Rainbow-Palooza

Free food, music, information, inspiration, and fun await you at the 2nd annual RAINBOW-PALOOZA combined Pride & VegFest sponsored by VINE Sanctuary with the generous help of the LGBT National Help Center and the Springfield Town Library. A delicious free lunch will be provided to all attendees courtesy of Chilis on Wheels! Nonprofits tabling at this event will include ACLU Vermont, Free Her, Free Mom Hugs, Greater Falls Connections, HCRS, New Hampshire Animal Rights League, Pride Center of Vermont, Protect Our Wildlife Vermont, Vet Center, and VINE Sanctuary. Vendors at this event will include Astrobridge Artistry, Campy Bird Print Studio, Locals Bookshop, Mixed Up Craft Nut and Seed Butter, Nourish, Rosy Oats, and Tipsy Pickle. Music by DJ Gender-Ender and the Frosty Frog Band will keep you dancing through the day. Inside, cooking demonstrations and an amazing line-up of speakers will inform and inspire you: SCHEDULE 1:00 Author and artist Tillie Walden will talk about "Comics and Queerness in Vermont and Beyond" 1:45 Vegan cheese-making demo with Cheryl Wylie 2:15 Roger Barraby, a Windsor County runner who has won at the International Gay Games, will tell his inspiring story. 3:00 Food justice activist Eloísa Trinidad will talk about how colonialism changed the food system and our relationship with each other and to the natural world. 3:45 Vegan cookie-baking demo with Lili Trenkova 4:15 Seba Johnson, who was the first Black female downhill skier at the Olympics as a teenager and is now an early childhood educator, will tell her inspiring story and share her views on how to make our community safe and healthy for everyone.