Vegan event planning: South Bay Vegan Drinks 2015
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Brad was originally the organizer of the event known as Southbay Vegan Drinks. As organizer, he managed to draw a crowd of 10-15 southbay vegans to each monthly event. When he moved to Santa Cruz, I took over hosting South Bay Vegan Drinks for 6 months, starting in May 2015. It was the sweetest birthday present anyone could have ever given me because I love Bay Area vegan events!
I had an idea of what I wanted this event to become based on 2 Vegan Drinks events I had been to in the past: The San Francisco Vegan Drinks and The New York City Vegan Drinks.
May 2015 Southbay Vegan Drinks
Where: Mission Creek Brewing Company
When: May 27, 2015 from 6:30-9pm (southbay vegan drinks is always on the last Wednesday of the month)
What: Vegan dinner and drinks
Why: For now, just to meet other vegans, but in the future, hopefully to learn more about vegan businesses, activism, and events in the bay area.
Here’s some pictures of some of the people who came in May.
June 2015 Southbay Vegan Drinks
June 25 was my 2nd month hosting South Bay Vegan Drinks, and it was sooooo fun!!!
The new venue (The Fountainhead Bar, 387 S 1st St, San Jose) is super cute inside, and the craft cocktails are delicious!
The sweet and savory cones by Raw Daddy Foods were perfect in every way - cute, delicious, gluten-free, and vegan.
Here’s a picture of the menus I made with the drink specials for this month.
Here’s me having the Reuben cone.
This is The Prairie with passion fruit and garnished with fresh mint.
I even made cupcakes and brought them.
Nicole and Lulu were one of the first to arrive!
Amit, Brad, Sarah, and Ruben
Lizzy, Andrew, and Elsa
A pano of everyone who stayed late.
July 2015 Southbay Vegan Drinks
Where: The Fountainhead Bar, 387 S 1st St, San Jose
When: July 30, 2015 from 6:30-9pm (southbay vegan drinks will usually be on the last Thursday of the month)
What: Vegan drinks (& vegan food)
Why: To meet other vegans and to learn more about vegan businesses, activism, and events in the bay area.
Notes: The bar tends to be warm inside, so dress in your summer clothing.
Food provided by RG of Astigvegan:
What a great turnout! 41 San Francisco Bay Area vegans and vegan-curious/vegan-friendly lovelies came out to join in the fun. Per usual, I didn’t get many pictures due to my inability to stop chatting long enough to snap some, but here are the few that I either took or stole from people.
August 2015 Southbay Vegan Drinks
Where: The Fountainhead Bar, 387 S 1st St, San Jose
When: August 27, 2015 from 6:30-9pm (southbay vegan drinks will usually be on the last Thursday of the month)
What: Vegan drinks (& vegan food)
Why: To meet other vegans and to learn more about vegan businesses, activism, and events in the bay area.
Notes: The bar tends to be warm inside, so dress in your summer clothing.
Vegan “mexish” food lovingly prepared by digiyesica. Here was the menu:
Here is the collage I made from some of the photos taken.
September 2015 Southbay Vegan Drinks
Where: The Fountainhead Bar, 387 S 1st St, San Jose
When: Thursday, September 24, 2015 from 6:30-9pm (southbay vegan drinks is usually on the last Thursday of the month, but Nov and Dec will differ due to holidays)
What: Vegan drinks & vegan food created by The Butcher’s Son.
This was especially exciting getting Butcher’s Son to trek down to the southbay for our little event. They offered a one-time only menu, because once they opened up their brick and mortar, they didn’t have chicken of the woods mushrooms on the menu. Here’s The Butcher’s Son menu for our event.
Thanks to Ben for taking pictures.
October 2015 Southbay Vegan Drinks
I’m sad to say that this was my last month organizing Vegan Drinks. It made me really happy to grow it from 15 attendees to 70 in just 6 short months, but I must move on to bigger and better things (like my new podcast and the Vegan Prom. The event will still continue with a new organizer (the next 2 dates will be November 19 and December 17). Here are some pictures and details from October’s event.
Where: The Fountainhead Bar, 387 S 1st St, San Jose
When: Thursday, October 29, 2015 from 6:30-9pm (the southbay vegan drinks event is usually the last Thursday of the month, but November and December have different dates because of the holidays)
What: Vegan drinks & vegan food prepared by S+M Vegan
Menu:
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