60 stalls of food, wine and cruelty free products. 2 stages of live entertainment, cooking demos and kids' entertainment

Free entry, 100% vegan

10am-5pm Sunday 2nd November 2008
Belmore Park, Hay St, Haymarket (next to Central Station, across Eddy Avenue)

www.crueltyfreefestival.org.au

I'll be there ... I might bake cupcakes and cookies to donate for the stall depending on my uni schedule. Should be a good day, a good chance to show Sydney that being vegan doesn't mean having pale skin and eating chickpeas! :nana:

ahh so looking forward to it and hope I can help out in some way. Regardless, it's going to be great, will be nice to have a more spacious location and I'm keen to see what Heartbreak Club are like live.

There's nothing quite like not needing to read ingredients lists.
[Their myspace] (http://www.myspace.com/crueltyfreelivingfestival)

I've seen The Black Stars a few times, they aren't bad! I find non-purpose built outdoor concerts are generally pretty average though ... poor acoustics etc.

I'd love to fly over for this but it clashes with another event for me - same thing happened last year :brood:

Oh, excellent. I'll definitely go. I might even bring some friends along.

YAY, I'm soooo excited about this!!!! My mum's gonna come in with me hehe.

I'm excited about seeing Rachael Brady perform! You guys should go to her music myspace profile!

I'm gonna go in there early and spend all day there!! :p hehe

I hope there's still plenty of dogs around. Inner city, could decrease the numbers...sitting next to a dog during Jeffrey Masson's talk last year was honestly one of the highlights for me. Love them! It'd be alright to bump into some of you other veg*ns as well I guess :p

From Vegan Society email:


How you can help
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If you know someone in the following areas who might be willing to
donate their time or services for the Festival we'd love to hear from you:
- Hire of stages, stalls, portaloos, bins, marquee, security or sound equipment
- A well known band to headline the festival and help draw an even bigger crowd
- People with RSA certificates to volunteer behind the bar on the day
- Printing of flyers, posters and banners*
- Contacts with magazines or newspapers for Festival promotion
- Potential stallholders and sponsors
- Volunteers to help distribute posters and flyers
- Volunteers on the day
Companies providing these services will be entitled to receive
sponsorship recognition on all Festival promotional material
If you are able to help in any way or have any queries about the
Festival please contact Jessica.
With the new outdoor venue, this year's festival is set to be the biggest yet!
The Cruelty Free Living Festival www.crueltyfreefestival.org.au
Animal Liberation (NSW) www.animal-lib.org.au
Ph: Jessica (02) 9799 4776 or 0400 823 030

I'd love to fly over for this but it clashes with another event for me - same thing happened last year :brood:

mate, i reckon that was wvd not cff. not that it really matters, just upping my post count. ha :juggle:

Wow... I would love to go to an event like this...
You lucky Aussies!

Wow... I would love to go to an event like this...
You lucky Aussies!

It will be interesting to see if it is as good as it sounds. They don't seem to have a lot of stallholders yet, mostly the usual suspects. It would be upsetting if there were a lot of empty stalls or if the festival was small, it wouldn't work in a promotional manner!

I'm going to volunteer to do some letterboxing though. Might be able to get some of the inner westies (middle class types) to the event!

Our local temple has a vegetarian food fair each year at around new years. Last year I went it was packed out. It goes for a few days. Being new year's they have quite a few other events at the same time but the food fair is always popular.

Our local temple has a vegetarian food fair each year at around new years. Last year I went it was packed out. It goes for a few days. Being new year's they have quite a few other events at the same time but the food fair is always popular.

It does seem like vegetarianism/veganism are becoming more popular, most people I work with have committed to reducing their meat intake to once or twice a week. Even though they haven't gone the whole way, it shows they are thinking about it.

mate, i reckon that was wvd not cff. not that it really matters, just upping my post count. ha :juggle:


You're right dood it was - I think my Olney's might be joining up http://www.comicguide.net/images/smilies/lol1.gif

Whoever's going on the day - want to get together for lunch? :D

I wish I could afford the money for a plane ticket :(! A friend of me goes to sidney for a couple of months and that lucky bastard will be able to go there too...

That sucks, insanOr. :( You'll have to get your friend to post lots of pics from the day of the festival! :)

My mum (new vegan hehe), my omni friend and my (hopefully) omni sister and my 3 month old niece are coming :D

There better be vegan makeup there! I need some badly :p

Im really excited about the festival ^_^
I really enjoyed myself the last 2 times, there was lots of great food and entertainment =D

It'll be interesting to see it in an outdoor setting. Hopefully bigger, better and...uncut? :-/

Im really excited about the festival ^_^
I really enjoyed myself the last 2 times, there was lots of great food and entertainment =D

It'll be interesting to see it in an outdoor setting. Hopefully bigger, better and...uncut? :-/

Hello newbie!! :D :pibo:

I didn't go to the festival last year at Petersham because I thought I'd get lost getting there :lol:

I'm really excited about the festival this Sunday too, I've never felt so excited in my life, I think! :confused: ;) hehe.

Hello Lisa :hi:

I totally understand what you mean about getting lost hehe. Luckily i had a friend to come with me (getting lost is alot less traumatising when you have somebody to get lost with! :p) but it wasnt too bad finding the place (thank goodness).

I really hope there is going to be a cheezly stall again this year. Have you tried any of the cheezly vegan cheeses? Absolutely incredible! The only soy cheese ive tried which actually comes close to the taste of real cheese. I was a huge cheese eater before i turned vegan so good vegan cheese is a heaven sent for me :smitten:

Cheezly vegan cheeses are nice? :D Cool. I'm scared to try them. Pretty sad on my part LOL.

I REALLY need to find good vegan cheese :( lol My mum (who's been vegan for 8 days) would be happy too ;) lol

Bringing any friends/family along on Sunday? :D

I dont blame you for being scared to try soy cheese...most of them are horrible :down:

But you really must give Cheezly a go. There are a few different kinds, the mozarella and edam are fantastic for pizza and lasagna dishes :drool:

There is a place called Basil Pizza on king street in Newtown which offers vegan pizza and they use cheezly, you should check it out! They even have vegan pepperoni :D (though you need to ask for it). PLUS they make a killer vegan hot chocolate and offer a couple of free cookies to go along with it. YUM :rockon:

I have one vegan friend who is coming along to the festival and im trying to get another vegetarian friend on board, though she isnt sure because of uni exams. Id love for my sister to come along but she lives in wollongong :down:

i'll so be there.

Oh, how much I miss my lasagna lol I need to make it ;) :pibo:

Basil Pizza? Oh nice!!!! Are you vegan, btw? Vegan pepperoni, wow! Nice? We should meet up in the near future and go there! oohh, i should put this idea in the sydney meet up thread! lol. If the cookies aren't vegan, I can make my own. :) Cookies rule!! :rockon: LOL

Your vegan friend is coming, awesome!! My sister can no longer come, because she has to start work at 9.30pm on Sunday night. Sucks. Mum and I will have to ask my brother and his girlfriend if they wanna come with us! We'll have to reassure them that mum and I aren't trying to convert them to vegan, or vegetarian for that matter! :p hehe.

i'll so be there.

Welcome to the forum, brian! I hope we meet! We should all meet up for a laugh! hehe :rockon: