - How to get in touch with us

01:08:08 - Thank you’s

01:08:36 - Hidden track

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> This week we’re talking to “jack of all trades, master of ceremonies” Testament: hip-hop MC, writer, theatre-maker and world-record-breaking human beatboxer. 


Listen in as Testament discusses his cultural upbringing, including his love of De La Soul as well as the Pet Shop Boys, along with his theory why Glee is not only prophetic, but “the real hip-hop”. 


Testament gets real with Paul and Katherine about his own faith, feminism and social justice work. Including his attempts as a rebellious teenager to ‘out-Christian’ his parents, and his acceptance nowadays of his own vulnerability and ‘brokenness’ as a way to help others reflect on their own lives. 


He also belatedly apologises for accidentally stabbing his older brother in his hand with a compass when they were growing up, but that’s another story…


Meanwhile, Katherine and Paul get excited about Dolly Parton’s covid vaccine and have a go at guessing what’s inside Dominic Cummings’ cardboard box.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

____


ABOUT TESTAMENT

Testament is a Hip-Hop MC, writer, theatre maker and world record breaking human beatboxer. Born in North London and growing up in Manchester, moving on to study in West Yorkshire where he currently resides. As a lyricist his critically acclaimed work combines strands of rap, song and spoken word. Testament’s work includes the celebrated Hip-Hop album Homecut: No Freedom Without Sacrifice, as well as several spoken word performances for BBC TV and  BBC Radio (1xtra, Radio 4 and 6Music). More recently, 2019 he was Channel 4 Writer in Residence at Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester.

Website

Instagram

Twitter

Facebook

____


LINKS AND RESOURCES


Testament’s website


Dominic Cummings and his cardboard box


Dolly Parton Vaccine 


Orpheus in the Record Shop


Peace Jam


The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama


Testament And William Blake


Woke


Testament’s interview with Leroy Logan


Leroy Logan and Testament in conversation - Podcast

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:20 - Katherine and Paul catch up

08:39 - Introducing Testament and his work

09:22 - Testament joins the conversation

09:50 - Testament on lockdown

11:34 - Testament on Orpheus in the record shop

14:55 - Testament on creativity

23:28 - Testament on Peace Jam

27:45 - Testament on Desmond Tutu

28:50 - Testament on faith, dogma and trying ‘out-Christian’ everyone

32:16 - Testament on Greenbelt Festival

34:10 - Testament on ego and social justice

37:06 - Testament on classic and contemporary art

40:33 - Testament on ‘Woke’ and feminism

47:42 - Testament on racial justice

52:10 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Testament

01:06:00 - Coming up next week

01:07:54 - How to get in touch with us

01:08:08 - Thank you’s

01:08:36 - Hidden track

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Democracy with Natalia Kaliada Democracy with Natalia Kaliada Fri, 20 Nov 2020 01:05:10 GMT 1:09:05 5fb664ba83fbed55611fec0a true https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 5fb664ba83fbed55611fec0a 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 democracy-with-natalia-kaliada Dream together, hope together, suffer together full 2 4 This week’s podcast episode is a very important one, so let’s get straight to it. Katherine and Paul speak to writer, human rights campaigner, political refugee, theatre-maker and ‘public enemy’ to Alexander Lukashenko’s regime in Belarus, Natalia Kaliada.


Natalia is a founding Co-Artistic Director of Belarus Free Theatre, a collective of artists who use the power of theatre to fight for democracy in Belarus and oppose what’s known as ‘the last dictatorship in Europe’.


We hear about Natalia’s own experiences living a not-so-censored life under an oppressive regime. Including her exile to London and how she continues to fight the same fight her ancestors did (her grandfather survived German concentration camps and Soviet gulags before ever Alexander Lukashenko came to dictatorial rule in his beloved Belarus). Resistance is seemingly in her DNA.


Natalia shares the stories of the Belarus protesters, 15,000 of whom have been imprisoned, raped or killed by the Belarus government this year. We hear how theatre has helped some of them through their imprisonment and how Belarus Free Theatre continues to use art as a tool to take down the dictatorship.


Katherine and Paul reflect on the importance of this conversation and how now, more than ever, we need to stand with the people of Belarus; not just to demand democracy for them, but to actively protect democracy around the world for everyone.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

____


ABOUT NATALIA

Natalia Kaliada is a founding Co-Artistic Director of Belarus Free Theatre as well as a writer, human rights campaigner and producer and is one of the most outspoken critics of Belarus’s repressive regime.


Belarus Free Theatre was founded in 2005 in Europe's last surviving dictatorship, by Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin. BFT’s performances take place in selected secret venues around Minsk with audiences alerted to their existence by text message or e-mail. Although forced to operate under cover within Belarus, the Theatre has travelled widely and has gained a growing international reputation. They continue to create exceptional theatre under near impossible conditions underground in Belarus. The company has found a home as associate artists of the Young Vic, London.


Natalia Kaliada has been detained, arrested without access to counsel and threatened with rape for her participation in peaceful rallies that were called “subversive” activities and “unstable elements” by the Belarusian authorities. After the tragic events in Belarus in 2010, she and her husband were smuggled out of Belarus and now live in exile in London.

Website: https://www.belarusfreetheatre.com/

Instagram: @belarusfreetheatre

Facebook: @belarusfreetheatre

Twitter: @BFreeTheatre

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TAKE ACTION


Support Belarus Free Theatre http://www.belarusfreetheatre.com/ 


I’m with the Banned http://www.belarusfreetheatre.com/en/bft/imwiththebanned/#Banned 


Ask your local MP to add “major scumbags” who support Lukashenko’s regime to a sanctions list so their assets will be frozen.

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Belarus Free Theatre https://www.belarusfreetheatre.com/ 


Ministry Of Counterculture https://moc.media/


Who is long-time leader Alexander Lukashenko? https://www.euronews.com/2020/08/07/belarus-presidential-election-who-is-long-time-leader-alexander-lukashenko 


Who is Svetlana Tikhanovskaya? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/world/europe/belarus-opposition-svetlana-tikhanovskaya.html


Alexander Lukashenko on Coronavirus https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-belarus-alexander-lukashenko-vodka-sauna-countryside-tractors-a9434426.html 


Natalia on Bruatility https://euobserver.com/opinion/149384 


Brutality in Belarus https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53776461 


Belarus bans two opposition candidates https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/14/belarus-bans-two-opposition-candidates-from-running-in-elections


Balaklava Blues http://www.balaklavablues.com/ 


Balaklava Blues at Greenbelt https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/artists/balaklava-blues-presented-by-belarus-free-theatre/ 


Generation Jeans https://theconversation.com/denim-and-revolution-belarus-free-theatres-generation-jeans-resonates-101442 


Being Harold Pinter https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03bcpyk 


Red Forest http://totaltheatre.org.uk/belarus-free-theatre-red-forest/ 


Discover Love https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p038x587 


Trash Cuisine https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p038x5sq 


Burning Doors https://www.vulture.com/2017/10/theater-review-burning-doors-is-a-fiery-anti-putin-scream.html 


Dogs of Europe https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2020/event/belarus-free-theatre-dogs-of-europe  


Belarus: thousands protest against death of teacher in police custody https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/15/belarus-thousands-protest-against-death-of-teacher-in-police-custody 


Is Protest Art Just Propaganda? Or is All Art a Form of Protest? https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/talks/is-protest-art-just-propaganda-or-is-all-art-a-form-of-protest/ 

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

01:00 - Introducing Natalia and the work do Belarus Free Theatre

05:36 - Natalia joins the conversation

06:44 - Natalia on Belarus Free Theatre

11:20 - Natalia on generations of resistance

16:12 - Natalia on a lifetime of fighting for democracy

21:50 - Natalia on western democracy and dictatorship

29:24 - Natalia on 2020 in Belarus

41:11 - Natalia on theatre as protest

49:07 - How to support Belarus Free Theatre

51:36 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Natalia

1:05:40 - Coming up next week

1:06:09 - How to get in touch with us

1:06:56 - Thank you’s

1:07:29 - Hidden track

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> This week’s podcast episode is a very important one, so let’s get straight to it. Katherine and Paul speak to writer, human rights campaigner, political refugee, theatre-maker and ‘public enemy’ to Alexander Lukashenko’s regime in Belarus, Natalia Kaliada.


Natalia is a founding Co-Artistic Director of Belarus Free Theatre, a collective of artists who use the power of theatre to fight for democracy in Belarus and oppose what’s known as ‘the last dictatorship in Europe’.


We hear about Natalia’s own experiences living a not-so-censored life under an oppressive regime. Including her exile to London and how she continues to fight the same fight her ancestors did (her grandfather survived German concentration camps and Soviet gulags before ever Alexander Lukashenko came to dictatorial rule in his beloved Belarus). Resistance is seemingly in her DNA.


Natalia shares the stories of the Belarus protesters, 15,000 of whom have been imprisoned, raped or killed by the Belarus government this year. We hear how theatre has helped some of them through their imprisonment and how Belarus Free Theatre continues to use art as a tool to take down the dictatorship.


Katherine and Paul reflect on the importance of this conversation and how now, more than ever, we need to stand with the people of Belarus; not just to demand democracy for them, but to actively protect democracy around the world for everyone.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

____


ABOUT NATALIA

Natalia Kaliada is a founding Co-Artistic Director of Belarus Free Theatre as well as a writer, human rights campaigner and producer and is one of the most outspoken critics of Belarus’s repressive regime.


Belarus Free Theatre was founded in 2005 in Europe's last surviving dictatorship, by Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin. BFT’s performances take place in selected secret venues around Minsk with audiences alerted to their existence by text message or e-mail. Although forced to operate under cover within Belarus, the Theatre has travelled widely and has gained a growing international reputation. They continue to create exceptional theatre under near impossible conditions underground in Belarus. The company has found a home as associate artists of the Young Vic, London.


Natalia Kaliada has been detained, arrested without access to counsel and threatened with rape for her participation in peaceful rallies that were called “subversive” activities and “unstable elements” by the Belarusian authorities. After the tragic events in Belarus in 2010, she and her husband were smuggled out of Belarus and now live in exile in London.

Website: https://www.belarusfreetheatre.com/

Instagram: @belarusfreetheatre

Facebook: @belarusfreetheatre

Twitter: @BFreeTheatre

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TAKE ACTION


Support Belarus Free Theatre http://www.belarusfreetheatre.com/ 


I’m with the Banned http://www.belarusfreetheatre.com/en/bft/imwiththebanned/#Banned 


Ask your local MP to add “major scumbags” who support Lukashenko’s regime to a sanctions list so their assets will be frozen.

