Worcester VegFest 2010

Saturday, April 17, 2010, noon-5pm

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The Worcester VegFest is a FREE festival that brings together residents to celebrate vegetarianism–an animal-friendly, environmentally sustainable, and healthy lifestyle. Our event features socially responsible businesses, inspiring speakers, musicians, and lots of free samples of tasty vegan food.

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Speakers

The 2010 Worcester VegFest brings together top national speakers to discuss the latest in clinical nutrition, animal rights campaigns, getting involved in the vegetarian movement, and connecting veganism to other social movements.

Our four speakers are Dr. Michael Greger, Erica Meier, Jon Camp, and John Sanbonmatu.

Schedule

Noon- Quick Intro to VegFest
12:05 – Music: Midi and the Modern Dance
12:30 – Jon Camp, Vegan Outreach
1:10pm – Music: Midi and the Modern Dance
1:35pm - Erica Meier, Compassion Over Killing
2:15pm – Michael Greger, Vegan Nutrition
3pm – John Sanbonmatu, WPI
4pm – Music: Melodeego
4:50pm – Closing

Dr. Michael Greger. M.D., Humane Society, Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture
	Dr. Greger will give practical advice on how best to feed ourselves and our families to prevent, treat, and even reverse chronic disease. A perennial hit speaker at the Boston Vegetarian Festival, Dr. Greger will use an engaging interactive quiz show format that lets us test our nutrition knowledge with some surprising outcomes. He is a graduate of Cornell University School of Agriculture and Tufts University School of Medicine and is Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at The Humane Society of the United States. Dr. Greger’s presentations are described by audiences as “riveting,” “spellbinding,” and “brilliant,” and you can always count on great wit and humor. He is author of the books Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching, and Carbophobia: The Scary Truth Behind America’s Low Carb Craze, and has produced nutrition and cooking DVDs.
Erica Meier, Executive Director, Compassion Over Killing, Clark Alum
	Executive Director of Compassion Over Killing, a DC-based non-profit focused on preventing the abuse of animals on factory farms, Erica Meier will discuss national animal rights campaigns.
Jon Camp, Director of Outreach, Vegan Outreach
	Director of Vegan Outreach. Jon Camp will share ideas about how to get involved in the vegetarian movement. Jon Camp, Director of Outreach for Vegan Outreach, has spent the last six years leafleting North American campuses on behalf of Vegan Outreach’s Adopt a College campaign. In this time, he has personally handed out over a half million booklets to students at over 400 colleges in the US and Canada. To date, Vegan Outreach activists have distributed over 11 million booklets to the general public.
John Sanbonmatsu, Associate Professor of Philosophy, WPI
	John Sanbonmatsu connects animal rights with other social movements and puts veganism in the context of the broader social justice movement. He is a tenured associate professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he challenges his students to consider animals’ interests. John is the author of the book, ‘The Postmodern Prince,’ and editor of a forthcoming volume of essays on animal liberation and critical theory.

Directions

The 2010 VegFest is taking place in the Student Center at Worcester State College, located at 486 Chandler Street, Worcester, MA (map).

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Printable Flyers & Posters

Download and print these flyers and posters. Give them out to your friends. Hang them up at your school or work. Put them up when you’re out around town. (Thanks to Rhiannon Doherty for designing these.)