Dallas Vegan Weekly – March 8th

Great events happening this week in Dallas. Check it out…

Dallas Vegan Drinks
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
6-8 pm
Idle Rich Pub
2614 McKinney Ave, Dallas, TX

Come celebrate St. Patty’s day a little early in a traditional Irish pub. Enjoy happy-hour drink specials and enjoy great company with a veg*n-friendly crowd.

BVST Meatout 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
10 am-3 pm
Center for Community Cooperation
2900 Live Oak St, Dallas, TX

“GIVE PEAS A CHANCE”

The Black Vegetarian Society of Texas presents their annual Meatout celebration at the Center for Community Cooperation.

The event is free, so grab the family and head on down for some interesting activities including a vegan cook-off, health screenings, door prizes, and more.

Vegan 101 Potluck
Saturday, March 13, 2010
1:30 pm
Lake Cliff Park
N. Zang Blvd at E Colorado Blvd, Dallas, TX click for map

Join the Vegan 101 Meetup group for a vegan potluck at Lake Cliff Park (near Spiral Diner in Dallas). This group of vegans always puts on an awesome potluck, so whip-up your best vegan dish and head to the park for a day of food and fun.

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Vegetarian Leafleting Outside Jay-Z Concert

Mercy For Animals invites DFW activists to a concert leafleting event. The Jay-Z concert will bring in hoards of people from all parts of Texas. If for every hundred leaflets handed out just one person decided to go vegetarian, that alone would save 95 lives a year. So come out and join like-minded people with one common goal: to end animal suffering. Please note that you do not have to be a vegan or vegetarian to leaflet and speak out against animal cruelty.

Vegetarian Leafleting Outside Jay-Z Concert
American Airlines Center - west side
2500 Victory Avenue
Dallas, TX 75219
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
5:30PM - 7:00PM

All leaflets will be provided--just bring yourself, your energy, your smile and your passion for helping animals. Contact Eddie G with any questions or concerns at eddieg@mercyforanimals.org or by phone at (469) 826-2644.

Why leaflet?
Most meat eaters aren’t aware of the horrors animals experience on factory farms. By leafleting at large public gatherings like concerts, grocers or campuses, you help to educate and raise awareness about the mass amount of chickens, pigs, cows and turkeys used for food in the United States. Leafleting is also a great way to meet new people and break any shyness habits you may have.

CLICK HERE for more information about leafleting.

Vegan Drinks - Rescheduled for Thursday, Feb 18th

February Dallas Vegan Drinks to try again next week...

"I could really use a drink... "

Alas - Winter Blast 2010 has cancelled our Dallas Vegan Drinks get together this week, but we're not yet giving up on the month. Please join us for a rescheduled event next Thursday, February 18th.


Come share a drink with fellow vegans and talk about what you did on your snow day - as well as other great veg*n topics sure to come up.

RSVP

Thursday, February 18th

Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Place: Idle Rich Pub

2614 McKinney Avenue Dallas, TX 75204

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

Sweet Tooth
We're über-excited about all the new vegan sweets poppin’ up around town! Swing by Sprinkles in Preston Center for vegan red velvet cupcakes or Starbucks DFW-wide for Lucy’s vegan cookies! Want indie? Grab some vegan cinnamon coffee cakes and banana nut muffins at Roots Coffeehouse in North Richland Hills...or hold out until Valentine’s Day for Tough Cookie Bakery’s specialty offerings: whoopie pies and Valentine’s cookies and cupcakes! Grab TCB’s V-Day treats at The Pearl Cup, Crooked Tree Coffeehouse and The Green Spot. Custom orders can also be placed at ToughCookieBakery@gmail.com.

Prost!
Join Dallas’ chapter of VeganDrinks.org for high-hop brews and other adult sips at Idle Rich Pub this Thursday at 6:00 PM. Vegan Drinks Dallas is a great place to network, socialize and promote our cruelty-free lifestyle. Contact Jamey Scott at Jamey@DallasVegan.com for more information.

Film Fete
Spiral Diner founders Amy McNutt and James Johnston are seeking investors for Fort Worth’s Citizen Theatre. This will be America’s first-ever indie film house offering all vegan concessions. We couldn’t be more thrilled about our friends’ future venture! Contact Amy McNutt at Veg@SpiralDiner.com for all the deets.

Vegan Bake Sale for Haiti Relief

Jade DeGrio of Spiral Diner hosts a vegan bake sale to help benefit the victims of the Haiti earthquake.

All proceeds will go to Direct Relief International. Come out and grab your favorite vegan treats while they last. There will be a variety of treats that will tempt even the biggest carnivore:
Peanut Butter Cookie Bars
Chocolate Covered Pretzels
Fudge
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Rice Pudding
Coffee Cake
Strawberry Pie
...and loads more!

Dallas Vegan Bake Sale for Haiti
Transit Bike Shop
3839 McKinney Ave #155
Dallas, Texas 75204
Saturday, January 30, 2010
11:00am - 4:00pm



Why a vegan bake sale?
Well the most important reason is sugar--people eating more than they should--and that = mucho money for the people of Haiti! Inspired by Post Punk Kitchen's Isa Chandra Moskowitz, vegan bake sales are popping up from Los Angles to New York. So far, with the help of many hunger vegans with a sweet tooth nationwide, over 10,000 dollars has been raised. With all the great vegan chefs in Dallas there is no reason why this bake sale shouldn't be just as successful!

What is the Haiti Earthquake?
On Tuesday January 12th, 2010, a major 7.0 earthquake, the most powerful to hit Haiti in a century, struck southern Haiti shortly before 5 p.m. The impact of the earthquake resulted in massive damage, and massive lives lost. The Haiti people were left without basic resources. Let's help 'em out!