Sunday April 11, 2010
Lowry Park (Band Shell...not
the Zoo)
7530 North Blvd., Tampa FL 33604
Noon-5 PM
As a WMNF event, we are planning to mount the first Talking Animals
Festival, which will include live music in the form of a multiple-hour,
multiple-act concert of great local bands performing animal songs...a
major animal adoption component...tables where animal groups &
others can provide outreach, and vendors can sell pet products
or animal-oriented items or services...various vegan elements...perhaps
a guest speaker or two...animal art...food, drink & fun...and
more.
This is a FREE event, and all invited, including
dogs on leashes!
If you're part of a non-profit group that would like to table
at the Talking Animals Festival, please download the application
form here, complete and
submit to WMNF.
If you have a pet business, sell animal-oriented products or
services, are an artist--or otherwise would like to be a vendor
at the Talking Animals Festival--please download this
application form, complete and submit to WMNF.
To find out more about the adoption component, sponsorship possibilities,
volunteer opportunities, or other aspects of the Festival, please
e-mail us at TalkingAnimals@wmnf.org.
I want to thank everyone who participated
in the Talking Animals Festival or otherwise helped make
it a really nice success, especially for a first-time event.
I really appreciate it.
- Duncan
FESTIVAL TABLERS & VENDORS
Here are the folks participating
in the Talking Animals Festival, in one capacity or another--as
food vendors selling grub, as organizations conducting pet
adoptions, as non-profits providing outreach, as companies,
services or artists functioning as vendors, etc. This list
covers those who'd signed on by April 7 & in no particular
order:
Vida De Café
VDR, INC-The Vintage Lofts
Fred's Favorite Foods
Good Dog-Bad Dog
Queen Of Sheba
Petco
Taco Bus
Artsy Floor Cloths & Pet Portraits
Viitals
Chihuahua Rescue & Transport
Repicci's Italian Ice
Groovy Cats & Dogs
Greyhound Rescue & Adoptions Of Tampa Bay (G.R.E.A.T)
Pet Portraits-Drawings by Eunice
Suncoast Basset Rescue
Animal Alternatives Natural Holistic Care
Safe Society Of Florida
Blackbird Farm
Humane Society Of Tampa Bay
Tampa Mobile Veterinary Services
SPCA of Tampa Bay
Affordable Pet Vaccination Company
Hillsborough County Animal Services
Big Cat Rescue
Australian Shepherd Rescue & Placement Helpline
(ARPH)
Cat Lovers, Inc
Doggie Cakes
Feral Cat Coalition Of Tampa Bay
Tailored Pet Sitting
Tampa Bay Professional Petsitters Network
Anne Anderson (artist)
St. Francis Society Animal Rescue
Jennifer Fernandez/A Tail Of Two (artist, jewelry)
Grasshopper Dream Productions/author Michael Stearns
Florida Boxer Rescue Inc.
Faithful Friends Pet Cremation
Florida Weimaraner Rescue Inc
Ivy Chalice Jewelry
Team Blue Florida
Carol Brown (pet beds)
Paws for Friendship Inc
Dog Training Club of Tampa
Home Buddies Tampa NE
tbt*
Dunedin Dog Rescue
Dalmatian Rescue of Tampa Bay
Florida English Bulldog Rescue
Tampa Bay Veterinary Services
The St. Petersburg Times
Ruff Rescue
Celebration Free Methodist Church
Big Hearts Rescue
Medicine Song Crafts
Busy Bee
The Tampa Tribune
Labrador Retriever Rescue of Florida, Inc.
AGILITY TRAINING
DEMOS & TALK
The Dog
Training Club of Tampa will be presenting multiple agility
training demonstrations during the Festival, and there will
also be a fistful of talks offered on topics like hurricane
and disaster preparedness for animals, and Tellington Touch
(T-Touch).
EATS & DRINKS
There's also going to be delicious food, with great grub to please
all Festival attendees, whether they be carnivores, vegetarians
or vegans--not to mention assorted beverages (did someone say
there'll be beer?)
RAFFLE & MINI-SILENT AUCTION
There will also be a raffle--with a multitude of fabulous
prizes--and a mini-silent auction, with some grand items
for people to bid on, including a week's stay in a Hawaiian
condo on the island of Kauai.
SMART PET TRICKS & PROJECT PET WALK
And to further ensure no one lapses into taking themselves all
too seriously at the Talking Animals Festival , we have two brief
segments planned for the Band Shell stage: Smart Pet Tricks and
Project Pet Walk, both of which Festival-goers can participate
in, and can sign up for upon arriving at the Fest.
LOW-COST PET VACCINATIONS AT TALKING ANIMALS
FESTIVAL
The Talking Animals Festival is enormously delighted to announce
that Dr. Lori Moore, of Affordable
Pet Vaccination Company, will have her mobile clinic set up
on the Festival, offering an array of low-cost pet vaccinations
for the entire noon-5pm period. More information, including a
price list, can be found at www.AffordablePets.net
$10
MICROCHIPPING AT TALKING ANIMALS FESTIVAL
The Talking Animals Festival
is thrilled to announce that the Animal
Coalition of Tampa & veterinarian Dr.
Jeanne Hart are partnering to provide low-cost microchipping
at the Festival--$10 per animal, including registration,
for as many as 50 animals. (At a vet's office, microchipping
can cost $50-60 + the registration fee.)
PETCO ON BOARD
The Talking Animals Festival thanks
and welcomes PetCo as a Festival sponsor.
ARTISTS
PERFORMING ANIMAL SONGS AT TA FEST ANNOUNCED
Organizers of the Talking Animals
Festival are delighted to unveil the names of the nearly dozen
artists and bands that will be performing animal songs--both originals
and covers--on the Band Shell stage at Lowry Park on April 11.
Other acts &/or guest speakers
may be added. Meanwhile, we offer a special "thank you"
to WMNF Music Director Lee "Flee" Courtney for assembling
this line-up, and the bands themselves who've kindly agreed to
join the festivities--they are listed below in no particular order:
Ronny Elliott (Folk)
The Equines (Rock)
Baddaskat (Reggae/World)
The Sandy Atkinson Band (Blues)
Judy Tampa & Bunko Squad (Folk/Roots)
Andy Feldman of Pulling Birds (Rock)
The Chicken Chasers (Klezmer)
Parson Brown (Folk/Rock)
Sunset Bridge (Eclectic)
Large Mammal (Rock)
Pete Gallagher (Folk) Pete also hosts WMNF's "Florida
Folk Show"--&, as an expert on Florida panthers &
wildlife, has been a guest on "Talking Animals"
