Newsday Tuesday April 12, 2016

Welcome to the seventh weekly edition of our Nola Veggie Fest “Newsday Tuesday” newsletter!

We want to keep you informed as all the exciting details develop and share all the wonderful enthusiasm for our

8th Annual Nola Veggie Fest!

Nola Veggie Fest Organizers

2016

Director Leah Duncan

LeahDuncan.LD@gmail.com

Chair Dana Nesbitt Dana@HumaneLa.org Co-Chair

Kelly LaCrosse klacrossenola@gmail.com

NOLA VEGGIE FEST

Roots

The Fest is a project of the Humane Society of Louisiana, a statewide, New Orleans-based charity, which was founded in the city in 1988. The roots of the NOLA Veggie Fest go back to 1990, when the Humane Society (formerly LISA, League in Support of Animals) held the city’s first all vegetarian festival at the World Trade Center in downtown New Orleans. Subsequent vegan fests followed in the 90s, culminating in the opening of the city’s first vegan restaurant, Jack Sprat’s Vegetarian Grill,

which operated for four years on Carrollton Avenue. The current incarnation of the festival was

resurrected after Katrina in 2009.

mailto:LeahDuncan.LD@gmail.commailto:Dana@HumaneLa.orgmailto:klacrossenola@gmail.comhttp://www.humanela.org/

NEW AT NOLA VEGGIE FEST

In 2016

New Location! We have a new home at The Kingsley House, located at 1600 Constance St. in uptown New Orleans! We will be secure within the brick walls and gates that surround a beautiful, sprawling courtyard with a canopy of live oak trees!

New Vibe! Our new location will enable Nola Veggie Fest to grow in many ways as a festival! We will still provide VEGucation, animal welfare resources, and local networking to empower our community, but his year will ALSO have live music, a great VIP area, fun for kids, Mother’s Day door prizes, vendors, restaurants, animals, entertainment….the list keeps growing! Did we mention that this event will also be FREE to the public?!

New Challenges! With so many new changes, come new challenges. One hurdle we face this year is to recover the loss of revenue we’ve typically seen from admissions cost. Opening free to the public is a service that we are excited to provide to the community, but we’ve had to create other strategies to generate funds. One way is that we will be selling VIP bracelets for $20 and $100. Our VIP area will feature exclusive vegan fare from local vendors and beer from Nola Brewery that will be available only to VIP patrons. There will also be private VIP bathrooms and VIP goodie bags! What a deal! Visit NolaVeggieFest.com for information coming soon on how to buy yours! Another way we hope to find funding is through our new GoFundMe account. It is set up so that supporters like you can donate as little or as much as desired to Nola Veggie Fest. Help us remain a FREE event by donating at our Nola Veggie Fest GoFundMe page.

New to Nola Veggie Fest? If you would like to participate as a sponsor, vendor, nonprofit, volunteer, or “other,” please go to our website for links to the information and forms you need...and welcome!

Newest Needs! We need: refrigerated and freezer storage leading up to and during NOVF; ALL PR contacts; bartenders; event/supply sponsors; hotel & B&B contacts; alcohol and bar donations; money; your time...

Can YOU help?

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SPONSORS

And Shout-Outs

Hotel Cazan

Earth Balance Bayou Vegan Cafe

Vegan Village It’s Your Life Health Magazine

Dan Day & Eagle 98.1

2016

Vendors

Ally Cat Allies * AndiLynn's Elderberries * Anne Churchill * Arbonne International * ARC

Bayou Vegan Cafe * Beanfield's Chips * Book Publishing Co * Bragg's * Breads On Oak Capital City Produce * Catahoula * Chef Amina Dada * CocoAlly * Crave Nola

Curry N' Kabab * Dr. Baxter Montgomery * Eden Foods * Ellen Jaffe Jones Gallery Burgeiries *Girls Gone Vegan * Go Veggie * Green Light New Orleans * Hanley's

Hope House * Hotel Cazan * Jane Valez Mitchell * Jessica Blanchard JL Fields * Josh LaJaunie * Joyce Wheeler/It's Your Life Magazine * KBH Gifts*

Kim’s Acupuncture * Lick Our Pops * Little Jim's Ice Cream * Meltdown Mercy For Animals * Meret Ryhiner & ISL Circus Arts

Natural Awakenings Nola * Nature's Organic Harvest * New Orleans in Green Nola Brewing * Pabst Blue Ribbon * Raw Revolution * SGI NOLA (Buddhist church) * South of Eden

Smoothie King * Sweet Love Vegan Treats * Teeccino Herbal Coffee *Thriving Wellness Reiki Tibetan House * Vegan Village * Vegan Campout * Vet Naturally * Vitamix

Whole Foods * Winking Girl Foods *Yeaux Dawg ...more to come!

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2016

Music

Michael J. O’Hara ‘The Sheik’ and Resurrection   

  Beat Root Revival 

   

 

Meagan Simone  

Stuart McNair  

Michael O'Hara & Resurrection Ashley Blume & Band

NOLA VEGGIE FEST

2016 Contributors Alfred Richard from WWL Channel 4 will join us as a guest emcee this year and he is bringing the 610 Stompers with him! Come join the jumpin’ and stompin’ or just watch and enjoy!

