Saturday, July 21 (2 p.m. at Central DPL, free): Dr. Joel Fuhrman, family physician, nutritional researcher, and author of Eat to Live will be speaking about ways to better our health, and recharge/strengthen our bodies. He advises that most if not all of our calories should come from plant foods. (I would still like to lop off the top part of his food pyramid, but it’s still far more healthful and compassionate than the USDA pyramid.) Be sure to register for this! This is in the Level B2 Conference Center of the Central Denver Public Library (10 W. Fourteenth Ave. Pkwy.)

Thursday, July 26 (6:30 pm, suggested donation $5): “Urban Edibles Walk” at the delightful Mercury Cafe (2199 California Street) with Boulder herbalist/author/raw food chef Brigitte Mars followed by a screening of the documentary Forks Over Knives. Here’s a link to the film trailer, in case you can’t see the embedded video below.

Saturday, July 28 (8 p.m. starting at the Irish Snug, $20, + the drink specials: The Colfax Critter Crawl is a fundraiser for Maxfund, Denver’s only no-kill animal shelter.

The $20 ticket (buy them here) goes toward Maxfund and gets you cheap drinks at 15 bars. Barnivore will tell you which boozes are vegan. FYI, no non-human-adult critters at this event (children, dogs, hedgehogs, pot bellied pigs, etc.)

A new film, The Ghosts in the Machine, will explore the ways non-human animals are used for profit and consumption carelessly by human beings. It looks like it could be a very powerful and beautiful film. Here is a short description from their website:

Animals are central in our lives yet they are invisible members of society. With the exception of our companion animals and a few wild and stray species within our overly developed urban environments, we experience animals daily only as the food, clothing, animal tested consumer goods and entertainment we make of them. Animals are hidden within the shadows of our highly mechanized urban world.

For more info visit: www.theghostsinourmachine.com

To help fund the project click here

My hero.
via Sea Shepherd Denver

The Denver screening of Bold Native is just a few days away, and we have some exciting updates to announce…

The film’s director, Denis Henry Hennelly, will join us via skype for a Q&A after the film. This is a great chance for you to ask questions about the film and the process of bringing it to reality. Make sure to be at Green Spaces this Thursday, 1/20 at 7pm for this rare opportunity and also for some free vegan food!

Starting at 7pm, we will have vegan pizza by Chomp cooks, cookies by Beet Box and more. The film will start promptly at 8pm, and will be followed by the filmmaker Q&A. RSVP to our Facebook event to let us know you’re coming, and invite your friends. We’re glad to be able to make this a free event, but consider chipping in a few bucks to help us keep doing things like this in Denver? Green Spaces is located at the corner of 26th + Walnut in Denver. See you Thursday!

Plants & Animals Denver is excited to host a FREE screening of the film Bold Native.

When: Thursday, January 20th 8pm
Location: Green Spaces 1368 26th Street Denver, CO

Vegan refreshments available at 7pm. Movie starts promptly at 8pm

‘Bold Native is a fiction feature film. Charlie Cranehill, an animal liberator wanted by the United States government for domestic terrorism, emerges from the underground to coordinate a nationwide action as his estranged CEO father tries to find him before the FBI does. The film simultaneously follows a young woman who works for an animal welfare organization fighting within the system to establish more humane treatment of farmed animals. From abolitionists to welfarists, Bold Native takes on the issue of modern animal use and exploitation from several angles within the context of a road movie adventure story.

The filmmakers’ background in documentary informed the creative approach to Bold Native. Self-financed and shot with a four person team in real-world locations, sometimes using real activists, lawyers, and formerly imprisoned animal liberators, the film weaves an intricate tale of one of the most important issues facing America and the world morally and ecologically – the impact and consequences of industrialized animal use. And with a character who faces prosecution and potential lifetime imprisonment under the recently passed Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) for property crimes currently considered terrorism, the film also illuminates the danger of corporate interests influencing the law in a post-9/11 world.’

- (from boldnative.com)

view the trailer here

We’re happy to be able to put on this free official screening with free food, but your donations sure do help us make this sort of thing happen. Thanks. P&A.