The February meeting of SCVS will be on Sunday the 18th at 4:00pm. We'll be meeting at Edge of the Woods, a natural foods grocery at 379 Whalley Ave in New Haven.  Click here for directions to the meeting . For the original announcement email (including potluck details) please click here.

Diane Wagemann, owner of Divine Treasures, an organic belgium chocolate shop in Manchester will be joining us. "Manchester?" I hear you say, "That's hardly in SOUTHERN Connecticut." Well, when it comes to the motherload of vegan chocolates, nothing is too far! Diane's creations are out of this world and she has promised to bring samples. We've asked her to talk about opening her shop, vegan chocolate making, and... lets be honest, we want the samples :-) Here's a photo to get you hungry. Divine Treasures is at 404 Middle Turnpike West, in the Parkade Plaza in Manchester. You can reach them at (860) 643-2552. Her website is here.

The first SCVS meeting of 2007 washeld on Sunday, January 14th at 4:00pm. The location for our meetings was changed! We'll  met at Edge of the Woods, a natural foods grocery in New Haven. Members were advised to arrive early or stay a little late to get some shopping done,as  Edge is a great place to get hard-to-find items. 

The meeting featured vegan personal chef Mary Lawrence giving a talk and un-cooking demonstration entitled "Raw Resolutions." Trust us, her raw recipes were awesome! As usual we also had a vegan potluck meal, and members were asked to please bring something to share (or pick something up at Edge when they arrived).

SCVS will be having a terrific potluck dinner at the North Haven Congregational Church on Sunday, October 15th. Vegetarians from all over southern Connecticut will be coming together to share in great food and fun conversation. We'll discuss some upcoming events in the state and in the region. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Click here to read the official announcement email

Have a great summer! 

There will not be a monthly potluck dinner in July & August. Attendence during the summer is predictably low and with other events happening throughout the state we've decided to hold off until September when we'll resume our monthly meetings in North Haven.

In the meantime, please take a look at other events coming up around the state. The website of the Northern Connecticut Vegetarian Society, which you can get to by clicking on their banner at the bottom of the main page, has great listings.

Please contact us if you have any questions or suggestions for events in the fall.

June's meeting will be at 5:00pm on Sunday the 18th. As usual we will be meeting at the North Haven Congregational Church.  Due to last minute changes the event will be a potluck dinner and socializing.

Isa from The Post Punk Kitchen is unable to visit SCVS for our June meeting due to scheduling conflicts. We're grateful for her efforts and her promise to continue working with us to find a date for the Vegan Cupcake Cooking Workshop.

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006 12p-1:30p
University of Connecticut-Storrs
@ Student Union Theatre

"Stop the Monkey Business: A look at nonhuman primate research at the UConn Health Center"

Find out what's wrong with primate research at the UConn Health Center in a 30-min presentation by a renowned neurologist, primatologist and two animal rights activist. Panel will be followed by a brief video clip and FREE FULLY CATERED VEGAN LUNCHEON. Open to the public. For more info: www.uconnanimalrights.org

 Click here for the original announcement message.

The March meeting of SCVS took place on Sunday, March 12th, at 5:00pm. Special guest speaker Rynn Berry was with us to talk about the history of raw foodism. Rynn had a selection of his books for sale and a vegan potluck meal was served.

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The April meeting of SCVS took place on Sunday, April 9th, at 5:00pm.  This month we'll have a special guest from the great white north. Well, not that far north. But at least from Northampton, MA. Vegan photographer and all around digital guru Derek Goodwin will be joining us to give a multi-media presentation about two of his projects; Veganica.com and VeganRadio. Veganica is an online gallery of vegan creative output. Artists of every sort display their works on the site and many items are for sale as well. VeganRadio is a terrific program that is broadcast locally out of Northampton and also available on the web as a podcast. So this will make two vegan podcasters we've had visit SCVS! That's got to be a record somehow. So please come and enjoy Derek's talk. As VeganRadio would say, "You know you're jonesin' for some tofu!"

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The next meeting of the Southern Connecticut Vegetarian Society will be held on Sunday, May 21st at 5:00pm. This month's meeting, and those that follow, will be on the third Sunday of each month. We hope this change will allow for even more interesting speakers to join us and for more members than ever to make it to our events.

May's meeting will be a vegan potluck. No guest speaker this month but lively conversation is always to be had. It's been a cool May, but lets break out some summer-time food and enjoy the flavors of the spring! 

SCVS's February 2006 meeting was canceled due to a blizzard which came through New England. 

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Are you ready for some foo...d?! 

The February SCVS meeting will be on Sunday, February 12th, 2006 at 5:00pm. The meeting will once again be at the North Haven Congregational Church at 28 Church Street, North Haven CT. We will be featuring author and vegetarian historian Rynn Berry as a guest speaker. Rynn is coming in from NYC to speak to us about his new book Fruits of Tantalus: A History of Vegan Rawfoodism and Fruitarianism (with Recipes).

Click here for the original Announcement email . 

SCVS, in association with the Northern Connecticut Vegetarian Society and the newly formed Northeastern Connecticut Vegetarian Society, we are organizing a social gathering at China Pan Restaurant in Farmington. China Pan is not a vegetarian-only establishment, if only we could be that lucky! But they do have an extensive vegetarian selection featuring vegan mock-meat dishes and vegetable entrees. Vegan citrus  spare ribs anyone? The restaurant is located at 1600 S East Rd., Farmington. That's near the West Farms Mall with easy access from Rt. 9 & I-84. It's in the back corner of the plaza with Borders Books & Music. Click Here for a map .

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Click here for the Followup email.  

On November 13th, 2005 SCVS met for its monthly meeting. We had a "Compassionate Thanksgiving Potluck" and encouraged everyone to bring a dish. Stuffing? Sure! Mashers? Sure! Pie? Do we even need to answer that? While all this food might have sent some of us running for the sofa afterwards, SCVS member Jenn Mezzio had other ideas! She talked to us about Yoga.

Click Here to view the original, detailed, meeting announcement.

On Sunday October 9th 2005, SCVS met for its monthly meeting, putluck and a special guest speaker. We changed the venue this time from Edge of the Woods in New Haven, to the North Haven Congregational Church at 28 Church St. Click Here for a map and directions.

This month's meeting was at 5:00pm, as usual, and featured a vegan potluck meal and a special guest speaker. Emrys Tetu, a Certified Holistic Health Counselor, Emrys has a practice in Chester, and gave a talk titled "Sweet Enough Already: Talking About Sugar in its Many Forms".

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SCVS had a meeting on Sunday, September 11th, 2005. The location was Edge of the Woods, our old faithful. This month's meeting had a vegan potluck and some small SCVS organizational business to discuss. 

Over the winter months of 2004 SCVS met, but unfortunately there are records missing of the original announcement.

It was during this time that vegetarian historian Rynn Berry came to speak about vegetarian myths. Mr. Berry discussed the myth that Adolph Hitler was a vegeterian and also spoke about the argument for why Jesus should be considered a vegetarian. A potluck meal was shared by all and Mr. Berry sold and signed copies of his books.  .

Also during the winter of 2004 SCVS and our dear friends at the Northern Connecticut Vegetarian Society (cleverly named "NCVS"), met for a joint social meeting at Alchemy Juice Bar Cafe in Hartford. There were some communication problems but Alchemy stepped up was able to feed the hungry vegetarians and a connecticut vegetarian winter tradition was started.