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The Victoria Vegan Festival (Canada Day in Market Square!) is taking shape in the background, Dave and I have been slogging through a lot of the boring logistics (a non-profit society you say?), and we’re now prepared to involve those who want to help get this party started!!  🙂

Our next meeting is this coming Wednesday, Mar 21st, 6:30pm at Green Cuisine (join us at 6pm for a bite to eat before).

We’re moving past the brainstorming phase and are now looking for ‘Captains’ to take on various responsibilities; there’s a ton to do in the run-up, and of course the day-of — play a leading role in the first ever Vegan Festival in Victoria!!!! See ya there? =)

If you can’t make the meeting but you’d like to volunteer – please e-mail Dave and he’ll put you on the mailing list.

You may have noticed that I’ve been a bit obsessed with the Purple Yoda lately … well my buddy Anne (you may recognize her from her cookie recipe in GOV – pg187) sent me this lovely gift.

A near mint Purple Rain LP with the original records sleeve and POSTER!! I’m so chuffed. Thank you Anne. You’re very sweet and thougtful!!

I can’t wait to get home and throw this on my turntable!! 🙂

Great review for the GoVegan! w/Sarah Kramer app over at Restaurants and Hotel Magazines.

Read it HERE.

Hey everyone – it was a very successful meeting the other night, we had 17 people out, and our full volunteer list is edging on 40, how amazing is that! Dave and I are very excited for what’s going to happen!! It will be the Victoria Vegan Festival, held in Market Square on Sunday, July 1st (Canada Day).

First point is that our next meeting will be Wed, Mar 21st, 6:30pm at Green Cuisine (6pm if you want to get a bite first.) Please reserve this date!

The next-most urgent matter is we’re going to put together a bake sale fundraiser which will be the World Wide Vegan Bake Sale Day event on Saturday, April 28th, at Sarah’s Place in Market Square. This will be our BIGGEST chance to raise money for the Veg Fest, so we want to make this a HUGE event, with tons of goodies and people coming buy to eat our delicious food! Please plan to bake something for this!! We’ve raised over $1000 each of the last two years, and let’s see if we can double that!

Our third task is of brainstorming – we’re looking for ideas for entertainers, activities for kids, speakers and presenters for the event to speak on vegan matters. We’re also looking for vegan and animal-related non-profit organizations and businesses to set up and display. Now is the time to daydream and aim high, and we’ll start digging into the list and seeing what we can make happen. Ideally local (BC, Washington), but let’s not limit ourselves, sometimes people are in the area at the right time as well!

The final task is an event logo. Any artists out there? We need a graphic to identify the event with, to put on posters, tshirts, mugs, aprons and who knows what else.

A new website with all the festival information is forthcoming … but in the meantime – please let us know what you’d like to see at the festival!!

And if you’d like to volunteer … please drop Dave (dave @friendsofanimals.org) a line and he’ll put you on the list! 🙂

I have such a crush on Bill … 🙂

YES!! The rumors are true!! My friend Dave and I are putting on a Vegan Fair this summer but we need your help!!

Vegan Fair Meeting #1 – Wed, Mar 7th!

Our first meeting focusing 100% on our upcoming Vegan Fair in Market Square will be this coming Wednesday, March 7th! You read that right, we’re planning an all-vegan fair, with tables and speakers and as much fun as can be contained!! It’ll be on Canada Day (July 1st) and the first of its kind in Victoria celebrating veganism!!

If you want to help out, now’s the time to speak up! We’ll be meeting at 6:30pm in Green Cuisine to start laying down the foundations (come at 6pm for a bite to eat before) We need a ton of volunteers to make this as amazing as possible, and lots of things to be done, so all hands on deck!

If you can make it, RSVP’s appreciated. If you can’t make it, but are keen to be involved, please email Dave@FriendsofAnimals.org and we’ll add you to our volunteers list.

Hope to see you tonight!!

Happy Birthday wonderful Henry!

YES!! The rumors are true!! My friend Dave and I are putting on a Vegan Fair this summer but we need your help!!

Vegan Fair Meeting #1 – Wed, Mar 7th!

Our first meeting focusing 100% on our upcoming Vegan Fair in Market Square will be this coming Wednesday, March 7th! You read that right, we’re planning an all-vegan fair, with tables and speakers and as much fun as can be contained!! It’ll be on Canada Day (July 1st) and the first of its kind in Victoria celebrating veganism!!

If you want to help out, now’s the time to speak up! We’ll be meeting at 6:30pm in Green Cuisine to start laying down the foundations (come at 6pm for a bite to eat before) We need a ton of volunteers to make this as amazing as possible, and lots of things to be done, so all hands on deck!

If you can make it, RSVP’s appreciated. If you can’t make it, but are keen to be involved, please email  Dave@FriendsofAnimals.org  and we’ll add you to our volunteers list.

I went to Vancouver last weekend! What a fun time I had … Normally Gerry can’t come with me to events because he has to work but luckily the Animal Advocacy Camp was on a Sunday so he and Fergus could come! Yay!!

We stayed at the River Rock Casino in Richmond. Not because we like to gamble … or even because we like the area of town but only because we like their beds. OH MY DOG! I’ve stayed at RRC three times now and their beds are spectacular!!

So comfy that Gerry slept in till 9:40am. Gerry never sleeps in …

The hotel actually sells their beds … I’m thinking it might be time for a new mattress!! 🙂

Even Fergus had a hard time getting out of bed because it’s so comfy…

I arrived at the event a little later then I wanted to because I had to track down a Kinko’s so I could re-print my cards for the game-show. I had a printer issue back at home and I thought it would be easy to find a photo copy store open on a Sunday … nope.

By the time I arrived – the Camp was in full swing.

I of course forgot to keep track of who was winning … so I asked the audience to help me decide.

Everyone wins at Canada’s Next Top Vegan!! 🙂

These luck-ducks won a GIANT gift basket thanks to Vega. I can’t thank them enough for donating gift baskets as well as treats for everyone in the audience. I also need to thank my publishers Arsenal Pulp Press for donating books to give-away as prizes. They rock!!

After the game-show I opened up the floor to questions and I chatted with the crowd for a long long time. Everyone had such interesting questions and when I didn’t have an answer there was always someone in the crowd with a thoughtful answer.

After the event was over I got to have some one-on-one time with the crowd. I get to meet so many cool people because of my job. I’m so lucky! 🙂

We couldn’t stick around for long because we had to run to Abbotsford to visit Gerry’s parents.

Fergus love Grandpa …

On the way we saw this sign in a mini-mall…

Isn’t it crazy? I mean … from a pop-culture perspective I would say that the word vegan wasn’t part of the zeitgeist 10 years ago. Shit. Maybe not even 4-5 years ago. And now it’s being used to promote a meat-eating restaurant. I think it’s hilarious … “someone” is running scared.  🙂

Before we headed home – we met up with my Dad for Dosa’s at Chutney Villa.

I can’t believe … #1. The size of this Dosa. and #2. that I didn’t get a photo of me with my Dad because I was so obsessed by the size of my Dosa. *laugh*

We had a lot of fun in Vancouver but all the excitement wore us out … Fergus in particular.

It’s good to be home.

Big THANKS to Animal Advocacy Camp for inviting me. I hope I can come back next year …