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Event Archive
Here is a list of events that Autonomie Project has been proud to participate in. Check here for upcoming events...
July 3, 2010
Cultural Survival Bazaar
Boston Common at the Parkman Bandstand
170 Tremont Street
Boston, MA
Saturday, July 3, from 10 am to 6 pm
A cultural festival celebrating indigenous artists and fair trade organizations from around the world, the Cultural Survival Bazaar series is a chance to buy directly from artisans and fair trade workers and the hardworking companies that represent them! The bazaars also offer a wide assortment of cultural performances, including live music, Native American storytelling, presentations, films, craft-making demonstrations and much more!
For more information: www.culturalsurvival.org/bazaar
June 26, 2010
Maine Vegetarian & Vegan Food Festival
East End Community School
195 North Street
Portland, ME
Saturday, June 26, from 11 am to 3 pm
Join fellow vegetarians, vegans, animal rights activists and friends at this popular one day event. This year promises to feature the latest in food and wellness promoting a cruelty free lifestyle. The festival will include free food samples, exhibitors, vendors, workshops, music, a raffle and more! Admission is free!
For more information: http://maineanimalcoalition.org
June 19, 2010
Richmond Vegetarian Food Festival
Azalea Gardens at Bryan Park
Richmond, VA
Free admission and parking!
Saturday, June 19, from 12 – 6 pm
Join thousands of other Virginian veggie supporters and check out one of the largest vegetarian events in the entire country! Listen to non-stop entertainment, partake in professional cooking demos, taste a variety of yummy veggie offerings from local restaurants, and shop with us and other arts, crafts, and animal-friendly products.
For more information: www.veggiefest.org
May 8, 2010
World Fair Trade Day
Ben and Jerry's Scoop Shop
174 Newbury Street
Boston, MA
May 8, 2010, 10 am to 3 pm
Kick off your Fair Trade summer with us and celebrate World Fair Trade Day with style and ice cream! We're teaming up with our new friends at Ben and Jerry's to promote the international movement and participate in the city-wide 'Fair Trade crawl' led by the Fair Trade Boston campaign! Enjoy local music, discounts on Autonomie's Project's hot new summer gear, and FREE ice cream cones!
For more information: www.fairtradeboston.org/events/
May 1, 2010
Wake Up the Earth
Stony Brook T Station
Jamaica Plain, MA
Free to attend!
Saturday, May 1 from 10:30 am to 5 pm
Join us for this super fun multi-cultural community festival run by local non-profit Spontaneous Celebrations. Sing, dance, eat and celebrate the 32nd annual spring fair with over 10,000 others! Shop from hundreds of vendors, eat with local restaurants, enjoy performances on 3 different stages including junk percussion, children’s activities, popular theatre and capoiera.
For more information: www.spontaneouscelebrations.org
April 23 - April 24, 2010
EarthFair 2010
Grand Central Terminal
New York, NY
Free to attend!
Friday, April 23 from 12 pm to 7 pm
Saturday, April 24 from 11 am to 5 pm
April 22, 2010 marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day! Come celebrate with Autonomie and NYC non-profit Earth Day New York in a historic part of New York City. Enjoy a weeklong exhibit of art exhibits, displays and inspirational quotes in the stations Vanderbilt Hall, then party with us for the two-day festival of art, music, green businesses, organic food and interactive displays that take over 5 blocks of NYC’s streets and provide opportunities to take positive action for our earth!
For more information: www.earthdayny.org
April 17, 2010
Worcester VegFest
Worcester State College Student Center
Worcester, MA
FREE admission, parking and food samples!
Saturday, April 17, 2010 from 12 pm – 5 pm
Worcester VegFest brings together the central Massachusetts community to celebrate cruelty-free and environmentally sustainable lifestyles by promoting socially responsible businesses, inspiring speakers, musicians and of course tasty vegan food!
