Greenbelt
Greenbelt is a festival and more. In their own words, “somewhere artistry meets activism, the secular meets the spiritual, politics meets positivity. We’re somewhere to come together once a year, where we’re just as likely to dream up a better world as we are to dance and debate, to pray and to party (ideally all of those things at the same time).”
2017
Amal supported Greenbelt for the first time in 2017. I was brought in to curate and produce four days of programming for a venue dedicated to the exploration of Muslim arts, culture and spirituality. The programming won the Spirit of Independence Award that year.
2019
Due to the success of the pilot, Amal’s support continued for the 2019 festival. The programming was infused throughout all of the festival’s venues and even included chefs and some impromptu collaborations.
2021
Greenbelt was cancelled in 2020 and 2021, so we had to be innovative and produced No Normal – a series of short original films by artists in the UK and US.