Vegan Bus members handing out doughnuts and vegan info at the Ashfield Fall Fest

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Last October Supreme Master Television visited us to make a mini documentary. We gave them a tour of the bus and took them on a trip to the Ashfield Fall Festival to hand out vegan doughnuts and propaganda. The bus was decorated for Halloween, and some of us were dressed up, too. We were hoping to inject surrealism into the spiritual message we knew we would become a part of. It’s all a great mystery, after all. The finished product, On the Road to Love: The Journey of The Vegan Bus, is debutingon July 25th at 4am, 10am, 4pm, and 10pm EST as part of the Good People Good Works series. The series “celebrates modern day heroes who help others and strives for the altruistic ideals to better society.” That sounds like us, we thinks.

The show can be viewed on the web or on one of the 14 satellite television feeds distributed around the world in 40 languages with subtitles. We are about to become international superstars! Perhaps it will also be playing at the Loving Hut restaurant in Worcester, MA?

Be sure to check out our photo gallery of the Supreme Master visit.

Join The Vegan Bus, Public Eye: Artists for Animals, Peace Advocacy Network, and Vegan Drinks Philly for a 4th of July block party!

Have fun with hula-hoops, face painting, arts-and-crafts, and games for children! Live music with Saint Mad from 1:00-3:00pm. Enjoy free vegan food samples (while they last). Bring a picnic lunch, beverages, and lawn chairs for your family. Friendly pets are welcome. Dickinson Square Park, which has a playground, is at the end of the block. Evening festivities will continue in the park, including fire dancing!

Date: Sunday, July 4th, 2010

Time: Noon-9:00pm (block party noon-7pm, Dickinson Square noon-9pm), live music 1:00-3:00pm

Location: Fernon Street between 2nd and Moyamensing in South Philly, party includes Dickinson Square Park (near the intersection of Tasker, E. Moyamensing, & Fernon)

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This Saturday, June 26th, the amazing Cooks for Compassion will be hosting a vegan bake sale to raise money and awareness for the Vegan Bus and Evolvegan.

The bake sale starts 10am and ends at 2pm (or when every goodie is sold out)

Front lawn of the Unitarian Church
220 Main Street
Northampton, MA 01060

If you are interested in donating vegan baked goods or raw food snacks please contact us. Otherwise, show up on Saturday for some yummy vegan goodness and to help a great cause!

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Northampton Vegan Bake Sale

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We would like to thank Evolvegan board member Alice Cherng for organizing this year’s Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale event in Northampton on May 1st, and also everyone who baked, volunteered, and bought baked goods. Alice gave this report…

Thanks to everyone who helped out with the bake sale.  We raised $286!!!!  That’s amazing!!!  Thanks to everyone who donated baked goods, helped with the baking party, manned the table, passed out literature, played music, and supported us in any way.  All the money raised will go to The Vegan Bus to help with their outreach tour this year.  On behalf of the animals, thank you again for your undying support!

We hope to have the Vegan Bus out and about soon, with more fun events coming up!

The Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale returns to Northampton!

The Vegan Bus and Cooks for Compassion present Vegan Bake Sale in Noho as part of the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale.

We’ll have cookies, we’ll have muffins, we’ll have candy, we’ll have cupcakes, and much much more.  With the generosity of VegFund, we will also be giving away bunch of FREE cookies.  Yes, you read that right, FREE cookies!!  So you really have no reason not to come.

All funds raised at this bake sale will go to benefit The Vegan Bus to continue its outreach programs.  So whether you LOVE vegan sweets or just want to introduce your friends to some vegan sweets, please stop by our table and support our cause.  Join us for this worldwide movement!

Vegan Bake Sale in Noho
Saturday, May 1
Starts 9:30am and ends with every goodie is sold out

Front lawn of the Unitarian Church
220 Main Street
Northampton, MA 01060

Check the event out on Facebook and also become a fan of Evolvegan, the non-profit supporting the Vegan Bus.

The bake sale will be along the route of the annual Northampton Pride Parade…

The Vegan Bus rests at Porcupine Hill Farm for the winter

2009 was a transitional year for the Vegan Bus. We were often frustrated by mechanical difficulties, mainly having to do with the brakes and brake lines breaking, true to their nature. We were thwarted from bringing the bus to a planned July 4th event in Philadelphia and then the Farm Sanctuary Hoe Down in August. We still attended by car, and out of these adversities we grew stronger.

2009 is the year we formed a non-profit called Evolvegan to fund the bus, Vegan Radio, and other projects that combine art, media and outreach. We put together a really great board of directors to help us face the challenges of the future. We also got to get the bus out on the road in October. We were filmed by the Supreme Master TV for a documentary clip, and handed out vegan donuts and propaganda at the Ashfield Fall Festival (view the photos here).

The Vegan Bus crew with Supreme Master TV at the Ashfield Fall Festival in Massachusetts

Once the weather got too cold to run the bus we took it off the road and stored it at board member Heather Bargeron’s farm, where it is (hopefully) sitting now. Founder and president Derek Goodwin migrated to New Orleans for the winter to form a southern base for the project. Not one to waste any time, he soon became the New Orleans Vegan Examiner and joined in helping organize the New Orleans VeggieFest. He is planning his return in May to begin working on upgrading the bus inside and out for a planned tour in July.

PROPOSED VEGAN BUS JULY 2010 TOUR:

• July 4th daytime: Public Eye Philly’s Kid’s Club Vegan Barbeque in Philadelphia, PA
• July 4th night-time: Vegan Drinks Philly in Philadelphia, PA
• July 7-11: Vegetarian Summerfest in Johnstown, PA
• July 15-19: Animal Rights 2010 National Conference in Alexandria, VA (near DC)

The Vegan Bus crew will also be making an appearance at the Veggie Pride Parade in NYC on May 16th. Unfortunately they won’t allow the bus in the parade…

Stay tuned for updates on the tour, fund raising events and other shenanigans as the warm weather returns to New England and the bus wakes from hibernation!