For more information: www.vegworcester.com
October 31 - November 1, 2009
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Boston Vegetarian Food Festival
Reggie Lewis Athletic Center Boston
1350 Tremont Street
Boston (Roxbury), MA
Saturday October 31 from 10 am to 6 pm
Sunday November 1 from 10 am to 4 pm
Now expanded to 2 full days of veggie fun, this year’s Boston Vegetarian Food Festival is going to bigger, badder and more veggie-filled than ever before. Always an extremely popular event, the Veg Fest is a great way to learn more about vegetarianism and all its added social and environmental benefits. The festival brings together an amazing array of vegetarian natural food providers, top national speakers and chefs, and educational exhibitors in a fun and welcoming environment. It is a chance to talk directly to food producers, learn the newest items in the marketplace, taste free food samples, shop at show special discounts, or simply learn what vegetarian foods and products are available and where you can find them!
For more information: www.bostonveg.org/foodfest/
August 21-22, 2009
ABC Kid’s Expo
Las Vegas Convention Center – South Exhibit Halls
Las Vegas, NV
Booth #2314 (The Green Ally Company)
We are very excited to join our Southeast wholesale sales rep, The Green Ally Company [link to: www.thegreenally.com] at the fastest growing trade show in the nation! The ABC Kid’s Expo is the premier juvenile products specialty show. Autonomie Project will be showing the new children’s Ethletic sneakers and officially launching the Little Green Radicals children’s apparel collection (coming soon!). Note that this is a private show for retailers, manufacturers, sales representatives, and members of the media. It is not open to the general public.
For more information: www.theabcshow.comTo schedule an appointment: Email Annette @ Green Ally
August 21-22, 2009
Boston GreenFest
City Hall Plaza
Boston, MA
Friday August 21 from 10 am to 6 pm
Saturday August 22 from 10 am to 5 pm
Join us at the second annual Boston Green Fest, an entertaining educational festival celebrating the many ways we can create a better world by greening our neighborhoods, our communities and the entire Greater Boston area. The 2-day weekend fest is full of job seminars, performances, stuff for kids, eco-fashion, a film festival and much more.
For more information: www.bostongreenfest.org
June 26, 2009
Blackstone Community Center
50 West Brookline Street
South End
Boston, MA
6 – 10 pm
Critical Breakdown, a youth-run non-profit organization, invites you to join us in a rocking block party this Friday night to help raise awareness to inner city/urban communities about fair trade, sustainable farming and environmental friendliness. Featuring live performances, free BBQ, live graffiti, a break dancing competition and much more, the event will bring together in celebration will bring together families, organizations, artists, dancers, and DJ’s to create a space to celebrate life, share knowledge and promote the arrival of a safe summer.
Further info: www.criticalbreakdown.org
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Richmond Vegetarian Food Festival
Azalea Gardens at Bryan Park
Richmond, VA
12 – 6 pm
Join thousands of other Virginian veggie supporters and check out one of the largest vegetarian events in the entire country! Listen to non-stop entertainment, partake in professional cooking demos, taste a variety of yummy veggie offerings from local restaurants, and shop with us and other arts, crafts, and animal-friendly products.
Sign up and further info: www.veggiefest.org
June 7, 2009
Bike-A-Thon & Green Roots Environmental Festival
The park in front of Stony Brook T Station
Jamaica Plain, MA
12:00-5:30 pm
Free and open to the public
Share, learn about, and celebrate sustainable urban living and environmental issues. Enjoy live music, food, speakers, prizes, workshops on environmental issues, information booths by environmental groups, and children's activities. This festival is the after party for the 22nd Annual Bikes Not Bombs Bike-A-Thon fundraiser and is a great way for a community to come together and make change!
Sign up and further info: www.bikesnotbombs.org/bat09
June 13, 2009
Fair Trade Boston
Artists for Humanity EpiCenter
100 West Second Street Boston, MA
Boston, MA
12 – 6 pm
Join the campaign to make Boston a Fair Trade city! We are extremely proud to co-host this event and hope that you will join us celebrate the local Fair Trade movement here in Boston. Enjoy performances, a fashion show, art, great food, wine, ice cream and coffee and learn more about Fair Trade and how you can help.
Sign up and further info: www.fairtradeboston.org
May 9, 2009
World Fair Trade Day: Everything is Better when it’s Fair
The Action Center to End World Hunger
6 River Terrace, Battery Park City
11 am – 5 pm
New York, NY
Please join the Action Center to End World Hunger and the NYC Fair Trade Coalition for a World Fair Trade Day celebration! Come learn more about the powerful and positive impact that fair trade is having across the world. The celebration will include free and delicious fair trade giveaways, such as chocolate and coffee, vendors selling fairly traded goods from all over the world, fair trade films, children’s activities and more!
