World Vegetarian Day 2008 and 2007
World Vegetarian Day – October 1st
World Vegetarian Day 2008
This year Auckland and Christchurch celebrated with Food & Lifestyle Festivals on the weekend before October 1st, Gisborne members enjoyed a cruise on World Vegetarian Day, and local groups met to socialise together. Look for reports of all these events inVegetarian Living NZ.
Auckland
Vegetarian Food and Lifestyle Festival
Sunday 28 September 10 am – 4 pm
Mt Eden War Memorial Hall, 487 Dominion Rd, Balmoral
The festival was another vibrant and fun vegetarian event with even more stalls this year. Cafés, food tasting, cooking demos and lifestyle products. For further details please see the Auckland Centre website, phone the Vegetarian Centre 523 4686 or e-mail us. Stallholders information and the talk and cooking demonstration timetable is available on the Auckland page. Thank you all for coming along.
Gisborne
Cruise on the tug boat MV Takatimu
Over 25 people joined in this fun cruise, including both members of the
Vegetarian Society and others interested in finding out
about vegetarianism – a great chance to celebrate World Vegetarian
Day, celebrate nature and see Gisborne City from a different perspective.
World Vegetarian Day 1 October 2008, 5.30pm to 7.30pm
ChristchurChristchurch
Christchurch Vegetarian Food and Lifestyle Expo 2008
Sunday 28 September
10-4.30pm
The Horticultural Centre, Riccarton Rd, Hagley Park
(opposite the Public Hospital)
Thank you all for coming!
For vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike
stalls
food
cookery demos
café
films
workshops
vege sausage sizzle
vegan ice cream stand
For further details, go directly to our Expo page
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2007
Every year vegetarians around the world observe World Vegetarian Day to celebrate a healthy, compassionate and environmentally friendly way of life.
In 2007 we joined together in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Gisborne to celebrate!
Auckland
Auckland Vegetarian Food & Lifestyle Festival
Sunday September 30th 2007 10am to 4pm
(opposite Potters Park)
Congratulations to Polly Sharman of Titirangi, who was the winner of the Auckland Food and Lifestyle Raffle!
Thank you to everyone who helped make this day such a success.
View the photos here
Once again we had a day buzzing with energy and enjoyment, at the Mt Eden War Memorial Hall in Auckland.
Over 1400 people visited the 23 stalls, sampling and buying a variety of delicious vegetarian and vegan foods; attending the cooking demonstrations and taking away yummy recipes to try at home; experiencing the relaxing health benefits of reflexology; gathering information about the vegetarian lifestyle and related health, environmental and animal welfare issues…. it was a very busy and exciting scene, filling people with warmth, friendship and lots of ideas to try at home.
The coup of the day was not one, but two cooking demonstrations by Peter Chaplin, a high profile international chef who used to cook for the stars in Hollywood, with the demonstration room packed to capacity and inspiration at an all time high and Alessandra Zecchini, Food Editor of the NZ Gardener, with her Italian slant on vegetarian cooking. Our other demonstrators, Peter Low (E-PACS Super Mart), and Rita from Blissful Health were equally entertaining and appreciated, promoting an Asian style of Alternative vegetarian protein foods.
Some of the instant feedback received on the day:
Many thanks and when will you do another one — I came back to go to Alessandra’s cooking demo again this year as I enjoyed it so much last year! Will you do one of these at Christmas time — I loved Peter Low’s sense of humour in his cooking demo — See you again next year — You will have to find another venue to make this bigger (haha) — I love this Festival and the atmosphere — To think that all these people are interested in vegetarianism …….
Three Minute Review
Gisborne
Picnic in the Vines with Wrights Wines
Sunday, 30 September 2007
12 noon
232 Ormond Valley Road, Gisborne
Help celebrate World Vegetarian Day and check out our organic vineyard. . . Rain or shine. Bring some vegetarian food to share. BBQ equipment supplied. A chance to try the newly released Wrights Wines’ Unoaked Chardonnay.
RSVP to Geoff or Nicola by 29 September 2007 by email or phone (06) 8680967
Wellington
Wellington Vegetarian Food & Lifestyle Festival
Saturday September 29th 2007
St Johns in the City, Cnr Willis and Dixon Streets.
Free entry.
Join us to celebrate World Vegetarian Day with an exciting range of stalls covering everything from vegetarian cookery demonstrations and tastings, lifestyle products, cruelty-free beauty products, to nutritional information. View documentaries played on a big screen being run throughout the day, and hear informative speakers talk about human health, the environmental effects of food production, new education initiatives in schools, animal health, and animal rights.
Ph. 04 478 4665 or email for more details
Christchurch
Christchurch Vegetarian Food and Lifestyle Expo
Sunday September 30th 2007
(on the corner of North Parade & Shirley Road opposite the Palms Shopping Mall.)
11am opening by vegetarian Cabinet Minister Ruth Dyson with a 4pm finish.
Free entry but gold coin donation appreciated.
Vegetarian sausage sizzle, a variety of vegetarian lifestyle stalls, yummy vegetarian food stalls, information displays, prominent vegetarian businesses and artists featured, café, cookery demonstrations, films, great music, free giveaways and much more.
Phone 03 338 6625 or email for more details.
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Every year our members celebrate World Vegetarian Day and in 2006 the Auckland Centre planned our very first festival.