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Belarus Free Theatre https://www.belarusfreetheatre.com/ 


Ministry Of Counterculture https://moc.media/


Who is long-time leader Alexander Lukashenko? https://www.euronews.com/2020/08/07/belarus-presidential-election-who-is-long-time-leader-alexander-lukashenko 


Who is Svetlana Tikhanovskaya? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/world/europe/belarus-opposition-svetlana-tikhanovskaya.html


Alexander Lukashenko on Coronavirus https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-belarus-alexander-lukashenko-vodka-sauna-countryside-tractors-a9434426.html 


Natalia on Bruatility https://euobserver.com/opinion/149384 


Brutality in Belarus https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53776461 


Belarus bans two opposition candidates https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/14/belarus-bans-two-opposition-candidates-from-running-in-elections


Balaklava Blues http://www.balaklavablues.com/ 


Balaklava Blues at Greenbelt https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/artists/balaklava-blues-presented-by-belarus-free-theatre/ 


Generation Jeans https://theconversation.com/denim-and-revolution-belarus-free-theatres-generation-jeans-resonates-101442 


Being Harold Pinter https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03bcpyk 


Red Forest http://totaltheatre.org.uk/belarus-free-theatre-red-forest/ 


Discover Love https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p038x587 


Trash Cuisine https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p038x5sq 


Burning Doors https://www.vulture.com/2017/10/theater-review-burning-doors-is-a-fiery-anti-putin-scream.html 


Dogs of Europe https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2020/event/belarus-free-theatre-dogs-of-europe  


Belarus: thousands protest against death of teacher in police custody https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/15/belarus-thousands-protest-against-death-of-teacher-in-police-custody 


Is Protest Art Just Propaganda? Or is All Art a Form of Protest? https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/talks/is-protest-art-just-propaganda-or-is-all-art-a-form-of-protest/ 

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

01:00 - Introducing Natalia and the work do Belarus Free Theatre

05:36 - Natalia joins the conversation

06:44 - Natalia on Belarus Free Theatre

11:20 - Natalia on generations of resistance

16:12 - Natalia on a lifetime of fighting for democracy

21:50 - Natalia on western democracy and dictatorship

29:24 - Natalia on 2020 in Belarus

41:11 - Natalia on theatre as protest

49:07 - How to support Belarus Free Theatre

51:36 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Natalia

1:05:40 - Coming up next week

1:06:09 - How to get in touch with us

1:06:56 - Thank you’s

1:07:29 - Hidden track

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

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]]> Stories with Muneera Pilgrim Stories with Muneera Pilgrim Fri, 13 Nov 2020 01:05:18 GMT 1:07:23 5fad41281f9920730140c23e false https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 5fad41281f9920730140c23e 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 stories-with-muneera-pilgrim Finding your voice full 2 3 In the third episode of our second podcast series, Katherine and Paul welcome Bristol-based poet, theatre-maker and powerful storyteller, Muneera Pilgrim.


We hear about Muneera’s experiences growing up as a black woman in Bristol – and what it means for her to finally see the statue of you-know-who toppled. We also talk about Muneera’s unexpected faith journey: from repeatedly falling in and out of love with her Caribbean Christian roots, to eventually finding her home in Islam.


Above all else, Muneera’s infectious belief in the ability for art and storytelling to transform our lives gives us a much-needed shot of hope. 


Meanwhile, Katherine and Paul can’t help but laugh over the absurdity that is ‘Four Seasons Total Landscaping’, and we find out what Shakespeare, crosswords and scripture have in common.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT MUNEERA

Muneera Pilgrim is a poet, cultural producer, writer and broadcaster, as well as co-founder of the Muslim female spoken word and hip-hop duos Poetic Pilgrimage and Nana Collective. Muneera conducts expressive-based, purpose-driven workshops, shares art, guest lectures, hosts and finds alternative ways to educate and exchange ideas. She regularly contributes to Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2, and she is currently an Associate Artist with The English Touring Theatre where she contributed to The Othello Project, and is writing a project that will be revealed in 2020.

Instagram: @muneera_pilgrim

Twitter: @MuniPilgrim 

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Edward Colston statue toppled in Bristol https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/14/the-day-bristol-dumped-its-hated-slave-trader-in-the-docks-and-a-nation-began-to-search-its-soul 


Unicorns Have Nothing On Us by Muneera Pilgrim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpJjWGcCUqU 


Marlon Thomas https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/marlon-thomas-family-bristols-stephen-2735642 


Amal http://amal.org.uk/ 


Othello Creative Response https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/talks/othello-creative-response/ 

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:20 - Katherine and Paul catch up

09:35 - Introducing Muneera Pilgrim and her work

10:24 - Muneera joins the conversation

10:35 - Muneera on Bristol

15:00 - Muneera on lockdown and inequality

18:13 - Muneera on storytelling

20:40 - Muneera on her influences

24:10 - Muneera on creativity

25:35 - Muneera on Marlon Thomas

29:18 - Muneera on faith and race

34:33 - Muneera on Islam

38:05 - Muneera on spirituality

40:40 - Muneera on Greenbelt

44:26 - Muneera on Othello

47:18 - Muneera on art

51:58 - Muneera on hope and motivation

55:00 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Muneera

01:05:39 - Coming up next week

01:06:18 - How to get in touch with us

01:06:55 - Thank you’s

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> In the third episode of our second podcast series, Katherine and Paul welcome Bristol-based poet, theatre-maker and powerful storyteller, Muneera Pilgrim.


We hear about Muneera’s experiences growing up as a black woman in Bristol – and what it means for her to finally see the statue of you-know-who toppled. We also talk about Muneera’s unexpected faith journey: from repeatedly falling in and out of love with her Caribbean Christian roots, to eventually finding her home in Islam.


Above all else, Muneera’s infectious belief in the ability for art and storytelling to transform our lives gives us a much-needed shot of hope. 


Meanwhile, Katherine and Paul can’t help but laugh over the absurdity that is ‘Four Seasons Total Landscaping’, and we find out what Shakespeare, crosswords and scripture have in common.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

____


ABOUT MUNEERA

Muneera Pilgrim is a poet, cultural producer, writer and broadcaster, as well as co-founder of the Muslim female spoken word and hip-hop duos Poetic Pilgrimage and Nana Collective. Muneera conducts expressive-based, purpose-driven workshops, shares art, guest lectures, hosts and finds alternative ways to educate and exchange ideas. She regularly contributes to Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2, and she is currently an Associate Artist with The English Touring Theatre where she contributed to The Othello Project, and is writing a project that will be revealed in 2020.

Instagram: @muneera_pilgrim

Twitter: @MuniPilgrim 

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Edward Colston statue toppled in Bristol https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/14/the-day-bristol-dumped-its-hated-slave-trader-in-the-docks-and-a-nation-began-to-search-its-soul 


Unicorns Have Nothing On Us by Muneera Pilgrim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpJjWGcCUqU 


Marlon Thomas https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/marlon-thomas-family-bristols-stephen-2735642 


Amal http://amal.org.uk/ 


Othello Creative Response https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/talks/othello-creative-response/ 

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:20 - Katherine and Paul catch up

09:35 - Introducing Muneera Pilgrim and her work

10:24 - Muneera joins the conversation

10:35 - Muneera on Bristol

15:00 - Muneera on lockdown and inequality

18:13 - Muneera on storytelling

20:40 - Muneera on her influences

24:10 - Muneera on creativity

25:35 - Muneera on Marlon Thomas

29:18 - Muneera on faith and race

34:33 - Muneera on Islam

38:05 - Muneera on spirituality

40:40 - Muneera on Greenbelt

44:26 - Muneera on Othello

47:18 - Muneera on art

51:58 - Muneera on hope and motivation

55:00 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Muneera

01:05:39 - Coming up next week

01:06:18 - How to get in touch with us

01:06:55 - Thank you’s

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Resilience with Josie Long Resilience with Josie Long Fri, 06 Nov 2020 01:05:00 GMT 1:06:16 5fa41760287df72901a1073c true https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 5fa41760287df72901a1073c 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 resilience-with-josie-long Push the ladder down full 2 2 This week on the podcast we’re beyond excited to welcome the hilarious comedian and all-round lovely person, Josie Long.


We hear about Josie’s unique journey into comedy, beginning aged just 14. And how she’s determined to extend the olive branch of opportunity to the next generation of young creatives. Needless to say, we talk about the current government's support (or lack thereof) for the creative industries and why she’s decided she’s had enough and is moving to Scotland.


Plus, Paul and Josie have a fan-girl moment over our unofficial resident Geographer, Danny Dorling. While Katherine gives you her two cents about how to be a successful dictator.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT JOSIE

Often described as a unique voice in comedy, Josie is one of the most respected comedians of her generation. She started stand-up at age 14 and went on to win the BBC New Comedy Award. She has continued to perform stand-up around the world and her eighth solo stand-up show, Something Better, had a sell-out two weeks at the Soho Theatre in London, followed by a two-week run at the Barrow Street Theatre New York. Josie has been nominated for the coveted Best Show award at the Edinburgh Fringe three times. Her latest show, Tender, is touring the U.K. in 2020. On TV and radio, Josie has appeared on The News Quiz, Just A Minute, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Skins, 8 out of 10 Cats, and Drunk History. Josie has also worked extensively in factual areas including The Culture Show on BBC2 and as the presenter and writer of Radio 4’s Short Cuts. Josie wrote and starred in the film Super November, directed by Douglas King. The film was nominated for The Discovery Award in the 2018 BIFAs.

Website: https://www.josielong.com/

Instagram: @josielong

Facebook: @josie.i.long

Twitter: @josielong

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Arts Emergency https://www.arts-emergency.org/


Book Shambles with Robin Ince and Josie long https://www.josielong.com/podcast/book-shambles/ 


Josie & Jonny Are Having a Baby (With You!) https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/josie-jonny-are-having-a-baby-with-you 


Jonny & The Baptists https://www.jonnyandthebaptists.co.uk/ 


Josie at Greenbelt https://youtu.be/pJjzuJQwf_M 


Tender https://www.josielong.com/josies-shows/tender/ 


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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:22 - Katherine and Paul catch up

06:41 - Introducing Josie Long and her work

08:23 - Josie joins the conversation

08:23 - Josie on lockdown

11:34 - Josie on performing online

14:49 - Josie on productivity

15:46 - Josie on government arts funding

18:03 - Josie on how she got into comedy

20:10 - Josie on her inspirations

21:36 - Josie on learning from others

24:28 - Josie on Arts Emergency

26:57 - Josie on the value of art

29:12 - Josie on anger and despair 

34:56 - Josie on politics

36:43 - Josie on small venues vs stadiums

40:45 - Josie on offence

45:44 - Josie on religion

46:25 - Josie on Greenbelt Festival

50:03 - Josie on hopefulness

52:11 - How to support Josie

55:43 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Josie

01:03:42 - How to get in touch with us

01:04:23 - Thank you’s

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> This week on the podcast we’re beyond excited to welcome the hilarious comedian and all-round lovely person, Josie Long.


