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Welcome to VegfestUK Bristol Europe’s biggest veggie event, and one of the biggest independent free festivals in the UK today. Admission FREE to the public Welcome to VegfestUK Bristol- Europe’s biggest veggie event, and one of the biggest independent free festivals in the UK today. The show opens on Friday May 25th at 2pm before closing at 9pm, and then the show opens again runs from 11am - 9pm on Saturday May 26th and Sunday May 27th and admission is FREE to the public! VegfestUK Bristol is packed full of stalls VegfestUK Bristol is open loaded with a vast array of produce including loads of food, some fantastic bodycare, plenty of fashion items, some of the UK’s leading veggie campaigners Friday May 25th 2pm - 9pm and a wealth of information covering all aspects of the lifestyle. There’s also some Saturday May 26th 11am - 9pm stunning caterers serving up a sublime selection of sensational dishes, and an awesome display of free samples and tasters from most of the leading producers Sunday May 27th - 11am - 9pm of veggie food products. With over 100 stalls there’s something for everyone, including some genuine savings on a whole host of products including some major brands such as Redwood, Nakd, FRY’S, Goodlife, Yaoh, Amy’s The Amphitheatre and Waterfront Square Kitchen, Jason, Vegusto and many more. The Harbourside Bristol BS1 5DB The main highlight of VegfestUK Bristol is the food - and there are lashings of it. There’s 12 specialist caterers at this year’s event with food ranging from exquisite Lebanese cuisine from K&F Catering to the legendary vegan fish and chips VegfestUK, PO Box 333, Bristol, BS99 1NF from Something Fishy - as well as a chance to buy Redwood burgers and www.bristol.vegfest.co.uk sausages cooked and served in a bun for you (as well as their brand new pizzas [email protected] and pasties). Plus, Chipstix return with their amazing fried and flavoured baked www.facebook.com/vegfestuk potatoes on a stick, some excellent snacks and curries from Spice up Your Life www.twitter.com/vegfestuk and An Indian Affair, oven baked pizzas from PizzaVia, some tasty snacks, savouries, cakes and meals from Wild Futures, Take Wrap and Roll, Please note that no dogs or other animals are allowed The Peckish Peacock and The Hungry Gecko, as well as the wonderful at this event except for guide dogs Falafest. Visitors to the show will be amazed at the quality and diversity of what is in fact 100% plant based food. But it’s not just the food that shines at VegfestUK Bristol There’s plenty more › Kids Area with Punch and Judy shows, Magic shows, balloon modelling going on including and face painting › Mini Crazy Golf Course Headline performances from Finley Quaye, Neville Staple of › › Animal Sanctuary area with stalls and talks about working with and The Specials, Johnny Clarke meets Soothsayers, Talisman, campaigning for animals Dub Mafia + support from Mellow Star, The Magnus Puto & Baraka - admission free to headline acts! › Health & Weight Management Talks room, including talks from leading vegan food providers › Two Ready Steady Chef competitions - Juniors and Masters - where local professional chefs and local students cook off against each other to › Campaigns & Lifestyles Talks Room, including an update on Sea produce the best meal inside 30 minutes using plant based ingredients Shepherd from Darren Collis, info on The Black Fish, several talks from only. The Vegan Society, Viva! and other leading campaigners Cookery Demos including sensational vegetarian delicacies with Jane › The Great Veggie Sausage & Burger competitions - our visitors get to taste › the best veggie sausages and burgers on the market and vote to find the from Viva!, plus demos from cookbook author Tony Bishop Weston, champions of burgers & bangers for 2012.. Richard Fox of Love Food Hate Waste fame, Jay Morjaria, and many more. › ‘Happy Hour’ on Friday May 25th between (4pm & 6pm) - some fantastic special offers to be had on leading brands › Live acoustic music and performance during the daytimes from a selection of talented local artists, including The Performance Stage & The › Comedy Hour each day with leading comedians including Andrew Chariot of the Sun Stage O’Neill & Sarah Pascoe › Licensed bar open all day › Cheese and Wine tasting session Friday May 25th 5pm - 7pm (admission free with ticket only - please apply to the office in advance) › Tombola and Goodybags - stunning bargains to be had! Free samples and tasters from many stalls › Cookery Demos from Richard Fox of Love Food Hate Waste fame - Friday › and Saturday only - Learn how to make superb meals from very little with our TV celebrity chef. And remember - admission is FREE to the public, including our headliners each evening, and everyone is welcome to join