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International
Vegan Festivals - a history
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Some of the information
on this page was copied from the excellent FruitNut.net,
but that has not been updated beyond the 1999 Festival and the links are
not working. Some of that was in turn copied from issues of Vegan
Views and other sources. This is to bring it up to date with a complete
history, with help from Kirsten Jungsberg who attended all of them:
- 1st - 1981, Denmark,
Himmerlandsgaarden, Hadsund, July 12-19, organized by Kirsten Jungsberg
- 2nd - 1985,
Denmark, Martinus Holidaycenter, Klint, Aug 03-10, organized by Kirsten
Jungsberg
- 3rd - 1987,
Germany, Bringhausen, July 16-23, organised by Hans Peter, this was
the one where Vegans International was launched to coordinate future
Festivals. (report)
- 4th - 1989,
Sweden, Nordhem Vegan Youth Hostel, Aug 07-13, organized by Vegan Society
Sweden
- 5th - 1990,
Holland, Het Kervel, Hengelo, July 21-28, organized by Cor Nouws &
Dutch Vegan Society (report)
- 6th - 1992,
UK, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, Aug 01-08, organised by Barbara Gamsa-Jackson
(report)
- 7th - 1993,
Spain, Tossa de Mar, Costa Brava, near Barcelona, Jul 17-24, organised
by Francisco Martin, who was on the IVU council at the time, and is
now a Fellow of IVU (reports)
- 8th - 1995,
USA, San Diego, California, Aug 06-13, co-organised by Julia Hope, the
American Vegan Society and VUNA. - and IVU held a council meeting in
the middle of that one (see www.ivu.org/vuna/vegan95/
), attracted over 400 participants
- up to here they
were coordinated by Vegans International. In 1997 the IVU webmaster
met Alex Bourke in London and we planned to set up a website for VI.
But we had barely made any progress before VI disappeared. IVFs then rather lacked central coordination until the Serena Coles Committee was established in 2007.
- 9th - 1999,
Australia, Continental Guest House, Hepburn Springs, Dec 25-Jan 1, just
before the IVU Chiang Mai congress, Organized by Zalan Glen - Hepburn
Springs in Central Victoria from 25th Dec 1998 until 1st Jan 1999 (reports)
- (there were
plans for a 10th Festival in Bulgaria/Poland and other Eastern European
countries in 2000, but this never took place) . . .after a long gap....
10th - 2006,
Denmark, Folk High School Diget, Skagen, 10 Jul 30-Aug 5,, organized
by Kirsten Jungsberg (25 years after organising #1 & 2) - at some
time in the late 1990s Kirsten did some translations for ivu.org/danish
2006 Group photo (click for
bigger version) – photo by Monica Engström, Veganföreningen
i Sverige (ViS) (Swedish Vegan Soc) - more
photos (link to ViS, may be slow to load.... see
rotating selection) - and some
reports in Swedish.
- 11th
- 2007 India, thanks to Shankar Narayan, IVU Regional Coordinator for India and West Asia (see: www.indianvegansociety.org
)
- The 12th IVF will be in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Summer 2009, organised by Marly Winckler, IVU regional Coordinator for Latin America.
- For information about future
IVFs email
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