Hello! Thanks to everyone who came to the November meeting last night. There was a good turn out, including baby Rohan, who’s only 4 weeks old! J There are quite a lot of actions taking place over the next two months so please get involved if you can!
Also, we still need people to phone companies to order free food for the vegan food fayre. Please get in touch if you can help!!!
Wed 4th November @ 8pm : Talk by Kath Clements (author of “Why Vegan?”) at the University Arms (by Sheffield Union), entitled “Vegetarianism- lifestyle choice or ethical imperative?" Map: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&source=hp&ie=UTF8&q=university+arms+sheffield&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=university+arms&hnear=sheffield&view=map&cid=178970217612799462&iwloc=A&ved=0CA8QpQY&sa=X&ei=mgLwSuyiNsPMjAeyjKi7DA
Thurs 5th November @ 2.45pm : As part of the Doc-Fest there will be a documentary about horse racing and dog racing at the Library Theatre (Surrey street, opposite the Winter gardens). This will of course ignore the horror of these industries. Please help up inform the public by handing out leaflets about the horse and dog racing industries. Map:
Thurs 5th November @ 8.05pm : Film showing of “The Cove”, a film about dolphin meat, at the Showroom Cinema. This film is showing all week but a number of people will be going to the 8.05pm showing so come along and educate yourselves! Map: , Info: http://www.thecovemovie.com/ Sat 7th November : The sabbing season has now started so there will be people going out each Saturday to save lives. If you’re interested in getting involved please let us know and we can put you in touch with the sab group! J
Sat 7th November @ 11am-3.30pm : Lincoln Vegan food fayre. At Trinity United Reformed Church Hall, Garmston Street, Lincoln, LN2 1HZ
Sat 7th November @ 12noon : West Yorkshire Animal Rights will be doing a demo against puppy farms at the petshop dogs4us in Leeds. There may be people going along from Sheffield so get in touch if you want to go and want some company! Map: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?rls=com.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7DKUK&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=dogs4us+leeds&fb=1&hq=dogs4us&hnear=leeds&cid=12735705656120609331
Sat 7th November @ 6pm : Tuesday 3rd November was the 80th birthday of Owlerton race track. Hopefully it won’t have an 81st birthday! There will be a demo before the 6.30pm race. Meet at the university tram stop at 5.30pm.
Sun 8thNovember : The Animal Rights Coalition (ARC) meeting will be held at the SUMAC centre in Nottingham. If you would like to come along and hear about what other groups around the country have been up to then get in touch as there will definitely be people travelling from Sheffield.
Sun 15th November @ 11am-3pm : There will be a jumble stall to raise funds for SAF at the Sharrow Winter Market, Old Sharrow Junior School, off Sharrow Lane. Please get in touch if you can help, or come along to buy something ;-) We don’t need any donations but you could always save them for the next one!
Sat 21st November @ 11am-4pm : There will be an Animal Aid “Ask a vegan” stall on Fargate. We plan to have people dressed as animals, giving out “why vegan?” leaflets as well as free vegan food and vegans available to answer any questions from the public! If you can volunteer to help with the stall please let us know. Also, to celebrate vegan month, we plan to have free vegan food at the stall so please make some vegan goodies to give away if you can!
Sun 22nd November @ 11am-1pm : There will be a SAF fry-up to raise finds for the group. There’s been rumours of waffles and other such yumminess (as always) so come along if you can! After eating we will be making window displays about the food fayre to put in New Roots J Please let us know if you can make it so we have an idea of numbers, and also ask for the address!
Fri 27th November : punk benefit gig for hunt sabs at the Stockroom, Leadmill Road from 7/8pm. There will also be food!! :-)
Sat 28th November : We will be flyering for the Food fayre. Please get in touch if you can deliver leaflets in your area. More details to follow.
The next meeting will be on Monday 7th Dec @ 6.30pm at the Blue Moon Cafe (next to the cathedral) as the fat cat is booked up.
We will also be having a mini-meeting on Monday 23rd November @ 6.30pm at the Blue Moon Café to discuss the food fayre.
Finally, some dates for your diary in December:
Sat 5th Dec: Sheffield Vegan Food Fayre.
Sun 6th Dec : Animal Aid Xmas fayre, Kensington, London.
Thurs 10th Dec : International Animal Rights Day.
Sat 12th Dec : East Midlands Vegan Food Fayre, Nottingham.
Hope to see you soon! Take care xxxxx