Edmonton Vegan Activists

02/02/2025

🚨 CALLING ALL ACTIVISTS! 🚨
We The Free (WTF Edmonton) needs your support to make 2025 a year of impactful activism! 💚🐾

I have 3 simple asks for you today (and every day!):

✅ 1. Follow & Like Our New Instagram Page 📸
Our old account is being deleted soon, so please give our new one some love: https://www.instagram.com/activism.wtf.edmonton/

✅ 2. Join Our Patreon – It’s FREE! 💰
Even as a free member, your presence helps us! If paid supporters start rolling in, our main WTF donor will double their contributions—meaning even more resources for outreach! Join here: https://www.patreon.com/c/WTFEdmonton

✅ 3. Share, Like & Engage 🔥
Sharing this post = spreading awareness.
Liking & commenting = boosting visibility.
Every interaction helps us reach more people and change more hearts for the animals!

🐾 I can’t do this alone—I need YOU! Together, we can make this movement stronger than ever. If you have any questions or suggestions, I’d love to hear them!

Thank you for being part of this mission. Let’s make 2025 a powerful year for the animals! 💚🐾

Videos

20/01/2025

🏆First Place Winners!

🏆Taranjot Singh and Summer Inger! 🏆

🗣Their words moved us, inspired us, and reminded us why poetry is such a powerful tool for change. It was an unforgettable evening filled with creativity, compassion, and community, and we are so grateful to everyone who made it possible.

🙌Thank you to all the poets who bared their souls on stage, our amazing audience for your enthusiasm and support, and the sponsors who generously donated prizes. 💚 Together, we raised funds for F.A.R.R.M Animal Sanctuary and Edmonton Vegan Activists—making a difference while celebrating the art of spoken word.

💜Let’s keep the love for poetry (and veganism!) alive. Drop a ❤ in the comments to congratulate Taronjot and Summer on their shared victory!

20/01/2025

🌟 **Thank You for an Incredible Night!** 🌟

Congratulations to Summer Inger and Taranjot Singh for winning first place last night in a tie for the intown poets and for the out of town poets the winner was....

***Clif Grant****

Last night’s Vegan Poetry Slam at Die Pie Vegan Cheezary and Restaurant** was a huge success, and it’s all thanks to YOU! 💚

👏To the 22 incredible poets who bared their souls and shared their artistry on stage, you made the night unforgettable. To everyone who showed up, cheered, and supported, your energy filled the room and made it magical.

🌱A heartfelt thank you to **DiePie** for being such a welcoming and wonderful host, and to the 18 generous companies who donated prizes—we couldn’t have done this without your kindness!

👉Together, we raised a small but meaningful amount to kickstart the year for **F.A.R.R.M. Animal Sanctuary** and **Edmonton Vegan Activists**. Your contributions will help make a difference in our community. 🐾🌱

❤ Until we meet again in **April** for another night of vegan poetry magic, take care and keep spreading love, kindness, and creativity. 💕

With gratitude,
Ge**er Gereen Anderson
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Here is the livestream from the night
https://youtube.com/live/cJ4gYh_BBtw

18/01/2025

🌱Join me in thanking our final donator Next Thyme Craft Studio! This is one of the most generous small businesses I have ever known. They deeply care about the vegan community and our planet. She makes home goods and accessories that are pre-loved and revamped to use what we already have.

👀Repurposing, salvaging, and upcycling are now a regular part of her life as well as treasure hunting vintage goods. If this sounds like the kind of creative genius you would like to purchase, you can find them on Facebook, Instagram and on YouTube crafting away!

📜 If you want your chance to win these fabulous gift certificates and more, be sure to attend the Vegan Poetry Slam on January 19th at Die Pie Restaurant 11817 105 street, Edmonton, AB.

👉If you are unable to attend the event, it will be live streamed on my YouTube Channel at:
https://youtube.com/live/gXZclhz9rjY?feature=share

👉Event pages for Poetry Slam! Be sure to click you are going!
https://www.facebook.com/share/157ram8XnT/
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DwX2sG1yW/

18/01/2025

🌱Join me in thanking Layer Slayerz for their generous donation of 3D Printed Dopamine | Adding a layer of fun to your life, one print at a time! 🤟🏻 These are the cutest little things ever and they are just the beginning of the 3D printing they can do!

👀If you want to check them out you can find them on Facebook and Instagram and a host of seasonal markets around the city! These are fun gifts and toys for all to enjoy.

