[quote width=”” align=”left”]Animal Friends invites you to the main square of Zagreb on September 20 on ZeGeVege [/quote][divider]– the 1st Croatian Festival of Sustainable Living – 30 exhibitors, a health-food restaurant, numerous games, whole-day entertainment and educational program with a concert by veteran vegetarian Goran Karan!
Animal Friends is organizing the 1st Croatian Festival of Sustainable Living, which will take place on September 20 on Ban Jelacic Square in Zagreb under the name of ZeGeVege.
The aim of ZeGeVege festival is to promote sustainable living, a lifestyle that uses natural resources to satisfy all human needs, without harming the environment, other living beings, or people. On the long run, sustainable living promotes the survival of all species of plants and animals, biodiversity, natural balance, and peaceful cohabitation of all human and non-human animals on this planet.
Today more than ever before, the trend of sustainable living is on the increase all over the world, which gives us hope that the harmonious coexistence of animals, humans, and the environment will also become our reality. With this festival, Animal Friends wishes to indicate that it can also be achieved in Croatia, which is supported by the fact that more than 150,000 vegetarians live in this country today.
The entertainment and educational program will last the whole day, from 10:00 A.M. until 10:00 P.M. Vice-head of the City Department for Agriculture and Forestry, Emil Tuk, will greet the visitors, while MP and vice-president of the Committee for Urban Planning and Environmental Protection, Mirela Holy, will briefly address the public on the importance of sustainable development. Guests will include the representatives of the Croatian Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction, and the Croatian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.
Illusionist Jozo Bozo will entertain the children, who can also amuse themselves by watching a puppet show or making ecological toys. The program will continue with various dancers, artists, and singers supporting the festival’s ideas, such as Lea Dekleva, Popper rock band, Dajana Mar, guitarist Miro Ljubenkov, and others, including Suzana Horvat, a vegan, and the vegetarian veteran Goran Karan, whose concert will conclude the program.
Andrew Buttler, a former PETA activist from the UK, who has recently staged a shocking campaign against shark hunt in London, will contribute to the festival with his performance against animal testing.
Besides 30 exhibition stalls and a rich offer of vegetarian food to taste, guests will be able to purchase healthy meals at promotional prices at the vegetarian restaurant. All those who purchase a meal will enter the competition round, with a chance of winning a weekend for two at the vegetarian hotel on the island of Iz, various packages of sponsors, or even our special prize: a vegetarian lunch on a sailing boat, with a day at the beach on the island of Krk.
Festival visitors will be able to see an electricity producing windmill, an electro-bicycle, and a recycling yard, as will be given the chance to educate themselves on the importance of garbage separation. There will also be a performance on the problem of plastic bags, accentuating the need of legally prohibiting their distributions, in which Croatia should follow numerous countries and towns abroad that have already issued such regulations.
The main sponsor of ZeGeVege is the City of Zagreb, while others include Encian, Gea, Metro Express, Vecernji list, Net.hr, Zale, Vectordesign, Arto, Europlakat, Libertis, Meridijan, and Biovega. The exhibitors are: Alpro, Annapurna, Aromateka, Artas, Bernardin vrt, Bio-Q, Biomedis, Drustvo za osvoboditev zivali, Dvostruka duga, Eco inicijativa, Eco pozitiva, Eko proizvod, Ekoigracke, eco-agricultural producers Lovrec Violeta, Zlata and Marijan Radanec, and Zeljko Prvcic, Encian, Freedom for Animals from Belgrade, Gea, Glas zivotinja, Green Action, Kisko natura, Labud, Lush, OPG Vladimir Sinko, Repro eko, the Shelter for Abandoned Animals in Dumovec, Tomar, Valsoia, the Waldorf school, Weleda, and Zrno.
[quote width=”” align=”left”]Prijatelji životinja pozivaju 20. rujna na glavni zagrebački trg na ZeGeVege – 1. hrvatski festival održivog življenja [/quote][divider]- 30 izlagača, restoran zdrave hrane, nagradne igre, cjelodnevni program na pozornici, koncert dugogodišnjeg vegetarijanca Gorana Karana!
