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38th IVU World Vegetarian Congress

Dresden, Germany

100 YEARS OF FOOD REVOLUTION
Sunday July 27 - Sunday August 3, 2008

Deutsch - English - Español - Français - Italiano - Português


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To find Dresden on Google Earth,
go to 51° 03 North and 13°44 East
- and zoom in.... The Congress venue
is on Wilsdruffer Straße - or
click here to go direct on Google Earth

(If you have it on your own computer
- open the doc file)

This is the IVU Centenary Congress so we're going back to Dresden where the first Congress was held in 1908

Why Dresden? - the background to the first IVU Congress and the early Dresden Vegetarians

Dresden in 1908 - an impression of the City at the time IVU was founded

A Brief Pictorial History of IVU Congresses - 100 years in a few photos


Welcome from World Vegetarian Leaders

Take the tour - pictures of Dresden today, the Congress Venue, and some of the planned trips

Outline Program of lectures, tours etc.

Accommodation - a wide choice of places and prices

Where is it? - maps and travel notes

Congress Registration - how to book your place and pay for it

Congress Brochure - an attractive printable PDF file (4 pages of A4) containing much of the information that is on this website: English / Deutsch
Booking forms are also available in English / Deutsch (PDF)

Additional information as of November 2007: English (PDF)

- speakers, registration fee, meals for children, day tickets, additional accommodation, post congress tour.
Day ticket prices: English - Deutsch

Additional Accommodation in Dresden (March 2008) - English / Deutsch


and....
Congress Presentation (Powerpoint file of everything above - 1.7mb) English - Deutsch


Post Congress Tour to Berlin, Potsdam and the Spreewald
We are very sorry to have to inform you that due to insufficient bookings (the minimum required was 25 and we got only 13) the post-congress tour has had to be cancelled.There are nevertheless many interesting places around Dresden that you may wish to visit under your own steam or in private groups.If you wish to book a place on one of the Saturday day tours (to Saxonian Switzerland or to the famous porcelain town of Meissen) please let us know as soon as possible.

and ....
Press article - suitable for use in your local journal


Some useful vegetarian phrases in German, and languages for neighbouring countries.

Vegetarians in Europe - or 'What are all those logos..?'

Landeshauptstadt DresdenCity Of Dresden - official website with lots of local info (in English and German)

Dresden-Pictures.com - huge collection of historical and recent photos (text in German)
ESPERANTO IN SACHSEN - UND IM RAUM DRESDEN - Esperanto in Dresden (Deutsch)

Pictures of Saxonian 'Switzerland' - a nearby mountain region worth visiting

The 'Culture Trail' - Dresden, Prague, Vienna, Budapest - another post-congress option

While you're waiting for this one, check out:-
37th IVU World Vegetarian Congress, held in Goa, India, September 2006

And for a great recent congress check out the reports and pictures from Florianópolis, Brazil 2004

Further details about the Congress will be added here as they become available.

Meanwhile, subscribe to IVU Online News - this is a monthly e-mail newsletter, and it will always have news of IVU Congresses along with other items of world veg news. (if you already receive Online News you do not need to subscribe again):

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