Celebrate World Vegan Day at the West Midlands Vegan Festival
Date: 2008-08-03
Whether you`re vegan, an aspiring vegan or just vegan curious, there`s only one place to be on Saturday 1st November 2008! The West Midlands Vegan Festival in Wolverhampton will make World Vegan Day 2008 a day to remember!!
At the West Midlands Vegan Festival, there`ll be 40+ stalls
offering food, clothing, toiletries, cosmetics, campaign info etc.
There`ll also be speakers, films, entertainment, cookery demos,
raffles, a veggie/vegan dating session, the presentation of The
Vegan Society Awards and lots more...
The festival will offer all you need for healthy, cruelty-free,
eco-friendly living. You don`t have to be vegan to attend, everyone
is welcome! Come and see why people are increasingly adopting a
vegan lifestyle. The festival has been organised by Midlands Vegan
Campaigns.
VENUE - WULFRUN HALL @ WOLVERHAMPTON CIVIC HALL
The festival is being held at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall in the
city centre, 10 minutes walk from the train/bus stations. For a map
showing the venue, train/bus stations and car parks, click here
tinyurl.com/56t2rl
The festival will be open from 11am - 5pm. Admission is just £1,
payable at the door. (under 16`s free)
SAT 1st NOVEMBER is WORLD VEGAN DAY!
World Vegan Day is a day of celebration for vegans everywhere. On
Sat 1st Nov 2008, celebrate in style at the West Midlands Vegan
Festival.
World Vegan Day is an opportunity for vegans and their friends
across the world to celebrate and promote veganism. The world's
first Vegan Society (here in the UK of course!) was born on
November 1st 1944 - started by Donald Watson and friends. So each
year on November 1st (since 1994), vegans everywhere celebrate
World Vegan Day. The Vegan Society have of course now found a new
home, right here in the West Midlands. How many more reasons do
vegans need to flock to the West Midlands Vegan Festival and
celebrate in style!!
WAYS THAT YOU CAN HELP!
--> Display a web banner/link on your website
etc.
If you have a website, blog, Myspace etc where you could display a
banner link to this site, please see our banners which come in
assorted shapes and sizes. www.veganmidlands.org.uk/festival/banners.html
--> Download & distribute our leaflets
Good publicity is essential if we are to attract large numbers to
the festival. We need to flood the West Midlands(and beyond) with
leaflets, anywhere that there are people who may be interested - so
basically anywhere at all! Your school, college, workplace,
library, church, community group, health food shop etc etc. Please
download our black and white leaflet and then copy and distribute
as many as you can! Thankyou.
www.veganmidlands.org.uk/festival/downloads/blackandwhiteleaflet.pdf
--> Become our friend on Myspace/Facebook!
We have set up Myspace and Facebook pages for the event. Why not
become our friend so you can stay tuned to event updates and
forward them to all your friends! Post a comment to pledge your
support. In Myspace, add us to your `top friends`! Help spread the
word, become our friend right now!
www.myspace.com/midlandsveganfestival
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=22079083366
--> Volunteer your time on the big day
We will need lots of help on the day, in many varied ways.
Everything from leafletting in the street and handing out our
programmes, to clearing tables and washing up! Contact us if you
would like to help in any way at all.
--> Sponsor the festival or donate!
Whether you`re a business, organisation or just an individual, you
can help us to ensure the event is a big success by becoming a
sponsor or by donating whatever you can afford. MVC event
co-ordinators are volunteers - all donations received will be
ploughed into publicity etc. Please make cheques payable to
`Midlands Vegan Campaigns` and post to MVC, PO Box 10202, Redditch,
Worcs. B98 8YT. Thankyou!
SPONSORS
We are extremely grateful to the following organisations &
companies for sponsoring the festival. Without their support, this
event would not be taking place.
--> The Vegan Society www.vegansociety.com
--> Yaoh www.yaoh.co.uk
--> Animal Aid www.animalaid.org.uk
--> Yagga www.yagga.co.uk
PREVIOUS MVC EVENTS
Midlands Vegan Campaigns have held 2 extremely successful food
fairs. The first in Kings Heath, Birmingham in November 2007
attracted approx 700 people! See a report and gallery www.veganmidlands.org.uk/news/kingsheath07.html
The second in Lichfield in April 2008 attracted approx 600 people,
over 50% of them were meat eaters! See a report and gallery
www.veganmidlands.org.uk/news/lichfield08.html
and watch a 5 minute film of the event www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Kbe-786UM
MORE DETAILS ON OUR WEBSITE
For full details of festival stalls, talks, sponsors and event
updates, please see our website www.midlandsveganfestival.org.uk
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