📜 If you want your chance to win these fabulous gift certificates and more, be sure to attend the Vegan Poetry Slam on January 19th at Die Pie Restaurant 11817 105 street, Edmonton, AB.

👉If you are unable to attend the event, it will be live streamed on my YouTube Channel at:
https://youtube.com/live/gXZclhz9rjY?feature=share

👉Event pages for Poetry Slam! Be sure to click you are going!
https://www.facebook.com/share/157ram8XnT/
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DwX2sG1yW/

18/01/2025

🌱Please join me in thanking Refresh Botanicals for their generous donation of products totally almost $300.00! What an amazing company and so very supportive of the vegan movement!

🚨If you have not heard of them before their products are a combination of nature and innovation, at the heart of everything they do. They create advanced organic skincare solutions taking pride in their Canadian heritage. They craft products that elevate your skincare routine while staying true to their core values of transparency, efficacy, and natural beauty.

📜 If you want your chance to win these fabulous gift certificates and more, be sure to attend the Vegan Poetry Slam on January 19th at Die Pie Restaurant 11817 105 street, Edmonton, AB.

👉If you are unable to attend the event, it will be live streamed on my YouTube Channel at:
https://youtube.com/live/gXZclhz9rjY?feature=share

👉Event pages for Poetry Slam! Be sure to click you are going!
https://www.facebook.com/share/157ram8XnT/
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DwX2sG1yW/

17/01/2025

🌱Please give a warm and gracious thank you to Ducky's Delights!! They have donated some amazing homemade plant based doggo treats! They look so good I really just wanna try one lol.

🏘They are a small little home based business that caters to the plant based doggy world to giving your babies the best shot at quality food in their system to help aid in a long and healthy life.

📜 If you want your chance to win these fabulous gift certificates and more, be sure to attend the Vegan Poetry Slam on January 19th at Die Pie Restaurant 11817 105 street, Edmonton, AB.

👉If you are unable to attend the event, it will be live streamed on my YouTube Channel at:
https://youtube.com/live/gXZclhz9rjY?feature=share

👉Event pages for Poetry Slam! Be sure to click you are going!
https://www.facebook.com/share/157ram8XnT/
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DwX2sG1yW/


Cynnamin Blue

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16/01/2025

🌱Join me in saying a huge thank you to one of the pillars of this Vegan Community, Kasim Padmanadi for his generous donation of gift cards, totaling $200.00 to the Poetry Slam Raffle basket! This basket is going to be amazing...

📣If you do not know Padmanadi Restaurant, you must be new to the city and or the Vegan Community. When Kasim packed up his whole family and moved to Canada from Jakarta, he had a dream. He not only wanted to serve up mouth-watering vegan dishes, but he also wanted build a tight-knit community of friends and family in his new home. We believe he has accomplished this!

🥦The also always give back, donating food to the Hope once a month, sometimes more....Pillars I tell ya.

📜 If you want your chance to win these fabulous gift certificates and more, be sure to attend the Vegan Poetry Slam on January 19th at Die Pie Restaurant 11817 105 street, Edmonton, AB.

👉If you are unable to attend the event, it will be live streamed on my YouTube Channel at:
https://youtube.com/live/gXZclhz9rjY?feature=share

👉Event pages for Poetry Slam! Be sure to click you are going!
https://www.facebook.com/share/157ram8XnT/
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DwX2sG1yW/

15/01/2025

🌱Please Join me in giving a huge thank you to Ashley for donating Vega Protien Powder! I might have to keep one for myself!

☺️Ashley is shy so I will talk about Vega!
ALL PLANTS. ALL WELCOME. Vega is passionate about making delicious Plant Based nutrition that's good for the planet and those who live on it.

💯Made to fuel what moves you! Purposeful, Innovative, and responsible to.seed to the very last sip!

📜 If you want your chance to win these fabulous gift certificates and more, be sure to attend the Vegan Poetry Slam on January 19th at Die Pie Restaurant 11817 105 street, Edmonton, AB.

👉If you are unable to attend the event, it will be live streamed on my YouTube Channel at:
https://youtube.com/live/gXZclhz9rjY?feature=share

👉Event pages for Poetry Slam! Be sure to click you are going!
https://www.facebook.com/share/157ram8XnT/
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DwX2sG1yW/

14/01/2025

🌱Please Join me in giving a huge thank you to our fellow activist and friend Andrea Heinz for the donation of her book "When men buy s*x, who really pays?". If you have not had the pleasure of doing activism with this woman just yet, you will apparently get your chance this year for she is kicking it up a notch now that the book is published!

