We hope you are having a great Summer! Did you get to attend our 3rd Annual VegFest Houston in June? It was a huge success with an estimated attendance of over 2,500! If you missed it, we have a fun video recap below of this community festival held in the nation's 4th largest city.

You can also join us for our "2nd Saturdays" Monthly Vegan Meetings and Potlucks! For August, we'll be celebrating the "Aloha" spirit with a festive Vegan Hawaiian-style theme. Additional details can be found below. If you aren't located in the Houston area, please visit Meetup.com for monthly vegan gatherings around the country or start one in your city.

As always, thank you so much for supporting our organization and for choosing to "be a voice for billions"!

For the animals,
  
Kristen Lee Ohanyan
President & Co-founder
and the entire team at Vegan Society of P.E.A.C.E.

Our 3rd Annual VegFest Houston was truly amazing and produced entirely by volunteers! We expanded to a new, larger venue and had over 2,500 estimated attendees! There was a lot of positive media coverage, too.

VSOP volunteer and videographer David Halliburton produced this fun video recap of our 3rd Annual festival. It's also available on our YouTube channel. Click on the image below to view the video from your computer or smart phone and share on your social media pages.


Many thanks again to our wonderful volunteers, our fantastic festival committee, the dedicated organization officers and board of directors for all their hard work and continued support! It really takes a village to produce a festival of this magnitude. Vegan hugs to all!

Photo courtesy of Noah Johnson

Send us your pictures from the festival for our photo album! You can email them to us here.

If you're in the Houston area, you won't want to miss our Vegan Society of P.E.A.C.E. "2nd Saturdays" events! These have become one of the most popular monthly vegan gatherings in this city. All ages and newcomers are welcome!
Features include a vegan & raw vegan potluck, presentations and door prizes. We often have local guest speakers, educational films and food demos. We rent an entire reception hall to host these monthly events. Every month is something new!

For August, we're celebrating the "Aloha" spirit as we go Hawaiian! This is another chance to be creative and share themed vegan recipes at our potlucks. Remember, all food must be vegan!
We'll also have a fun presentation on vegan dining in Hawaii called "Adding Pineapple Doesn't Make it Hawaiian" featuring VSOP Board of Director and VegFest Committee member Noah Johnson. He grew up in Hawaii and travels back to the islands when he can. Others will also be sharing experiences on vegan tourism from recent trips to the Aloha state.
 
Come and join in the fun with our vegan Ohana (Hawaiian for "family") this Saturday, August 10, and don't forget to wear those cool Hawaiian shirts. We'll have free flower leis while they last!

We'll see you at 6:00 PM at the C.K.E.L. Reception Hall, 2353 Rice Blvd, Houston, TX 77005. Plenty of parking is available at Rice University Stadium across the street and costs only $1 for events held at the C.K.E.L. venue.

Our Annual Celebration of Vegan Living is just around the corner!

We invite all cities in Texas to join in and support this Vegan Society of P.E.A.C.E. Campaign. You can host dinners, potlucks, film screenings and outreach. Participating vegan businesses in Texas also offer great discounts and promotions.

Last year, Houston and Austin were represented. We hope to have more cities involved each year. If you are a vegan business in Texas and wish to participate with special promotional offers this year, please email us.

The 2013 "Texas Go Vegan Week" events will be announced soon!

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