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Upright Egg Theater's Vegan Holiday Party

Upright Egg Theatre Company presents:
The 3rd Annual Present Project: A CabarEgg

Musical toy rebellions, rapping mall Santas, a great vegan meal, and more add to this exciting holiday party! Every Winter Upright Egg invites the Twin Cities community into its home for a holiday charity party including a seasonal vegan dinner, exciting prizes (tickets to local theaters including The Guthrie, The History Theatre, and more!) and activities, and live performance throughout. Admission is by donation only. This includes food, dude! This year all profits will be donated to District 202.

Performances are Friday and Saturday, December 11 and 12, and the following Friday, Saturday and Sunday, December 18, 19 and 20. All performances are at 7:30 p.m. and take place at the Tilsner Artists Cooperative in Lowertown St. Paul.

Time: Dec 11, 2009 7:30 p.m. to Dec 20, 2009 11:00 p.m.
Location: Tilsner Artists Cooperative, 300 Broadway St. St. Paul, MN 55101

Learn more on our web site.

CAA Annual Banquet Silent Auction Request

CAA is already preparing for our annual fundraising banquet , which will take place the evening of April 8, 2010. A major part of this event is a silent auction and we are gathering items to auction off to benefit CAA. If you have a potential auction item or know of an individual or business who might be willing to donate an auction item, please contact Katie Tharp at 612-251-4913 or katie.tharp@exploreveg.org.

Sample auction items:

• Artwork, pottery, jewelry
• Vegan bath or beauty products
• Items for the home such as nice linens, note cards, a vase, or cooking/serving utensils
• Themed baskets (examples: "movie basket" with DVDs, popcorn, and snacks, "gardener's basket" with gardener's gloves, seeds, small tools, and hand lotion)
• Certificates for services such as haircuts, massages, car services, residential painting, gutter cleaning, etc.
• Special experiences donated by an individual, such as a boat ride, the loan of a kayak, a "mystery date" for two, dinner prepared for four, a nightof babysitting, a cooking class, etc.
• Items that people may purchase as gifts for pets or children, such as toys or snacks

If you have an idea for an auction item, please contact Katie (katie.tharp@exploreveg.org) to discuss.

Learn more on our web site.

Leaflet at the Mason Jennings Concert

Come pass out leaflets on animal cruelty, factory farming, and vegetarianism at the Mason Jennings concert! Leafleting is a fun, easy, and effective way to help the animals when you don't have a lot of time to volunteer!

Concert leafleting involves handing out brochures to attendees as a concert lets out. If you only have a little time to volunteer, this is a great way to help animals. Leafleting is a fun, effective, and easy form of outreach! Please send us an e-mail at info@exploreveg.org or give us a call if you are interested in helping with this effort or if you have more questions!

Time: December 19, 2009 from 10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Location: First Ave - 701 1st Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55403

Read more about this opportunity on our web site at.

Article: Drop That Burger

by Matthew Herper as printed in Forbes
November 30, 200

Pat Brown says animal farming is an ecological disaster. Patrick O. Brown, a Stanford University biochemist, has changed science twice by giving stuff away. In the early 1990s Brown invented the DNA microarray, a tool that measures how cells make use of their DNA; he then showed researchers how to make their own, transforming genetic research. In 2000 he was one of three scientists who launched a free, online scientific journal called the Public Library of Science (PLOS); it has already broken the stranglehold of $200-a-year scientific publications like Science and Nature.

Now he is tackling an even bigger foe. Over the next 18 months Brown, 55, will take a break from his normal scientific work (finding out how a small number of genes are translated into a much larger number of proteins) in order to change the way the world farms and eats. He wants to put an end to animal farming, or at least put a significant dent in our global hunger for cows, pigs and chickens.

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