The Vegan Bus

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 14th from 1-5PM
Old Dynamite Records Space at lower level of
THORNES MARKETPLACE
150 Main St in Northampton, MA 01060

FREE ADMISSION

Come one, come all to the greatest show on Earth! BOOKAPALOOZA is a fundraiser for EVOLVEGAN, a non-profit dedicated to promoting sustainable lifestyles through skill sharing and conscious evolution.

We are bringing you a earth-friendly way to ease into the holidays with gifts and recipes and community and fun! We will have authors on hand with cookbooks, art and photography books, and more. We will also have a selection of books on vegetarianism, environmentalism, religion, and social justice available from Lantern Books. There will be yummy vegan food to sample and buy (see below).

There will be live art and music performances, a kombucha-making demo, children’s activities, a silent auction, raffle, massage table, gift vendors, and unpredictable shenanigans galore!

Whatever you do you won’t want to miss the madness that is the first annual Evolvegan BOOKAPALOOZA!!!

FEATURED BOOKS (so far):

• She is a River by Sugati Phillips
• Ninety-Five featuring the farm animal photographs of Derek Goodwin
• Don’t Eat Me vegetarian cookbook by Robin Gager
• The Vegan Girl’s Guide to Life by Melisser Elliott
• Sistah Vegan: Food, Identity, Health, and Society: Black Female Vegans Speak
• The 4-Ingredient Vegan by Maribeth Abrahms
• Books by Martina Robinsonof Mariposa Press: politics, feminism, disability rights

We will also have a selection of books on vegetarianism, environmentalism, religion, and social justice available from Lantern Books

VENDORS:

• Bone Flower Botanikals live food delicacies and elixirs.
• Dharma Boutique Fairly Traded, Sacred Gifts from India and Afghanistan
• Divine Treasures Decadent vegan chocolates (available locally at Cornucopia)
• Inspirit Common providing hot chai and metaphysical gifts
• Lantern Books books on vegetarianism, environmentalism, religion, and social justice
• Love Alive – High Vibrational Living Foods for Ecstatic Super-Beings!
• Massages by Susan Brudner (currently scheduling appointments at Karma)
• Oh Sweet Mama’s Vegan Bakery Decadent vegan baked goods and wedding cakes
• Solentiname Fair trade colorful hand made gifts from Nicaragua
• Free Food Samples of holiday recipes from the cookbooks we are featuring

PERFORMANCES:

• 1:00pm – Tarab Orkestar (music and dance ensemble under the influence of Middle Eastern rhythms)
• 1:45pm – Readings by Featured Authors
• 2:00pm – Spacelord Scott (acoustic intrerlude)
• 2:30pm – Acroyoga Demonstration
• 3:00 PM The Acoustic Kelvins
• 4:00 PM - The Rosettes
• 4:45pm – Closing Banter and Ukulele Dance Party
• 5:00pm – Event Ends

Thanks to our CONTRIBUTORS!:

• Bela Vegetarian Restaurant
• Cafe Evolution
• Clarkdale Fruit Farms
• Collective Copies
• Commonwealth Center for Change (C3)
• Karma vegan restaurant and wellness center
• Karuna Center for Yoga & Healing Arts
• Leah Moses paintings
• Red Fire Farm local CSA
• The Sacred Living Center
• Selena Ditberner Yoga Studio
• Shiva Shakti Yoga Studio
• The Village Day Spa Florence, MA

Special thanks to VEGFUND for a $150 grant to allow us give free food samples at the event!!

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Investigate and/or order our featured books online here:

Ninety-Five: Meeting America's Farm Animals in Stories and Photographs		Don't Eat Me!

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Friday September 24th, 7PM, at Cafe Evolution!

Last year we had a successful fundraiser featuring a live set from the indie folk goddess AMANDA ROGERS. This year Amanda is part of a duo called THE PLEASANTS and is touring the Northeast once again. The duo will be gracing us with a performance at CAFE EVOLUTION. We will be serving up VEGAN PIZZA from master chef Heather Bargeron along with BUFFALO TEMPEH and VEGAN BLUE CHEESE DRESSING from our secret recipe vault. The regular CAFE EVOLUTION menu will also be available, along with their decadent vegan desserts.