in the fun, whatever their current › Kids Cookery Classes with resident pirate Captain James Tea Cook. dietary status Vegfestuk | 3 Vegfam - our charity of choice Vegfam is the charity of choice for VegfestUK and will receive a donation from the money collected at Bristol this Thanks from Vegfest year though our collections, tombola, and goody bags. In 2012, we collected and donated a total of £925 to Vegfam A big event like this couldn’t happen following our VegfestUK Brighton on March 17th - 18th, with without the efforts of a big, big team. So a further £600 donated during 2012 from VegfestUK team. a very large shout out to the following In 2011, VegfestUK donated a total of £860 to Vegfam. This for their massive input (and apologies includes a collection of £300 taken at Brighton VegfestUK to anyone we may have missed.... our in March 2011, £200 at Bristol in May 2011 and £360 donated gratitude is extended to you too) by VegfestUK team members throughout the course of the year. Big thanks to everyone who donated last year and we Our hosts, Bristol City Council very much hope to top that amount by some considerable way this year, targeting to raise at least £2,000 for Vegfam Our security and first aid team, Delta during 2012. Security Vegfam ‘Feeds the Hungry without Exploiting Animals’ and is Our medics team Muir Walker an excellent choice for everyone, especially for vegetarians and vegans who wish to fund projects that help alleviate Our PR teams Excellart, Mad Promotions famine and suffering in some of the poorest quarters of the and Aisling globe, though projects that are vegan and that do not involve the exploitation of animals. Our print and design team, Out Of Hand To find out more about Vegfam visit www.vegfamcharity.org. Our web team, Subzerostudios uk or visit stall number 1 at VegfestUK Bristol to pick up some further info about their work. All our sponsors, including Redwood Foods, Nakd Wholefoods, Beanies Healthfoods, Bute Island, Goodlife, Yaoh, Out Of Hand, Jason, Inside Organics, Excellart, Ecotricity and The Vegan Society Our Supporters, including, Kara Dairy Free, Amy’s Kitchen, Good Hemp, Vegusto, Tombola, Goody Bags and Collections Animal Aid, Vegan.co.uk and Happilyraw Admission to the event is completely free but of course Our Media Partners including, Flavour donations are very welcome to help keep the event free to Magazine, Inspired Times, FoodLovers the public as it continues to grow. For 2012 we are collecting Magazine VeggieVision & Excellart donations through our Collection Buckets, Goody Bags and Tombola. We are pleased to announce that we will be Our Ready Steady Chef comperes - donating 20% of everything we collect to our chosen charity Mr Tony Bishop Weston & Karin Ridgers Vegfam. Please do buy one of our Goody Bags (£5 each, containing approx £20 - £30 of goodies). And our excellent Our Ready Steady Chef team including value Tombola is only £1 a ticket and every ticket wins. Shane, Simon & Julian There are collection points on the gates and there will also be Our Tombola and Raffle donors, plus Rich, collections during the event when our team of collectors will Pete and Scot who run the Tombola and cross the event with their buckets collecting funds - please Raffle be generous with your donations! Our collectors are easy to spot as they will be wearing special t-shirts - there will be And all our lovely stallholders, without announcements on the day. Thanks for your support - we whom this event would never happen..... will publish the total funds collected on the website shortly All the people who should have been after the event. mentioned above but haven’t.... And to all the wonderful people who have VegfestUK Awards 2012 worked on this show and previous shows over the years, your input is so valuable Voting for the coveted VegfestUK awards began on March 12th when the lines opened for the public to vote for their And finally to the VegfestUK team, favourite products, people, businesses, organisations, including Tim, Fred, Lucy, Laura B, Laura projects, publications and events. The lines close on Friday B, Dean, Philippa & Chief, Joey and all May 25th at midnight. For 2012 there are 12 categories, each those that lend a hand - you know the with 10 nominees. You can view the categories, nominations coup. and updates at www.brighton.vegfest.co.uk/nominations. To vote, go to www.bristol.vegfest.co.uk/vote. Vegfestuk | 5 The Performance Stage is at the centre of the Amphitheatre right at the heart of the festival and will be running the entire weekend, with acoustic and chill out acts during the day up until 6pm when we see our 2 headliners each Performance Stage evening perform. Friday May 25th Neville Staple of the Specials Neville Staple is the lead singer of The Specials and also the founder of the Fun Boy 3.