FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
🔥 INDOORS AT INDUSTRY CITY 🔥
Co-hosted with Plant Based Juniors and presented with Plant Powered Metro New York, the Coalition for Healthy School Food and more, we are bringing you an expert-packed, fun-filled, delicious and healthy event for the whole family.
Festival hours are 10AM-5PM (Golden Ticket-holders may enter one half hour early, at 9:30 AM).
📚 Book Nook: have a relaxed hang. Chat. And Read! At the Plant Powered Book Nook.
🎨 Art-making: use recycled materials and be led in activist art projects!
9am-1pm: Buttons!
Coyote (CJ) Jacobs has been creating buttons, among other forms of activist art since he was a kid. His inspiration draws primarily from experiences with non-human animals, especially those rescued from places of exploitation. Join him from 9-1 pm to learn how to create your very own buttons!
1pm-5pm KoKo NYC leads activist art with recycled materials.
KoKo NYC is the arts education program of Open Source Gallery, a non-profit arts organization based in Brooklyn, NY. At KoKo NYC all kids are artists & inventors. KoKo NYC encourages playful and imaginative risk-taking by using real tools and recycled materials in their sustainability focused programs. Empowered by KoKo NYC Teaching Artists, kids see possibilities, problem solve, create, and explore.
Stage Schedule:
🧘♀️ 10:30-11:15 Family Yoga with Llamaste Yoga
🌱 11:30-12:15 Plant Based Juniors present: Plant Powered Fireside Chat
Plant-Based Juniors co-creator Alex Caspero has a bachelor’s degree in nutrition and dietetics, and a master’s in exercise science. She is the chef behind the website Delish Knowledge, and has developed recipes for several best-selling cookbooks. Co-creator Whitney English received her bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism, and her master’s in nutrition and longevity. She works as a speaker, consultant, and food program host; she also runs a private practice advising adults and children on predominantly plant-based diets. The two moms most recently founded PBJ’s Learning Center to offer fun and interactive nutrition courses for parents and caregivers.
🧘♂️ 12:30-1:15 Animal Yoga Workshop with Danielle Medina (Fit N Play Mama)
Danielle Medina is the creator of Fit N Play Mama LLC, a lifestyle coaching educational service for adults and children. She offers consultations and classes as well as workshops to teach the importance of staying active and eating healthy throughout life. As a certified fitness/yoga expert, culinary educator, nutritionist, and mom, she focuses on empowering her clients by providing them with easy and practical mindful fitness routines and meal plan cooking guides.
👥 1:30-2:15 Making Change in Your School: Joined by vegetarian school principals Bob Groff and Ruth Stanislaus as well as Sierra Hollowell of NYC Food Policy. Moderated by Amie Hamlin of the Coalition for Healthy School Food.
Bob Groff started teaching in 2002 and is the co-founder of PS 244, The Active Learning Elementary School (TALES) in Flushing, Queens. The school was founded in 2008 with a mission of Health and Nutrition as a priority and over the course of 17 years has also developed Racial Equity as an integral part of students education. TALES became the first vegetarian public school in the country in 2013 through an important partnership with the Coalition for Healthy School Foods and the NYC Office of School Nutrition Services. Through numerous other partnerships such as Fitness and Nutrition 4 Kids (Fan4Kids), TALES continues to constantly grow and change to provide students with the healthiest options possible to support their academic and personal growth.
Ruth Stanislaus is the founding principal of PS 971 School of Math, Science and Healthy Living in Bay Ridge. It is one of four vegetarian schools in New York City. Ruth holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design, a masters in administration from The Bank Street College of Education, and a doctorate in education from Russel-Sage College. She also holds a certificate in Culinary Arts, and is currently participating in a certificate program
centered on plant-based culinary arts.
🫘 2:30-3:15 Plant-Powered Kids Get Together: Age-Specific Ice Breakers & Activities with Danielle Medina!
👥 3:30-4:15 Change-Making for Kids
Stewart Mitchell (Vigilante Vegan), Marisa Miller Wolfson (Vegucated) and, Lianna Levine Reisner (Director of Plant Powered Metro New York). Led by Danielle Medina.
🎶 4:15-5:00 Music, Magic and Puppets with Jumpin' Jamie!
Kiddie rocker Jumpin' Jamie's four albums have amassed more than half a million streams on Spotify. They have performed for 12,000 fans at Citi Field in NYC, at Comic Cons in numerous cities, for celebrities such as Alicia Keys, and at corporate events for Twitter and Seventh Generation. Their songs have been featured on several PBS programs including Sesame Street.
Cooking Classes
👩🍳 12:20-12:50 Make non-dairy milk, banana berry ice cream, and black bean mango salad with the Coalition for Healthy School Food
🧑🍳 1:30-2:15 Make Blueberry Chickpea Cookie Dough Balls with Alex and Whitney of Plant Based Juniors
🧑🍳 2:30-3:15 Make pinwheel sandwiches and fruit infused water with Chef Rebecca Johnson of Plant Rich Life and Plant Powered Metro New York
Stay tuned as we post our Vendor lineup-- 30 compassionate, delicious, and future-forward companies and nonprofits
Interested in being a Vendor or Sponsor? Register here.
To volunteer, sign up here.
*Children aged four and under are free! (All children must attend with an adult)
**Golden Tickets are good for one adult and one child per ticket.
Location
INDOORS, 33 35th Street, Industry City, 11232