Diary

This page contains notifications of forthcoming events:

• Major updates to the Vegatopia website

• Academic papers, conferences, seminars or workshops with relevance to veganism

• Other major events in the vegan calendar

Please contact us to alert us to a forthcoming vegan event, a paper that you are giving, or anything else you think will be of interest to Vegatopia visitors.

Latest Diary

• Tuesday July 1st
  Second major Vegatopia bibliography update scheduled

• Saturday July 5th 2008, 10.30am-4.30pm
  The Incredible Veggie Roadshow
  The Council House, Old Market Square, Nottingham, UK
  http://www.viva.org.uk/roadshows08/nottingham.html

• July 15th 2008
  BSA Food Study Group Conference: Food, Society and Public Health
  The British Library Conference Centre, London, UK
  Dr Kate Stewart (of Bristol University) will be presenting a paper discussing how children are taught to eat animals: Happy Meals and the conceptual separation of food and animals in childhood (co written with Matthew Cole). The abstract for this paper is now available on the resources page. More details of the conference at: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/food.htm

• Sunday July 27th - Sunday August 3rd, 2008                                           
  38th IVU World Vegetarian Congress
  Dresden, Germany
  100 YEARS OF FOOD REVOLUTION
  http://www.ivu.org/congress/2008/index.html

• Sunday September 7th 2008
  London Vegan Festival
  Kensington Town Hall, Hornton St, W8
  £1 adults, under 16s free!
  NB Vegatopia will be at the LVF, please come along to say hello at our Food Survey stand, and fill in our questionnaire while you are there.
  http://www.vegancampaigns.org.uk/festival/

• Saturday September 27th 2008, 10.30am-4.30pm
  The Incredible Veggie Roadshow
  The Guildhall, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, UK
  http://www.viva.org.uk/roadshows08/portsmouth.html

• Saturday November 29th 2008, 10.30am-4.30pm
  The Incredible Veggie Roadshow
  Broadmead Baptist Church, Bristol, UK
  http://www.viva.org.uk/roadshows08/bristol.html

Old Diary Entries

• Saturday April 19th 2008, 12 noon
  Meeting at Oxpens Park, Oxpens Road, Oxford for World Day for Laboratory Animals: a United Nations recognized day of international commemoration of the suffering and killing of millions of innocent sentient beings in laboratories throughout the world.
  

• Saturday April 19th 2008, 7.30 till late.
  SPEAK benefit gig taking place after the national demo listed above
  Venue: North Oxford Rugby Club, North Hinksey, Oxford, OX2 The GeriPatricks Irish Band £7.50 (with food included) More information at: http://www.speakcampaigns.org/diary.php/#tsp
  

• April 20th - 26th, 2008
  World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week
  http://www.all-creatures.org/wlalw/index.html
  Also called World Week for Animals in Laboratories
  http://www.wwail.org/

• Saturday April 26th, 2-5pm
  ‘Party for the Animals’ in Kennington Park, London:
  An afternoon of speeches and debates in support of the Animals Count election campaign: Jasmijn de Boo, leader of the new political party Animals Count will run in the Greater London Assembly Elections on 1st May as a candidate for the constituency of Southwark and Lambeth. Vegan food will also be available.

• May 1st 2008 - NOTE: UPDATE DELAYED UNTIL END OF THIS WEEK
  Vegatopia website update due. Expect substantial additions to the bibliography and media archive pages, including updated pdf files. Confirmation of the updates will appear on the news page.

• Saturday May 31st - Sunday June 1st
  Bristol Vegan Fayre ’08, UK
  NB Vegatopia will be at the BVF, please come along to say hello at our Food Survey stand, and fill in our questionnaire while you are there.
  http://www.bristolveganfayre.co.uk/home.htm
  

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