Hope all Vegan Kalamazooans had a great summer! Join us for a pizza party at Blaze Pizza and tell us all about yours! As usual, our friends at Blaze are providing free drinks!
Date: Wednesday, September 16
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Blaze Pizza, 5015 West Main Street Kalamazoo, MI
(Southwest corner Drake; ample parking)
Note: Blaze offers pizzas with Daiya vegan cheese. Click here for Blaze’s menu.
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Join Vegan Kalamazoo at West Michigan’s First Annual Grand Rapids Veg Fest on Sunday, September 13th. The expo will introduce plant-based foods to the mainstream and raise awareness for healthy, compassionate and sustainable living. Everyone is welcome, so invite your friends and join the fun. Vegan and vegan-friendly businesses will be on site with product samples (vegan food and more!). Be sure to stop by the Vegan Kalamazoo table and say hello.
When: Sunday, September 13, 2015, 11:00 a.m. – … Continue reading
Julie Christie narrates a study of cruelty to animals in labs, farming, the military, the fur trade, hunting, the pet food industry. The movie has a Kalamazoo connection, and one of its experts, Roger Ulrich, will be present at the showing and available for Q&A. Hosted by Laurie Oldfather, who encourages people to bring vegan finger foods to share. (She’ll provide drinks, as well as plates and utensils.) (Address is same street as Portage Central HS…south from Bacon. OK to park … Continue reading
We had a terrific time at July’s Living Vegan get together! Eleven people attended and we discussed movies, photography, sports, and, of course, all things vegan! We also told some corny jokes, and a couple of us got in a great pool game!
We hope you’ll join us for our next get-together on Monday, August 24, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., at Jac Cekola’s Pizza in Portage.
Living Vegan is a social hour/discussion group is where we come together informally for fun times and fun discussions. Need a recipe? A vegan fashion tip? Tips for dealing with nonvegan family/friends? … Continue reading
Join Vegan Kalamazoo for a fun, summer bonfire and barbeque! Vegan Kalamazoo events are a great place to meet like-minded people as well as catch up with old friends. Hope to see you there.
When: Thursday, July 16th 7:30 pm
Where:
Home of Katia Burke-Pappas
9559 Autumnwood Circle, Kalamazoo, Mi 49009
Directions only: samoekatia@hotmail.com (NOT for RSVP; see below)
Campfire Menu (All Vegan!)
Come one, come all, to what promises to be a unique and fantastic book club meeting. We’ll be reading pattrice jones’s The Oxen at the Intersection, and the author herself will be joining us via Skype.
Here’s Vegan Kalamazoo cofounder Hillary Rettig’s summary and review of the book (from Amazon):
“I’d give this book 10 stars if I could. It reads like the best mystery novel, only the events it describes are all true. It’s full of vivid … Continue reading
Hey VK fans! I hope you are doing well and I am so excited to tell you about what Vegan Kalamazoo has been up to this past weekend! To start off, we were invited to table at the 7th Annual Peace Pizzazz, a festival for children, teens and adults aimed at promoting the Golden Rule (treat others how you want to be treated) and advocating for peace in the Kalamazoo community. We were there extending that argument to treating all sentient beings how we want to be treated.
We had a “name that fruit matching activity” and coloring … Continue reading
Let’s start the summer off right with a potluck!!!
When: Thursday, June 11, 6:30 pm – 9:00 p.m.
Where:
Home of LaRissa Head
4659 Blackburn Ave
Portage MI 49024
Map to house
Call (989) 327-7920 for questions or directions.
What to bring:
ALL FOOD MUST BE VEGAN (no meat, dairy, fish, honey, etc.)
If your last name begins with A-F, bring an entrée
If your last name begins with G-O, bring … Continue reading
We’ll be announcing some new summer events shortly, but in the meantime please put these on your calendar:
1) Saturday, May 30, noon – 4:00 p.m. Vegan Kalamazoo will be tabling at the Peace Pizzazz festival in Bronson Park, spreading the peaceful vegan message to kids and families. Please stop by, and if you’d like to help out, email Chris.
2) Tuesday, July 14, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. The Vegan Kalamazoo Book … Continue reading
Lots of great news and happenings to report! Vegan Kalamazoo tabled at the Marathon and the Dog Walk, so thousands more people now know that, yes, there really is a vegan Kalamazoo!
The most exciting things were:
1) The many surprised and happy shout-outs we got from vegan-friendly runners at the Marathon. And,
2) The fact that we were one of three animal rights / animal welfare organizations tabling at the Dog Walk. Also present were Continue reading
