Programme 2011
Programme for 2012 coming soon
10:00 Opening
11:00-11:30 Presentation: Melisser Elliott
11:30-12:00 Live Music: Jean-Luc Dancy
12:00-12:30 Coooking show: Björn Moschinski
12:30-12:45 Presentation: Sebastian Zösch - Vegetarierbund Deutschland
12:45-13:00 Interview: with the Team of Veganz - the first Vegan Supermarket in Europe
13:00-13:15 Interview/Book Presentation: Annette Heimrroth "Vegan & vollwertig genießen"
13:15-13:45 Live Music: I like birds, too
13:45-14:00 Presentation: Felix Hnat "Repression in Österreich" Vegane Gesellschaft Österreich
14:00-14:15 Presentation: Mahi Klosterhalfen - Albert Schweitzer Stiftung für unsere Mitwelt
14:15-15:00 Live Music: J. Krawietz
15:00-15:30 Coooking show: Björn Moschinski
15:30-15:45 Lecture: Irina Itschert - Rezeptefuchs
16:00-17:00 Live Music: K.C.McKanzie
17:00-17:30 Showcase: Umasan Mode
17:30-18:00 Showcase: Jivamukti Yoga Berlin
18:00-18:30 Live Music: Dorian Raßloff und Eva Richter
18:30-19:15 Live Music: Räuberhöhle
19:15-20:15 Live Music: Die Kafkas
20:15 Closure
Entertainment for children
Children´s face painting
Bouncy castle
Mitmach Circus
Live Music: Die Kafkas
The KAFKAS are everything but normal. They are an emancipated punk band which doesn’t need studded leather jackets and which breaks the borders between punk, electro, alternative and pop in order to reach a broader cross-scene hype reservoir.
The KAFKAS are not tied to lounge, trends or the expectations of others. They go their own way experimenting and changing along the way but somehow always the KAFKAS. Entertaining, charming and with a lot of “Tiefgang”.
More on:
www.sklavenautomat.de/
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Live Music: K.C. McKanzie
K.C. McKanzie is a songwriter of the rarestkind. Joyful melancholy, intense lightness - seemingly incompatible extremes blend together
effortlessly in her music. She does her very own brand of Americana and Folk. A bittersweet Old-Time-flavour combines with a contemporary touch of rootsy rhythms.
K.C. McKanzie's soft voice leads wistfully and clear through the haunting but passionate lyrics. Love and despair, longing and lust are put expressively into powerful symbols by using dry, simple writing.
Subtle arrangements with plenty of detail create a timeless yet intimate mood. K.C. McKanzie's songwriting is complex and
stripped bare, it sparkles with energy.
More on:
www.kcmckanzie.com
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Live Music: Jean-Luc Dancy
French-born singer/guitarist/songwriter Jean-Luc Dancy has now been living near Berlin for a number of years.
He specializes in the classical French musical tradition of the fifties, sixties and seventies: Gilbert Bécaud, Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour and many others. He also often sings his own compositions.
Jean-Luc bought his very first guitar with his second pay-packet when he was sixteen, started his musical career when he was 17 and he was lucky enough to see all the above-mentioned artists live on stage!
Nowadays he spends most of his time with his darling German wife Ilka and their three fantastic dogs - not forgetting the music!
Jean-Luc Dancy is also a Vegan/Vegetarian, teetotaller (somewaht unusual in the artistic world!) and supports Animal Rights Campaigns the world over.
More on:
www.jean-luc-dancy.npage.de
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Live Music: Räuberhöhle
Räuberhöhle is the Electropop-Project of the musician and artist Krawalla and was founded 1999 in Berlin.
Krawalla combines game sounds with discobeats and synthpop and live she brings a bear and sometimes other friends...
Räuberhöhle played 4 Australia tours, as well as 2 tours in Japan, America, New Zealand, and around 300 shows europewide.
Among other places they played at the SXSW2010 in Texas, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Eurotrash Festival in Canberra and the Berlin Biennale.
Krawalla is vegan for 20 years now.
More on:
www.rauberhohle.com
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Live Musik: I like birds, too
I like birds, too is a new one man and his guitar set-up from Dresden. Having not been able to play so many concerts so far, he first has to go on the hunt for a guitar with pickups for this concert. Once that's done, they'll be songs from the heart about rooms that are too small, too little life and other things of our time. If you can't really imagine that, then head to the I like birds, too website to download the tracks.
More on:
www.ilikebirdstoo.blogsport.de
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Live Musik: J. Krawietz
J. Krawietz has been playing the guitar since he can remember, in many bands, in many places, through different styles. He moved to Berlin in 2006 and the city changed his music. He put all his influences in a mixer, shacked well, added a few secret ingredients, and created his own formula: electronic beats that go hand in hand with blues and rocks riffs. His one-man-shows are full of energy and won't leave your mind for days.