We hear about Josie’s unique journey into comedy, beginning aged just 14. And how she’s determined to extend the olive branch of opportunity to the next generation of young creatives. Needless to say, we talk about the current government's support (or lack thereof) for the creative industries and why she’s decided she’s had enough and is moving to Scotland.


Plus, Paul and Josie have a fan-girl moment over our unofficial resident Geographer, Danny Dorling. While Katherine gives you her two cents about how to be a successful dictator.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

____


ABOUT JOSIE

Often described as a unique voice in comedy, Josie is one of the most respected comedians of her generation. She started stand-up at age 14 and went on to win the BBC New Comedy Award. She has continued to perform stand-up around the world and her eighth solo stand-up show, Something Better, had a sell-out two weeks at the Soho Theatre in London, followed by a two-week run at the Barrow Street Theatre New York. Josie has been nominated for the coveted Best Show award at the Edinburgh Fringe three times. Her latest show, Tender, is touring the U.K. in 2020. On TV and radio, Josie has appeared on The News Quiz, Just A Minute, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Skins, 8 out of 10 Cats, and Drunk History. Josie has also worked extensively in factual areas including The Culture Show on BBC2 and as the presenter and writer of Radio 4’s Short Cuts. Josie wrote and starred in the film Super November, directed by Douglas King. The film was nominated for The Discovery Award in the 2018 BIFAs.

Website: https://www.josielong.com/

Instagram: @josielong

Facebook: @josie.i.long

Twitter: @josielong

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Arts Emergency https://www.arts-emergency.org/


Book Shambles with Robin Ince and Josie long https://www.josielong.com/podcast/book-shambles/ 


Josie & Jonny Are Having a Baby (With You!) https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/josie-jonny-are-having-a-baby-with-you 


Jonny & The Baptists https://www.jonnyandthebaptists.co.uk/ 


Josie at Greenbelt https://youtu.be/pJjzuJQwf_M 


Tender https://www.josielong.com/josies-shows/tender/ 


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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:22 - Katherine and Paul catch up

06:41 - Introducing Josie Long and her work

08:23 - Josie joins the conversation

08:23 - Josie on lockdown

11:34 - Josie on performing online

14:49 - Josie on productivity

15:46 - Josie on government arts funding

18:03 - Josie on how she got into comedy

20:10 - Josie on her inspirations

21:36 - Josie on learning from others

24:28 - Josie on Arts Emergency

26:57 - Josie on the value of art

29:12 - Josie on anger and despair 

34:56 - Josie on politics

36:43 - Josie on small venues vs stadiums

40:45 - Josie on offence

45:44 - Josie on religion

46:25 - Josie on Greenbelt Festival

50:03 - Josie on hopefulness

52:11 - How to support Josie

55:43 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Josie

01:03:42 - How to get in touch with us

01:04:23 - Thank you’s

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Power with Lee Bains Power with Lee Bains Fri, 30 Oct 2020 01:05:12 GMT 1:13:44 5f9af5cd80fdae0febba25b2 true https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 5f9af5cd80fdae0febba25b2 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 power-with-lee-bains full 2 1 Welcome to the second series of Somewhere To Believe In! We’re back by popular demand(ish). This time around we’re coming together to celebrate and hear from artists we love – and we hope you’ll love them too.


Who better to kick things off than Lee Bains of Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, a self-proclaimed ‘deep-south wide-open far-left liberation gospel’ Rock-N-Roll band from Alabama, USA. Lee and his band are on a mission to fight against white supremacy, xenophobia and systems of power, all while bringing their southern hospitality and charm to the table.


With the US elections looming, we hear what it’s like being Christian living under a government that so regularly weaponises the Bible to justify inhuman behavior. Lee gives us a much-needed reminder about the power of the people, making us wonder if the election results matter as much as we think they do. We also get introspective and hear how slowing down has made Lee tackle some big questions about who he really is and what he’s trying to do with his music.


Meanwhile, Katherine and Paul talk about our plans for the 2021 festival and - and we can’t stress the importance of this enough - how happy Katherine’s mum will be that we’re back with a second series of the podcast.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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SUPPORT LEE BAINS III & THE GLORY FIRES

Website: http://www.thegloryfires.com/

Merch: https://store.thegloryfires.com/

Bandcamp: https://leebainsiii.bandcamp.com/

Instagram: @gloryfires

Facebook: @thegloryfires

Twitter: @TheGloryFires

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LINKS AND RESOURCES

Angela Davis https://time.com/5793638/angela-davis-100-women-of-the-year/


Arundhati Roy https://www.facebook.com/ArundhatiRoyAuthor 


Linn Park statue https://bhamnow.com/2020/06/02/a-history-of-the-confederate-monument-in-birminghams-linn-park/  


Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires http://www.thegloryfires.com/ 

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:42 - Coming up in this series

02:32 - Katherine and Paul catch up

05:26 - Katherine and Paul on Greenbelt Festival 2021

06:17 - Introducing Lee Bains and his work

08:34 - Lee joins the conversation

09:06 - Lee on Greenbelt Festival 

12:56 - Lee on this year and Covid-19

15:42 - Lee on government support in America

20:37 - Lee on independent music venues

24:38 - Lee on not being able to tour

27:47 - Lee on activism and burn out

33:13 - Lee on people, systems and policing

36:10 - Lee on church and power

38:09 - Lee on the power of music

42:49 - Lee on success

51:00 - Lee on the US election

52:15 - Lee on anti-racist rallies and activism in Atlanta

56:00 - Lee on how to support Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires

57:13 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Lee

01:02:58 - Katherine and Paul on the future of music venues

01:06:20 - Katherine and Paul on church and power

01:08:50 - How to get in touch with us

01:09:42 - Thank you’s

01:10:24 - Hidden track ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Welcome to the second series of Somewhere To Believe In! We’re back by popular demand(ish). This time around we’re coming together to celebrate and hear from artists we love – and we hope you’ll love them too.


Who better to kick things off than Lee Bains of Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, a self-proclaimed ‘deep-south wide-open far-left liberation gospel’ Rock-N-Roll band from Alabama, USA. Lee and his band are on a mission to fight against white supremacy, xenophobia and systems of power, all while bringing their southern hospitality and charm to the table.


With the US elections looming, we hear what it’s like being Christian living under a government that so regularly weaponises the Bible to justify inhuman behavior. Lee gives us a much-needed reminder about the power of the people, making us wonder if the election results matter as much as we think they do. We also get introspective and hear how slowing down has made Lee tackle some big questions about who he really is and what he’s trying to do with his music.


Meanwhile, Katherine and Paul talk about our plans for the 2021 festival and - and we can’t stress the importance of this enough - how happy Katherine’s mum will be that we’re back with a second series of the podcast.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

____


SUPPORT LEE BAINS III & THE GLORY FIRES

Website: http://www.thegloryfires.com/

Merch: https://store.thegloryfires.com/

Bandcamp: https://leebainsiii.bandcamp.com/

Instagram: @gloryfires

Facebook: @thegloryfires

Twitter: @TheGloryFires

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LINKS AND RESOURCES

Angela Davis https://time.com/5793638/angela-davis-100-women-of-the-year/


Arundhati Roy https://www.facebook.com/ArundhatiRoyAuthor 


Linn Park statue https://bhamnow.com/2020/06/02/a-history-of-the-confederate-monument-in-birminghams-linn-park/  


Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires http://www.thegloryfires.com/ 

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:42 - Coming up in this series

02:32 - Katherine and Paul catch up

05:26 - Katherine and Paul on Greenbelt Festival 2021

06:17 - Introducing Lee Bains and his work

08:34 - Lee joins the conversation

09:06 - Lee on Greenbelt Festival 

12:56 - Lee on this year and Covid-19

15:42 - Lee on government support in America

20:37 - Lee on independent music venues

24:38 - Lee on not being able to tour

27:47 - Lee on activism and burn out

33:13 - Lee on people, systems and policing

36:10 - Lee on church and power

38:09 - Lee on the power of music

42:49 - Lee on success

51:00 - Lee on the US election

52:15 - Lee on anti-racist rallies and activism in Atlanta

56:00 - Lee on how to support Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires

57:13 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Lee

01:02:58 - Katherine and Paul on the future of music venues

01:06:20 - Katherine and Paul on church and power

01:08:50 - How to get in touch with us

01:09:42 - Thank you’s

01:10:24 - Hidden track ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Everybody Now Everybody Now Mon, 19 Oct 2020 00:10:48 GMT 1:44:36 5f74857ed28c195dc1edae46 false https://shows.acast.com/somewhere-to-believe-in/episodes/everybody-now 5f74857ed28c195dc1edae46 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 everybody-now Climate Emergency and Sacred Duty bonus 1 9 Greenbelt Festival is proud to be taking part in Everybody Now.


We’ve caused a turning point in the Earth’s natural history. Everybody Now is a podcast about what it means to be human on the threshold of a global climate emergency, in a time of systemic injustice and runaway pandemics. Scientists, activists, farmers, poets, and theologians talk bravely and frankly about how our biosphere is changing, about grief and hope in an age of social collapse and mass extinction, and about taking action against all the odds.


On 19th October 2020, Everybody Now is being released by podcasters all over the world as a collective call for awareness, grief and loving action.


With contributions from:


Dr. Gail Bradbrook - scientist and co-founder of Extinction Rebellion

Prof. Kevin Anderson - Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester

Dámaris Albuquerque - works with agricultural communities in Nicaragua

Dr. Rowan Williams - theologian and poet, and a former Archbishop of Canterbury

Pádraig Ó Tuama - poet, theologian and conflict mediator

Rachel Mander - environmental activist with Hope for the Future

John Swales - priest and activist, and part of a community for marginalised people

Zena Kazeme - Persian-Iraqi poet who draws on her experiences as a former refugee to create poetry that explores themes of exile, home, war and heritage

Flo Brady - singer and theatre maker

Hannah Malcolm - Anglican ordinand, climate writer and organiser

Alastair McIntosh - writer, academic and land rights activist

David Benjamin Blower - musician, poet and podcaster


Funding and Production:


This podcast was crowdfunded by a handful of good souls, and produced by Tim Nash and David Benjamin Blower


Permissions:


The song Happily by Flo Brady is used with permission.

The song The Soil, from We Really Existed and We Really Did This by David Benjamin Blower, used with permission.

