Toronto hosts Canada’s 3rd Annual Coconut Festival

Toronto hosts Canada’s 3rd Annual Coconut Festival

Toronto hosts Canada’s 2nd Annual Coconut Festival and Marketplace on Saturday, August 27, 2016, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at David Pecaut Square (behind CBC bldg and next to Roy Thompson Hall). The Coconut Festival is produced by Coconut Festival Canada which aims to bring the community together to learn about the many health benefits of coconuts as well as its diverse culinary uses.

“Our goal is to educate consumers about the simplicity of natural lifestyle and how coconuts can contribute to that in your day-to-day healthy living, preventing sickness and diseases,” says founder Anne Josef.

It’s a Free General Admission event featuring delicious food vendors, natural products, chefs, naturopathic doctors, authors, health lecturers, farmers, and local businesses promoting health and wellness through the use of coconuts.

The festival also goes nuts with entertainment, children’s games, coconut bowling contests, hula contests, free yoga, acro yoga, and cultural performers. The first 500 attendees will receive complimentary goodie bags.

Speakers and performers include fitness advocate Kennedy Lodato; homeopath Sunita Mohan; registered holistic nutritionist Kalayaan Garcia; yoga instructor Edane Padme; and Kelani Dance; Acro Monkeys; and Carnival Spice.

(PRESS RELEASE)