Visitors can register to attend here.
Access to the event is Free of charge.
The show opens to the public at 10am Saturday August 15th. At this point you will be able to log in with your registration details to attend the show. The show stays open with live features until 11pm, and then again from 10am until 11pm Sunday August 16th. The ‘live’ functions of the show then close, but the show remains accessible for a further month, until September 15th 2020, for visitors to revisit the show, the exhibitors, and the auditorium.
On entering the event, visitors will land in the Lobby. From there, visitors can access The Exhibitors Hall, the Auditorium, and The Lounge, as well as The Information Desk
The Information Desk
– Clearly visible in the Lobby, visitors and exhibitors can access the Information Desk at any time to request replies to any questions that may arise during the event. The Information Desk is staffed by both the event platform team for technical issues and the VegfestUK team for any other areas.
The Exhibitors Hall
open throughout the show, the Exhibitors Hall will house the stallholders, their brands, products services and information. Visitors can browse the individual stalls and then ‘visit’ a stall to access products and services information as well as shop, and chat directly to stallholders via live message and video function. The Live features (Shop, Video, Live message function)stay open for the duration of the event until 11pm Sunday Augsut 16th, the other features of the stall remain accessible for a further month (access to product information, contact details)
The Auditorium
will house both the Livestreams and the Presentations. The Livestreams will be running consecutively and will commence at a pre arranged time, using a Zoom format, and lasting between one hour and one hour thirty. They will be streamed live, and be available to watch again a few hours later. The Presentations are pre recorded, hosted in featured areas and available to watch at any time. The Presentations will generally be shorter, between 10 minutes and half an hour (they may be shorter or longer). The Speakers may well advertise their presence at a pre arranged time in the Lounge for a live chat room facility to answer questions from visitors. The Auditorium stays open for 30 days after the event closes to enable visitors to revisit and rewatch talks, presentations and performances
Chat Rooms
Visitors will find the featured chat rooms in the Lounge, where they can meet like minded people and discuss the talks, exhibitors, speakers and other aspects. The Chat rooms will generally be hosted by some of the speakers and experts in the featured area, and individual speakers will be advertising their presence at specific times to enable visitors to come and chat if they wish. The Lounge is only open until the close of the event on Sunday 16th August
Time Zones
Please note all times are BST. To convert this into your timezone, please sue this function here if required www.thetimezoneconverter.com/
Please do visit our stallholders, browse and shop!
If you have enjoyed the show and would like to make a small donation towards the costs of the event, especially the workload to make this possible, as well as fees for performers, you are very welcome via our Friends of VegfestUK initiative
What’s On in The Auditorium?
Vegan Womens Leadership Network
Plant Based Health Professionals UK
Fitness – Strength, Endurance, Recovery
New Vegan Support
The Animal Rights Academy
Animal Rebellion
Comedy
Music
Karin’s Super Celebrity Summerfest Special
Global Veganism
Cookery Demo Theatre
Professional Catering
Vegan Business
The Art of Compassion Project Display
Vegan Womens Leadership Network
LiveStream 11am Saturday Hosted by Katrina Fox
”Finding your voice as a leader in the vegan and animal advocacy movements”
With Alokparna Sengupta Kathy Divine Clare Mann Carolina Galvani
LiveStream 11am Sunday Hosted by Katrina Fox
”Vegan women making a difference in business”
With Dr. Dalal AlGhawas Jecks Stone Susanne Kirlew Melissa Hobbs Jessica Bailey
Presentations (available on-demand)
Kathy Divine ”Navigating Activism as a Vegan with Disabilities” (Chat Room 11am – 12 midday Saturday & Sunday)
Coral Sirett ”How to feel body confident on a plant-based diet” (Chat Room 1 – 2pm and 5-6pm Saturday & Sunday)
Jecks Stone ”3 Rooms To Veganise First In Your Home” (Chat Room 10pm – 11pm Sunday)
Celena Pirela ”An Afro- Rican’s Take on Veganism and Yoga” (Chat Room 11am – 12 midday Sunday)
Clare Mann ”Finding Hope in a Time of Chaos
Susan Hargreaves ”5 steps to Empowering Youth to Vegan Advocacy”
Jackie Norman ”Effective Strategies for Vegan Activism – From a Former Dairy and Beef Farmer”
Plant Based Health Professionals UK
LiveStream 3pm Saturday
“Health and Wellbeing in the time of Corona“
Hosted by Leila Dehghan, with panelists