📙I have been reading her book now....wow.....
Here is a bit about her...RESPECT:

👉Andrea Heinz spent seven years in the licensed commercial s*x industry In Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, from 2006-2013. She holds a diploma in Correctional Services and is presently completing a Bachelor of Professional Arts in Governance, Law, and Management.

‼️😮Andrea is a peer-reviewed scholar on commercial s*xual exploitation, has written for several professional publications, participated in a number of interviews, and appeared as a witness for the parliamentary review of Canada’s prostitution laws. She is the recipient of many awards including a Woman of Courage award (Centre to Empower All Survivors of Exploitation and Trafficking), the inaugural Dr. Zohra Husaini award for exceptional dedication towards advancing the human rights of women (Indo-Canadian Women’s Association), and a Human Rights Champion award (John Humphrey Centre for Peace & Human Rights). ..I could go on but I only have so much space here....lol

📜 If you want your chance to win these fabulous gift certificates and more, be sure to attend the Vegan Poetry Slam on January 19th at Die Pie Restaurant 11817 105 street, Edmonton, AB.

👉If you are unable to attend the event, it will be live streamed on my YouTube Channel at:
https://youtube.com/live/gXZclhz9rjY?feature=share

👉Event pages for Poetry Slam! Be sure to click you are going!
https://www.facebook.com/share/157ram8XnT/
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DwX2sG1yW/

13/01/2025

📢Please join me in giving thanks to The Buckingham for donating gift certificates to the winners of the Poetry Slam!

👑The Buckingham is the best Vegan Bar in town! This is a must visit venue with live bands, wicked DJ's and of course Vegan Bar Food!! Their food will satisfy your cravings, whether alcohol induced or not!

👀If you are looking for a night out on the town and need a place to start or end your night, The Buckingham is the place to go! They are located on 10439 Whyte Avenue!

📜 If you want your chance to win these fabulous gift certificates and more, be sure to attend the Vegan Poetry Slam on January 19th at Die Pie Restaurant 11817 105 street, Edmonton, AB.

👉If you are unable to attend the event, it will be live streamed on my YouTube Channel at:
https://youtube.com/live/gXZclhz9rjY?feature=share

👉Event pages for Poetry Slam! Be sure to click you are going!
https://www.facebook.com/share/157ram8XnT/
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DwX2sG1yW/

13/01/2025

🌱Join me in thanking Cinnamon Princess for her donation of 2 gift baskets with 1 cinnamon princess gift card, 1 pan of sticky buns and 3 vegan cinnamon whips in each basket! OMG I am drooling just writing this....

🥮Her cinnamon buns are addicting, you cannot just have one...ok you can, but you don't want to. You can find this amazing baker at The Old Strathcona Market every Saturday! She always has free samples to give out, so don't be shy!

👀You can also find her on Facebook as Cinnamon Princess and Instagram

📜 If you want your chance to win this savory goodness and more, be sure to attend the Vegan Poetry Slam on January 19th at Die Pie Restaurant 11817 105 street, Edmonton, AB.

👉If you are unable to attend the event, it will be live streamed on my YouTube Channel at:
https://youtube.com/live/gXZclhz9rjY?feature=share

👉Event pages for Poetry Slam! Be sure to click you are going!
https://www.facebook.com/share/157ram8XnT/
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DwX2sG1yW/

12/01/2025

🌱Thank you so much to NUTTEA Canada for donating 4 gift vouchers for our Poetry Slam!

🥜☕If you have not heard of Nuttea before, you are in for a nice treat! Everything is made from scratch and the flavors, OMG the flavors! I have never had tea like this before.

👉They also have some of the best cream toppings for their tea's around...I could just eat a bowl of their cream topping!

👉They are tucked away under the Leopold restaurant on Whyte ave. Go down the stairway to Nuttea heaven...

📜 As well be sure to attend the Vegan Poetry Slam on January 19th at Die Pie Restaurant 11817 105 street, Edmonton, AB.