Udruga Prijatelji životinja organizira 1. hrvatski festival održivog življenja koji će se pod nazivom ZeGeVege održati 20. rujna na zagrebačkom Trgu bana Jelačića.
Cilj ZeGeVege festivala je promovirati održivi način življenja kojim se pri korištenju prirodnih resursa u svrhu ispunjavanja ljudskih potreba ne narušava okoliš, život ostalih životinja i dobrobit ljudi. Održivi način življenja dugoročno omogućuje opstanak biljnih i životinjskih vrsta, bioraznolikost, prirodnu ravnotežu i miran suživot svih ljudi i ostalih životinjskih vrsta na planetu.
Danas više nego ikada ranije u svijetu raste trend održivog načina življenja koji dokazuje da skladan suživot između životinja, ljudi i okoliša treba postati naša stvarnost. Ovim festivalom Prijatelji životinja žele pokazati da je takvo što moguće i u Hrvatskoj, a i sama činjenica da u Hrvatskoj već živi preko 150.000 vegetarijanaca ide tome u prilog.
Na pozornici će se odvijati cjelodnevni program s početkom u 10 sati, do navečer u 22 sata. Posjetitelje festivala pozdravit će pročelnik Gradskog ureda za poljoprivredu i šumarstvo, gospodin Emil Tuk. Saborska zastupnica i potpredsjednica Odbora za prostorno uređenje i zaštitu okoliša, dr. sc. Mirela Holy, održat će kratak govor o važnosti održivog razvoja.
Najmlađe će zabavljati mađioničar Jozo Bozo, a djeca će moći pogledati i lutkarsku predstavu te izrađivati ekološke igračke. U nastavku programa nastupat će razni plesači, umjetnici i pjevači koji su se odazvali i podržali festival kao što je Lea Dekleva, rock band Popper, Dajana Mar, poznati gitarist Miro Ljubenkov i drugi. Na Festivalu će nastupati veganka Suzana Horvat, a program završava koncertom dugogodišnjeg vegetarijanca Gorana Karana.
Iz Velike Britanije na festival dolazi Andrew Butler, nekadašnji aktivist PETA-e koji je nedavno u Londonu organizirao šokantnu kampanju protiv lova morskih pasa, a u Zagreb donosi performans protiv pokusa na životinjama.
Uz štandove 30 izlagača s raznolikom ponudom i degustacijama bit će postavljen vegetarijanski restoran koji će nuditi zdrave obroke po promotivnim cijenama. Svi koji kupe obrok u restoranu sudjeluju u nagradnoj igri, te mogu osvojiti kao prvu nagradu vikend za dvoje u vegetarijanskom hotelu na otoku Ižu, poklon pakete sponzora ili posebnu nagradu: vegetarijanski ručak na jedrilici uz kupanje na otoku Krku.
Na festivalu će biti izložena vjetrenjača za proizvodnju električne energije i električni bicikl i postavljeno reciklažno dvorište u svrhu edukacije građana o važnosti razvrstavanja otpada.
U sklopu festivala održat će se slikovit performans na temu plastičnih vrećica, a udruge će stavljati naglasak na zakonsku zabranu plastičnih vrećica po uzoru na mnoge države i gradove u svijetu koji su već donijeli takvu odluku.
Pokrovitelj ZeGeVege festivala je Grad Zagreb, sponzori su Encian, Gea, Metro Express, Večernji list, Net.hr, Zale, Vectordesign, Arto, Europlakat, Libertis, Meridian, Biovega, a izlagači su Alpro, Annapurna, Aromateka, Artas, Bernardin vrt, Bio-Q, Biomedis, Dvostruka duga, Udruga Eco inicijativa, Eco pozitiva, Eko proizvod, Ekoigračke, Eko-poljoprivrednica Lovrec Violeta, Eko-poljoprivrednici Zlata i Marijan Radanec, Eko-poljoprivrednik Željko Prvčić, Encian, Gea, Glas životinja, Kisko natura, Labud, Lush, OPG Vladimir Šinko, Repro eko, Sklonište za napuštene životinje Dumovec, Sloboda za životinje iz Beograda, Tomar, Valsoia, Waldorfska škola, Weleda, Zelena akcija, Zrno i Pomozimo hrtovima.
