Special Vegan Society of Japan Event in Kyoto

Special Event and Vegan Society ‘Open Day’ Kyoto

The Cove

To coincide with this year’s 7th annual Vegetarian Festival Kyoto, The Vegan Society of Japan is organizing an ‘open day’ at the Kyoto Kaikan Hall between 4 pm and 9 pm on 4th October 2009.

All individuals interested in finding out more about our future and becoming part of the Vegan Society are welcome to join us.

The venue is situated directly right next to the Okazaki Park where the Festival is held. See map below or directions, here.

As a special event, the society will be showing clips of Sundance Festival Awarded documentary ‘The Cove‘ about Ric O’Barry’s campaign to save the dolphin of Taiji from slaughter. See previous post, here.

Special Guests

A very special welcome is being extended to:

• Noted conservationist and adventure program producer Michael Bailey of Planetviews Productions, and

• W. David Kubiak, once described by The Whole Earth Review as, “one of the most interesting minds on the planet”.

The two activists are in Japan promoting the ‘The Cove’ documentary along with the Save Japan Dolpins Campaign. Michael, and members of the Planetviews Productions team, were recently trained to present materials featured in Al Gore‘s award-winning film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’.

• Shizuko Ouwehand, who served as interpreter for the showing of ‘The Cove’ at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo, has studied ‘Dolphin Assisted Therapy’. Shizuko promotes the work of the first Dolphin Healing Centre in the grounds of the 700 year old Myoren-ji Temple, Kyoto.

• Local vegan artist, Nao, whose sculpture represents the 80 living beings a year that becoming vegan saves, will also be on display.

Nao has also been exploring the methods and ingredients used to make completely ‘non-violent’ vegetarian, ceramics.