👉If you are unable to attend the event, it will be live streamed on my YouTube Channel at:
https://youtube.com/live/gXZclhz9rjY?feature=share

👉Event pages for Poetry Slam! Be sure to click you are going!
https://www.facebook.com/share/157ram8XnT/
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DwX2sG1yW/

11/01/2025

🌱Thank you so much to Orii - Vegan and Vegetarian Markett for donating 2 gift baskets of products from their store for 2 lucky winners! If you have never heard of Orii or been to their store, you are in for a fabulous treat!

❔Everyone asks, "Now that Earth's General Store is closed down, where do I go now to get my soy curls?" Well here is your answer!! They even have the vegan marshmallows, beef jerky, popcorn, and all the protein you could ever think of, in this store.

👀They are tucked away on the bottom floor of the Hargate Apartment buildings at 0156 114 St NW Unit #5

📜 As well be sure to attend the Vegan Poetry Slam on January 19th at Die Pie Restaurant 11817 105 street, Edmonton, AB.

👉If you are unable to attend the event, it will be live streamed on my YouTube Channel at:
https://youtube.com/live/gXZclhz9rjY?feature=share

👉Event pages for Poetry Slam! Be sure to click you are going!
https://www.facebook.com/share/157ram8XnT/
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DwX2sG1yW/

10/01/2025

🌱Please join me in saying thank you to Nancy Liane Roussel and her AMAZING donations of 14 carved and pained vinyl records!

❤ She always blows my mind with her enormous heart and generosity when giving for the animals. All the way from Port Alberni, British Columbia, Nancy Roussel with Altered Vinyl will brighten any room with her inspirational art work.

👀You can find her on Facebook at Nancy Roussel and contact her [email protected] to get your own custom carved or painted vinyl records. I will have to get frames for a few of them....They are so beautiful I want to cry when I look at them....

📜 As well be sure to attend the Vegan Poetry Slam on January 19th at Die Pie Restaurant 11817 105 street, Edmonton, AB.

👉If you are unable to attend the event, it will be live streamed on my YouTube Channel at:
https://youtube.com/live/gXZclhz9rjY?feature=share

👉Event pages for Poetry Slam! Be sure to click you are going!
https://www.facebook.com/share/157ram8XnT/
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DwX2sG1yW/

09/01/2025

🌱Thank you so much to Cynful Sweets for donating their fancy smancy delectable delights! These goodies are so damn delicious and made with so much love, you will feel the joy in every bite.

🧁You can find this amazing baker at Cynful Sweets on Facebook or email her at [email protected]

🍰Thank you Cynnamin Blue ❤ for everything ....

📜 As well be sure to attend the Vegan Poetry Slam on January 19th at Die Pie Restaurant. If you are unable to attend the event, it will be live streamed on my Youtube Channel at:
https://youtube.com/live/gXZclhz9rjY?feature=share

Event pages for Poetry Slam! Be sure to click you are going!
https://www.facebook.com/share/157ram8XnT/
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DwX2sG1yW/

08/01/2025

🌱Thank you to Denise Lefebvre with Red Pepper Painting Parties for donating her beautifully hand crafted necklaces!

👩‍🦳This woman is completely filled with talent, anything she touches turns to art. If you want her to teach you how to paint, or throw a painting party for you and your friends, she is the one to call! You will be amazed at her work.

👉You can find her on Facebook at Red Pepper Painting Parties or email her at [email protected]

📜 As well be sure to attend the Vegan Poetry Slam on January 19th at Die Pie Restaurant. If you are unable to attend the event, it will be LIVE STREAMED on my Youtube Channel at:
https://youtube.com/live/Mor9XnECPg8?feature=share

Event pages for Poetry Slam!
https://www.facebook.com/share/157ram8XnT/
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DwX2sG1yW/

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07/01/2025

🌱Thank you so much to Cinnamon Princess for their generous donation of an assortment of fantastic Cinnamon buns, sticky and sweet! These are the tastiest vegan cinnamon buns yet and you will have a chance to win these incredible tasty snacks as part of our door prizes and raffle baskets!

👀You can find her on Facebook, Instagram and she is all over the Strathcona Market on Saturday's. Make sure to go get your sample of sticky buns!

📜 As well be sure to attend the Vegan Poetry Slam on January 19th at Die Pie Restaurant. If you are unable to attend the event, it will be live streamed on my Youtube Channel at:
https://youtube.com/live/Mor9XnECPg8?feature=share

Event pages for Poetry Slam!
https://www.facebook.com/share/157ram8XnT/
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DwX2sG1yW/