The Poem The Tree of Knowledge by Pádraig Ó Tuama used with permission.

The Poem Atlas by Zena Kazeme used with permission.

The Poem What is Man? by Rowan Williams from the book The Other Mountain, used with permission from Carcanet Press.

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]]> Greenbelt Festival is proud to be taking part in Everybody Now.


We’ve caused a turning point in the Earth’s natural history. Everybody Now is a podcast about what it means to be human on the threshold of a global climate emergency, in a time of systemic injustice and runaway pandemics. Scientists, activists, farmers, poets, and theologians talk bravely and frankly about how our biosphere is changing, about grief and hope in an age of social collapse and mass extinction, and about taking action against all the odds.


On 19th October 2020, Everybody Now is being released by podcasters all over the world as a collective call for awareness, grief and loving action.


With contributions from:


Dr. Gail Bradbrook - scientist and co-founder of Extinction Rebellion

Prof. Kevin Anderson - Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester

Dámaris Albuquerque - works with agricultural communities in Nicaragua

Dr. Rowan Williams - theologian and poet, and a former Archbishop of Canterbury

Pádraig Ó Tuama - poet, theologian and conflict mediator

Rachel Mander - environmental activist with Hope for the Future

John Swales - priest and activist, and part of a community for marginalised people

Zena Kazeme - Persian-Iraqi poet who draws on her experiences as a former refugee to create poetry that explores themes of exile, home, war and heritage

Flo Brady - singer and theatre maker

Hannah Malcolm - Anglican ordinand, climate writer and organiser

Alastair McIntosh - writer, academic and land rights activist

David Benjamin Blower - musician, poet and podcaster


Funding and Production:


This podcast was crowdfunded by a handful of good souls, and produced by Tim Nash and David Benjamin Blower


Permissions:


The song Happily by Flo Brady is used with permission.

The song The Soil, from We Really Existed and We Really Did This by David Benjamin Blower, used with permission.

The Poem The Tree of Knowledge by Pádraig Ó Tuama used with permission.

The Poem Atlas by Zena Kazeme used with permission.

The Poem What is Man? by Rowan Williams from the book The Other Mountain, used with permission from Carcanet Press.

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]]> Criminal with Clive Stafford Smith Criminal with Clive Stafford Smith Fri, 28 Aug 2020 00:05:24 GMT 1:09:23 5f4781cfcbdd602c9793366e true https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 5f4781cfcbdd602c9793366e 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 criminal-with-clive-stafford-smith Who are the real criminals? full 1 8 In our final episode of season one, Katherine and Paul are joined by human rights lawyer, founder of Reprieve and all-round international justice powerhouse, Clive Stafford Smith. 


Clive candidly discusses his work representing prisoners facing the death penalty, those held in secret prisons (including Guantanamo Bay), and the victims of assassination by drones. He also shares his less-than-glowing views on the criminal justice system, our treatment of criminals and forensic science.


He even uses his incredible mind-melding abilities to interrogate Katherine and Paul (not like that) and poses a series of head-scratchers. Would you send someone you love to prison? What’s the worst thing Paul’s ever done? Is Katherine a marxist? All this and much more...


It’s an important conversation to hear, but be aware it occasionally features some strong language and there are descriptions of torture. Possibly not one for the kids.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

____


ABOUT CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH

CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH JD OBE is the founder of Reprieve, a London based human rights charity that focuses on the direct representation of prisoners facing the death penalty around the world, those held in secret prisons, and the victims of assassination by drones. Born in Cambridge, he is a dual UK-US national. He was educated at Radley College, where he studied science and mathematics. His law degree comes from Columbia Law School in New York. He worked for nine years at the Southern Center for Human Rights, a charity in Atlanta; in 1993, he founded the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center, a non-profit law office in New Orleans specializing in the defence of capital cases at the trial level; he founded Reprieve in 1999. In early 2002 he was one of three lawyers who filed the initial litigation in Rasul v. Bush, to force the Bush administration to respect the rights of Muslim prisoners in Guantánamo Bay and other secret prisons. In 2000, he was awarded the OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for “services to humanity”. He has been involved in more than 300 death penalty cases in the US and around the world, and has helped secure the release of 80 detainees in Guantánamo Bay, where he continues to represent a further 7 detainees. He lives in Dorset.

Twitter: CliveSSmith

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Reprieve https://reprieve.org.uk/ 


Kris Maharaj https://reprieve.org.uk/update/kris-maharaj-turns-80/ 


Ahmed Raabbani https://reprieve.org/cases/ahmed-rabbani/ 


‘The World of Reprieve’ by Clive Stafford Smith https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/talks/the-word-of-reprieve/ 


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TAKE ACTION

https://reprieve.org.uk/take-action/

____


00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:30 - Katherine and Paul catch up

03:00 - Feedback from listeners

04:40 - Introducing Clive Stafford Smith and his work

05:49 - Clive joins the conversation

06:00 - Clive on covid and human rights

09:50 - Clive on how he got into law

11:00 - Clive on the British legal system

14:14 - Clive on innocence and fair trials

15:50 - Clive on forensic science

16:50 - Clive on prison

19:00 - Clive on the criminal justice system

24:10 - Clive on rehabilitation

25:30 - Clive on secret executions

26:20 - Clive on doing better

28:20 - Talk Snippet from GB2017 ‘The World of Reprieve’

37:30 - Clive on Guantanamo Bay

42:20 - Clive on hunger strikes

44:30 - Clive on what we can do to help

47:00 - Clive on violence and pacifism

50:40 - Clive on faith

54:00 - Clive on passion

58:36 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Clive

01:07:00 - How to get in touch with us

01:08:10 - Thank you’s

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> In our final episode of season one, Katherine and Paul are joined by human rights lawyer, founder of Reprieve and all-round international justice powerhouse, Clive Stafford Smith. 


Clive candidly discusses his work representing prisoners facing the death penalty, those held in secret prisons (including Guantanamo Bay), and the victims of assassination by drones. He also shares his less-than-glowing views on the criminal justice system, our treatment of criminals and forensic science.


He even uses his incredible mind-melding abilities to interrogate Katherine and Paul (not like that) and poses a series of head-scratchers. Would you send someone you love to prison? What’s the worst thing Paul’s ever done? Is Katherine a marxist? All this and much more...


It’s an important conversation to hear, but be aware it occasionally features some strong language and there are descriptions of torture. Possibly not one for the kids.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

____


ABOUT CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH

CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH JD OBE is the founder of Reprieve, a London based human rights charity that focuses on the direct representation of prisoners facing the death penalty around the world, those held in secret prisons, and the victims of assassination by drones. Born in Cambridge, he is a dual UK-US national. He was educated at Radley College, where he studied science and mathematics. His law degree comes from Columbia Law School in New York. He worked for nine years at the Southern Center for Human Rights, a charity in Atlanta; in 1993, he founded the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center, a non-profit law office in New Orleans specializing in the defence of capital cases at the trial level; he founded Reprieve in 1999. In early 2002 he was one of three lawyers who filed the initial litigation in Rasul v. Bush, to force the Bush administration to respect the rights of Muslim prisoners in Guantánamo Bay and other secret prisons. In 2000, he was awarded the OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for “services to humanity”. He has been involved in more than 300 death penalty cases in the US and around the world, and has helped secure the release of 80 detainees in Guantánamo Bay, where he continues to represent a further 7 detainees. He lives in Dorset.

Twitter: CliveSSmith

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Reprieve https://reprieve.org.uk/ 


Kris Maharaj https://reprieve.org.uk/update/kris-maharaj-turns-80/ 


Ahmed Raabbani https://reprieve.org/cases/ahmed-rabbani/ 


‘The World of Reprieve’ by Clive Stafford Smith https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/talks/the-word-of-reprieve/ 


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TAKE ACTION

https://reprieve.org.uk/take-action/

____


00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:30 - Katherine and Paul catch up

03:00 - Feedback from listeners

04:40 - Introducing Clive Stafford Smith and his work

05:49 - Clive joins the conversation

06:00 - Clive on covid and human rights

09:50 - Clive on how he got into law

11:00 - Clive on the British legal system

14:14 - Clive on innocence and fair trials

15:50 - Clive on forensic science

16:50 - Clive on prison

19:00 - Clive on the criminal justice system

24:10 - Clive on rehabilitation

25:30 - Clive on secret executions

26:20 - Clive on doing better

28:20 - Talk Snippet from GB2017 ‘The World of Reprieve’

37:30 - Clive on Guantanamo Bay

42:20 - Clive on hunger strikes

44:30 - Clive on what we can do to help

47:00 - Clive on violence and pacifism

50:40 - Clive on faith

54:00 - Clive on passion

58:36 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Clive

01:07:00 - How to get in touch with us

01:08:10 - Thank you’s

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Climate with Amelia Womack Climate with Amelia Womack Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:01:55 GMT 59:13 5f3e65156bb2e72a4abd9f7a false https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 5f3e65156bb2e72a4abd9f7a 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 climate-with-amelia-womack There Is No Planet B full 1 7 This week Katherine and Paul are joined by Amelia Womack, Deputy Leader of the Green Party. We talk about how, growing up, Amelia was inspired by David Attenborough to get into climate action, as well as her not-so-pleasant experiences as a young female politician in a male-dominated workplace. We also get Amelia’s take on the - literally - burning environmental and political issues of the day.


Elsewhere Paul and Katherine talk about the quirks of their respective campervans, the protests currently happening in Belarus *and* we get an essential update on what Mums of the Greenbelt Staff Team (MotGST) think of the podcast. 


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT AMELIA WOMACK

As the Green Party has moved from being a fringe party to a major political force, Green issues have moved their way up the mainstream news agenda. From living a month without plastics, to taunting Piers Morgan about vegan sausage rolls and advocating rewilding as a solution to flooding, Amelia's five years as Deputy Leader of the Green Party have put her at the heart of the Green surge.


