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Birmingham and district
Events,
special offers, new products, website features, competitions, special menus,
Veg Week challenges
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| Birmingham |
Birmingham Vegetarians & Vegans (Local Contact)
Tel: 0121 353 2442
May 21 and May 28: (the two Saturdays in National Veg Week)
Information. We'll be having a stall in New Street/High Street.
Body and Being Restaurant (Food & Drink Guild member)
The Watermarque, 100 Browning Street, Birmingham B16 8EH. Tel: 0121 456
7633 web: www.bodyandbeing.co.uk
Special menu. We are celebrating National
Vegetarian Week by offering a vegetarian world tour with a selection
of innovative dishes each
day from Europe, the Americas, India, North Africa, the Far East
and the Mediterranea. The wine is vegetarian too, and for diners
bringing
along their dedicated meat-eating friends, there are special "I can't
believe it's not meat" dishes. We are over the canal by Sheepcote
Street (off Broad Street), with easy parking at the NIA. Open every
day from
11am to 6.30pm and Tues-Fri evenings until 9pm, with a special Saturday
dinner on the 28th to round off the Week!
City Cafe
1 Brunswick Sq, Brindley Place, B1 2HW. web:
www.citycafe.co.uk
Look out for a special menu for National Vegetarian Week.
Science Library, Birmingham Central Library,
Chamberlain
Square, Birmingham B3 3HQ.
Will have national Vegetarian Week information.
The Warehouse Cafe
54 Allison Street, Digbeth, Birmingham B5 5TH. Tel: 0121 633 0261.
(There will be a lot happening but some events are still awaiting confirmation
- we will update this entry as we get news)
May 23: Healthy "Start the Week" Monday yoga and veggie breakfast from
7.00am.
Monday evening session on "Vegetarianism and Environmental Protection".
May 24: Evening meeting of Birmingham Vegetarian & Vegan
Group, talk by Jeremy Crowley on Bowen Technique & Kinesiology
May 25: Evening "Meet the Chef" session with vegetarian versions of traditional
food from a selected part of the world.
May 26: Evening "Cafe Society" conversation with a meat promotion agency.
May 27: evening - special offers in the restaurant.
All events open to the public.
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| Walsall |
Shire Oak School (A science college)
Lichfield Road, Walsall Wood, Walsall WS9 9PA
May 26: 2-9pm. We are hosting a "learn In" for gifted and talented students
at our school. This will include a poetry workshop on the theme of veggies
and healthy eating. We hope to produce a poetry anthology on this theme
ultimately.
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| Wolverhampton |
Wolves Veggies (Local Contact)
Tel: 01902 710190
May 28: Information. 10am-3pm.
We'll be having a vegetarian information display stand at Queens Square,
Wolverhampton. Also displays in the Shree
Krishna Temple and Great Brickkiln Community Centre through
the week, and will be distributing leaflets to various health centres,
schools, cafes
etc.
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| Schools |
The following schools in the area will be promoting National
Vegetarian Week:
English Martyrs School, Sparkhill, Birmingham B11 3JW.
Lyndon School, Daylesford Road, Solihull, B92 8EJ.
Nelson Mandela Community School, Colville Road, Sparkbrook,
Birmingham B12 8EH.
Plantsbrook School, Upper Holland Road, Sutton Coldfield B72 1RB.
Regents Park Infant & Junior School, Arthur Street, Small Heath, Birmingham
B10 0NJ.
Royal Wolverhampton School, Penn Road, Wolverhampton WV3 0EG.
The Braybrook Centre, Bellamy Lane, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, West
Midlands, WV11 1NN
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2005 |
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