Sunday, December 13, 2009
You loved the VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE. It's time to show it.
PLEASE CROSS POST
Let me guess: you loved this year's Veggie Pride Parade, which took place in May:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/
You had a great time. You might even say, you felt elated to walk in the parade
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/veggiepride2009/DSC04502sm.jpg
...and to enjoy the festivities in Union Square Park later.
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/images/parkwideshot.jpg
(Note: we're up and running for another parade in 2010.)
Now it's time to put your money where your sentiment is:
Give back to the organization that gave it all to you: VivaVegie Society, 501(c)3
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/donations.htm
See all that the parade's organizer did to put the show on the road:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/pamelascontribution.htm
Here's your chance, before 2009 comes to a close, to do the right thing and to get a tax deduction at the same time.
Remember: Veggie Pride Parade NYC won the coveted
VegNews's Veggie Award two years in a row (2 for 2).
(And you have this event right in your back yard!)
Go to:
Favorite Veg Event (readers' choice): Veggie Pride Parade, NYC (2009)
http://www.vegnews.com/web/articles/page.do?pageId=1069&catId=6
Event of the Year (editor's choice): NYC's Veggie Pride Parade (2008)
http://www.vegnews.com/web/articles/page.do?pageId=143&catId=6
VivaVegie Society is not your average veggie group. Who else can say they brought together 35 exhibitors and over a dozen speakers to a post-parade rally & expo? ... including:
Exhibitors:
American Vegan Society, Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Earthsave, F.A.R.M., Farm Sanctuary, HSUS, Mercy for Animals, PeTA, United Poultry Concerns, Vegan Outreach, Vegetarian Resource Group, & Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary.
See images and links for all 35 exhibitors at:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/exhibitors.htm
Speakers:
Paul Shapiro, HSUS, J.P. Vaswani, Sadhu Vaswani Mission, Peter Anderson, Future Leaders Institute, Marianne Thieme member of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands, Tony Avella, New York city councilman from Queens' 19th district, Cheryl Hill, entertainer, Karen Davis, Ph.D., United Poultry Concerns, Joan Wai, Youth Buddhism Communications, Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D., president of the Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA), Christine Vardaros, world-class vegan cyclist, Mickey Z, vegan author, speaker, activist, & Dave Warwak, poet, and writer, former tenured middle school art teacher.
See all 13 speakers at:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/bios.htm
The Veggie Pride Parade Web site offers a treasure trove of information:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/
Please visit the following Web pages and see why if you're giving end-of-the-year support to your favorite veg groups, you need to give to VivaVegie Society. Please be generous:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/donations.htm
Place an ad in the 2010 program guide:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/program.2010.htm
(Early-bird discounts available now.)
Sponsors' page:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/sponsors.htm
(Donation over $300)
Volunteers' page:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/media.htm
Donate a prize to the 2010 costume contest:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/contests.htm
Here's how you can volunteer for the 2010 Veggie Pride Parade
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tzHsWX2dhre1gjpIDSrr1qw&output=html
Images from the 2009 Veggie Pride Parade:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/images.htm
Veggie Pride Parade blog:
http://www.vivavegie.org/prideblog/index.html
Veggie Pride Parade bulletin board
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/media.htm
Media coverage:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/bulletin.htm
REPORT OMISSIONS, ERRORS:
mailto:pamela@vivavegie.org
212-242-0011
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
We got our wide-angle crowd shots
Success! We now have our wide-angle crowd shots of not only the parade but the post-parade rally & expo in Union Square Park. We had about 700 marchers (we counted them with a hand-held clicker). But once we reached the park, our numbers easily grew to a thousand. In the park, we had 40 hand-picked exhibitors, over a dozen inspiring speakers from a wide constituency of veg-adherence, free vegan food, and a super-fun costume contest with 18 prizes donated from a healthy bevy of veggie businesses. Click image at right to see larger version of the park crowd shot. Click on it for an even larger image.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Documenting Veggie Pride Parade, NYC, 2009. Your help needed
Our parade was an incredible success! We had 38 exhibitors, over a dozen speakers (including NYC mayoral candidate Tony Avella), 7 booths with free vegan food, live music from vegan singer/songwriter Cheryl Hill, and an incredible costume contest award ceremony!
Now we need to go about the task of documenting the day.
We're adding image-set links to our images page; and we're tracking down media stories and blog posts.
Report in to the Veggie Pride Parade planning committee with your link sitings of interest. We will post to our Web site. Contact, Pamela at info@vivavegie.org
Now we need to go about the task of documenting the day.
We're adding image-set links to our images page; and we're tracking down media stories and blog posts.
Report in to the Veggie Pride Parade planning committee with your link sitings of interest. We will post to our Web site. Contact, Pamela at info@vivavegie.org
Friday, April 24, 2009
2009 program guide is now available
The Veggie Pride Parade Program guide is now posted to the Veggie Pride Parade Web site. Find a schedule of events, a list of speakers, a list of exhibitors, a list of prize donor for the costume contest, an essay by vegan historian Rynn Berry, and, of course, ads from vegan organizations and businesses from all over the region.
Click HERE to go to where you can download a PDF of the entire guide.
Click HERE to go to where you can download a PDF of the entire guide.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Speakers, entertainers set for Veggie Pride Parade, NYC, 2009
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
A slight change of plans, but we're happy for that
Due to scheduled construction at Washington Square Park (Teen Plaza), THE VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE has been bumped, but we like the situation just fine! The end point for the May 17, 2009 parade will be Union Square Park (north end) instead. See and click image at left to see where we will be in the park. (Of course, the Green Market, shown in the image, will not be there the day we set up.)
This is a spectacularly excellent development, and, it happens, we got the venue plopped right in our lap.
There also is construction going on now right at this, the Union Square, location, but it will be finished well before May 17, we have been assured by Sarah Frazier of NYC Parks. We will be one of the first groups to get to use the renovated area. Ultimately, it should be downright lovely! But more than this, we'll be able to have all the noise and participants we want. Washington Square Park actually has strict limits on noise level and crowd size. We surely are going to be much bigger this year and years to come, so we'll need the extra elbow room.
This is a spectacularly excellent development, and, it happens, we got the venue plopped right in our lap.
There also is construction going on now right at this, the Union Square, location, but it will be finished well before May 17, we have been assured by Sarah Frazier of NYC Parks. We will be one of the first groups to get to use the renovated area. Ultimately, it should be downright lovely! But more than this, we'll be able to have all the noise and participants we want. Washington Square Park actually has strict limits on noise level and crowd size. We surely are going to be much bigger this year and years to come, so we'll need the extra elbow room.
Labels:
Union Square Park,
vegan,
vegetarian,
Veggie Pride Parade
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Veggie Pride Parade 2009 is on. Time to mark your calendar
Veggie Pride Parade 2009 is on. Mark your calendar for Sunday, May 17, 2009. VivaVegie Society, the sponsoring organization, is hard at work putting together the details so New York City can have a repeat of this successful event, which first hit the scene in 2008. Now is a good time to re-visit the Veggie Pride Parade Web site. Enjoy!
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