Worcester VegFest 2012

Sunday, April 15, 2012

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

What can I expect from the 2012 VegFest?

There are free food samples or you can buy an entire meal. This is our 3rd year organizing this VegFest, so this is the year that we will really impress you. We have a new location that we will announce soon. The festival features 40-50 exhibitors, some food vendors, animal protection & environmental advocacy groups, and awesome businesses. The VegFest has kid-friendly activities, inspiring speakers, vegetarian-themed clothing and merch, cookbook authors, and live cooking demos (with samples!). The free raffle will have gift certificates, signed books, a free tattoo and other rad swag.

Speakers

The 2012 Worcester VegFest brings together top national speakers to give cooking demonstrations, discuss the latest in animal rights campaigns, cover the newest science in clinical nutrition, talk about getting involved in the vegetarian movement, and connect veganism to other social movements.

We have some really amazing speakers coming to come to Worcester to present at the VegFest. We will start posting bios and descriptions as we confirm speakers. Keep checking the blog, our facbeook page, this page to get the news about speakers.

Directions

We have a new location this year. The 2012 Worcester VegFest is at Worcester Technical High School, located at 1 Skyline Drive, Worcester, MA (map).

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Previous Worcester VegFests

2011 – We had 3000 attendees, 46 exhibitors, 4 speakers and 2 other performers, including a kid’s musician. You can also watch full video of the presentations from: Will Potter, Bruce Friedrich, Terry Hope Romero, and Tracye McQuirter.

2010 - We had 2000 attendees, 35 exhibitors, 4 speakers and 2 musical performers. Our speakers were: Erica Meier from Compassion Over Killing, Michael Greger from NutritionFacts.org, Jon Camp from Vegan Outreach, and John Sanbonmatsu from WPI.