Dr Shireen Kassam Dr Alan Desmond Dr Minil Patel
Dr Laura-Jane Smith Amaeze Madukah Simone Venner
(Chat Room discussion 5pm – 6pm Saturday)
Presentations (available on-demand)
Heather Russell ” Vegan Nutrition during Childhood”
Dr Shireen Kassam – ”Plant based advantage for cancer prevention and recurrence” (Chat Room 4pm – 5pm Saturday)
Dr Shireen Kassam – ”The Truth about Nutrition and Health – Seeing the Wood from the Trees” (Chat Room 2pm – 3pm Saturday)
Leila Dehghan – ”Plant Based Nutrition for Vegan Athletes” (Chat Room 5pm – 6pm Sunday)
Rohini Bajekal ”Things You Need to Know Before Going Vegan” (Chat Room 3pm – 4pm Sunday)
Leila Dehghan – “How to support your vegan clients in the community”
Mick Walker – ”Preventing and Reversing Chronic Disease using an optimal vegan diet”
Dr Gemma Newman ”Nutrition and Mental Health: Mood Food and the Power of Plants”
Dr Sue Kenneally ”Plant-based diets for pain”
Andrew Davies ”How Not To Become An ICU Patient” (Chat Room 11am – 12 midday Saturday & Sunday)
Fitness – Strength, Endurance, Recovery
LiveStream 4.30pm Saturday Hosted by Dave Sheahan
”Plant Based Fitness: Strength, Endurance, Recovery” With Robert Cheeke Kate Strong Nathan Loughton Annie Connolly
LiveStream Competition 4.30pm Sunday Hosted by Dave Sheahan & Nathan Loughton
Presentations (available on-demand)
Dave Sheahan ”Why Adopting A Vegan Lifestyle Takes Performance And Recovery To Another Level” (Chat Room 7pm – 8pm Saturday & Sunday)
New Vegan Support
LiveStream 3pm Sunday Hosted by The Vegan Approach
‘New Vegan Support’
With Isobel Hutchinson Sam Calvert Liz Readle Rob Masterson
Presentations (available on-demand)
Isobel Hutchinson ”Why vegan? Six simple reasons to give veganism a try” (Chat Room 12pm – 1pm Sunday)
Liz Readle ”The Vegan Approach to Nutrition” (Chat Room 1pm – 2pm Saturday & Sunday)
Rob Masterson ‘6 steps to going vegan’ (Chat Room Saturday 12 noon to
1pm and Sunday 11am to 12 noon)
Veganuary – Peter Egan – ”Short introduction to Veganuary”
Veganuary – Jasmine Harman – ”Short introduction to Veganuary”
Heather Russell ”Vegan nutrition mythbusting”
The Animal Rights Academy
LiveStream 1pm Saturday Hosted by The Animal Rights Show
” Getting Active: How to Best Help Our Fellow Animals”
Presentations (available on-demand)
The Animal Rights Show ”What is Rights-based Animal Rights?”
The Animal Rights Show ”The Animal Rights Show Unplugged”
Dr Roger Yates ”From the Founders to the Future: What is Veganism?”
Paul Gravett ”How Special Branch Spied On the Animal Rights Movement” (Chat Room – 11am – 5pm Saturday & Sunday)
Harold Brown – Declan Bowens – Roger Yates ”From Animal Farming to Vegan Activist” (Chat Room 6pm – 7pm Saturday )
Jessamy Korotoga ”Animal Experiments: A beginner’s guide” (Chat Room 3pm – 4pm Saturday & Sunday)
Dr Roger Yates ”And If You Know Your History….”- Blog series tracing the history of the development of the Vegan Social Movement”
Friend Farm Animal Sanctuary ”Virtual Tour of FRIEND Farm Animal Sanctuary”
Animal Rebellion
LiveStream 6.00 pm Sunday Hosted by Animal Rebellion
with Shanthuru Premkumar Billie Savage Kanon T Jimena López Arizmendi Marina Patterson Rose Patterson Mel Mai Natalia Twerd Phillip Murphy
(Chat Room discussion 8pm – 9pm Sunday)
Presentations (available on-demand)
Claudia Penna Rojas ”Plant-based Future – What, Why & What’s Next?”
Comedy
LiveStream 6.00pm Saturday Hosted by Mike Kelson
Performances
Drew Cameron ”Comedy Impressions: Celebrity lookalikes and Comedy Impressions”
Luke Poulton ”Vegan Luke” (Chat Room 1pm – 2pm Saturday & Sunday)
Mike Kelson ”Welcome to Summerfest 5 minute intro” (Chat Room 7pm – 8pm Saturday)
Ishi Khan ”Stand up Comedy” (Chat Room 4pm – 5pm Saturday & Sunday)
Adele Cliff – Stand Up Comedy” (Chat Room 3pm – 4pm Sunday)
Karin’s Super Celebrity Summerfest Special
Livestream 7.30 pm Saturday Hosted by Karin Ridgers
Host Karin Ridgers introduces a truly awesome panel of celebrity guests for her Summerfest Special at 7:30pm Saturday live including …..
Nathan King Wendy Turner – Webster Gary Webster Hector Bateman-Harden Victoria Summer Carol Royle Tally Spear
Music
Livestream 9.00 pm Saturday
Adamski – Summerfest Set ( Includes a live chat with Adamski with Karin Ridgers before an hour long Summerfest Special set from Adamski)
Livestream 10.15 pm Saturday
Live from LA USA The Wake Up Experience (includes a Live 15 minute Chat with TWUE before a 30 minute live set)
Livestream 9.00pm Sunday
”In Concert with Macka B’ (Includes a live chat with Macka B with Karin Ridgers before an hour long Summerfest Special set from Macka B)
Performances
Barbara Helen – Through Vegan Eyes
Jen Armstrong ”Queen V – Vegan Music”
Andy Prince ”Andy Prince on Chapman Stick live at The Enchanted Market 2020”
Ian Haywood ”Music and videos from Ian Haywood” (Chat Room 11am – 12 midday Saturday & Sunday)
Mitchell & Vincent ”Folk music from our workshops!”