Facebook: @GreenAmeliaWomack

Insta: @greenameliawomack

Twitter: @Amelia_Womack

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Lukashenka vs. democracy: Where is Belarus heading? https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/lukashenko-vs-democracy-where-is-belarus-heading/


Piers and Deputy Green Party Leader Clash in Meat Tax Debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrynJiZDkc8 


Green Party https://greenparty.org.uk/


Young Greens https://www.younggreens.org.uk/


The Anti Fracking Nana’s https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/artists/the-nanas/


Talk: ‘There Is No Planet B’ by Mike Berners-Lee https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/talks/there-is-no-planet-b-a-handbook-for-the-make-or-break-years/ 


Book: ‘There Is No Planet B’ by Mike Berners-Lee https://theresnoplanetb.net/ 


Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 https://www.futuregenerations.wales/about-us/future-generations-act/ 


Doughnut Economics https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:30 - Katherine and Paul catch up

05:00 - Katherine and Paul on the upcoming festival weekend

06:40 - Katherine and Paul on the protests in Belarus

09:50 - Katherine and Paul on Palestine

12:05 - Introducing Amelia Womack and her work

12:25 - Amelia joins the conversation

12:57 - Amelia on her interview with Piers Morgan

14:40 - Amelia on her journey into Politics

17:40 - Amelia on making change

19:30 - Amelia on leadership

21:13 - Amelia on power and politics

23:00 - Talk Snippet from GB19 ‘There Is No Planet B’ by Mike Berners-Lee

31:05 - Amelia on what is stopping us from making change

33:25 - Amelia on “building back better”

35:16 - Amelia on the power of local communities

37:35 - Amelia on Brexit trade deals

39:45 - Amelia on connecting with nature

40:55 - Amelia on representation in politics

44:00 - Amelia on hope

45:33 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Amelia

55:00 - How to get in touch with us

57:00 - Coming up next week

58:40 - Thank you’s

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> This week Katherine and Paul are joined by Amelia Womack, Deputy Leader of the Green Party. We talk about how, growing up, Amelia was inspired by David Attenborough to get into climate action, as well as her not-so-pleasant experiences as a young female politician in a male-dominated workplace. We also get Amelia’s take on the - literally - burning environmental and political issues of the day.


Elsewhere Paul and Katherine talk about the quirks of their respective campervans, the protests currently happening in Belarus *and* we get an essential update on what Mums of the Greenbelt Staff Team (MotGST) think of the podcast. 


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

____


ABOUT AMELIA WOMACK

As the Green Party has moved from being a fringe party to a major political force, Green issues have moved their way up the mainstream news agenda. From living a month without plastics, to taunting Piers Morgan about vegan sausage rolls and advocating rewilding as a solution to flooding, Amelia's five years as Deputy Leader of the Green Party have put her at the heart of the Green surge.


Facebook: @GreenAmeliaWomack

Insta: @greenameliawomack

Twitter: @Amelia_Womack

____


LINKS AND RESOURCES


Lukashenka vs. democracy: Where is Belarus heading? https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/lukashenko-vs-democracy-where-is-belarus-heading/


Piers and Deputy Green Party Leader Clash in Meat Tax Debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrynJiZDkc8 


Green Party https://greenparty.org.uk/


Young Greens https://www.younggreens.org.uk/


The Anti Fracking Nana’s https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/artists/the-nanas/


Talk: ‘There Is No Planet B’ by Mike Berners-Lee https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/talks/there-is-no-planet-b-a-handbook-for-the-make-or-break-years/ 


Book: ‘There Is No Planet B’ by Mike Berners-Lee https://theresnoplanetb.net/ 


Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 https://www.futuregenerations.wales/about-us/future-generations-act/ 


Doughnut Economics https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/

____


00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:30 - Katherine and Paul catch up

05:00 - Katherine and Paul on the upcoming festival weekend

06:40 - Katherine and Paul on the protests in Belarus

09:50 - Katherine and Paul on Palestine

12:05 - Introducing Amelia Womack and her work

12:25 - Amelia joins the conversation

12:57 - Amelia on her interview with Piers Morgan

14:40 - Amelia on her journey into Politics

17:40 - Amelia on making change

19:30 - Amelia on leadership

21:13 - Amelia on power and politics

23:00 - Talk Snippet from GB19 ‘There Is No Planet B’ by Mike Berners-Lee

31:05 - Amelia on what is stopping us from making change

33:25 - Amelia on “building back better”

35:16 - Amelia on the power of local communities

37:35 - Amelia on Brexit trade deals

39:45 - Amelia on connecting with nature

40:55 - Amelia on representation in politics

44:00 - Amelia on hope

45:33 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Amelia

55:00 - How to get in touch with us

57:00 - Coming up next week

58:40 - Thank you’s

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Love with Ruth Hunt Love with Ruth Hunt Fri, 14 Aug 2020 00:01:56 GMT 1:05:39 5f3501d5085e2d1bbb9cbc1e false https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 5f3501d5085e2d1bbb9cbc1e 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 love-with-ruth-hunt It’s the ‘little big things’ that matter most full 1 6 This week on the podcast Katherine and Paul welcome *takes deep breath* openly-Catholic gay rights campaigner, life-long advocate for inclusion and equality, ex-CEO of Stonewall and recently appointed Baroness of Bethnal Green, Ruth Hunt.


With inclusion, love and acceptance in our minds, we discuss the complex relationship between religion and sexuality and ask each other why the church is STILL so obsessed with who we love? Ruth talks about her own journey in connecting her faith with her advocacy.


Plus, Katherine and Paul talk more about our plans for our #GBWildAtHome festival weekend and respond to critics who accuse Greenbelt of being an echo-chamber of lovey-dovey ideals.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.


____


ABOUT RUTH HUNT

Ruth Hunt is a co-founder and director of organisational change consultancy, Deeds & Words, which she runs with her partner Caroline Ellis. Prior to this she was CEO of LGBT human rights charity Stonewall, where she worked her way up through the policy and campaigning team over fourteen years. In this time the UK took huge steps towards equality for LGBT people, including equal marriage and equal adoption rights for same-sex couples. During her tenure as CEO, Stonewall also became trans inclusive. In 2019 Ruth became Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green and continues to fight for societal change and a kinder type of politics from the cross-benches. Ruth is a practising Christian and lives in London with her partner Caroline.

Insta: ruthiehunt

Twitter: @ruth_hunt

____


LINKS AND RESOURCES


Stonewall https://www.stonewall.org.uk/


Deeds & Words https://www.deedsandwords.co.uk/ 


OUT at Greenbelt https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/out-at-greenbelt/

https://www.facebook.com/OutatGreenbelt/

https://twitter.com/outatgreenbelt


Caroline Criado Perez https://www.carolinecriadoperez.com/


Stonewall’s glossary of LGBT+ terms https://www.stonewall.org.uk/help-advice/faqs-and-glossary/glossary-terms 


____


TAKE ACTION


You can find a list of open UK petitions around LGBT+ issues here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open&q=lgbt 

____


00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:30 - Katherine and Paul catch up

01:39 - Katherine and Paul on the upcoming festival weekend

03:20 - Listener questions and comments

05:40 - Introducing Ruth Hunt and her work

06:06 - Ruth joins the conversation

06:20 - Ruth on lockdown

08:00 - Ruth on being a Baroness

10:08 - Ruth on Deeds & Words

12:34 - Ruth on gender and racial bias in tech

13:55 - Ruth on Stonewall

16:40 - Ruth on trans inclusion

17:50 - Ruth on making effective change

20:00 - Ruth on Greenbelt Festival and faith

21:38 - Talk Snippet from #GB15 ‘Thou Shalt Not Be Overcome: LGBT People, Our Allies, and the Christian Church’

30:39 - Ruth on The Book of Queer Prophets

33:57 - Ruth on why the church still cares about who we love

36:30 - Ruth on human compassion

37:48 - Ruth on hope for the future and Black Lives Matter

42:18 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Ruth

51:00 - LGBT+ communities and Greenbelt Festival

54:25 - OUT at Greenbelt

1:01:51 - Thank you’s

1:02:39 - Hidden Track - Ruth’s guide to LGBT+ terminology 

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> This week on the podcast Katherine and Paul welcome *takes deep breath* openly-Catholic gay rights campaigner, life-long advocate for inclusion and equality, ex-CEO of Stonewall and recently appointed Baroness of Bethnal Green, Ruth Hunt.


With inclusion, love and acceptance in our minds, we discuss the complex relationship between religion and sexuality and ask each other why the church is STILL so obsessed with who we love? Ruth talks about her own journey in connecting her faith with her advocacy.


Plus, Katherine and Paul talk more about our plans for our #GBWildAtHome festival weekend and respond to critics who accuse Greenbelt of being an echo-chamber of lovey-dovey ideals.


Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.


____


ABOUT RUTH HUNT

Ruth Hunt is a co-founder and director of organisational change consultancy, Deeds & Words, which she runs with her partner Caroline Ellis. Prior to this she was CEO of LGBT human rights charity Stonewall, where she worked her way up through the policy and campaigning team over fourteen years. In this time the UK took huge steps towards equality for LGBT people, including equal marriage and equal adoption rights for same-sex couples. During her tenure as CEO, Stonewall also became trans inclusive. In 2019 Ruth became Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green and continues to fight for societal change and a kinder type of politics from the cross-benches. Ruth is a practising Christian and lives in London with her partner Caroline.

Insta: ruthiehunt

Twitter: @ruth_hunt

____


LINKS AND RESOURCES


Stonewall https://www.stonewall.org.uk/


Deeds & Words https://www.deedsandwords.co.uk/ 


OUT at Greenbelt https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/out-at-greenbelt/

https://www.facebook.com/OutatGreenbelt/

https://twitter.com/outatgreenbelt


Caroline Criado Perez https://www.carolinecriadoperez.com/


Stonewall’s glossary of LGBT+ terms https://www.stonewall.org.uk/help-advice/faqs-and-glossary/glossary-terms 


____


TAKE ACTION


You can find a list of open UK petitions around LGBT+ issues here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open&q=lgbt 

____


00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:30 - Katherine and Paul catch up

01:39 - Katherine and Paul on the upcoming festival weekend

03:20 - Listener questions and comments

05:40 - Introducing Ruth Hunt and her work

06:06 - Ruth joins the conversation

06:20 - Ruth on lockdown

08:00 - Ruth on being a Baroness

10:08 - Ruth on Deeds & Words

12:34 - Ruth on gender and racial bias in tech

13:55 - Ruth on Stonewall

16:40 - Ruth on trans inclusion

17:50 - Ruth on making effective change

20:00 - Ruth on Greenbelt Festival and faith

21:38 - Talk Snippet from #GB15 ‘Thou Shalt Not Be Overcome: LGBT People, Our Allies, and the Christian Church’

30:39 - Ruth on The Book of Queer Prophets

33:57 - Ruth on why the church still cares about who we love

36:30 - Ruth on human compassion

37:48 - Ruth on hope for the future and Black Lives Matter

42:18 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Ruth

51:00 - LGBT+ communities and Greenbelt Festival

54:25 - OUT at Greenbelt

1:01:51 - Thank you’s

1:02:39 - Hidden Track - Ruth’s guide to LGBT+ terminology 

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Coffee with Abdul-Rehman Malik Coffee with Abdul-Rehman Malik Fri, 07 Aug 2020 00:01:51 GMT 58:56 5f2bc9284f329948a5d0c48a false https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 5f2bc9284f329948a5d0c48a 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 coffee-with-abdul-rehman-malik “You mess with coffee, God messes with you” full 1 5 This week Katherine and Paul welcome the ever-inspiring Muslim thinker, writer and Yale Divinity School lecturer, Abdul-Rehman Malik. We brew up a conversation about food, drink and spirituality, and how slowing down to enjoy the ritual of making coffee can have a positive impact on your well-being.


