Gilles Peterson joins the the Greenbelt Festival mix

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  Latest 2014 lineup – Gilles Peterson joins the mix

  Just ahead of our April ticket deadline, we are pleased to announce more names for our 2014 festival bill. Here are just some of the highlights …

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Anne Lamott at Greenbelt Festival - and loads of specialness.

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  Latest lineup – Anne Lamott will be at Greenbelt 2014

  On the other side of the pond, Anne Lamott is a really big deal. Our hunch is that after one visit to Greenbelt Festival, she will soon be big news here too.

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I have discovered some of the wonders of emotion of spirituality of Loveology

Passion

I have discovered some of the wonders

of emotion

of spirituality

of Loveology

of deep relationships

of living taking the mask off

of communicating with Blob Tree blobs

of being sick with fear

of fumbling into group work

of having teeth knocked out

of stumbling into training

of one set of footprints in the sand

of the essential need for team work

of creating developmental exercise

of learning how to weep at injustice

of learning how to sit in the gutter

of always living with change as normal

of learning how to feel for and with the bruised

of learning that I have only learned a bit ......................

Passion

I don't want to settle down

I realise I am getting older

Only my body!

Maybe not as long in the hours as I used to be.

Johnny Vegas cut hair of #RugbyLeague star Sia Soliola

Johnny Vegas, Paul Wellens, Linzi Prescott and Neil Prescott take to the stage to chop off Saints star Sia Soliola's long locks in aid of Steve Prescott Foundation

12:49pm Wednesday 7th May 2014 in NewsBy Andrew Kilmurray, News editor

Steady there Johnny: Vegas, in his role of barber, lops off one of Sia’s plaits (pic Robbob)

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SIA Soliola has finally shed his thick mop of hair – with a little help from his friends such as Saints skipper Paul Wellens and comic Johnny Vegas.

The giant Samoan had not cut his locks since his son Israel was born two and a half years ago but finally underwent the chop on Saturday in aid of the Steve Prescott Foundation.

And a few special guests were on hand to do the honours in front of hundreds of onlookers who gathered at Taylor Park for the charity’s Irn Bru challenge extravaganza.

Wellens and Vegas were joined by Steve’s widow Linzi, eldest son Taylor and brother Neil who each lopped off plaits from the mazy hairstyle Sia had sported at the park.

Mandy Millar, owner of Classy Cuts, then finished the job after tackling the remaining mop with her dubbers.

Asked how he felt afterwards the Langtree Park fans’ favourite joked: “A bit cold!”

But, after ending up with pieces of his son’s Lego and rugby pitch turf regularly lodged in the thicket of hair, the big forward will benefit from a more streamlined appearance.

He later added that Vegas joining the cutting team was among the day’s highlights.

Sia’s efforts have so far raised more than £1,700 for the foundation.

Meanwhile, the sun shone brightly as hundreds of families watched various teams compete in events such as dragon boating and zip wire.Some of his plaits were raffled for charity while others will also be donated to a charity that makes wigs for children with cancer.

Jamm Studios hosted a collection of local musical performers on stage.

Have homeless people become invisible?

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Powerful stuff

A little Video - poem about you - and me.

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We are poets - URBAN Hurt

We Are Poets

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

We Are Poets is a documentary film directed by Daniel Lucchesi and Alex Ramseyer-Bache. It follows six young poets from Leeds Young Authors performance poetry group in Leeds on their visit to the international Poetry Slam Competition in Washington D.C, USA. It premièred at Europe's largest Documentary Film festival - Doc/Fest in Sheffield's Showroom Cinema^[1] on 11 June 2011, where it won the coveted Sheffield Youth Jury Award.^[2]

I love my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind.

I love my friends 

neither with my heart 

nor with my mind. 

Just in case heart might stop, 

Mind can forget. 

I love them with my soul. 

Soul never stops or forgets. 

Rumi

Gil Scott-Heron mix by Gilles Peterson - I love this stuff

To be free is to know who we are, with all that is beautiful

"To be free is

to know who we are,

with all that is beautiful,

all the brokenness in us;

it is to love our own values,

to embrace them,

and to develop them;

it is to be anchored

in a vision and a truth

but also to be open

to others and so,

to change.

Freedom lies in

discovering that the truth

is not a set of fixed certitudes

but a mystery we enter into,

one step at a time.

It is a process

of going deeper

and deeper

into an

unfathomable

reality."

Jean Vanier

Becoming Human