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Copia Presents THOUGHT4FOOD : A 3 Evening Series

with special thanks to generous sponsors Vancity, Choices Markets & Indigo Natural Products Management

(April 16, May 21 & June 18... RSVP here for April 16: What's Growing on in Vancouver: Organics, Whole Foods & Your Table)

Are you someone who loves to eat amazing great food? Have you got to a place in life when you think about where it came from and what it does in your body as well as how it tastes? Do you have a recipe for some fabulous soup or sauce (or something else mouth-wateringly good) that makes all your friends say “Wow – you should bottle this!”? Have you been harbouring a dream of someday opening a café, restaurant, food cart or artisan manufacturing company? Are you already in the food business and looking for ideas, inspiration and supportive networks to help you grow?

Answering Yes to even one of these questions means THOUGHT4FOOD is right for you and, like many Copia events, brings heart and soul together with business and strategy. We have a LOT to offer you! Join us for one or all of these events featuring some of the best and brightest conscious minds on the lower mainland Foodie scene, all with mindful approaches to health, sustainability and entrepreneurship.

Get your tickets from Brown Paper Tickets, A Fair Trade Ticketing Company:

Whole Series: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/359274

Part 1 (April 16): http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/358790

Part 2 (May 21): http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/359083

Part 3 (June 18): http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/359167

FOOD BITES

We’ve got a fabulous range of the region’s best snack, soda, beer, gourmet market, grocery and restaurant exhibitors offering up hearty samples of their wares for you to enjoy at each event, with many opportunities to take home some of what you love most as well.

SOUND BITES

There has never been a more important time in human history for us to think about what we eat and where it comes from. There has probably also never been a more exciting time to be a Mindful Foodie or build a Conscious Food Business. THOUGHT4FOOD is a series of three evening events designed to inspire, educate, and bring together food growers, makers and eaters with distributors, retailers, and media.

We’re serving up the whole food system, in easily digestible pieces. Our speakers include the best and brightest of culinary creatives in our area, with a range of expertise that covers off every milestone in the cycle from growing food (at home or as a producer) to preparing food (again both for personal consumption only and for sale) and on through manufacturing, distributing, retailing and turning it back into soil! For those with a business bent, each panel includes speakers in the early stages of a startup, at midsize development and all the way up to national and global reach – no matter where you are in your dream of sustainable foodie entrepreneurship, you will find yourself represented on our stage and gain a good sense of next steps.

THOUGHT4FOOD : A 3-Part Series

(All events are 6:00 – 9:00pm @ Vancouver’s beautifully eco-restored heritage space, the Dodson Conference Centre, Hastings & Main)

PART 1: What's Growing On in the Region – Organics, Whole Foods & Your Table

Tuesday, April 16

Featuring Innovators in Growing and Preparing Sustainable, Nutrient-Dense Deliciousness (with a variety of products & prep times suited to new agrarians and busy urbanites & everyone in between)

There is no better way to become conscious about what you eat than to grow and make your own food, whether that takes the form of tilling a garden, growing herbs in a window box or playing with new recipes until they become your own. Our panelists for this first part of the series are local innovators in gardening, permaculture, culinary arts and organic whole foods. Their insights about growing a business and satisfying your palette in a healthy way will both inspire and delight you.

Speakers: Ilana Labow (Fresh Roots), Kent Houston (Patch), Christopher Ng (Alterrus), Terry Bremner (Bremner Foods), Georgia Morley (ello), Will Jung (BokoEco)

Exhibitors: Organic Lives, Edible Canada, Howe Sound Brewery, Granola Girl, Bremner Foods, BokoEco, In Your Own Skin, Greene Goodies, Kitchen Pick, Indigo, Juice Plus, Aji Gourmet Salsa, Nutralite, Organo Gold Coffee, Left Coast Naturals, Patch, Nikken, Health Happens, Eternal Abundance Café, Delicious Wellness Baking Co.

PART 2: Secret Sauce Ingredients – From Recipe to Check-out Stand

Tuesday, May 21

Featuring Startups, Innovators and Award-Winners in Manufacture, Brokerage & Retail

Lots of people have great recipes and hundreds of fans in their community saying “Wow – you should bottle that and sell it!” There are a LOT of steps between the perfecting of a secret sauce and building a sustainable business that puts it on a wide range of grocery shelves. This panel, with its mix of chefs, founders, brokers and grocery leaders will help map the milestones every growing foodie business needs to hit and give valuable tips to foodies on how to support your favourite farmer’s market produce getting into your local stores.

Just a taste of our speakers includes: Ian Walker (Left Coast Naturals), Gordon Truscott (Indigo Natural Products Management), Ishkandar Ahmed (Choices Markets), Tyson Reimer (Woodlands Smokehouse Commissary), Peggy Speir (Frostbites), Saul Brown (Saul Good Gift Co) and more…

PART 3: Farm to (S)Table – Building Strong Links in the Food Chain

Tuesday, June 18

Featuring Commercial Growers, Locovore Restaurants & Foodie Bloggers

Sustainable Foodies eat very carefully and consciously at home, but what about when you go out? It’s great to know that there are natural, locovore restaurants supplied by responsible growers and other sustainable vendors, serving up menus you can trust! How does a restaurant (or food cart) build those relationships? And how can small growers and makers get on the vendor list of those restaurants? And, if you haven’t thought of this as a consumer before now, why should you care?

Just a taste of our speakers includes: Andre LaRiviere (Smarter Restaurants), Peggy Vogler (Aphrodite's Organic Café & Pie Shop), Hunter Moyes (The Tiffin Project), Suzanne Fielden (Rocky Mountain Flatbread Co), Preet Marwaha (Organic Lives), and more…

TASTE-FULL EXHIBITORS

Just enough to get your mouth watering… there will be MORE!

Howe Sound Brewery | Rocky Mountain Flatbread Company | Jump Up and Go Go | Greene Goodies | SIP Natural Craft Soda | Organic Lives | Left Coast Naturals

GIVE THESE GENEROUS SPONSORS YOUR BEST WORD OF MOUTH:

Vancity | Choices Markets | Indigo Naturals Management | Bullfrog Power

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There is still time to sign on as a speaker (in limited categories), exhibitor or sponsor. Affiliate partnerships are also possible for those in a position to sell 12 tickets or more through their group or network - your members will get 20% off and you'll get a free ticket.

Contact Alanna@copiaspirit.com for speaking opportunities and affiliate partnerships and contact Charlie@copiaspirit.com for exhibitor and sponsor packages.

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Get your tickets from Brown Paper Tickets, A Fair Trade Events Company:

Whole Series: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/359274

Part 1 (April 16): http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/358790

Part 2 (May 21): http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/359083

Part 3 (June 18): http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/359167

Tickets include an extraordinarily informative and inspirational range of presenters and an abundant amount of quality food, beer, sodas and smiles.

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Note to Foodie Startups: If you are actively in the process of getting a food business off the ground and ticket prices are not in your budget, contact us about volunteering opportunities - we want you in the house! volunteers [at] copiaspirit [dot] com