Friday 15th July 2022
We left the campsite in Cambridge to drive to Stanford Hall, near Leicester, where the Vegan Camp Out is being held. The journey became quite difficult as we missed a few turnings on roundabouts, and then reached a closed road so had to be diverted. We finally got there about 12.30 and were given our wristbands and programmes. After setting up and admiring some of the vans around us (some amazing van conversions!!) we headed into the main site to have a look around.
I think there were about 10,000 tickets sold, with 50-60 food vendors and around 20 stalls either with information about charities like Viva! and Greenpeace, or selling other things like clothing. There are four main tents - the Main Stage, Activism, Music and Mind & Body. There are no main talks or entertainment scheduled today, only a Preparty DJ set this evening. However, it gave us a good chance to have some interesting chats with the stalls.
Most of the afternoon was spent looking around, eating some nice food and sitting reading as the sun went down. I began reading This Is Vegan Propaganda by Ed Winters (Earthling Ed), one of the speakers at this festival, which is so well written and extremely powerful.
We stayed for a tiny bit of the Preach Preparty, which started about 10pm, before heading back to the campsite ready for tomorrow. There are mindfulness meditation classes starting from 6am, although I’m not sure we will be up in time for that!! Looking forward to the next two days - lots of talks to attend.
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