For more info: www.actioncenter.org/update/20090509/world_fair_trade_day
April 24 - 25, 2009
EarthFair 2009
Grand Central Terminal
New York, NY
Friday, April 24 from 12 pm to 7 pm
Saturday, April 25 from 11 am to 5 pm
On Friday, April 24th and Saturday, April 25th Earth Day New York will once again transform five city blocks in the heart of Manhattan into a festival of music, environmental education, and fun.
Renovations have been completed at Grand Central Station and as a result EarthFair will have both indoor (Vanderbilt Hall) and outdoor (Vanderbilt Avenue) venues, making '09 the biggest and best EarthFair yet.
Sign up and further info: www.earthdayny.org
April 22, 2009
Green With Fashion Charity Fashion Show
FUEL Collection (MTV's Real World Philly House)
249 Arch St. (3rd & Arch)
Philadelphia, PA
7 PM
Green with Fashion is a charity, eco-fashion show, which will spotlight designers from all over the country. The idea for the event was first created as a senior project at Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA), but has since evolved into a way to not only celebrate eco-conscious designers, but educate the community on environmental issues.
All tickets ($15) must be purchased in advance -- there wil be no ticket sales at the door.
Sign up and further info: www.greenwithfashion.t83.net
April 5, 2009
Design Hive Earth Day
Maria Baldwin School (formerly the Agassiz School)
28 Sacramento St. (off Mass Ave. @ corner of Oxford St.)
Cambridge, MAThe Design Hive is a monthly independent designers market in Cambridge that is part urban street market, part collective retail experience featuring local indie designers, live DJs, and more! Shop from over 50 designers in a flea market-style setting that offer an array of handcrafted, one-of-a-kind items. Design Hive Earth Day focuses on the environment and will feature eco-friendly products, green-your-life seminars, and other cool eco activities.
Autonomie Project will have a booth selling our wares and will host the Art Corner where you can learn how to screen print your own tee or paint your own sneaker!
For more info: www.designhivemarket.com
March 28-29, 2009
Green Festival
Washington State Convention & Trade Center
800 Convention Place
Seattle, WAA joint project of Global Exchange and Co-op America. The Green Festival celebrates what’s working in our communities—for people, business and the environment. Join us in Seattle for 2 days filled with the best in green!
For more info: www.greenfestivals.org
March 29, 2009
PJA 10 Live!
A fundraising event for the Progressive Jewish Alliance
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
5:30 – 8:30 pmA celebration of the PJA’s 10th anniversary honoring two outstanding leaders in their community: Erwin Chemerinsky and Daniel Sokatch, who have worked for change throughout their illustrious careers. This tribute to them and to ten years of PJA will inspire and dazzle with an exciting program that’s sure to create wonderful memories for all. Autonomie Project sneakers will be on hand to try on and order as part of the fundraiser for all of the PJA’s notable efforts in making positive change on our earth.
For more info: http://pja10live.org
March 21, 2009
Green Schools Community Fair
Woburn Memorial High School
88 Montvale High
Woburn, MA
11 am to 2 pm
Free Admission
This event is jam-packed with environmental vendors and exhibits that really make The Green Difference. Join us for a special performance by Woburn's very own Hurld Green Singers, music by Highlife in Suburbia, tour a green school, try green edible experiments, learn about green cleaning, crafts, building, fundraising and socially responsible investing.
For more info: www.projectgreenschools.org
December 12 - 14, 2008
Eco Gift Expo
December 12, 13 & 14, 2008
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
1855 Main Street
Santa Monica, CAEcoGift's mission is to produce large-scale eco-conscious gift shows that provide people with an uplifting experience and a solution to the difficult emotions, inconveniences and terrible waste associated with the holidays and holiday shopping!
Show Hours:
Friday 11 AM – 8 PM
Saturday 10 AM – 7 PM
Sunday 11 AM – 8 PM
For more info: www.ecogift.com
November 14 - 16, 2008
Green Festival San Francisco
November 14,15 & 16
San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center
635 8th St (at Brannan St)
San Francisco, CAA joint project of Global Exchange and Co-op America. The Green Festival celebrates what’s working in our communities—for people, business and the environment. Join us at the nation’s premier sustainability event in San Francisco for 3 days filled with the best in green!
