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Enjoy live music both days while getting a break from the sun under our party tent!
SPEAKERS | June 8, 2025
All ticket holders can enjoy FREE speaking engagements by local and national chefs, body builders, doctors, motivational speakers, & more!
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The Speaker Room will be located inside the Turnhalle Event Center. ASL interpreters will be onsite for all presentations.
June 8 at 11:30am
Andrew Bernard is the self-taught chef and award-winning photographer and videographer behind The Nard Dog Cooks and Make It Dairy Free. As the creative force behind the Youtube channel by the same name, he’s grateful for the 1 million+ followers in his thriving and growing vegan community who inspire him daily.
He creates vegan and plant-based cuisine with the goal of inspiring anyone to eat less animal products no matter their cooking experience by building their confidence with guided videos and motivational moments inside. Andrew resides in New Jersey with his incredible wife Larisha and is a girl dad to 2 beautiful daughters. His guiding philosophy in both cooking and life remains simple: Believe in Yourself, Believe in Others, Believe in Good.
June 8 at 1:00pm
Priyanka Naik is a self-taught award winning eco-chef, Food Network champion, TV Host, Author of THE MODERN TIFFIN, columnist of "Ecokitchen" for The Washington Post, pop-up restaurateur and a TEDx Speaker! An avid traveler who’s been to 47 countries, her globally inspired original recipes, with a focus on sustainability, have been featured on TODAY Show, The Kelly Clarkson Show, Food Network, and more. Priyanka's love for the environment, animals and her Indian culture are the driving force behind her culinary prowess.
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June 8 at 3:45pm
Robert grew up on a farm in Corvallis, Oregon where he adopted a vegan lifestyle in 1995 at age 15, weighing just 120 pounds. Today he is the author of the books, Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness, Shred It!, Plant-Based Muscle, the New York Times bestseller, The Plant-Based Athlete, and, The Impactful Vegan. He is often referred to as the “Godfather of Vegan Bodybuilding,” growing the industry from infancy in 2002, to where it is today. As a natural bodybuilding champion, Robert is considered one of VegNews magazine's Most Influential Vegan Athletes. He tours around the world sharing his story of transformation from a skinny farm kid to champion vegan bodybuilder. Robert is the founder of Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness and maintains the website, VeganBodybuilding.com.
He is a contributor to Forks Over Knives, The Center for Nutrition Studies, Plant Powered Athlete, Vegan Strong, and No Meat Athlete, is a former multi-sport athlete, and has followed a plant-based diet for more than 30 years. He is the host of the Plant Powered Athlete Podcast and has published dozens of articles on health and human performance on PlantPoweredAthlete.com. Robert lives in Colorado with his wife, Karen, and rescued Chihuahua, Ellie.
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