Talks and Demos

Pete Ryan + Robbie Hazeley, Sea Shepherd, SPEAK & SHAC, Keith Mann, Viva!, The Vegan Society, Pat Reeves, James Southwood and Anthony Aurelius all confirm Talks and Demos.

A highly impressive line up of vegan people and projects is building for the Brighton Vegan Fayre. With two Talks rooms each seating up to 200 people, the hour long slots are already nearly filled - and what an excellent selection we have too. The exact times for each Talk are announced below - meanwhile feast your eyes on this top notch array of education, information and inspiration, including talks from

Pete Ryan + Robbie Hazeley - leading lights in the UK vegan Bodybuilding circles, here they combine to present an insight into training on a vegan diet. 

Sea Shepherd and their recent forays in the Antarctica tracking Japanese whalers

Keith Mann, Animal Rights Activist and published author, including a short film about his work

SPEAK and SHAC Campaigns, two of the most successful and active Animal Rights groups in the country, combine to present a talk on vivisection

Viva!, Europe’s biggest veggie pressure group, presents an outline of the work and some of their recent achievements

The Vegan Society, sponsors of the Brighton show, will be hosting a session where they introduce us to some of their team and the roles they play in helping the world turn vegan

Pat Reeves, published author and living legend as well as a powerlifting champion, talks about her battles to overcome cancer whilst still competing at the highest level

James Southwood, recent UK Savate Kickboxing champion, who trains and competes on a raw vegan diet

Anthony Aurelius, author of Fit Guy and teacher of Martial Arts, explaining how he succeeds on a vegan diet

Kate Magic and Shazzie - two of the world's leading raw food exponements, highly entertaining and full of excellent tips and information about the raw lifestyle

Optimum Nutritionists - Yvonne and Gareth are both Harley Stree Nutritionists and are both vegan too! loads of info...not to be missed

Animal Aid - much loved and well respected, in operation over 30 years now - includes a short film and presentation

Pete + Robbie the Vegan Bodybuilders

Big welcome to Pete + Robbie, presenting a talk about vegan bodybuilding – Pete runs the UK website www.veganbodybuilding.org  and Robbie is a UK Bodybuilding Champion! Pete and Robbie will be hosting a Talk about training on a vegan diet and competitive Bodybuilding, as well as answering your questions, and then later in the day in the Campaigns Room they are running a competition – a Hammer Curl Contest, open to all vegan men and women, with super prizes for the winners! Pete especially has run many similar competitions in the past at various vegan events including Christmas Without Cruelty and they are always hotly competed for!! See http://www.veganbodybuilding.org/main.htm for some of their recent exploits! Meanwhile Robbie Hazeley continues to inspire and highly achieve on the UK and international bodybuilding scene, with a string of awards up his sleeve and on his mantelpiece already

Viva!!

Justin Kerswell from huge international veggie pressure group Viva! will be doing a talk ‘Saving the world with Viva!’ during which he will be showing our ‘Not in my name’ film. Viva! Started out in Brighton nearly 15 years ago now, moving to Bristol 5 years ago, and have continued to flourish with a well documented and very very successful number of high profile campaigns, including both grass roots and celebrity support. During this presentation Justin – fresh from his recently found fame after appearing on BBC 1’s The One Show – will be showing the highly informative ‘Not in My Name’ film and also highlighting some of the groups biggest achievements over their first 15 years of helping the world go veggie. Sure to be very busy as Viva! Still have loads of friends and supporters in the Brighton area!   www.viva.org.uk

Keith Mann

Keith is the author of the highly acclaimed Animal Rights book ‘From Dusk ‘till Dawn’ and here he presents some of the issues raised in the book and how he came to write it, whilst also presenting a short film about the book. Keith is a passionate and articulate speaker and is held in high esteem by nearly everyone within the vegan circles who has met him and heard about his exploits. We extend a very warm welcome to Keith and look forward to his presentation which is sure to be harrowing and exciting, as well as challenging. See http://www.fromdusktildawn.org.uk/  for more info and also how to get a copy of his book

James Southwood,

James is a recent UK Savate Kickboxing champion, who trains and competes on a raw vegan diet, and is an excellent speaker as well as extremely knowledgeable about all things vegan to do with training, exercising, competing and – winning!! James has consistently achieved top marks in recent Savate competitions and here he explains the importance of a good diet to achieve at the highest level of your chosen sport. James is a really nice fella and very down to earth and is also an excellent teacher and instructor too, so he regularly displays a patience and understanding of his fellow humans and is therefore able to explain quickly and easily the main points of his methods. Anyone interested in sports and diet will be instantly impressed with this mine of information and experience that is James Southwood!

http://www.rawfighter.com/

Kate and Shazzie

Kate is one of the most experienced raw food promoters in the UK. She has been on a raw diet for sixteen years, and is raising her three sons on raw. She is the author of 'Eat Smart, Eat Raw', the UK's best selling raw food recipe book; and 'Raw Living', a recipe book and guide to the raw lifestyle, both published by Grub Street. Her third book, 'Raw Magic', a ground-breaking book of superfood recipes, another UK first, was published by Rawcreation in 2008. She is also the MD of Raw Living, a website and online shop with articles, recipes and everything you need to make raw simple and sustainable.