🌱 Less About Vegan Food, More About Vegan Issues 🌱
Welcome to The Victoria Vegan – your online source serving Victoria, British Columbia since 2006! Our focus is to cover various local issues and happenings that are relevant to vegans and animal rights activists, and organizing occasional events.
Check out our Vegan Venue Guide, now with 50+ listings, and will be updating other sections as quickly as possible, but in the meantime feel free to browse the Blog archive, with stories going back to 2010!
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Upcoming Events
Keep up-to-date with events in the area, check back here regularly, or sign up for our email updates!
- Fri, Apr 4th, 6pm – Green Cuisine community meet-up
Every month Green Cuisine has a community meet-up, come say hi to your friendly locals! Details on their Instagram page. - Sat, Apr 5th – Vegan potluck organized by @vegans.in.victoria on Instagram, all spots may be filled by now, but reach out if interested, or follow for more events!
- Wed, Apr 23rd, 9am (12pm ET) – All-Party Animal Protection Election Debate, hosted by Animal Justice, free to watch on Zoom, sign up here. (Hopefully an archive will be posted as well!)
- Fri, Apr 25th, 6:30pm – Green Cuisine Open Mic Night
A new event at Green Cuisine – poetry, music, stand-up comedy, who knows what we’ll see! Details on their Instagram page. - Sat, May 3rd, 12-6pm – Voppers for VegFest – fundraiser for VegFest Victoria at Odd Burger – get some yummy food and help raise funds for the upcoming event, details here.
- Sat, May 10th – (NANAIMO) Mother’s Day Buffet, fundraiser event for VegFest Nanaimo, details here.
- Every Wednesday
VeganSupply.ca free pick-up option at Meet on Blanshard – order on their website, and pick up on Wednesday, right here in town (details here.) - July 5th –Â Save the date! VegFest Nanaimo in Maffeo Sutton Park, organized by Positively Vegan!
- Aug 16th – Save the date! VegFest Victoria, at Ship Point in the Inner Harbour, organized by Positively Vegan!
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