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An Organic-Vegan-Educational Weekend. Yum.

Eat your vegetables, kids! Learn something about the world you live in, kids! This weekend, there’s plenty of healthy-eating-education stuff going on in Shanghai from a FIELDS workshop to Planto...
Last updated: 2017-04-28
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Eat your vegetables, kids! Learn something about the world you live in, kids! This weekend, there’s plenty of healthy-eating-education stuff going on in Shanghai from a FIELDS workshop to Plantopia, the city’s second annual vegan fiesta to interesting talks on non-vegetable matters like the Cultural Revolution and black internationalism. Read on for details.

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Interested in learning how to make sure the food your family’s eating is safe? Want to know more about different food labels in China and how to read them? Curious to know what organic in China really means, the regulations and implementation? Reading organic labels and know if it’s real or fake? As an intro to their upcoming Kerry Farmers Market by The COOK Origins on May 6 and May 7, The Kerry Hotel Pudong has invited the popular online grocery store FIELDS to do a workshop on these topics. The Kerry Hotel Pudong will be hosting two talks with speakers from FIELDS – ‘Eating Safely In China (26 April), ‘Eating Organic In China’ (29 April) – over three sessions: English, Japanese and Chinese. No entry fee. English session 10am-10.30am.

FIELDS the online grocery is holding a workshop called “Eating Organic in China” at The Kerry Hotel Pudong. The workshop will aim to educate on food labels, help you discern the real from the fake, and explain what it really means to buy organic in China. Sounds like useful information to have re: the whole not poisoning yourself thing. Very nice. This is a free and open event, no pre-booking necessary.

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Plantopia is back for its second year, offering 3 blissful days of vegan focused activities. All of the festival’s events are free and range from educational talks, to yoga, to vegan cooking classes. Each day starts around 10.30am and goes to 8pm. Go ahead and get your vegan on.

Plantopia is back for its second year, offering 3 blissful days of vegan focused activities. All of the festival’s events are free and range from educational talks, to yoga, to vegan cooking classes. Each day starts around 10.30am and goes to 8pm. Sounds like a real zen time. Go ahead and get your vegan on.

April is perfect walking weather, and the May holiday, when we celebrate the working class is the perfect time for a walk through Shanghai’s revolutionary roots. On this two-hour walking tour, you’ll hear about the epic drama of China’s path to revolution and Shanghai’s place in it, meet the fascinating characters who plotted it, and visit the places where they lived, worked and made revolution. 200rmb Historic Shanghai members, 250rmb nonmembers. More information and registration at www.historic-shanghai.com.

Celebrate Worker’s Day right. Or at least in a very direct way, learning about the worker's revolution. Historic Shanghai is offering an educational two-hour walking tour through the city exploring Shanghai’s revolutionary roots. Learn about the revolution, those who started it, see where they lived, and either engage or attempt to explicitly avoid prickly conversations. The tour costs 200rmb for members, 250rmb for non-members.

This presentation looks at the emergence of black internationalism in the early 20th century and China’s place within this discourse. Through examining the writings and utterances of prominent black U.S. intellectuals, it offers an overview of their varied responses to China’s progress from the end of dynastic rule to the founding of the People’s Republic. 85rmb adults; 40rmb students. Starts 4.30pm.

M Talks China presents Aaliyah Bilal, a writer and graduate of The School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, who is currently working on a book based on her experience as an African-American woman living in Asia. The presentation will focus on the emergence of black internationalism in the early 20th century and China’s place within this discourse.

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