Greenbelt 2006 ::
Redemption Songs : 25 - 28 August
(11 days until the festival)
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News, offers, dates, plugs, people, campaigns, ideas
at the speed of your modem .... from Greenbelt Festivals
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Greenbelt news
Daily Diary in advance – download it now
Tickets
Lineup
Campsite and FAQs
Calling all young budding film-makers
Volunteer
Partner news
Christian Aid need you on the 14 September
Church Urban Fund at Greenbelt
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Greenbelt news
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Daily Diary
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Logon to http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/?p=668 and follow the instructions
there to download your Daily Diary in advance of this year's Festival.
You'll need the username and password from the last issue of Wing & A Prayer
(this can be found on page 14, the Angel noticeboard page).
We trust the process is clear and that it proves a valuable service to you.
After the festival we'll fix up an online feedback form to gauge how you
find this experiment. But for now, get downloading! And please don't copy
the file to others and don't try and print it off, please! We can't afford
for this experiment to impact on our Festival Guide sales.
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Tickets
http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/tickets
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Tickets are selling fast , so make sure you book yours online tonight or
tomorrow to get them despatched in the post. After that, you'll be able to
buy them from the onsite Ticket Office each day.
Click on https://shop.greenbelt.org.uk/greenbelt/weekendtickets.jsp (and pay
no booking fee).
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Lineup
http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/lineup
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We've now got most things viewable day by day in the lineup pages and we've
added a 'Panels' section too so you can see the great range of panels set up
for this year – http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/?s=115, including one on
Northern Ireland, featuring both a Sinn Fein and a DUP speaker (see
http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/index.php?p=663).
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Campsite map and FAQs
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You can download a map of the way the camping areas are being laid out this
year here http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/index.php?p=647 and you can get most
of your pre-Festival questions answered here
http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/faqs
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Calling all young budding film-makers
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It's not every day that, as a teenager, you get the chance to make a film
with DFID, have it shown on the Big Screen, and then judged by Nick Park. So
come on! See http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/index.php?p=642 for more details.
We've extended the number of places by just a few. So let us know this week
if you'd like to be in on this.
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Volunteer opportunities for Greenbelt 2006
http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/volunteer
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We are still in need of more volunteers for our Talks and Box Office
teams. See http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/index.php?p=49 and
http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/index.php?p=567 respectively. No experience
necessary.
And the three biggest volunteer teams we put together for the festival are
still recruit until the last minute (with the appropriate CRB caveats). They
are:
The Children's Team – see http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/index.php?p=41
The Stewards* – see http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/?s=69
Venue Managers – see http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/index.php?p=459
So it's still not too late to be a Greenbelt maker this year!
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Partner news
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Christian Aid
Why they need us on 14 September
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More than 8,000 people took part in Christian Aid's local drumming events
last month to ask the UK Government to act on the promises it made to make
poverty history campaigners. Now, they're taking that beat to the Treasury.
Join hem on Thursday 14 September for an unforgettable day. Trade justice
supporters Pete Postlethwaite, Ronan Keating, Damian Lewis and Adjoa Andoh
will be there. It's not too late to order or download flyers, posters and an
action pack. If you are organising a coach or want to join one, add it to
our coach notice board.
Register here
http://www.pressureworks.org.uk/signup/310506_beat.html
Find out more here
http://www.christianaid.org.uk/campaign/beat/beat.htm
Watch clips here
http://www.christianaid.org.uk/video/608campaign/index.htm
To add or a find a coach go here
http://exchange.pressureworks.org/Event?mainsection=Events
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Church Urban Fund
First time at Greenbelt
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This year at Greenbelt, the Church Urban Fund will be addressing the plight
of millions of people in this country who live below the poverty line. Fran
Beckett, Chief Executive of the Church Urban Fund, will be speaking on
Contemporary Church, asking “Are we ready to meet the Social Justice
challenge in 21st Century?” A debate focusing on what works for churches and
what doesn’t when it comes to community action, chaired by Paul Hackwood and
including Stephen Timms MP and others involved in social action who will be
discussing ideas on how churches can make lasting changes to their
communities.
The Church Urban Fund invests resources in hundreds of grassroots community
projects in England’s poorest neighbourhoods. Look out for the Church Urban
Fund stand at the event or in the meantime find out more at
http://www.cuf.org.uk and see http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/partners for more
on all pour partners.
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Festival Dispatches is edited by Paul Northup.
All ideas considered. Email paul@greenbelt.org.uk with 'for
Dispatches' in the subject bar
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