Abdul-Rehman, our unofficial spiritual guide and guru, tells us about the challenges and benefits of observing Ramadan during lockdown this year, as well as how this unusual time has been a great catalyst for change. Meanwhile, Katherine and Paul discuss why Greenbelt Festival made the decision to work more closely with Muslim communities in the UK after 9/11. And, perhaps most importantly of all, we find out if Katherine is a morning or evening person (spoiler alert: her answer may surprise you).


Take a moment to make a nice hot brew to enjoy with this episode! Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.


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ABOUT ABDUL-REHMAN

Abdul-Rehman Malik is an award winning journalist, educator and cultural organiser. Since June 2019 he has been Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar at the Yale Divinity School. He also serves as the Programme Coordinator at Yale University’s Council on Middle East Studies, and is responsible for developing curricula and partnerships with public schools to promote better cultural, language and religious literacy about the Middle East.

https://about.me/abdulrehmanmalik

Twitter: @ArMalik

Instagram: @armalik

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


‘The Mohammedan Bean: The Secret History of Islam and Coffee’ by Abdul-Rehman Malik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkti89ndu4M&feature=youtu.be


Canada’s Drag Race https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p08h1dp1/canadas-drag-race


The Book of Queer Prophets https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Ruth-Hunt/The-Book-of-Queer-Prophets--24-Writers-on-Sexuality-and-Religion/24136263


Harvard study on health and happiness https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/ 


More from Abdul-Rehman at Greenbelt Festival

https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/talks-archive/#~abdul


We didn’t mention this one in the episode, but if you want to find out more about gender fluidity in the bible, we recommend you check out Peterson Toscano:

https://petersontoscano.com

https://petersontoscano.com/portfolio/transfigurations/

Twitter: @p2son

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:30 - Katherine and Paul catch up

07:00 - Katherine and Paul talk about Islam and Greenbelt Festival

11:40 - Introducing Abdul-Rehman and his work

12:18 - Abdul-Rehman joins the conversation

12:30 - Abdul-Rehman on Ramadan during lockdown

16:20 - Talk Snippet from #GB16 ‘The Mohammedan Bean: The Secret History of Islam and Coffee’

15:00 - Abdul-Rehman on spirituality and food

28:24 - Abdul-Rehman on community

31:35 - Abdul-Rehman on Friday prayers

35:00 - Abdul-Rehman on changes to traditional rules

25:40 - Abdul-Rehman on racial justice

40:50 - Abdul-Rehman on how we can be better

42:50 - Abdul-Rehman on Greenbelt

43:30 - Abdul-Rehman on death

49:00 - Abdul-Rehman on lockdown beards

49:40 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Abdul-Rehman

54:00 - How to get in touch with us

57:50 - Coming up in next week’s episode

58:30 - Thank you’s

- 

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

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]]> This week Katherine and Paul welcome the ever-inspiring Muslim thinker, writer and Yale Divinity School lecturer, Abdul-Rehman Malik. We brew up a conversation about food, drink and spirituality, and how slowing down to enjoy the ritual of making coffee can have a positive impact on your well-being.


Abdul-Rehman, our unofficial spiritual guide and guru, tells us about the challenges and benefits of observing Ramadan during lockdown this year, as well as how this unusual time has been a great catalyst for change. Meanwhile, Katherine and Paul discuss why Greenbelt Festival made the decision to work more closely with Muslim communities in the UK after 9/11. And, perhaps most importantly of all, we find out if Katherine is a morning or evening person (spoiler alert: her answer may surprise you).


Take a moment to make a nice hot brew to enjoy with this episode! Links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.


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ABOUT ABDUL-REHMAN

Abdul-Rehman Malik is an award winning journalist, educator and cultural organiser. Since June 2019 he has been Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar at the Yale Divinity School. He also serves as the Programme Coordinator at Yale University’s Council on Middle East Studies, and is responsible for developing curricula and partnerships with public schools to promote better cultural, language and religious literacy about the Middle East.

https://about.me/abdulrehmanmalik

Twitter: @ArMalik

Instagram: @armalik

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


‘The Mohammedan Bean: The Secret History of Islam and Coffee’ by Abdul-Rehman Malik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkti89ndu4M&feature=youtu.be


Canada’s Drag Race https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p08h1dp1/canadas-drag-race


The Book of Queer Prophets https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Ruth-Hunt/The-Book-of-Queer-Prophets--24-Writers-on-Sexuality-and-Religion/24136263


Harvard study on health and happiness https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/ 


More from Abdul-Rehman at Greenbelt Festival

https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/talks-archive/#~abdul


We didn’t mention this one in the episode, but if you want to find out more about gender fluidity in the bible, we recommend you check out Peterson Toscano:

https://petersontoscano.com

https://petersontoscano.com/portfolio/transfigurations/

Twitter: @p2son

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:30 - Katherine and Paul catch up

07:00 - Katherine and Paul talk about Islam and Greenbelt Festival

11:40 - Introducing Abdul-Rehman and his work

12:18 - Abdul-Rehman joins the conversation

12:30 - Abdul-Rehman on Ramadan during lockdown

16:20 - Talk Snippet from #GB16 ‘The Mohammedan Bean: The Secret History of Islam and Coffee’

15:00 - Abdul-Rehman on spirituality and food

28:24 - Abdul-Rehman on community

31:35 - Abdul-Rehman on Friday prayers

35:00 - Abdul-Rehman on changes to traditional rules

25:40 - Abdul-Rehman on racial justice

40:50 - Abdul-Rehman on how we can be better

42:50 - Abdul-Rehman on Greenbelt

43:30 - Abdul-Rehman on death

49:00 - Abdul-Rehman on lockdown beards

49:40 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Abdul-Rehman

54:00 - How to get in touch with us

57:50 - Coming up in next week’s episode

58:30 - Thank you’s

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

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]]> Activism with Sarah Corbett Activism with Sarah Corbett Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:01:20 GMT 59:55 5f22ccb24a51b10750635bae false https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 5f22ccb24a51b10750635bae 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 activism-with-sarah-corbett Kinder, better, faster, stronger full 1 4 This week we’re talking about activism and kindness with the inspiring activist and creator of the Craftivist Collective, Sarah Corbett. We hear about Sarah’s remarkable journey growing up as the daughter of activists who campaigned for social change around the world, and her subsequent journey into activism as a career.


Sarah’s work challenges traditional ideas of activism as loud and confrontational, as well as what constitutes a campaign ‘win’. Her gentler, more empathetic approach has brought some amazing results. Sarah talks us through some of her success stories as well as about how being kinder to yourself and others is an effective way to change the world.


We also hear from Katherine and Paul about why they're still not over not being in the fields with thousands of Greenbelters this year, who their dream bookings would be, and what we have planned for our virtual Greenbelt this summer. 

As always, you can find links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.


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ABOUT SARAH

Sarah Corbett grew up in an activist family and has worked as a professional campaigner for over ten years, most recently with Oxfam. She started doing craftivism (craft + activism) in 2008 as a reaction to traditionally more aggressive or ‘quicker’ forms of activism. Due to demand Sarah set up the global Craftivist Collective in 2009, which now has thousands of supporters across the world taking part in her craftivism projects.

https://craftivist-collective.com/

Twitter: @Craftivists

Facebook: @CraftivistCollective

Instagram: @craftivists

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Craftivist Collective https://craftivist-collective.com/


Craftivist Collective campaigning for living wage (Rosa Parks Hankie) https://craftivist-collective.com/What-we-achieved-at-Marks-and-Spencer-AGM 


Positive News Magazine https://www.positive.news/ 


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MORE FROM SARAH AT GREENBELT

https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/artists/sarah-corbett/


Gentle Protest: how gentleness can be a powerful tool in activism (2017) https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/talks/gentle-protest-how-gentleness-can-be-a-powerful-tool-in-activism/ 


A spoonful of craft helps the activism go down (2017) https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/talks/a-spoonful-of-craft-helps-the-activism-go-down/ 


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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:30 - Katherine and Paul catch up

04:30 - Katherine and Paul talk about Greenbelt Festival 2020

10:40 - Messages from listeners

14:17 - Introducing Sarah Corbett and her work

14:50 - Sarah joins the conversation

15:40 - Sarah on Greenbelt Festival

16:43 - Sarah on how she got into activism

19:20 - Sarah on being an introverted activist

20:58 - Sarah on faith and Jesus

22:46 - Sarah on activism as a career and avoiding burnout

24:35 - Sarah on craftivism

27:10 - Talk Snippet from #GB17 'Gentle Protest: how gentleness can be a powerful tool in activism'

38:50 - Sarah on seeing the best in people

40:08 - Sarah on other forms of activism 

41:20 - Sarah on anger

43:14 - Sarah on the personal benefits of gentle activism

48:00 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Sarah

57:18 - Coming up in next week’s episode

57:30 - How to get in touch with us

59:30 - Thank you’s

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> This week we’re talking about activism and kindness with the inspiring activist and creator of the Craftivist Collective, Sarah Corbett. We hear about Sarah’s remarkable journey growing up as the daughter of activists who campaigned for social change around the world, and her subsequent journey into activism as a career.


Sarah’s work challenges traditional ideas of activism as loud and confrontational, as well as what constitutes a campaign ‘win’. Her gentler, more empathetic approach has brought some amazing results. Sarah talks us through some of her success stories as well as about how being kinder to yourself and others is an effective way to change the world.


We also hear from Katherine and Paul about why they're still not over not being in the fields with thousands of Greenbelters this year, who their dream bookings would be, and what we have planned for our virtual Greenbelt this summer. 

As always, you can find links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.


