Welcome!

The theme for Alaska VegFest 2017:

The Transformative Power of Eating Plants
Alaska VegFest
is a wonderful full-day event highlighting the many benefits of eating a plant-based diet.
Saturday, September 9, 2017
Anchorage, Alaska
We are really excited about the fabulous speakers we have lined up for VegFest 2017 !   
​We had our most successful VegFest so far! We had a full day of inspiration and fun exploring the many ways eating plants can transform our lives.
If you missed Alaska VegFest this year, be sure to look for it next year. We will start planning next years VegFest in early 2018.  If you would like to join the Alaska Vegan Society (AVS) email list we will inform you of upcoming potlucks, picnics, Vegan Thanksgiving Potluck and of course next years Alaska VegFest. Click here add your name to the AVS email list.
Delisa introduced the Alaska Vegan Society Network (alaskavegansocietynetwork.com). This is a project that AVS is starting with the goal of connecting people who want to do activities with others who are choosing or interested in eating a plant-based diet. The activity does not need to be about eating, but any food at the activity will be plant-based.
We are in the very beginning stages of this project and welcome anyone who is interested in developing this project to contact us...Delisa or Charlie Renideo (907-355-2245).
Where:  St. Anthony’s Catholic Church
                825 S. Klevin Street, Anchorage 99508
When:  Saturday, September 9, 2017, 10:00a.m. to 4:30p.m.

Who:   The Alaska VegFest is for anyone wanting to learn more about the many compelling reasons a plant-based diet is healthier for humans, the earth and for the animals.  (Please note: The programming for VegFest is suited more for adults and children 10 years of age and older.)

In the Media!

KTVA DayBreak - Channel 11 Anchorage

KTUU Morning Edition - Channel 2 Anchorage

Fox News - Channel 4 Anchorage
Research shows that people eating a whole foods plant-based diet live longer, healthier lives and in many cases can even reverse the effects of many of the chronic diseases plaguing Alaskan's today.

This year's speakers:

Ocean Robbins - Ocean Robbins is co-founder and CEO of the Food Revolution Network, which is a global community of more than 350,000 members standing up for healthy, sustainable, humane and delicious food for all.  He is the co-author with his dad, bestselling author John Robbins, of Voices of the Food Revolution.  He is also co-founder of Youth for Environmental Sanity (YES!), which he launched at age 16, and directed for 20 years. 
Click here to learn more about Ocean and see an excerpt from one of his talks.
Ocean's Alaska VegFest talk:  
​31 Flavors of Health
He will be presenting the broad scope of eating a plant-based diet and it’s effects on our health, the health of the animals, our world and its people.
Ron Weiss, M.D. - Ron Weiss, M.D. is a botanist, board certified internist and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He is founder of Ethos Health, a farm-based healthcare system that connects human health to the natural world and fosters the fundamental connections that exist between all living things
Click here to learn more about Ron and see an excerpt from one of his talks.
Ron's Alaska VegFest talk title:  
​The Power of Plants and the Transformation of American Healthcare
An Alaskan whose personal life was transformed by eating a plant-based diet after taking one of
​Delisa Renideo's Nutrition and Cooking Classes.
Anna Luby - November 17, 2009 Anna was 70 pounds overweight and had just been diagnosed with diabetes.  She was working in a kidney dialysis center and knew about the horrible complications of having diabetes. Anna started her journey into eating a plant-based diet on March 2, 2010.  Now she is back to her petite college weight and has reversed her diabetes!
​(Anna has since moved to Texas and is making a special trip up here to speak to us.)
Click here to learn more about Anna and see an excerpt from an interview with Delisa.

Delisa Renideo - MC of Alaska VegFest, President of the Alaska Vegan Society. She teaches whole, plant food nutrition & cooking courses as part of her business, Yes To Life Solutions.  She has taught thousands of students over the last 11 years and she is still just as excited about every individual she helps to transform their lives.
To learn more about our wonderful speakers...Click Here
A delicious, 100% Plant-based lunch
is included in the admission price. Lunch will be catered by Middle Way Cafe.
(There will be gluten-free options for those wanting to avoid gluten.)
 Cooking Demonstration: 
Delisa Renideo (president of the Alaska Vegan Society and plant-based nutrition & cooking instructor) will be doing an informative and entertaining cooking demo and of course you will get to taste what she makes.
Door Prizes:
Throughout the day we will be drawing names for door prizes and one grand prize of a
Plant-based Nutrition & Cooking Course...donated by Delisa Renideo, yestolifesolution.com ($197 value).
Where:  St. Anthony’s Catholic Church
                825 S. Klevin Street, Anchorage 99508
When:  Saturday, September 9, 2017, 10:00a.m. to 4:30p.m.

Who:   The Alaska VegFest is for anyone wanting to learn more about the many compelling reasons a plant-based diet is healthier for humans, the earth and for the animals.  (Please note: The programming for VegFest is suited more for adults and children 10 years of age and older.)

Alaska VegFest 2016 was another success!
Read Delisa's Blog Post: Microbe-Boosting Day at Alaska VegFest.

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