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Vida Vegan Con’s Opening Day Vegan Bazaar is tomorrow!
Welcome to Vida Vegan Con III weekend, everyone!!!!!
It’s time for bed (or staying up all evening printing and pouring over logistics, you know how we do), so here are two quick notes:
1) If you’ve registered for our sold out conference, you rule! Do make sure you stop by our opening day Vegan Bazaar tomorrow at The Marchesa Hall & Theatre, and definitely make sure to arrive for YOUR exclusive Miyoko’s Kitchen Mixer from noon-1pm (the earlier the better!) This new Bazaar is where all of our vendors will be, for one day only!
2) You can see the full Bazaar schedule over here on Sched, where our entire weekend program is live. It’s also where you should totally activate your profile and explore what’s in store!
Oh, yeah..of course…COME HUNGRY! There will be loads of samples from 60+ vendors, tons of cultured vegan cheese goodness and 4 food trucks ready for ya!
Enjoy! And feel free to share with the official hashtags: #vidavegancon #vidaveganatx and #veganbazaar!
P.S. You’ll get your SWAG Bags of Wonder on Saturday morning at conference registration. Woohoo!
P.P.S. Advance ticket sales are now complete, but you can buy a ticket at the door for $15 cash or card when the doors open to the public around 1pm!
Interview with VVC Moderator Colleen Holland, VegNews
Good evening, Austin!
One of the biggest supporters of our first-ever vegan conference that could (way back in 2011) was Colleen Holland of VegNews Magazine, who’s joining us this weekend as both a vendor (see her tomorrow at our opening day Vegan Bazaar!) and as moderator of our “Let’s Talk Marketing” panel on Saturday morning. Without further adieu— because we sure need some sleep before the weekend truly hits— we present the following Q & A to catch up with all things Colleen:
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Thanks, Colleen! See the very latest of what she’s up to over at Healthy Vegan & stop by the VegNews table tomorrow!
Thursday = Launch of Red Hot Scavenger Hunt @ VVC Meet & Greet!
The time has come! Y’all ready to get your vegan scavenger hunt on!?!?
Our dear pals the Red Hot Vegans are hosting a totally vegan and totally awesome sounding scavenger hunt during Vida Vegan Con weekend, and it starts 3pm during today’s Meet & Greet! And if you’re not in town yet, don’t worry, you don’t have to start today because there will be ways to make up the points and folks can join in at any time.
Prizes for the RHV VVC Weekend Scavenger Hunt include:
- Pair of custom vegan cowboy boots from Kick Butt Boots (over $400 value)
- Grand Prize: $200 gift card to Rabbit Food Grocery
- Second Place: $100 gift card to Lagusta’s Luscious
- Third Place: 3 Month subscription to Vegan Cuts Beauty or Snack Box (winner’s choice, $60 value)
& more!
Image source: dfwstyledaily.com
See more details and sign up over on Red Hot Vegans.
Remember, today’s Meet & Greet is rain or shine and you can sit either outside (where we’ll def. be if it’s dry!) or inside Buzzmill Coffee! The all-vegan (and rather reclusive, so yay for this special early opening and menu!) Golden Spike will have the following offerings, just for us:
FYI, the tacos are gluten-free, as is the chickin’ salad on its own!
RSVP on Facebook here. Family & friends are certainly welcome, but this is for full weekend conference attendees to connect. Warning: There is a wee bit of taxidermy, so focus on the all-vegan food truck aspect and remember, this is Texas.
See you all SO DANG SOON!
Advance signup for Amey’s Zine Workshop at Vida Vegan Con III!
Hello, everyone! Here is the required advance sign-up for Amey Mathew’s Zine Workshop at Vida Vegan Con.
This extended workshop will be held through a break and into a second session period on Saturday morning at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center. This is the only class that politely asks for advance sign-up (although you’ll be able to RSVP to others on our upcoming app). Amey would like to connect with you all ahead of time. This will be an intimate workshop, with 11-15 attendees.
You can catch up with Amey with this VVC Speaker Series interview.
Reminder: Vida Vegan Con III is now sold out of full weekend tickets, but you can join us at Friday’s opening day Vegan Bazaar! See you all so soon!
Vida Vegan Con III adds Gene Baur and Ayinde Howell to lineup!
As if you needed one more reason to join us at Vida Vegan Con later this month (and well, we’re talking about one more full weekend registration spot remaining as of this very afternoon!), you’ve now got two!
We’ve been keeping these amazing vegan fellas under wraps for quite some time now, as we finalized our action-packed, three-day schedule of events, and there’s no better time than now to announce the crazy big news:
Gene Baur and Ayinde Howell have joined to complete our Vida Vegan Con lineup!!!!
More about these vegan wonders:
Ayinde Howell is the co-author of 2014’s stellar cookbook, The Lusty Vegan: A Cookbook and Relationship Manifesto for Vegans and Those Who Love Them, and we bet you’ve heard of his long-running, eclectic vegan website, ieatgrass.com. In addition to serving as the website’s Editor in Chief, Ayinde is the owner and chef of acclaimed culinary-event focused company, Wildflower, and host of the new vegan cooking series “Like a Vegan” on Ulive.com. Ayinde’s hit recipes have appeared in The New York Times, VegNews Magazine and Essence, among others. This multi-talented vegan force joins our 2015 lineup for a very special class: talking energy, idea-growth, charisma and serious goals in Entrepreneuralim 2.0: Consistency.
Most recently featured on the one-and-only Daily Show discussing the purpose and benefits of eating mindfully, Gene Baur is a widely respected activist, author and the co-founder and president of Farm Sanctuary, America’s leading farm animal protection organization. Gene published his first book Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food, in 2008, and it’s much-anticipated follow-up, Living the Farm Sanctuary Life, arrived just last month. Gene has been described as “the conscience of the food movement” by TIME magazine, and will be no doubt be inspiring both of our audiences in just over two weeks, with a Welcome Address during Friday’s Vegan Bazaar (which is open to the public and has plenty of room for more attendees!) and his solo presentation on Saturday morning during our early conference sessions, entitled The Paths to a Mindful Life.
Don’t miss out!
Check out our:
2015 Conference Agenda
Full Speaker Lineup
& grab your spot for our Vegan Bazaar or better yet — the final Vida Vegan Con Weekend!
Updated VVC Agenda + Speaker Series: Fran Costigan
Oh, hello! There are FIVE MERE weeks ’til Vida Vegan Con III!
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In preparation (as we do), Team VVC spent this past Saturday holed up at jess’ coworking space giving our 2015 agenda a grand overhaul. It’s always bound to happen, and we are so happy with the results! There are quite a bit of new additions — including panels, new names and suggested breakouts — with more surprises to come! Now, earlier that day, we started things off with big mugs of coffee while we caught up with a certain wildly talented New Yorker, the Queen of Vegan Desserts herself…Fran Costigan!
Join all three Vida Vegan Con co-founders for an intriguing chat with this ground-breaking veteran of the vegan culinary scene. Hear about what Fran’s been up to, her upcoming fabulous trips, and what’s in store for her “decadent” Vegan Bazaar demo and the by-popular-demand return of “Demo-ing the Demo“, during Saturday’s sessions.
To sum things up, we’re thrilled to have the “Queen” join us for a third Vida Vegan Con next month!
Vida Vegan Con Speaker Series: Fran Costigan, Queen of Vegan Desserts
This interview was recorded on Saturday, April 18th at Hatch Innovation in Portland, OR and via NYC.
You can catch entire VVC Speaker Series on Youtube.
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