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ABOUT SARAH

Sarah Corbett grew up in an activist family and has worked as a professional campaigner for over ten years, most recently with Oxfam. She started doing craftivism (craft + activism) in 2008 as a reaction to traditionally more aggressive or ‘quicker’ forms of activism. Due to demand Sarah set up the global Craftivist Collective in 2009, which now has thousands of supporters across the world taking part in her craftivism projects.

https://craftivist-collective.com/

Twitter: @Craftivists

Facebook: @CraftivistCollective

Instagram: @craftivists

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Craftivist Collective https://craftivist-collective.com/


Craftivist Collective campaigning for living wage (Rosa Parks Hankie) https://craftivist-collective.com/What-we-achieved-at-Marks-and-Spencer-AGM 


Positive News Magazine https://www.positive.news/ 


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MORE FROM SARAH AT GREENBELT

https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/artists/sarah-corbett/


Gentle Protest: how gentleness can be a powerful tool in activism (2017) https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/talks/gentle-protest-how-gentleness-can-be-a-powerful-tool-in-activism/ 


A spoonful of craft helps the activism go down (2017) https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/talks/a-spoonful-of-craft-helps-the-activism-go-down/ 


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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:30 - Katherine and Paul catch up

04:30 - Katherine and Paul talk about Greenbelt Festival 2020

10:40 - Messages from listeners

14:17 - Introducing Sarah Corbett and her work

14:50 - Sarah joins the conversation

15:40 - Sarah on Greenbelt Festival

16:43 - Sarah on how she got into activism

19:20 - Sarah on being an introverted activist

20:58 - Sarah on faith and Jesus

22:46 - Sarah on activism as a career and avoiding burnout

24:35 - Sarah on craftivism

27:10 - Talk Snippet from #GB17 'Gentle Protest: how gentleness can be a powerful tool in activism'

38:50 - Sarah on seeing the best in people

40:08 - Sarah on other forms of activism 

41:20 - Sarah on anger

43:14 - Sarah on the personal benefits of gentle activism

48:00 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Sarah

57:18 - Coming up in next week’s episode

57:30 - How to get in touch with us

59:30 - Thank you’s

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

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]]> Empire with Danny Dorling Empire with Danny Dorling Fri, 24 Jul 2020 00:01:41 GMT 56:26 5f199cff36767552246c0977 false http://greenbelt.org.uk/ 5f199cff36767552246c0977 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 empire-with-danny-dorling Are we the baddies? full 1 3 This week Katherine and Paul welcome the incredible social geographer Danny Dorling. Join us as we don our breathing apparatus and dive deep, deep down into all sorts of topics including the British Empire, inequality, brexit and pandemics.


Danny’s huge brain is our guide in contemplating a more honest understanding of Britain's history and position in the world. He challenges us to confront why we, as a country, often think we’re somehow special and different to other countries. 


When Danny spoke at Greenbelt last year, he spoke about Brexit. We managed to catch up with him in June to talk about all the latest B-word antics, as well as the odds on a second lockdown. Meanwhile Katherine and Paul tackle their own demons as they react to some less-than-positive feedback in which Greenbelt was compared, obviously, to the antichrist.


As always, you can find links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.


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ABOUT DANNY

Danny Dorling is a professor at the University of Oxford and has lived all his life in England. To try to counter his myopic worldview, in 2006, Danny started working with a group of researchers on a project to remap the world (www.worldmapper.org). He has published with many colleagues more than a dozen books on issues related to social inequalities in Britain and several hundred journal papers.

http://www.dannydorling.org/

Twitter: @dannydorling

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dorlingdanny

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


‘What’s So Funny About Brexit?’ by Danny Dorling https://bit.ly/gbtv-brexit 


Pussy Riot in residence https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/artists/pussy-riot-in-residence/  


‘SLOWDOWN’ by Danny Dorling http://www.dannydorling.org/books/SLOWDOWN/


Rhodes Must Fall, the removal of a Cecil Rhodes statue in Oxford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Must_Fall

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TAKE ACTION


Add education on diversity and racism to all school curriculums: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323808


Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323961


Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324092


There are several ongoing petitions about race and equality more widely, which you can view here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open&topic=race-and-equality

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MORE FROM DANNY AT GREENBELT


‘What’s So Funny About Brexit?’

Audio: https://bit.ly/gbtalk-brexit

Video (with subtitles): https://bit.ly/gbtv-brexit 


‘Peak Inequality and Food Bank Use’ 

https://bit.ly/gbtalk-foodbank 

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:30 - Katherine and Paul catch up

01:40 - Reactions to Somewhere To Believe In

03:08 - Messages from listeners

04:30 - Katherine and Paul’s favourite Greenbelt Festival moments

07:25 - Introducing Danny Dorling and his work

08:00 - Danny joins the conversation

08:19 - Danny on lockdown

09:20 - Danny on Greenbelt and Brexit

11:46 - Danny on the British Empire and Brexit

12:45 - Talk Snippet from #GB19 ‘What’s So Funny About Brexit?’

23:21 - Danny on pandemics and kindness

26:50 - Danny on a hopeful future

29:00 - Danny on the second peak of covid-19

32:38 - Danny on “Make Britain Great Again”

34:50 - Danny on the fall of the British Empire

36:20 - Danny on colonial monuments and statues

37:13 - Danny on his new book ‘Slow Down’

40:00 - Danny on spending and what really matters

42:14 - Danny on inequality

44:46 - Danny’s recommendations

48:00 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Danny

53:18 - Coming up in next week’s episode

53:58 - How to get in touch with us

55:24 - Thank you’s

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> This week Katherine and Paul welcome the incredible social geographer Danny Dorling. Join us as we don our breathing apparatus and dive deep, deep down into all sorts of topics including the British Empire, inequality, brexit and pandemics.


Danny’s huge brain is our guide in contemplating a more honest understanding of Britain's history and position in the world. He challenges us to confront why we, as a country, often think we’re somehow special and different to other countries. 


When Danny spoke at Greenbelt last year, he spoke about Brexit. We managed to catch up with him in June to talk about all the latest B-word antics, as well as the odds on a second lockdown. Meanwhile Katherine and Paul tackle their own demons as they react to some less-than-positive feedback in which Greenbelt was compared, obviously, to the antichrist.


As always, you can find links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.


____


ABOUT DANNY

Danny Dorling is a professor at the University of Oxford and has lived all his life in England. To try to counter his myopic worldview, in 2006, Danny started working with a group of researchers on a project to remap the world (www.worldmapper.org). He has published with many colleagues more than a dozen books on issues related to social inequalities in Britain and several hundred journal papers.

http://www.dannydorling.org/

Twitter: @dannydorling

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dorlingdanny

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


‘What’s So Funny About Brexit?’ by Danny Dorling https://bit.ly/gbtv-brexit 


Pussy Riot in residence https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/artists/pussy-riot-in-residence/  


‘SLOWDOWN’ by Danny Dorling http://www.dannydorling.org/books/SLOWDOWN/


Rhodes Must Fall, the removal of a Cecil Rhodes statue in Oxford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Must_Fall

___


TAKE ACTION


Add education on diversity and racism to all school curriculums: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323808


Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323961


Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324092


There are several ongoing petitions about race and equality more widely, which you can view here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open&topic=race-and-equality

____


MORE FROM DANNY AT GREENBELT


‘What’s So Funny About Brexit?’

Audio: https://bit.ly/gbtalk-brexit

Video (with subtitles): https://bit.ly/gbtv-brexit 


‘Peak Inequality and Food Bank Use’ 

https://bit.ly/gbtalk-foodbank 

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:30 - Katherine and Paul catch up

01:40 - Reactions to Somewhere To Believe In

03:08 - Messages from listeners

04:30 - Katherine and Paul’s favourite Greenbelt Festival moments

07:25 - Introducing Danny Dorling and his work

08:00 - Danny joins the conversation

08:19 - Danny on lockdown

09:20 - Danny on Greenbelt and Brexit

11:46 - Danny on the British Empire and Brexit

12:45 - Talk Snippet from #GB19 ‘What’s So Funny About Brexit?’

23:21 - Danny on pandemics and kindness

26:50 - Danny on a hopeful future

29:00 - Danny on the second peak of covid-19

32:38 - Danny on “Make Britain Great Again”

34:50 - Danny on the fall of the British Empire

36:20 - Danny on colonial monuments and statues

37:13 - Danny on his new book ‘Slow Down’

40:00 - Danny on spending and what really matters

42:14 - Danny on inequality

44:46 - Danny’s recommendations

48:00 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Danny

53:18 - Coming up in next week’s episode

53:58 - How to get in touch with us

55:24 - Thank you’s

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Dignity with Amanda Khozi Mukwashi Dignity with Amanda Khozi Mukwashi Thu, 16 Jul 2020 23:01:50 GMT 51:02 5f106544aeed6f162f4cb433 false http://greenbelt.org.uk/ 5f106544aeed6f162f4cb433 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 dignity-with-amanda-khozi-mukwashi Uprooted. Overlooked. Ignored full 1 2 This week, Katherine and Paul are joined by the CEO of Christian Aid, and all-round wonder woman, Amanda Khozi Mukwashi.


In an honest, powerful conversation we talk about how Amanda feels (and copes) being confronted daily by the realities of grinding inequality. We learn about the challenges of running a global charity during a pandemic in some of the poorest parts of the world: lots of us have had it tough during lockdown, but at least we’ve had power and running water. 


Amanda tells us about Christian Aid’s continued work to safeguard the dignity of people around the world, as well as reflecting on the government’s recent decision to scrap the Department for International Development.


We also talk about the power of music and faith, and particularly Amanda’s deep love of gospel. We’d also really urge you not to miss the powerful insight from Amanda into her lived experience of what it’s like to deal with everyday racism as a black woman living in the UK.


Find links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT AMANDA

Born in the UK and of Zambian heritage, Amanda is a committed Christian and member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Amanda has more than 20 years’ experience, extensive knowledge and expertise in working to alleviate poverty, injustice and inequality, with a special focus on women’s leadership, civic engagement and volunteering.

https://www.christianaid.org.uk/contact-us/people/amanda-mukwashi-0

Twitter: @AMukwashi

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Christian Aid https://www.christianaid.org.uk/ 


Cyclone Idai Appeal https://www.christianaid.org.uk/appeals/emergencies/cyclone-idai-appeal


Black Lives Matter https://blacklivesmatter.com/ 


‘Uprooted. Overlooked. Ignored’ by Amanda Khozi Mukwashi https://bit.ly/2OpGrkb 


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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:38 - Katherine and Paul catch up

04:30 - Reaction to the government’s arts and culture support funding announcement

05:10 - Messages from listeners

10:00 - Introducing Amanda Khozi Mukwashi and her work

10:45 - Amanda joins the conversation

11:09 - Amanda on working from home

14:00 - Amanda on the origin of Christian Aid and its name

16:38 - Amanda on Greenbelt Festival and Greenbelters

19:25 - Talk Snippet from #GB18 ‘Uprooted. Overlooked. Ignored.’

