Catskill Animal Sanctuary
Virtual Tour and Talk with Kathy Stevens
Join us in this opening program of Compassion Arts Festival in meeting our special guest - sanctuary founder, educator, writer, and vegan animal advocate Kathy Stevens, to celebrate the animals of Catskill Animal Sanctuary in this heart- inspiring, joyful, educational, and illuminating free zoom event.
Advance sign-up is required by November 14
For questions, Email info@compassionarts.org
Kathy Stevens, Catskill Animal Sanctuary
KATHY STEVENS
Kathy Stevens is the founder and director of Catskill Animal Sanctuary a safe haven for rescued animals in Saugerties, NY. Leaving her career as an educator in 2001, Kathy Stevens wanted to create a place of peace and healing that would serve not only as a home for abused and neglected animals, but also as a teaching sanctuary for helping people to better understand animals and deepen their connection. Drawing both from her years of teaching and her extensive experience in animal care and animal protection, she developed a variety of ways for bringing together the love of animals with the power to transform in programs such as Camp Kindness, Compassionate Cuisine, sanctuary tours and numerous other educational events. Kathy is the author of Where the Blind Horse Sings and Animal Camp, two critically and popularly acclaimed books about the work of Catskill Animal Sanctuary. She is also a contributor to books, podcasts and articles on animal sentience, animal rights and veganism, and the host of All Beings Considered.
CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY
Catskill Animal Sanctuary is a 150-acre refuge in New York’s Hudson Valley for 11 species of farmed animals rescued from cruelty, neglect and abandonment. The sanctuary’s mission embraces the life-altering truth that, in the ways that matter, we are all the same. Animals are as individual as us, want their lives as much as we want ours, and experience the same emotions as we do. This belief in our shared “sameness” is the first driver of all that the sanctuary does - the second is the choice to believe in humanity’s goodness.
Each year, thousands of visitors come to meet the animals and learn about the impact of their diet on animals, their health, and our ailing planet. CAS is now considered to be one of the world’s leading sanctuaries for farmed animals, saving more than 5,000 non-human individuals through direct rescue — and exponentially more through programming that encourages humans to adopt veganism.