Global Veganism
Livestream 7.30 pm Sunday Hosted by Tim Barford & Karin Ridgers
With special guests Cina Ebrahimi Simohamed Bouhakkaoui Christine Vardaros Jay Brave Sheila Hanney
Presentations (available on-demand)
Tim Barford ””Going Global: The Development of the Vegan Social Movement””
Dan Graham – ”The Vegan Organic Network Roadtrip’ (Chat Room 7pm – 8pm Saturday & Sunday)
Olivado An Introduction to Olivado
Cookery Demo Theatre
LiveStream 1pm Sunday Hosted by Chef Day Radley
Chef Day Radley ”Live cooking demo – BBQ proof burgers!” (Chat Room 3pm – 4pm Saturday & Sunday)
Presentations (available on-demand)
Sara Kidd – ”Cake decorating demo for a Naked Chocolate Cake with Fudge and a simple flower arrangement” (Chat Room 8pm – 11pm Saturday & Sunday)
Zacchary Bird – ”Cookery Demo” (Chat Room 11am – 2pm, 9pm – 10pm Saturday & Sunday)
Tony Bishop – Weston ”You’re lucky! They Didn’t Have Things like This in My Day – 4 Different Types of Chocolate Mousse”
Danielle Maupertuis ”A vegan, gluten-free Pineapple, coconut and chocolate crumble” (Chat Room 2pm – 3pm Saturday)
Nishma Shah ”Spice it up! Gujarati daal – a flavour bomb!” (Chat Room 5pm – 6pm Sunday)
Ania Wojtkowska ”Plant Based Persian Feast – cooking demo” (Chat Room – 11am – 5pm Saturday & Sunday)
Juliette Bryant ”Wild Foods And How To Use Them” (Chat Room Sunday 2pm – 3pm)
Juliette Bryant ”Foods For Positive Mental Health” (Chat Room Sunday 4pm – 5pm)
Professional Catering
Presentations (available on-demand)
(Chat Room discussion 5pm–6pm Saturday and Sunday)
Kieran Whitehouse ”Care Catering SoundBites”
Justina Bajorinaite ”Meat-free 101 with Chef Justina”
Alex Connell ”Vegan baking with Chef Alex”
Oliver Bragg ”Vegan cheese-making with Chef Ollie”
Alex Connell ”Dietary diversity and inclusivity in care menu planning with Chef Alex”
Vegan Business
Presentations
David Pannell ”How to have a successful vegan business”
One Planet Pizza ”Pivoting your business in challenging times”
Olivado An Introduction to Olivado
The Art of Compassion Project Display
A number of the exhibiting artists are available in the Art of Compassion Project Chat Room at the following times. Visitors are invited to drop by and say hello
(Please note all times are BST. To convert this into your timezone, please sue this function here if required www.thetimezoneconverter.com/)
SATURDAY
10:00 – 11:00 Lynda Bell (New Zealand) 11:00 – 12:00 Jo Hanna (Australia) 13:00 – 14:00 Jerry Drave (Germany) 14:00 – 15:00 Sehrish Malik (UK)
15:00 – 16:00 Ferchis (Bolivia) 16:00 – 17:00 Angela Sato (Peru) 17:00 – 18:00 Georgina Davenport (UK) 18:00 – 19:00 Evelyn Suttle (Ireland)
19:00 – 20:00 FKearns Artist (UK) 20:00 -21:00 Beth Redwood (USA) 21:00 – 22:00 Katrīna Tračuma (Northern Ireland)
SUNDAY
10:00 – 11:00 Stephanie Anderson (UK) 11:00 – 12:00 Violeta Mateu (Spain) 12:00 – 13:00 Pedro Allemant (Australia) 13:00 – 14:00 Katharina Tinkl (UK)
15:00 – 16:00 Francisco Atencio (Argentina) 17:00-19:00 Leigh Sanders (Founder & Director of The Art of Compassion Project)
20:00 – 21:00 Bryanna Claire Buie (USA) 21:00 .- 22:00 Karen M Fiorito (USA) 22:00 – 23:00 Kabuby (Peru)
Visitors can pre-register to attend here.
Access to the event is Free of charge.
The show opens to the public at 10am Saturday August 15th.
Please do visit our stallholders, browse and shop!
If you have enjoyed the show and would like to make a small donation towards the costs of the event, especially the workload to make this possible, you are very welcome via our Friends of VegfestUK initiative
VegfestUK Summerfest Online 2020 welcomes a broad selection of participants including exhibitors with the latest vegan products and services, a number of speakers and topics surrounding the many facets of veganism and plant based diets, live streams featuring panels and performance, including headline acts, musicians, DJ’s and comedians.