Ally Burgeiries, owner of TWO vegan New Orleans businesses, Cocoally Clothing and Gallery Burgeiries, is involved in our Nola Veggie Fest in TWO ways! She has generously agreed to design our 2016 Nola Veggie Fest ART poster, which will be available soon for purchase! She is also contributing a design for our first ever Nola Veggie Fest VEGAN Tattoos selection!

YES! VEGAN TATTOOS! Thanks to Rachel Ulm and Sailor’s Cross Tattoo & Gallery, we will have a nice selection of vegan tattoo designs (using vegan inks) at Nola Veggie Fest!

http://www.michaeldreams.com/http://www.beatrootrevival.com/http://www.beatrootrevival.com/https://soundcloud.com/meagan-simonehttp://www.stuartmcnair.com/http://stuartmcnair.com/index/http://www.michaeldreams.com/http://www.michaeldreams.com/http://www.michaeldreams.com/https://www.facebook.com/cyril.moya.75/videos/10151717582647440/https://www.facebook.com/cyril.moya.75/videos/10151717582647440/http://www.wwltv.com/https://610stompers.com/http://www.galleryburguieres.com/http://www.galleryburguieres.com/http://sailorscross.com/

SPEAKERS

2016

Guess who’s speaking at Nola Veggie Fest!

It’s true! Jane Velez-Mitchell, former CNN news commentator, will be speaking at Nola Veggie Fest about veganism, animal advocacy, and her new project, Jane UnChained! You can learn more at JaneUnChained.com. She will also be helping to inform her network of the devastating fire that our Humane Society of La. sanctuary suffered last fall. (HumaneLa.org) Thank you, Jane, for all you are doing for us and for the animals!

We have many acclaimed national and local speakers lined up to inspire us all and share valuable information!

JL FIELDS   Vegan Lifestyle Coach & Educator VEGAN PRESSURE COOKING 

ELLEN JAFFE JONES Author, Personal Trainer, Running Coach 

“EAT VEGAN ON $4 A DAY,” “KITCHEN DIVIDED” & “PALEO VEGAN”   

 JOYCE WHEELER   It's Your Life Magazine & Natural Living Health Fest LIVING AND HEALING NATURALLY   

JESSICA BLANCHARD   Balance Wellness & Yoga 

La's Vegetarian Resource Group for the Academy of Dietitians and Nutritionists   

RICHARD HANLEY Hanley’s Foods A PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL VEGAN JOURNEY 

JOSH LAJAUNIE  Vegan Marathoner  PLANTS N RUNNING 

 LILIANA RUIZ HEALY Health Coach with Holistic Approach South of Eden    

    ANNE CHURCHILL   Local chef 

 DR. BAXTER MONTGOMERY  Cardiologist, Montgomery Heart & Wellness  

  

 CHEF AMINA DADA  Vegan Chef   The Center for Ethical Living and Social Justice Renewal                               REBECCA LANG 

Food & Environment Activist

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EVENTS

And Promos

New TV Promo for Nola Veggie Fest 2016! View here!

Friday, April 15th Vegan Potluck Fundraiser for Nola Veggie Fest 7-10 pm 2612 Marengo St. New Orleans At the home of Chef Billy LaCrosse (of Kitchen Renegades pop-up and the upcoming Catahoula Peruvian restaurant) and Kelly LaCrosse (Nola Veggie Fest Co-chair and owner of Thriving Wellness Reiki) Co-Hosted by Leah Duncan (Nola Veggie Fest Director, Co-owner of Bayou Vegan Cafe and founder of Vegan Village) and Jacob Seemann (Co-owner of Bayou Vegan Cafe). Super casual vegan pot-luck! Let's meet & greet & eat and hopefully raise a little money in the process for Nola Veggie Fest! Bring a vegan dish and a $5 or $10 donation (or whatever you can swing). We will have margaritas and beer available but feel free to bring whatever you like. Saturday, April 16th Nola Veggie Fest meeting for organizers and new volunteer registration. NOON at Dreamy Weenies! Saturday, April 23rd “Sneak Peek at Nola Veggie Fest” by Vegan Village 11a-3p on the patio in front of Whole Foods on Magazine St Promo and sampling event extraordinaire, with promo space available only to select Nola Veggie Fest vendors! WWL live may be there! Friday, April 29-Sunday, May 1st “Double Down” with Nola Veggie Fest & Vegan Campout! Details on package perks coming soon, but it will be a really good thing to DOUBLE DOWN! Info on the Vegan Campout can be found at vegancampout.com. See ya there! Tuesday, May 3rd Give Nola Day- Support the Humane Society of Louisiana! Anyone can host an event, small or large, to help raise funds for Nola Veggie Fest! Anything helps-a percentage of a business’s sales for a day; a small cocktail party in your home; an online (or yard) sale-you can get as creative as you like when creating ways to create funds for Nola Veggie Fest!

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