The Edinburgh Vegan Festival 2019

1. Multi Award Winning Festival

Although Vegan Festival UK has been nominated for many awards over the years, we always got beat to the post by larger business, but last year we were asked to attend the prestigious national P.E.A Awards in London. It was huge honour to be a finalist among some of the UK’s leading sustainable companies, but hearing “The Winner Is Vegan Festival UK” was a little surreal. For more details on this amazing evening (P.E.A Awards), also this July 2nd 2018 we were chosen from a long list of festivals and events, to become the winner of Festival Of The Year 2018. That fact that we have been even nominated for these awards is fanatic, but becoming a finalist and then winning is awesome.

2. Amazing Vegan Businesses

Edinburgh will welcome a large selection of vegan business’s coming from across the UK. If you have ever been to one of our festivals before you may recognize some of our business’s, but this year we have many new companies you may have never heard of. If you are not vegan or vegetarian you will soon realise that removing animal products from our lives, is easier than you think.  Come and talk to these amazing companies, maybe taste / try some of there fabulous products and support the vegan movement.

This is what stall holders had to say about our previous event.

3. Speakers & Guests

At all our festivals we have a selection of interesting talks from our speakers and guests, Edinburgh Vegan Festival 2019 talks include :-

Go Vegan Scotland : Are a grassroots not for profit volunteer vegan advocacy group who will be giving the following talk at 2pm Animal Rights and Veganism: A brief history, some highlights and recommendations. Go Vegan Scotland will look back to the roots of the animal rights movement, highlight some of the key voices and fundamental principles, consider the negative impact of animal welfare on the progress of animal rights and veganism and review where things stand now and how these considerations influence our advocacy.(FB Event Page)

Syd Barnes – AKA Psycho Syd Talk : Imagine being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and given just 6 months to live. You are a bag of bones writhing in agony. You cannot eat so you must feed yourself through a tube in your stomach to keep yourself alive to the fact that you are dying. Even worse, you are all alone with two young children aged 14 and 4 who have no one else in the world but you. What would you do? Get ready to rage, cry, scream and laugh when you join Syd on his mind-blowing trip as he takes you right there. Taste the madness hurt and despair. Raw and edgy with shed-loads of eye-popping humour. And finally, stare in gobsmacked awe as he finally gets the all-clear inspiring you to believe that the impossible is always possible. You will never forget this true-life tale for as long as you live. You have been warned!(FB Event Page)

VGN Live Podcast with Go Vegan Scotland : The VGN vegan news team are visiting Edinburgh for a live podcast. Go Vegan Scotland will be joining VGN on this panel, reflecting on recent developments or news stories concerning veganism and animal rights. If you’d like to be part of the live recording and meet the VGN team, please come along. The panel will include Christopher Sebastian, co-founder of VGN, who teaches the course Power, Oppression and Privilege at Columbia University. His work focuses on the interconnections between speciesism, racism and classism. For example see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrlVQiSNNSs (FB Event Page)

SEA SHEPHERD : Sea Shepherd UK is a registered marine conservation charity whose primary mission is to end the destruction of habitats and illegal killing of wildlife around the UK’s coastline and across the world’s oceans in order to conserve and protect marine ecosystems and species. We use innovative direct-action tactics to investigate, document and take action when necessary to expose and confront illegal activities committed against marine wildlife. Sea Shepherd also engaging in campaigns to help defend and restore coastal and marine areas. By safeguarding the biodiversity of our delicately balanced oceanic ecosystems, Sea Shepherd works to ensure their survival for future generations.

Map, Directions & How To Get There

Photos and Videos From Previous Events