Vida Vegan Conference Ticket Giveaway
As I mentioned a while ago, I’m attending the 2013 Vida Vegan Conference (VVC) in Portland this May. What is the VVC, you might be wondering? Founded by the lovely Janessa, Michele, and Jess it’s 3 days of seminars, talks, food, fun (duh), and exhibitors all with a vegan twist. And of course, we’ll be prowling the vegan-friendly streets of Portland along the way. This will be my first time visiting Portland and as you can expect I am beyond excited. I might pee my pants actually.
When is it? The VVC 2013 will be held on Friday-Sunday, May 24-26, 2013.
Where? Portland Art Museum, 1219 Southwest Park Avenue Portland, OR 97205
Is there a schedule break down for each day? Why I’m so happy you asked. For the complete VVC schedule see here.
Recently, a reader named Grace contacted me explaining that she bought a ticket to this year’s VVC, but is sadly not able to attend anymore. And because of her super generous heart she’s offering the ticket to one lucky reader! Yes, you have the chance of winning a ticket valued at $280.00 for 3 days of conference fun! If you think you can make it, please leave a comment below to enter this contest.
Please note that the winner will be responsible for all travel, food expenses, and accommodation costs incurred. This giveaway is for the conference pass only. I will select the winner from the comments via a random number generator and the contest will be open until Tuesday March 12th. The winner will be announced right here on the blog next week! Keep your eyes peeled.
Think you’d like to attend this year’s VVC? Leave a comment below to enter or pass this contest on to a friend who might be interested in going. Thanks again to Grace for her generous giveaway. Good luck to all and I hope to see you there!
WINNER UPDATE:
I’m excited to announce that the winner is #42 – Congrats Traci! Traci wrote,”I am from Portland and will be home visiting during that time! OH WHAT A TREAT that would be!”
Traci I will shoot you an email today to get things rolling. Thanks again to Grace for her generous ticket donation and to everyone for participating.
If you are still thinking about attending the conference (and I think you should!), there are still tickets for sale.
This would be a great way to get inspired and get cooking!
Wow, sounds so great! I have been so intrigued by the vegan lifestyle and often have serious thoughts about becoming vegan. I haven’t quite made the decision yet. I think that this Vida Vegan Con would be a great exposure to vegan-ism and extremely enlightening to me!
I love cooking and talking about food, not to mention trying new things, so it would be exciting to go :)
I’d love to win! I live in Eugene, just a hop skip and a jump from Portland!
I’ve been trying to get to this conference since the first word got out…this is dream come true stuff here, folks!
Thanks for offering such a kickass giveaway.
Oh how I would love to go! My family has been slowly making the transition to a vegan lifestyle but it has been hard! I am the main cook so I feel the burden the most. We love eating this healthy way and have felt much better doing so. Going to this conference could be a great help to me and give me fresh ideas and some help!
What an incredible experience! The opportunity to meet up with like minded people and continue to be inspired! Amazing!
What a smart and kind idea of Grace!
This conference sounds amazing! It being in Portland is just icing on the cake.
I would love to go! I’ll just be done with my semester at school, I’ve wanted to go to Portland for years, and I am slowly but surely eliminating animal products from my diet. This would be perfect!
I would love to go; it sounds incredible!
If I am 14, am I still able to qualify?
I live in Portland and it would be so great to go to the conference and meet you. And, of course, it would be my pleasure to show you around–I love playing tour guide!
Hello! Thank you for posting about this conference in May! Hopefully I’ll attend even without the drawing so I hope to meet you. ~Alissa
I would love to go! Any reason to go to Portland is a good reason :)
My sister would absolutely love this, the perfect belated birthday gift! Thanks for the opportunity, Angela!
Wow! How incredibly generous of Grace! I’d love to go and experience Portland as well as attend my first-ever vegan conference!
Would love to go!
I’ve been told I NEED to go to VVC THIS YEAR in Portland! I’ve heard it’s great….. rumor has it, it’ll be in Chicago next time…
I would love to go!
VIDA is my greyhound’s name…can you say sign from the UNIVERSE?? No, but seriously! Actually, that WAS serious. Vida means LIFE in Spanish, and changing to a mostly plant-based diet this past year has given me a new life! The date of the conference will be the one-year anniversary of the passing of my grandmother and also the time when I started switching my lifestyle habits. I have since lost 60+ pounds and am still losing. I’m enjoying the learning process of eating vegan (especially your blog!) and the conference would be such a fun adventure!!
I would LOVE to go (and meet you and thank you for your recipes)! I am working on starting a blog and getting back into activism, so this would be the best motivation to get cracking. Pick me!