[quote width=”” align=”left”]Animal Friends invites you to the Zagreb main square on Saturday, September 20, to ZeGeVege [/quote][divider]– the 1st Croatian Festival of Sustainable Living – From 10 A.M. until 10 P.M. with numerous exhibitors and a whole-day program on stage and around it, citizens will be able to find out more about the sustainable way of life and can enjoy in the concert of the famous Croatian vegetarian Goran Karan
At the ZeGeVege Festival there will be a health food restaurant which will offer vegan meals at promotional prices: veggie goulash, rice pasta with tofu and vegetables, as well as the cakes healthy apricot and chocolate cubes with a free Smart beverage. The meals will be served in fully biodegradable corn-based dishes. All the visitors of ZeGeVege Festival will be given booklets with recipes and useful advice on sustainable living.
The restaurant visitors will enter a competition round with abundant prizes. The first prize is a weekend for two at the vegetarian hotel Korinjak on the island of Iz, followed by valuable Encian, Alpro, Labud, and Kisko prize packages as well as the special prize, a vegetarian lunch for two on the Macrocruise sailing boat along with a day on the beach on the island of Krk.
Thirty stalls with exhibitors from different fields like health food, cosmetics and cleansers not tested on animals and ecological products will be available. Home and foreign organizations for animal rights and ecology will be presented along with others who will offer useful information to citizens, together with sampling and promotional sales. Then there is the Eco-toys stall with its humanitarian nature from which a part of the profit will go to the SMA.T organization – an organization of parents with children suffering from spinal muscular atrophy and tracheotomy. All the stalls will be lighted with low energy light bulbs which save energy and last longer than regular ones and in that way contribute to environmental protection.
The whole-day program of the ZeGeVege festival begins at 10 A.M. with an introductory greeting of the vice-head of the City Department for Agriculture and Forestry, Emil Tuk, and Mirela Holy, who will also briefly address the public together with Drago Plecko to talk about the importance of sustainable living.
Jozo Bozo, the illusionist, will entertain the youngest visitors in the morning, and the children will be able to watch a puppet show and make ecological toys at the Eco-toys stall. The long-time PETA activist and present coordinator for Lush cosmetics Andrew Butler will also perform on stage. In addition, there will be performances from dance groups Adams, Senzala, Rock ‘N’ Roll gymnasium, Tequila Mosquitos, jugglers Artistika and musicians: hip-hop artist SixthSense from California, singer and songwriter Dajana Mar, guitarist Miro Ljubenkov, Zagreb rock-band Popper, songwriter and singer Lea Dekleva, and the group Feminem. At this festival, singer, songwriter and vegan Suzana Horvat will also perform.
The concert of the long-time vegetarian Goran Karan will conclude the program.
The petition for the prohibition of selling plastic bags will be launched at the festival and a tree full of unwanted garbage will be set up in order to visually attract attention to the necessity of solving of this ecological issue.
Besides a power generating windmill and an electro-bicycle, a recycling yard will be set up and citizens will be able to watch video productions on vegetarian diet and animal rights in a separate tent.
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: Annapurna, Aromateka, Artas, Bernardin vrt, Bio-imanje Zrno, Biomedis, Drustvo za osvoboditev zivali in njihove pravice from Slovenia, Dvostruka duga, Eco pozitiva, Eko proizvod, Ekoigracke, Eko-natura, Encian, Gea, Kisko natura, Labud, Lush, OPG Lovrec Violeta, OPG Radanec, OPG Vladimir Sinko, Repro eko, the Shelter for Abandoned Animals in Dumovec, Freedom for Animals from Belgrade, Tomar, Eco inicijativa, Pomozimo hrtovima, Valsoia, the Waldorf school, Weleda, Zazivali! from Maribor, Zdrav zivot from Serbia.
[quote width=”” align=”left”]Prijatelji životinja pozivaju u subotu, 20. rujna, na zagrebački Trgu bana Josipa Jelačića gdje će se održati 1. hrvatski festival održivog življenja[/quote][divider]- Od 10 sati ujutro do 22 sata navečer uz brojne izlagače i cjelodnevni program na pozornici i oko nje građani će moći na zanimljiv način doznati više o održivom načinu življenja i poslušati koncert vegetarijanca Gorana Karana
Na ZeGeVege festivalu bit će postavljen restoran zdrave hrane koji će nuditi veganske obroke po promotivnim cijenama: vege gulaš, tjestenina od riže s tofuom i povrćem i kolači zdrava marelica i čokoladne kocke, a uz to dolazi i gratis Smart napitak. Obroci će biti servirani u potpuno biorazgradivim posudama na bazi kukuruza. Svi posjetitelji ZeGeVege festivala dobit će brošuru s receptima i korisnim savjetima o održivom načinu življenja.
