Somewhere to believe in: Abigail Maxwell visits the Greenbelt Festival

‘It restores my faith in the church.’

by Abigail Maxwell 6th September 2024

Greenbelt is a festival of ‘artistry and activism,’ where ‘the sacred meets the secular’. It has included Quaker worship for at least twelve years. This year the Quaker Arts Network and Loving Earth Project were at the heart of the event. 

The festival offers some free tickets to people who cannot afford them. Friends from Brighton Meeting took three refugees who had worked with us. After experiencing the cruelty of Suella Braverman’s asylum system, I wanted them to experience something beautiful of England. We arrived on the field with three tents, one borrowed the evening before which we had little idea how to erect, in winds gusting over forty miles an hour.