26:36 - Amanda on staying inspired and motivated

29:30 - Amanda on how not to get overwhelmed

31:39 - Amanda on the decision to merge The Department for International Development and the Forgein Office

35:20 - Amanda on music, faith and resilience

37:45 - Amanda on racial justice and Black Lives Matter

40:45 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Amanda

49:08 - Katherine and Paul wrap up the episode

50:40 - Thank you’s

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> This week, Katherine and Paul are joined by the CEO of Christian Aid, and all-round wonder woman, Amanda Khozi Mukwashi.


In an honest, powerful conversation we talk about how Amanda feels (and copes) being confronted daily by the realities of grinding inequality. We learn about the challenges of running a global charity during a pandemic in some of the poorest parts of the world: lots of us have had it tough during lockdown, but at least we’ve had power and running water. 


Amanda tells us about Christian Aid’s continued work to safeguard the dignity of people around the world, as well as reflecting on the government’s recent decision to scrap the Department for International Development.


We also talk about the power of music and faith, and particularly Amanda’s deep love of gospel. We’d also really urge you not to miss the powerful insight from Amanda into her lived experience of what it’s like to deal with everyday racism as a black woman living in the UK.


Find links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

____


ABOUT AMANDA

Born in the UK and of Zambian heritage, Amanda is a committed Christian and member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Amanda has more than 20 years’ experience, extensive knowledge and expertise in working to alleviate poverty, injustice and inequality, with a special focus on women’s leadership, civic engagement and volunteering.

https://www.christianaid.org.uk/contact-us/people/amanda-mukwashi-0

Twitter: @AMukwashi

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LINKS AND RESOURCES


Christian Aid https://www.christianaid.org.uk/ 


Cyclone Idai Appeal https://www.christianaid.org.uk/appeals/emergencies/cyclone-idai-appeal


Black Lives Matter https://blacklivesmatter.com/ 


‘Uprooted. Overlooked. Ignored’ by Amanda Khozi Mukwashi https://bit.ly/2OpGrkb 


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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

00:38 - Katherine and Paul catch up

04:30 - Reaction to the government’s arts and culture support funding announcement

05:10 - Messages from listeners

10:00 - Introducing Amanda Khozi Mukwashi and her work

10:45 - Amanda joins the conversation

11:09 - Amanda on working from home

14:00 - Amanda on the origin of Christian Aid and its name

16:38 - Amanda on Greenbelt Festival and Greenbelters

19:25 - Talk Snippet from #GB18 ‘Uprooted. Overlooked. Ignored.’

26:36 - Amanda on staying inspired and motivated

29:30 - Amanda on how not to get overwhelmed

31:39 - Amanda on the decision to merge The Department for International Development and the Forgein Office

35:20 - Amanda on music, faith and resilience

37:45 - Amanda on racial justice and Black Lives Matter

40:45 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Amanda

49:08 - Katherine and Paul wrap up the episode

50:40 - Thank you’s

____


A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

____


https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Empathy with Roman Krznaric Empathy with Roman Krznaric Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:01:14 GMT 56:01 5f06dc77e5442a40b86a7b34 false https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ 5f06dc77e5442a40b86a7b34 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 empathy-with-roman-krznaric Could empathy save the world? full 1 1 Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In, a brand new podcast from Greenbelt Festival. In our first episode, hosts Katherine and Paul dig into the topic of empathy with philosopher and friend of Greenbelt Festival Roman Krznaric.


We discuss why trying to understand how others see the world could have revolutionary power, and why now, more than ever, empathy is so important. Katherine and Paul also give you some behind the scenes insight into working at Greenbelt and the difficult but necessary decision to cancel this year’s festival.


We recorded this conversation with Roman and finalised this episode before the Government announced its £1.5bn rescue fund for the arts (early in July). So when, in this first episode, we air our worries about the arts being overlooked, we didn’t know this help was soon to come. We welcome it, of course. But we also know that the devil will be in the detail in terms of how this support actually translates across the sector.


Find links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT ROMAN

Roman Krznaric is a public philosopher who writes about the power of ideas to change society. His new book, The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short Term World, was published in July 2020, and has been described by U2’s The Edge as ‘the book our children’s children will thank us for reading’. https://www.romankrznaric.com/

Twitter: @romankrznaric


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LINKS AND RESOURCES


‘Empathy and the Revolution of Human Relationships’ Greenbelt talk by Roman Krznaric https://bit.ly/gbtalk-empathy 


‘The Good Ancestor : How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World’ by Roman Krznaric https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Roman-Krznaric/The-Good-Ancestor--How-to-Think-Long-Term-in-a-Short-Term-World/24823601


The Empathy Museum https://www.empathymuseum.com/


Today for Tomorrow https://todayfortomorrow.org.uk/


Doughnut Economics https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/


‘Me and White Supremacy’ by Layla Saad https://www.meandwhitesupremacybook.com/


Hive https://www.hive.co.uk/

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

01:55 - Katherine and Paul catch up

03:00 - Katherine and Paul reflect on cancelling Greenbelt Festival this year

08:50 - Introducing Roman Krznaric and his work

10:00 - Roman joins the conversation

10:30 - Roman on lockdown and homeschooling

12:30 - Roman on Greenbelt Festival and Greenbelters

13:35 - Roman on grassroots philosophy and empathy

19:00 - Talk Snippet from ‘Empathy and the Revolution of Human Relationships’

27:15 - Roman on empathy in the context of coronavirus

28:50 - Roman on empathy through time and space

32:20 - Roman on the empathy museum

33:00 - Roman on how we can be good ancestors

35:38 - Roman on what difference we can make

40:58 - Roman on empathy as a social movement

42:22 - Roman on empathy and racial justice

44:15 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Roman

52:12 - Katherine and Paul wrap up the episode

54:30 - Thank you’s

56:00 - Arts and Culture government funding update and reaction

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In, a brand new podcast from Greenbelt Festival. In our first episode, hosts Katherine and Paul dig into the topic of empathy with philosopher and friend of Greenbelt Festival Roman Krznaric.


We discuss why trying to understand how others see the world could have revolutionary power, and why now, more than ever, empathy is so important. Katherine and Paul also give you some behind the scenes insight into working at Greenbelt and the difficult but necessary decision to cancel this year’s festival.


We recorded this conversation with Roman and finalised this episode before the Government announced its £1.5bn rescue fund for the arts (early in July). So when, in this first episode, we air our worries about the arts being overlooked, we didn’t know this help was soon to come. We welcome it, of course. But we also know that the devil will be in the detail in terms of how this support actually translates across the sector.


Find links, resources and episode timestamps (for all you skippers out there) below.

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ABOUT ROMAN

Roman Krznaric is a public philosopher who writes about the power of ideas to change society. His new book, The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short Term World, was published in July 2020, and has been described by U2’s The Edge as ‘the book our children’s children will thank us for reading’. https://www.romankrznaric.com/

Twitter: @romankrznaric


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LINKS AND RESOURCES


‘Empathy and the Revolution of Human Relationships’ Greenbelt talk by Roman Krznaric https://bit.ly/gbtalk-empathy 


‘The Good Ancestor : How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World’ by Roman Krznaric https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Roman-Krznaric/The-Good-Ancestor--How-to-Think-Long-Term-in-a-Short-Term-World/24823601


The Empathy Museum https://www.empathymuseum.com/


Today for Tomorrow https://todayfortomorrow.org.uk/


Doughnut Economics https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/


‘Me and White Supremacy’ by Layla Saad https://www.meandwhitesupremacybook.com/


Hive https://www.hive.co.uk/

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00:00 - Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In

01:55 - Katherine and Paul catch up

03:00 - Katherine and Paul reflect on cancelling Greenbelt Festival this year

08:50 - Introducing Roman Krznaric and his work

10:00 - Roman joins the conversation

10:30 - Roman on lockdown and homeschooling

12:30 - Roman on Greenbelt Festival and Greenbelters

13:35 - Roman on grassroots philosophy and empathy

19:00 - Talk Snippet from ‘Empathy and the Revolution of Human Relationships’

27:15 - Roman on empathy in the context of coronavirus

28:50 - Roman on empathy through time and space

32:20 - Roman on the empathy museum

33:00 - Roman on how we can be good ancestors

35:38 - Roman on what difference we can make

40:58 - Roman on empathy as a social movement

42:22 - Roman on empathy and racial justice

44:15 - Katherine and Paul reflect on the conversation with Roman

52:12 - Katherine and Paul wrap up the episode

54:30 - Thank you’s

56:00 - Arts and Culture government funding update and reaction

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A huge thanks to the Greenbelt Volunteer Talks Team for all their hard work on editing this episode. Our podcast music is ‘I Can Change’ by Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires.

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https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/

#SomewhereToBelieveIn

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]]> Introducing Somewhere To Believe In Introducing Somewhere To Believe In Wed, 01 Jul 2020 17:55:51 GMT 2:38 5efccd0ce521711f0f36a100 false http://greenbelt.org.uk/ 5efccd0ce521711f0f36a100 5efc92b3b5c8591b19e34217 introducing-somewhere-to-believe-in trailer This July, we’re launching ‘Somewhere To Believe In’, a brand new podcast from the lovely people who (usually) bring you Greenbelt Festival (when there’s not a global pandemic on). Because you can’t come to us this summer, we thought... maybe we could come to you?

Each week we’ll meet brilliant guests and chat to them about their life and work, using extracts from our talks archive to spark ideas and conversation. We want to bring you timely, provocative and funny dollops of hopefulness, to keep us all going in these strange times.

We’ll also be digging into our love of fields, festivals and communal gatherings – remember those? – and sharing some of the behind-the-scenes Greenbelt stuff. Importantly, too, we want to hear from YOU, whether you’ve danced in a field with us or not.

Our plan is to release this first series of eight episodes this summer – with a new episode coming out each Friday in July and August, leading up to our festival weekend itself. We’re calling it ‘Somewhere to Believe in’, because maybe more than ever, we all need that right now. We really hope you like it.

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]]> This July, we’re launching ‘Somewhere To Believe In’, a brand new podcast from the lovely people who (usually) bring you Greenbelt Festival (when there’s not a global pandemic on). Because you can’t come to us this summer, we thought... maybe we could come to you?

Each week we’ll meet brilliant guests and chat to them about their life and work, using extracts from our talks archive to spark ideas and conversation. We want to bring you timely, provocative and funny dollops of hopefulness, to keep us all going in these strange times.

We’ll also be digging into our love of fields, festivals and communal gatherings – remember those? – and sharing some of the behind-the-scenes Greenbelt stuff. Importantly, too, we want to hear from YOU, whether you’ve danced in a field with us or not.

Our plan is to release this first series of eight episodes this summer – with a new episode coming out each Friday in July and August, leading up to our festival weekend itself. We’re calling it ‘Somewhere to Believe in’, because maybe more than ever, we all need that right now. We really hope you like it.

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