More on:
http://soundcloud.com/j-krawietz-goes-electro
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Live Music: Dorian Raßloff and Eva Richter
Dorian Rassloff performs solo and also in duet with his guitar accompaniment at animal welfare and animal rights events und demos. He sings songs about the exploitation of animals by Reinhard Mey and other songwriters, animal rights texts by Brigitte Strunz from the “Pro Animal Singers”, a singing duo of the Berlin and Brandenburg group “Tierversuchsgegner” (Opponents of Animal Testing).
Eva Richter’s repertoire consists of songs from a wide variety of cultures from around the world. At the festival, we’ll be hearing her play an Indian song for the planet, performed together with Dorian Raßloff.
(Photo: Susanne Kunjappu-Jellinek)
More on:
myspace.com/dorian-rassloff
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Lectures: Melisser Elliott
Originally from San Francisco, Melisser’s travelled all over the world but now she has decided to make Berlin her home.
She is a co-founder of San Francisco’s first online bakery, Sugar Beat Sweets, and is now a baker at one of Berlin’s newest and most talked-about supermarket, Veganz.
She’s the writer of two successful online blogs, the Urban Housewife and Cruelty Free Face, and has recently published a book encompassing all things vegan, from food to make-up and clothes and more.
More on:
www.crueltyfreeface.com
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Lectures: Sebastian Zösch
Sebastian Zösch (aged 31) has been vegan for over six years and has already been involved with dozens of organisatons both at home and abroad promoting the vegetarian/vegan idea. He is the president of the German Vegetarian Society (VEBU) and chairman as well as co-founder of "Tierschutz im Unterricht Berlin-Brandenburg e.V." (organisation that promotes animal welfare in schools). Through his regular TV appearances and creative campaigns (e.g. the alleged human flesh restaurant in Berlin), he has caused people of all backgrounds to think about and reconsider their lifestyles. Sebastian brought the very successful Vegan Trial Week to Germany from the UK and started up the trade fair exhibition "VeggieWorld - the trade fair for sustainable living". As an experienced contributor and co-author of the standard work "Vegan" by Kath Clements as well as of the German language version of the book "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran Foer, expert Sebastian Zösch is often sought after by the press.
More on:
www.vebu.de
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Lectures: Mahi Klosterhalfen
Mahi Klosterhalfen has been active in the area of animal protection since he was a university student. He brought HSUS’s Cage-Free Campus campaign to Germany and successfully collaborated with other students in convincing several directors of dining to stop using battery eggs.
Mahi Klosterhalfen maintains goods contacts to the international animal protection scene. This is where he is on the lookout for successful approaches and introduces them in Germany. In addition to his work at the foundation, he is also a consultant for Compassion in World Farming.
On behalf of an alliance of animal protection organizations, Mahi Klosterhalfen speaks with the German food industry regarding the use of more animal-friendly products.
He is particularly inspired by the achievements of the late Henry Spira.
More on:
albert-schweitzer-stiftung.de
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Show: Björn Moschinski
31-year-old Björn Moschinski has been cooking vegan food of the highest quality for many years. Now he’s looking forward to the opening of his own restaurant in Berlin Mitte, which will likely be greeting its first guests in September 2011. At the same time, he’s also working on his first cook book, which should be hitting the book shop shelves in October.
The ways in which vegan living has influenced his career path can be seen in the following stages: for five years, Björn, who has chosen to make Berlin his home, managed a vegan catering service. Afterwards, he worked as a sous-chef at the vegan restaurant SAF im Zerwirk in Munich, followed by a position as head chef at the Berlin restaurant La Mano Verde. On top of this, he’s also received training in the field of raw food cuisine from top New York chef Chad Samo.
More on:
veganheadchef.com
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Showcase: Jivamukti Yoga
AN INTRODUCTION TO JIVAMUKTI YOGA
Jivamukti Yoga is a style of yoga that is based on the ideal of 'ahimsa' which means non-violence. Jivamukti yoga emphasises a peaceful lifestyle that includes a vegetarian or vegan diet. Our founders Sharon Gannon and David Life have been animal right campaigners and activists for over 30 years. All our teachers are vegetarian or vegan and all our centers around the world are fur free zones and only sell vegan products. We believe that it is every humans responsibility to lead the kindest, most caring and least harmful life possible. Animals are friends not food.
Jivamukti Yoga Berlin has opened almost three year ago in Berlin-Mitte (Brunnenstr. 29). At this location we will also have a small vegan café from September on. And we will open a 2nd Jivamukt Yoga Studio in Berlin Kreuzberg in mid September.
More on:
www.jivamuktiberlin.de/
Sharon Gannon: "Why are you a Vegan?"
David Life: "Why does diet matter?"
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Showcase: Umasan Mode
The world’s first-ever vegan high-fashion label UMASAN is based in Berlin. The form language of UMSAN’s collections is based upon the human body’s anatomy and kinesiology.
The look is defined by asymmetries, irregularities, imperfections and timelessness..
UMASAN has its products manufactured exclusively by traditional ready-made clothiers in Germany and uses no animal products such as wool, silk or cashmere.
Each individual piece of clothing, both for men and women, is produced in a completely sustainable manner; the designers focus on innovative protein or Lenzing’s cellulose fibers as well as classical natural materials.
More on:
www.umasan-world.com
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