We’re excited to announce that we have a date for Twin Cities Veg Fest 2014! This year’s festival will take place on Sunday, September 28, 2014 from 10am-4pm. That’s right, this year we’re holding the festival on a Sunday.
Like previous years, we’ll have lots of free food for you to try, fabulous food vendors, and compelling speakers. For this year, we’re also adding cooking demos. Talented chefs will show you how to prepare all sorts of tasty, accessible, and healthy plant-based foods.
We’ll also be hosting our Their Lives, Our Voices conference on the same weekend. This year’s TLOV will take place on Saturday, September 27.
Read more about the festival and conference and find out how you can help out!
Also: please view Mercy for Animals’ latest investigation on a turkey farm, and check out this new way to donate via Amazon.com.
Yours for the animals,
Unny Nambudiripad
Executive Director
Love animals? Passionate about helping others see the benefit of making compassionate choices? Join dozens of volunteers April 28 through May 2 in leafleting for CAA’s biggest leafleting event of the year! Handing out Compassionate Choices pamphlets is a great way to reach open-minded students who may be receptive to our message. It’s possible to distribute over a hundred leaflets in only an hour on a college campus! Read more about this event, and let Moose know if you can leaflet.
Have you read Dave Rolsky’s essay about humility? Let me know what you think of it.
For the animals,
Unny Nambudiripad
Executive Director, Compassionate Action for Animals
We conduct a lot of fun public events like our Vegan Chili Cook-Off and Twin Cities Veg Fest. But did you know that we also tirelessly conduct one-on-one outreach? Please read about our Outreach Coordinator Grace Van Susteren’s work in the latest issue of Compassionate Times. Do you want to join our efforts? Please leaflet with us on March 18 at the Excel Energy Center as a part of the Great American Meat-Out.
Have you signed up for the banquet? Please consider attending or volunteering!
For the animals,
Unny Nambudiripad
Executive Director
Our 10th Annual Banquet is on Thursday, April 3. Have you purchased your ticket? Please join me to celebrate our accomplishments!
The event begins with a reception featuring a selection of delicious hors d’ouevres. During the reception, bid at our silent auction featuring artwork, gift baskets, services from local vendors, and more. The reception is followed by a gourmet vegan dinner. During dinner, CAA will give a short presentation on our work in 2013 and our plans for 2014.
Our regular book reviewer, Michelle Rosier, just wrote about Isa Chandra Moskowitz’ most recent cookbook, Isa Does It. I’ve made two recipes from it, and I already love it! Check out the review.
You probably already know it. Most northern folk do. It gets cold in February. Really cold. But you can change that: at least for one night. Join us on a chilly February evening with 125+ hungry Minnesotans in sampling homemade, local vegan chili recipes. You are sure to leave warmer. And did we mention that it’s FREE?
Join CAA and your Minnesota neighbors at our 5th Annual Vegan Chili Cook-Off on Saturday, February 22 at 7 pm.
Come for free, bring a friend, sample tasty, homemade vegan chili and enjoy the warmth of good food and community. Omnivore, vegetarian, vegan: all are welcome!
This year’s event will be held at the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis (900 Mount Curve Avenue, Minneapolis, MN), just southwest of downtown. Check out this map for directions. If you’re a student at the U, we have space in a van leaving from behind Coffman at 6 pm. Contact Elise if you want a ride.
Contact Erica Sherwood with questions at at erica@exploreveg.org or 651-357-0826.