Posjetitelji restorana sudjeluju u nagradnoj igri s bogatim nagradama. Glavna nagrada je vikend za dvoje u vegetarijanskom hotelu Korinjak na otoku Ižu, vrijedni poklon paketi Encian, Alpro, Labud i Kisko, a kao posebnu nagradu vegetarijanski ručak na jedrilici Macrocruise uz kupanje na otoku Krku za dvije osobe.
Na 30 štandova nizat će se izlagači zdrave hrane, kozmetike i sredstava za čišćenje koja nisu testirana na životinjama, ekoloških proizvoda. Predstavit će se udruge za prava životinja i ekologiju iz zemlje i inozemstva i drugi koji će građanima nuditi korisne informacija uz degustacije i promotivne prodaje. Štand Eko-igračke je humanitarnog karaktera, a dio prihoda ide udruzi SMA.T – udruga roditelja djece sa spinalnom mišićnom atrofijom i traheostomama. Svi štandovi će biti osvijetljeni štednim žaruljama koje troše manje energije i traju duže od običnih žarulja čime pridonose zaštiti okoliša.
Cjelodnevni program ZeGeVege festivala započinje u 10 ujutro uvodnom riječi pročelnika Gradskog ureda za poljoprivredu i šumarstvo Emila Tuka, a kratki govor održat će saborska zastupnica dr. sc. Mirela Holy. O važnosti održivog življenja govorit će i Drago Plečko.
Mađioničar Jozo Bozo zabavljat će najmlađe posjetitelje u jutarnjim satima, a djeca će na štandu Eko-igračke moći pogledati lutkarsku predstavu te izrađivati ekološke igračke. Na pozornici će performans održati i Andrew Butler dogogodišnji aktivist PETA-e, a sadašnji koordinator kampanja za Lush. U nastavku programa nastupat će plesne skupine Adami, Senzala, Rock ‘N’ Roll gimnazija, Tequila Mosquitos, žongleri Artistika, te glazbenici: hip-hoper iz Kalifornije SixthSense, pjevačica i kantautorica Dajana Mar, gitarist Miro Ljubenkov, zagrebački rock band Popper, kantautorica i pjevačica Lea Dekleva i skupina Feminem. Na Festivalu će nastupati kantautorica, pjevačica i veganka Suzana Horvat.
Program završava koncertom dugogodišnjeg vegetarijanca Gorana Karana.
Na ZeGeVege festivalu kreće potpisivanje peticije za zabranu plastičnih vrećica, a bit će postavljeno i stablo prepuno tog neželjenog otpada kako bi vizualno skrenulo pozornost na nužnost riješavanja ovog ekološkog problema.
Uz vjetrenjaču za dobivanje električne energije i električni bicikl bit će postavljeno i reciklažno dvorište, a građani će cijeli dan moći u odvojenom šatoru gledati video projekcije o vegetarijanskoj prehrani i pravima životinja.
Pokrovitelj ZeGeVege festivala je Grad Zagreb, sponzori su Encian, Gea, Metro Express, Večernji list, Net.hr, Zale, Vectordesign, Arto, Europlakat, Kershoffset, Libertis, Meridijan, Biovega, a izlagači su Annapurna, Aromateka, Artas, Bernardin vrt, Bio-imanje Zrno, Biomedis, Društvo za osvoboditev živali in njihove pravice iz Slovenije, Dvostruka duga, Eco pozitiva, Eko proizvod, Ekoigračke, Eko-natura, Encian, Gea, Kisko natura, Labud, Lush, OPG Lovrec Violeta, OPG Radanec, OPG Vladimir Šinko, Repro eko, Sklonište za napuštene životinje Dumovec, Sloboda za životinje iz Srbije, Tomar, Eco inicijativa, Pomozimo hrtovima, Valsoia, Waldorfska škola, Weleda, Za živali Maribor, Zdrav život iz Srbije.