Event Details

Date & Time	April 16, 2013, 8:00pm – 11:00pm
Location	Dodson House 25 East Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6A1M9 Google Map
Website	http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/358790

Copia Presents THOUGHT4FOOD: What's Growing on in Vancouver? Organics, Whole Foods & Your Table

with special thanks to Sponsors Vancity, Choices Markets & Indigo Naturals Management 

Are you someone who loves to eat amazing great food?  Have you got to a place in life when you think about where it came from and what it does in your body as well as how it tastes?  Do you have a recipe for some fabulous soup or sauce (or something else mouth-wateringly good) that makes all your friends say "Wow  you should bottle this!"?  Have you been harbouring a dream of someday opening a café, restaurant, food cart or artisan manufacturing company? Are you already in the food business and looking for ideas, inspiration and supportive networks to help you grow?

Answering Yes to even one of these questions means THOUGHT4FOOD is right in your heartspace, and, like many Copia events bringing heart and soul together with business and strategy, we have a LOT to offer you!  Join us for 1,2 or 3 all of these events featuring some of the best and brightest conscious minds on the lower mainland Foodie scene, all with mindful approaches to health, sustainability and entrepreneurship.    

FOOD BITES

We've got a fabulous range of the region's best snack, soda, beer, gourmet market, grocery and restaurant exhibitors offering up hearty samples of their wares for you to enjoy at each event, with many opportunities to take home some of what you love most as well.

SOUND BITES

There has never been a more important time in human history for us to think about what we eat and where it comes from. There has probably also never been a more exciting time to be a Mindful Foodie or build a Conscious Food Business. THOUGHT 4 FOOD is a series of three evening events designed to inspire, educate, and bring together food growers, makers and eaters with distributors, retailers, and media. 

We're serving up the whole food system, in easily digestible pieces.  Our speakers include the best and brightest of culinary creatives in our area, with a range of expertise that covers off every milestone in the cycle from growing food (at home or as a producer) to preparing food (again both for personal consumption only and for sale) and on through manufacturing, distributing, retailing and turning it back into soil!  For those with a business bent, each panel includes speakers in the early stages of a startup, at midsize development and all the way up to national and global reach  no matter where you are in your dream of sustainable foodie entrepreneurship, you will find yourself represented on our stage and gain a good sense of next steps.  

WISDOM ON HOW TO BITE OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW AND THEN CHEW IT

(All events are 6:00pm  9:00pm @ Vancouver's beautifully eco-restored heritage conference space, the Dodson Centre, Hastings & Main)

Part 1: What's Growing On in Vancouver  Organics, Whole Foods and Your Table

Tuesday, April 16

Featuring Innovators in Growing and Preparing Sustainable, Nutrient-Dense Deliciousness (with a variety of products & prep times suited to new agrarians and busy urbanites & everyone in between)

There is no better way to become conscious about what you eat than to grow and make your own food, whether that takes the form of tilling a garden, growing herbs in a window box or playing with new recipes until they become your own. Our panelists for this first part of the series are local innovators in gardening, permaculture, culinary arts and organic whole foods.  Their insights about growing a business and satisfying your palette in a healthy way will both inspire and delight you. 

Just a taste of our speakers includes:  Ilana Lebow (Fresh Roots), Kent Houston (Patch), Christopher Ng (Alterrus) and more, including a surprise chef 

Interested in the whole series?  Check out http://www.meetup.com/CopiaVancouver/events/109640392/ for details on the May 21 and June 18 events as well.

TASTE-FULL EXHIBITORS

Just enough to get your mouth watering there will be MORE! 

Howe Sound Brewery  |  Rocky Mountain Flatbread Company  |  Jump Up and Go Go  |  Greene Goodies  |   SIP Natural Craft Soda   |   Organic Lives  |   Left Coast Naturals  

GIVE THESE GENEROUS SPONSORS YOUR BEST WORD OF MOUTH:

Vancity   |   Choices  Markets |   Indigo Naturals  Management  |   Bullfrog Power

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There is still time to sign on as a speaker (in limited categories), exhibitor or sponsor.  Affiliate partnerships are also possible for those in a position to sell 12 tickets or more through their group or network.  

Contact alanna@copiaspirit.com for speaking opportunities and affiliate partnerships and contact charlie@copiaspirit.com for exhibitor and sponsor packages.