Vegan Family Reunion

04/19/2022

THIS is what family looks like…
2nd Annual Vegan Family Reunion hosted by !

🌱1,000 family members found joy!

🌱66+ Black-owned businesses, organizations, etc. uplifted!

🌱$3,300+ paid by to Black-owned businesses!
*Does not include event vendor sales.

🌱$10,000 paid by to Black artists!
*Does not include artist vendor sales.

🌱$5,000+ donated to
Black Birth Fund
!

Thank you to our amazing video production crew for capturing Black joy and all our cousins! Make sure to hit them up for your production needs!

Thank you to our sponsors (tagged in our video)!

03/29/2022

We want to give Ryane Smith, from , a big THANK YOU for the work she puts into bringing the Black culinary scene together each year to highlight our contributions to San Antonio.

The 2nd Annual Vegan Family Reunion is proud to assist in your fundraising efforts to help the continue to feed community members in need.

We will be announcing the donations for the Black Birth Fund and additional money raised for the SA Food Bank soon.

Thank you all again for your patience as we work towards sharing all the details of the donations, raffle winners, impact report and more.

💚✊🏾🌱

03/10/2022

I’m sharing these beautiful images from (follow & support) along with a message.

Our committee of 7 Black women worked tirelessly to create the 2nd Annual Vegan Family Reunion. We put so much mental, physical, and emotional work into ensuring our mission was achieved.

Our Mission: The is a pop-up market and charity event focused on bringing joy to the community ✅ while pouring generously into the Black community through Black-owned businesses ✅, artists ✅, and charities. (✅ on the charities coming soon)

And, although each committee member was offered payment, they each chose to provide their time, talent, and labor for free (or at a loss) so more money would be available to pass along to the charities.

We are tired. We deserve rest. 💯

We are now focusing on operating at a sustainable pace that allows us the space to breathe, relax, and pour into the many other areas of our lives that lacked attention during the planning of the VFR. Thank you for your patience while we continue working behind the scenes balancing our books, finalizing payments, organizing the giveaway info, and preparing to announce the amount we collectively raised for the charities.

For more information about the importance of Black joy and rest, please scroll back to Feb 28 (or about 19 posts) to watch the recording of the live chat between and Katie from .

Thank you family! 💚✊🏾🌱

03/03/2022

Did we mention the Reunion is very kid friendly? Please bring your littles along with you to enjoy the games, bounce houses, vegan pony rides, card games, skate park, community art project, and more. If anyone, of any age, gets a little overstimulated, they can take a break in the Special Needs Sensory Retreat. Come out and join us. We got you! See you Sunday family. 💚✊🏾🌱

03/02/2022

Sharing is caring! 🤗 If you haven’t heard about the Vegan Family Reunion]], you need to check it out. It is a pop-up market and charity event hosted by focused on bringing joy to the community and pouring money into Black-owned businesses, Black artists, and Black centered charities.

This year they are raising money for the Black birth fund and the . You can help support their efforts in a variety of ways, even if you are not able to attend.

You can sponsor, donate, buy the official t-shirt, get raffle tickets, or even just amplifying their voices by sharing details of the event on your pages. Check the link in their bio or visit www.veganfamilyreunion.com for more details on the event and to get tickets.

Every little bit helps. 🤗
Zelle: [email protected]
PayPal: Vegan Family Reunion]]
Venmo: Vegan Family Reunion]]
Cash App: $VeganFamilyReunion

02/26/2022

Lovely convo with ! Thanks Family and can’t wait to see you at the reunion and try some of your vegan Southern cooking!

02/26/2022

Great Meet The Family conversation with ! Thanks for sharing the love.

02/24/2022

02/15/2022

Vendor applications are still being accepted. Deadline extended to Friday February 18. Get your applications in soon!! Food vendors, we need you! Apply at veganfamilyreunion.com.

02/15/2022

Anti-speciesist knowledge and practices of not consuming animals have existed in communities of color since long before White people popularized the mainstream vegan movement. Veganism is about recognizing that non-human animals have autonomy over their own lives and bodies, and that non-human animals have been at the receiving end of some of the longest-standing oppressions. White veganism erases people of color from the mainstream vegan discourse, appropriates cultures of color while pushing the white vegan agenda, and misrepresents anti-speciesism as a white invention. “Veganism” was coined in 1944 but thrived in communities of color prior.” - Black Feminist Vegan

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