🌱 Less About Vegan Food, More About Vegan Issues 🌱
Welcome to the freshly redesigned website for 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! I’ve posted a report on the Save-A-Turkey Trot which was on Oct 5th. (And sign up for email updates so you don’t miss out!)
Happy New Year, and welcome to the site if you’re getting into Veganuary! This month there’s a Vegan Film Fest coming! And not an event, but we’re making sure all are aware of a legislative petition to ban fur farm, please take a moment to sign and support it here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5269
- Fri, Jan 10th, 5:30 – 7:30pm – 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. - Mon, Jan 20th, 5:30 – 7pm – The UVic Animal Justice Club is hosting a Veganuary Speaker Series, including Dr. Klaper who will be speaking on plant-based nutrition. Room 159 in the Fraser Law Building, free and open to the public. View the poster here (JPG).
- Sat, Jan 25th, 1pm – 4pm – IVFF Vegan Film Fest, Vic Theatre (808 Douglas), by Positively Vegan, also see their Facebook Event Page and tickets at this link.
- Sat, Jan 25th, 4pm – Fundraiser dinner and silent auction for Positively Vegan at Meet on Blanshard (tickets available in the link above as well).
- 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.)
Newest Posts
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