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Greenbelt 2025

BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
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Is anyone at Greenbelt this year? I’ll be there for the first time since 1981!

Any interest in a meet?

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  • HeavenlyannieHeavenlyannie Shipmate
    We will be there :) happy to meet up with shipmates.
  • HeavenlyannieHeavenlyannie Shipmate
    Do stop and speak if you see me walking around; I am quite easy to spot. I am a 4 foot 11 inch high, long haired, middle aged woman wearing a long hippy dress, a patchwork coat and red doc martens (ox blood or cherry red).
  • Gracious RebelGracious Rebel Shipmate
    BroJames wrote: »
    Is anyone at Greenbelt this year? I’ll be there for the first time since 1981!

    Any interest in a meet?

    Wow! 1981 was the first (and only) time I ever went myself....near Bedford at that time. I bought a few back copies of a print magazine there with a rather familiar name....yes it was called Ship of Fools and was my first introduction to the Ship!
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    Odell. I had just pushed myself to complete the Pennine way in 13 days (North to South) because I was due to be sharing my two-man tent with a friend at Greenbelt. I was quite tired and fell asleep during an afternoon set by a heavy metal band called 100% Proof.

    I remember Simon Mayo and the Radio 1 Roadshow. He had been at Reading the week before and could hardly believe the difference. He commented that no one was throwing beer cans at him! At one point he said that after the next song he’d get the police on stage. So he did. It was the local PC from Odell who came up once a day on his bike to check that everything was all rght. Again Simon Mayo drew the contrast with Reading.
  • jay_emmjay_emm Kerygmania Host
    I was there but must have just missed post when I checked (signal was a bit bad for browsing). Planning on having the morning/afternoon in the area though.
    Paul karensa was definitely the highlight for me (along with beer and hymns and the big sing)
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    Seconding you on Paul Karensa!
  • HeavenlyannieHeavenlyannie Shipmate
    edited August 26
    Connectivity was very poor so couldn’t get the internet most of the time.

    Really enjoyed Paul Kerensa. We need more history at Greenbelt, last year someone from the shoe museum in Northampton spoke about the history of hidden shoes in fireplaces and attics and that was fascinating.

    I always enjoy beer and hymns at Greenbelt :)

    The highlight for me was hearing Liz Carr discuss assisted dying as I am a follower of her work as a fellow disability rights activist. She has previously done some work with the OU on modules I teach, including on assisted dying, and this documentary https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001z8wc/better-off-dead (probably only available in the UK)
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I've been to the shoe museum - David and I took a detour to Northampton once to visit 78 Derngate, a house designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which had just opened to the public (this would have been in the mid-late 1990s), and we took in the shoe museum as well. :heart:
  • jay_emmjay_emm Kerygmania Host
    On the walk I had, I went past the plaque for one of the founding meetings of the Baptist Missionary Society (that led to the Northampton preacher Carry going to India).
    An event of mixed significance (though the East India Company was well into colonial behaviour at this point).

    Boughton house also had a tangential link to the monarchial side in the Midland Revolt and Gunpowder plot.
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    Enjoyed my second ever Greenbelt festival.

    Everyone found the Thursday night very cold, even those in campervans, but after that the weather was fine. We had a pre-pitched tent from Camplight who salvage tents abandoned at other festivals. I’d have been better if I’d realised (before the last night) that I *did* have an air mattress - it just wasn’t inflated! (Sore hips from the hard ground!)

    Two or three engaging opportunities for worship, some very powerful, including the main festival communion service. Some fun meet-ups with people we knew and some we didn’t.

    Interesting talks/ interviews with Adjoa Andoh, Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Paul Kerensa (as noted above), Marilynne Robinson (remotely), and Jeremy Corbyn.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    From my experience of air-beds, even if it had been inflated when you got in, it would have been deflated by about an hour later, if that. :flushed:
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    jay_emm wrote: »
    On the walk I had, I went past the plaque for one of the founding meetings of the Baptist Missionary Society (that led to the Northampton preacher Carry going to India).
    An event of mixed significance (though the East India Company was well into colonial behaviour at this point).

    I don't think the East India Company was at all keen on Carey and his troupe.
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