ABOUT THE PLEASANTS:

Mixing equal parts whiskey, dusty earth, and spring water, The Pleasants evoke a strange sense of longing for simpler times and lyrically draw on past experiences when young hearts and minds are unspoiled and uncorrupted by modern exploitations. Sometimes described as intense folk but best described as “Indie Grunge”, The Pleasants weave together music familiar yet altogether new. Bonded by their love of REAL music, this song-writing duo (Amanda Rogers and Mike Matta) has bounded on their musical journey to writing “the most undeniably best song ever.”

CAFE EVOLUTION
22 Chestnut St. Florence, MA
413-586-0200
Google Map of Evolution
NO COVER!
PIZZA & WINGS @ 5:30PM
MUSIC @ 7PM

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We are happy to announce that Raquy and the Cavemen will be coming back for the third year in a row to help raise funds for the Vegan Bus! Hailing from Brooklyn Raquy brings traditional Middle Eastern music and modern drumming together for a unique sound. Raquy has traveled to and immersed herself in the musical cultures of the Middle East, Egypt and India. Raquy performs with the Dumbek (Arabic hand drum) and the Iranian Kamanche, similar to a violin.

The show will begin with performances by local musicians and belly dancers. Musicians will include Amanda Turk, who studies with Raquy, as well as Christopher Phillips, Sharon Arslanian, & Stephen Malachite. Dancers include Sugati Phillips, Felicia Malachite and Sahina.

Raw vegan treats will be for sale from

Bone Flower Tea Botanikal Lounge and Raw Delights Bar – Herbalista Creatrix Venus Zephyr brings raw delights and herbal medicine into synergistic harmony. (Please bring a re~usable cup~travel mug or mason jar for the infusion, elixir and tea bar). A portion of the proceeds will go to the Vegan Bus Project.

Bone Flower Botanikals is a local woman owned herbal apothecary and healing practice.Community Herbalist Venus Zephyr brings spiritually charged botanika and wise woman herbalism together to create herbal delights, medicines and formulas honoring botanical traditions from cultures around the globe. All Bone Flower Offerings are Organic, Locally sourced when possible, grown and harvested by the cycles of the moon, seasons and astrological influences to create the most potent products and offerings. boneflowerbotanikals@gmail.com

OCTOBER 2, 2010 at 7:30PM
KARUNA CENTER for YOGA & HEALING ARTS
25 Main Street, Third Floor • Northampton, MA 01060

Tickets are $15 at the door. Children 12 & under are $7

Raquy drumming at last year's fundraiser

Drumming Workshop
Raquy will be teaching a special all-levels Dumbek workshop (Middle Eastern drumming) at the Karuna Center on Saturday October 2nd at 4pm. Bring your own drum if you have one (we will have several extras). Workshop is $20 or $30 with concert.

Workshop $20

ADVANCED TICKET SALES ARE OVER. TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR FOR THE CONCERT AND DRUMMING WORKSHOP.

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the Vegan Bus jumps through a ring of fire!

WildFire is the East Coast’s premier spinning and fire arts training camp. The Vegan Bus is putting together a Vegan Circus to tour with, and so Wildfire seems like the perfect event to make an appearance at with the bus. We will be traveling from Northampton, MA to Ashford, CT and hope to pick up some wayward fire dancers on the way. If you are interested in traveling with us please contact us!

We will be leaving on Friday, August 20th and returning on Monday, August 23rd. To help fund the Vegan Bus Project we are asking for a suggested donation of $30 for the round trip, or $20 for one way. If there is interest we can swing through Hartford, CT or other areas that are slightly off of the route. We can also pick people up from the Hartford Airport. Once we know who is interested we will post a more specific schedule for the trip.

Google Map of Vegan Bus Route
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Vegan Bus members handing out doughnuts and vegan info at the Ashfield Fall Fest

(caution: some of these links go to pages that play audio without warning…)

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.

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