Booth #420 (in the Fair Trade section)
For more info: www.greenfestivals.org
November 1, 2008
Boston Vegetarian Food Festival
Saturday, November 1st, 10 am to 6 pm
Reggie Lewis Athletic Center Boston
1350 Tremont Street
Boston (Roxbury), MA
Bringing together an amazing array of vegetarian natural food providers, top national speakers and chefs, and educational exhibitors in a fun and welcoming environment. It is a chance to talk directly to food producers, learn the newest items in the marketplace, taste free food samples, shop at show special discounts, or simply learn what vegetarian foods are available and where you can find them!
For more info on the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival: http://www.bostonveg.org/foodfest/
September 28, 2008
Fair Trade LA Annual Event
Sunday, September 28, 8 am - 2 pm
Washington Mutual Bank parking lot
1500 N. Vine St.
(near Sunset and Vine)
Los Angeles, CA
Learn more about where and how you can buy Fair Trade, Sweatshop Free, and local. Plus lots of products available for purchase: bath and beauty, apparel, crafts, jewelry, coffee, chocolate and MORE!
For more info:
http://fairtradela.wordpress.com/
August 1 - 3, 2008
Featuring Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Kanye West, Nine Inch Nails, and more! Autonomie will be set-up as a ‘Green Street’ vendor and will be helping the festival go green this year!
For more info on Lollapalooza’s green effforts and the Green Street: http://www.lollapalooza.com/greenlolla/green-street.htm
For more info and to puchase tickets:
www.lollapalooza.com
June 21, 2008
May 17, 2008Saugus High School Rte. 1
Saugus, MA
Admission: $2 (kids under 12 free!)
10 am to 3 pm
More info: www.thinkgreenfair.com
May 10, 2008 ( >> View Flyer )Autonomie’s First Trunk Show and Fair Trade Wine Tasting!
In honor of World Fair Trade Day, we’re excited to announce our first trunk show! Hear the story behind Autonomie and our Fair Trade workers, shop the entire collection in-person, be the first to buy our new eco-friendly Fair Trade flip flops, sample organic Fair Trade wines, and shop more very cool, eco-friendly wares.
Hosted by Greenward Shop
1776 Mass Ave, Porter Square
Cambridge, MA
Saturday May 10, 2008
3 pm - 5 pmFor directions and more info on Greenward, check out their website www.greenwardshop.com
April 17 - 19, 2008With Clouds and The Everyday Visuals
For more info: www.myspace.com/piebald
Karaoke Fashion Show Featuring Birdhead Design, Macbeth, Topo Ranch and Autonomie Project.
April 12 & 13, 2008Green Festival
Tickets are $15
Washington State Convention & Trade Center
800 Convention Place
Seattle, WA($10 for seniors, students (12 years of age or older), union members with ID and Green Festival Bike Valet participants)
For more info: www.greenfestivals.org
March 6, 2008"Green is the New Black"
A Night of Fashion Giving Back
$35.00 General Admission / $50.00 VIP
All proceeds to www.MakeItRightNOLA.org
920 n. La Cienega
W. Hollywood, CA
For more info: myspace.com/greenisthenewblack08m
February 2 & 3, 2008Going Green Expo
Green Bazaar Gifts & Product Shop:
Saturday: 10 am to 8 pm
Sunday: 10 am to 4 pm
Eco Fashion Show:
Saturday @ 1 pm
Sunday @ 2pm
Bayside Expo Center
Boston, MA
For more info: www.goinggreenexpos.com
January 17 - 27, 2008The Giving Suite at the Sundance Film Festival
Gateway Center
136 Heber Avenue (right off Main St – next to Sundance box office)
Park City, UT
December 15 & 16, 2007Eco Gift Show
Booth 32
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Santa Monica, CA
Admission Fee: $10.00
For more info: www.ecogift.com
December 8 & 9, 2007Cultural Survival Holiday Bazaar
Hynes Convention Center
Boston, MA
Admission Fee: Free
For more info: http://www.culturalsurvival.org/events/bazaar/index.cfm