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Manchester Vegan Market

Manchester Vegan Market (previously known as The Northern Vegan Festival) will run on Saturday 29th August 2020. This is an indoor market at Bowlers Exhibition Centre.  

Manchester Vegan Christmas Festival

A Vegan Christmas Festival taking place on 1st & 2nd December. Stalls, Food, Cakes, Wines, Beers, Grotto, Music and much much more! Tickets on sale now!

We are taking over the historic Victoria Baths and bringing to you an entire weekend of Vegan Christmas Fun, including:

An array of exciting vegan street food
A bar with vegan wines and cocktails
An array of vegan stalls selling a huge selection of christmas gifts!
Festive Live music throughout the weekend
A vegan winery offering tastings
Santa’s Grotto
Charity Giftwrapping
Lots more!
All supporting Barnabus (Manchester homeless charity)

Awakening Compassion (Saturday Vegan Outreach)

In a Nutshell:
– 🌺Awakening Compassion🌺 provides the public with free samples of plant based foods and extols the virtues of veganism as a healthy, sustainable and peaceful lifestyle. Come along – all welcome! 2-5pm, Saturdays – we love food/fund contributions – but not a necessity. Stay as long as you feel!
See below for more in depth info:

Do I have to bring anything?
– Just yourself is perfect! We are a free food stall and samples go fast so if you are able to bring something along – even a £1’s worth or less would be an enormous help! (I.e. plant milks, chocolate plant milks, crisps and confectionery, vegan meats and spreadable cheeses, etc). Just bob into Aldi, Tesco or Holland and Barrett on Market St on the day! Cooking and baking makes your money go further so is also an ideal option if you are a Domestic God/Goddess!

Do I have to stay for the whole 3 hours?
– Nope! Feel free to swing by and say “Hello!” whilst out and about, stay till the end or take breaks for drinks and snacks. It is your time to spend as you choose… We hope you’ll find the conversations so valuable to the public that the hours just melt away!

What do I have to do?
– Turn up! Your presence is our present. At the stall we invite you to celebrate veganism in your own unique way. Activists typically choose from a range of different tasks: holding signage, distributing leaflets, making sure the stall looks great, serving food, assisting the public and engaging in thought-provoking conversations. We would like to increase the size of the stall and have activists managing technology with vital videos exposing industry secrets. Video is a powerful impetus for change and one which The Cube (our sibling installation) uses to great effect. The Cube and Awakening Compassion run at the same time on a Saturday so we invite you to trial their stall, too! You will be amazed at its impact.
If you have more ideas for helping the public embrace veganism – just let us know and we’d be keen to give them a go!

What is Awakening Compassion?
– Awakening Compassion is a FREE food tasting outreach which focuses on engaging the public through dialogue, videos and resources. We dispel fears and misconceptions about veganism and communicate the truths of the animal agricultural and skins industries in an eye-opening but tactful manner. The realities of animal farming and production are often deeply disturbing but exposing the truths is essential to highlight alternatives and defund these abusive practices over time. We reject propositions to raise welfare standards (historically ineffective and routinely flouted) and believe in abolitionism (the idea that all sentient beings, humans or nonhumans, share a basic right: the right not to be treated as the property of others.)

Difficult Experiences/Final Notes:
– 99% of the time our conversations are informative, engaging* and respectful! People leave concerned for the well-being of animals but inspired and informed how to be the much needed change. Planting seeds and moving people along the spectrum of change.

Sometimes, however, we engage with the public and the information could be triggering or perhaps they bring their own colorful backdrop of learning difficulties or mental illness. Our intention is to be helpful and compassionate and so it is unfortunate if the discussion goes awry. The best conduct we have found is simply to focus on the good they are doing and steer away from difficult content. Plant a seed and move on to another all the while showing care for their well being. If you feel threatened or receive unsolicited criticism/unkind words from the public or a fellow activist let an organizer know at your earliest convenience. Your enjoyment and encouragement is a priority and we recognize how hard you all work. Keep up the amazing work – it’s making waves!

(*See Earthling Ed on Youtube & his Socratic Questioning method).

Manchester Vegan Christmas Market

Saturday 17th AND Sunday 18th November – 80+ fantastic stalls each day, world food caterers, exciting cookery demos, inspirational talks, interactive workshops, yoga and children’s activities running throughout the day at Sachas Hotel, Manchester from 10.30am – 4.30pm both days

Entry is £3 payable on the day on the door (under 16’s free) or £15 for VIP tickets in advance from https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester-vegan-christmas-market-tickets-45616436991?aff=es2 to include fast track entry and a goody bag full of vegan products, samples, discounts and offers

To book a stall, sponsor, host a demo, talk or workshop or find out more information please email northernveganfestival@gmail.com

Website: www.veganeventsuk.co.uk

Xmas Eve Homeless Donation

MAA would like to invite you to come along on Xmas Eve to donate any spare warm clothing/bedding you have to the homeless people of Manchester. Some vegan snacks would also be a nice idea if you want to give those too!

If you can’t make it in person, please let us know if you have donations and we will meet you between now and the 24th Dec to take the items from you.

There is no solid plan, just meet up in the usual spot on Market Street and take it from there. Spread the message to other friends or family members who might like to come along as this is not strictly a MAA members only event.

Thanks in advance for your kindness and compassion 🙂

Manchester Earthlings Experience

Every Saturday 2pm-5pm on Market Street opposite Boots.

We show UK farm and slaughterhouse footage filmed in the UK wearing masks to create curiosity and to allow the public to make a personal connection to the film, free from judgement.

The focus is not on shaming individuals but understanding that most of us were ignorant to the harm we were causing prior to becoming vegan and to impart our knowledge.

