Denver Vegans

 
 
 

AFTER NARD (National Animal Rights Day, which ends at 3 pm), join us at Tsing Tao Asian Kitchen in Boulder between 4:00 and 7:00 for their fabulous all-you-can-eat vegan buffet! We had a great attendance last time so are offering this again. All are welcome. PLEASE register for head count. You can edit your attendance if wish.
The buffet features plenty of variety, with vegan versions of all your Chinese restaurant favorites! It's normally only offered on Mondays and Thursdays, but they are doing a special Sunday evening buffet for our Meetup.
The cost of the buffet is $19.95 per person, plus tax. (You can also order off the menu if you prefer).

PLEASE NOTE: Tsing Tao is not an exclusively vegan restaurant. Although Denver Vegans welcomes everyone no matter where they are on their vegan journey, we ask that our meetup attendees choose only vegan food while dining with the group.

 
 
 

It's been awhile since we've had an Ask-A-Vegan event at Native Foods, and they keep coming up with delicious new food choices. Plus, they recently announced that they have lowered their prices!
Join us for dinner at all-vegan Native Foods restaurant, get to know Denver Vegans members and ask us your questions! We invite both new and long-time meetup members to come and hang out with us, and we especially welcome those who are new to a vegan lifestyle, or trying to move from a vegetarian or animal-based diet to a vegan one. We would love to meet and welcome you!

Gathering Agenda:

• order delicious food

• find our group -- look for "Denver Vegans" table sign -- and sit down. (You may find the sign in the outdoor dining area if the weather is warm enough.)

• let's talk!

Please keep RSVPs current. See you there!

 
 
 

For our June 27 online book club, we'll discuss THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE, by Kim Stanley Robinson (2020, fiction). You may want to start a little earlier reading this one, as it is longer than our usual selections.
You need not have attended a previous discussion to join us for this one. We'll discuss the book until about 8:00, followed by open conversation.

If you'd like to read ahead:
July 25 -- A Wild Idea, by Jonathan Franklin
Aug. 22 -- The Nation of Plants, by Stefano Mancuso
Sept. 26 -- For Banned Books Week, read one or more from the American Library Association's list of frequently challenged books:
https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10

The Zoom link to the discussion is posted on the right, visible to those who RSVP. PLEASE NOTE: THIS LINK DISAPPEARS AT THE MEETUP START TIME, THAT IS, 7:00 PM. We'll be available from 6:50 on to help anyone who might need extra time to connect.
You will need a computer, laptop, smartphone or other device with internet access. It's pretty easy; if you're curious, check out https://zoom.us/.
If you can't get on, call us at[masked].
We hope to "see" you there!
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The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year, this extraordinary novel from visionary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis.

"If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein (Vox)

"One hopes that this book is read widely—that Robinson’s audience, already large, grows by an order of magnitude. Because the point of his books is to fire the imagination."―New York Review of Books

"If there’s any book that hit me hard this year, it was Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, a sweeping epic about climate change and humanity’s efforts to try and turn the tide before it’s too late." ―Polygon (Best of the Year)

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