What’s trending and happening this week

1 Lay’s doesn’t miss a step in any festivities and they have welcomed the Vegetarian Festival with their new Lay’s Shiitake flavour. Adding to their already famous and veggie-friendly Lay’s Classic Original and Lay’s Rock Original, Lay’s Shiitake gives a taste of the mushrooms with a strong aroma of Japanese soy sauce. Lay’s veggie options are only available at 7-Eleven stores. 2 Lactasoy is taking part in the Vegetarian Festival in a charitable way with their “Power Of Vegetarian, Power Of Merit” campaign. Until Oct 12, visit their Facebook page, LactasoyClub, and share their campaign on your wall. Each share garners a donation of 10 baht towards patients suffering from heart ailments at Chulalongkorn University Hospital. Visit www.lactasoy.com/heartpower. 3 Next weekend Pet Variety, the biggest event for pet lovers, will be held at Impact Muang Thong Thani from Oct 6-9. With more than 200 pet booths, covering 8,000m², visitors will be able to check out shows, activities and competitions like the American Pitbull and Bully Competition, a booth where the much-loved sloth will be chilling out, also a Ball Python Competition for the daring. Visitors are encouraged to bring their pets, as the event also offers a pet check-up service for free. 4 Cath Kidston products just got a whole lot cuter having announced an exciting collaboration with Disney. The collaboration blends Cath Kidston’s signature designs like the Button Spot and Bramley Sprig with selected iconic Disney characters. The first collection, The Winnie-The-Pooh collection, celebrates the lovable bear’s 90th anniversary. Pooh bear prints are featured on all Cath Kidston categories from accessories to home wear to fashion. Make sure to snag some products as they are of course, all limited edition items. 5 Bangkok CityCity Gallery is hosting another must-attend event for Thai art enthusiasts as they host Whether It Is Art Or Not — a project by three designers that takes a look into the life and works of 77-year-old Thai artist Chavalit Soemprungsuk. The one-day event takes place tomorrow at 6.30pm and will feature the screening of Whether It Is Art Or Not: Life And Works Of Chavalit Soemprungsuk produced by Belle Phromchanya, and a talk and book launch of Chavalit’s works put together by Pat Laddapan and Piyakorn Chaiverapundech. Though the entrance to the event is free, there are only 100 seats available. Call 083-087-2725 for reservations.