○ Before the demonstration download this video by going to:
http://www.10convert.com/watch?v=dvtVkNofcq8&t=6s

Ignore the adverts, scroll down and click MP4 download.

○Bring a laptop

○We will provide masks

○If someone has made a connection with the video, hand them a note (provided)

○If you wish to hand out leaflets,wait until the person or group has finished watching the footage. Please do not just hand out leaflets without engaging in a discussion.

○If it rains, we will have cover and your equipment will be fine.

Manchester Vegan Outreach

Midweek friendly vegan outreach, every Wednesday 5pm-7pm on Market Street, Manchester.

Please bring some vegan food to share with the public 🙂

You are welcome to hold a placard or engage in discussions with the public. We recommend only handing out leaflets with a conversation. 🙂

James Aspey has some great advice on talking to the public 20mins into this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHOcox2lvQo

‘Motivational Methods for Vegan Advocacy: A Clinical Psychology Perspective’ by Casey T. Taf is also an incredibly helpful read. (Kindle edition just 6 quid)

See you there!

The Activist Ball 2

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

The annual Activist Ball is BACK and better than ever! Join us for a night of vegan pub food and drink, live performances and awards! Dance till the early hours… An unforgettable Christmas Do with more surprises on the night!

The Activist Ball 2 will be held at The Thirsty Scholar on Wednesday 20th December 2017. 7.30pm start till late!

GET YOUR TICKET NOW!

Simply send £5 plus your contact email and name to receive your personalised e-ticket. See below for bank transfer details. If unable to attatch a note to your transaction then email: sophie_tomlinson@email.com with your name/contact email/payment status.
Funds raised support MAA & MPS activist projects in the New Year!

Bank Details:
S A Tomlinson
Sort Code: 20-01-96
Account Number: 13750450
£5
Cash transactions are accepted too! Simply process in person to Karma or Kate at your earliest convenience.

FOOD:
You are welcome to arrive a little earlier and choose from The Thirsty Scholar set menu (details to be uploaded soon). Come for around 6.30 for an exquisite pub meal and then pop up to the Tiki Room for 7.30.

Alternatively arrive for 7.30pm and enjoy several helpings of chef Mod’s Vegan HotPot with organic chunky bread for £5, cupcakes just £2, which will be served prior to the awards at 8.30pm.

If you have any questions please message us below! Thank you all and see you on the night

Manchester Vegan November Social

Let’s enjoy some vegan pizza together 🙂 everyone welcome 🙂

We will start the night at Zads & go for drinks afterwards.

Hope to see you there!

Nicely Kitchen’s Christmas Night Out!

Well it’s that time of year again, the most wonderful time of the year! We’re at it again making Altrincham’s vegan voice loud with our second vegan festival!

Join us on 8.11.17 at Altrincham FC, because we’re ‘avin a parteh- an all vegan, all disco, all dancing, all you’re gonna eat the best food of your life and buy from the best makers, kinda party!

We’re ramping up your Friday evening with the best Christmas event of the season. We’ve scoured the land to bring you some of our favourite traders and we’ll be sprinkling some festive treats in the mix too.

Okay so the facts, let’s hear them!

Entry is £2 (free for under 12s) with half of the entry fee going to Dogs 4 Rescue

WHERE

Altrincham FC, J. Davidson Stadium, Moss Lane, Altrincham, Cheshire WA15 8AP

WHEN

Decemember 8th 2017, 5-11PM

WHO can ya find there?

Well us (duh?!) Nicely Kitchen is going to be serving you an array of festive goodies from cakes to cocktails (and mulled wine, obvz), hot food and gifts, we’ve been working on some super special treats we can’t wait for you to try! But who’s joining us?…

Ready to drool at this fabulous FOOD

Rosie & Organic
A Kind Mama – Vegan Bakery
Wholesomejunkies
Pimpin’ Pancakes
LovingFoods
Bounceback Food
Vork pie

Now marvel at our amazing MAKERS

Silver Green Jewellery
KatieBetty
Form Lifestyle Store
Carafe
Ragpots ltd
Conte Candles
The Coffee Scrub Company Ltd
Sophie Heywood Illustration
Kokoa Altrincham

As well as all of that, we’re gonna have an amazing workshop from our favourite flower hustler Maybe May. Learn how to make a floral topper for your Christmas desserts! More details real soon, so keep your eyes peeled so you don’t miss out!

What’s Christmas without a little competition!? Fancy yourself as the next Ding Ning (google her) well you can try your chances in our ping pong tournaments over the evening.

And to top it all off Charles Jazz is going to make sure this it’s a funky festive fair as he spins disco until you just can’t do the hustle no mo’!

SOME SMALL PRINT

How do I get there?

The venue is a short walk from Altrincham Train / Metrolink station- https://tinyurl.com/yaqn7roz

I’m driving! Where can I park?

There are plenty of place to park nearby
– There is a small car park behind the club
– On street parking on the surrounding roads, providing it causes no obstructions
– The Tesco in Altrincham has free parking for up to two hours
– There is an NCP car park in the Stamford Quarter. Postcode WA14 1RH

Can kids come?

Of course! Anyone is welcome with open arms, however we expect the party to get livelier as the evening goes on and they might not like it so much.

When can I get something to eat?!

From the minute we open you can come and feast, we would advise you to come as early as you can to avoid having a sad face.

Do you take card?

Some traders do some traders don’t, so please bring cash. The closest cash point is at Tesco- about 10 minutes away.

Can I bring my dog?

We’re so sorry, but out four legged best friends unfortunately are not allowed in the venue.

Is the venue accessible?

Totally!

Should I really be this excited?

YES!!

If you would like any more information please email nicelykitchen@gmail.com

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