About us
VeganSTL — St. Louis Vegan Events 🌱
Markets • Dinners • Outreach • Meetups
If you want more vegan friends (and more vegan things to do in St. Louis), join us. VeganSTL is welcoming, beginner-friendly, and built around real-life events you'll actually show up for.
✅ START HERE (best 2 clicks you can make):
- Email list = fastest way to hear about new events + reminders (Meetup notifications are hit-or-miss): veganstl.com/subscribe
- St. Louis Veganuary (LIMITED-TIME / January): Get a FREE Starter Kit + bonus downloads + local support: veganstl.com/veganuary
What we host most (so you know what you’re joining):
🛍️ MARKETS + POP-UPS
• STL Vegan Market + vendor events (support local vegan businesses, meet the community)
🍽️ DINNERS + SPECIAL COMMUNITY MEALS
• Group dinners, themed nights, and occasional ticketed community dinners
📣 OUTREACH + VISIBILITY
• Friendly tabling/leafleting + meetups around festivals and big community events
🤝 OTHER MEETUPS
• Coffee/brunch, park hangs, game nights, potlucks, and "new to vegan" support
Quick way to jump in:
Join the group → RSVP to one event → bring a friend.
No perfection. No pressure. Just community 💚
Powered by Project Animal Freedom (PAF) — a Midwest-focused nonprofit building thriving vegan communities through events, outreach, and local support.
Upcoming events
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St. Louis Cube of Truth
Ritz Park, 3147 S. Grand, Saint Louis, MO, US🎭📺🐄 Join us for the grand relaunch of the St. Louis chapter of Anonymous for the Voiceless—hosted at Ritz Park!
This riveting, impact-driven demo will feature:
- 📺 TV screens playing standard-practice footage from factory farms and slaughterhouses for onlookers to witness
- 💬 Structured outreach conversations that help passersby make the connection and go vegan
- 📜 Your chance to be a meaningful part of St. Louis animal rights history as our AV chapter comes back to life
This event is for you if you:
- 🎭 Would rather hold a screen in silence and let the footage do the talking
- 🗣️ Love a good one-on-one conversation and want to get better at them
- 🌱 Are new to activism and want a peaceful, structured first action
What is Anonymous for the Voiceless?
Anonymous for the Voiceless (AV) is an international vegan activism organization that specializes in street outreach. Founded in Melbourne, Australia, in 2016, AV now has hundreds of chapters around the world, and the Cube of Truth is its signature action. Silent volunteers in Anonymous masks stand in formation holding screens and TRUTH signs. Outreach volunteers talk one-on-one with the people who stop to watch. No chanting. No bullhorns. Just the footage, a question, and a conversation.
Why the masks? So the attention stays on the animals, not on us.
What to know
Wear all black, the AV uniform. Masks, signs, and screens will be provided. New to the Cube? You’ll get a quick briefing on both roles before we set up.
RSVP below and invite a friend!
🐷 Want to do more for the animals? Apply to volunteer with Project Animal Freedom here!
Check out the event page here!
1 attendee
Vegan Game Night: Four-Year Anniversary Edition!
Pieces Board Game Bar and Cafe, 2727 South 12th Street, St. Louis, MO, US🎲♟️🎉 Join us for the four-year anniversary of our Vegan Game Night series at Pieces, St. Louis’ premier board game bar and café!
Our very first Vegan Game Night was held on October 9th, 2022. Four years and many game nights later, the tradition is still going strong, and we’re throwing a party to celebrate!
At this lively get-together, you can enjoy:
- ✅ hours of board game fun
- ✅ a delicious vegan menu, featuring a full selection of vegan cookies
- ✅ a relaxed space to connect with local vegans
You can also enjoy beer, wine, cocktails, or coffee while you game the night away!
Here are some menu highlights:
- 🥑 Midwest Poke Bowl – sushi rice, avocado, sweet chili edamame, black sesame seeds, sriracha aioli, and sesame ginger sauce
- 🥢 Fried Rice Bowl – sesame ginger sauce, wonton chips, broccoli, edamame, and carrots
- 🥟 Pot Stickers – filled with mushrooms, topped with green onions, and served with sesame ginger sauce
This event is for you if you:
- 🧩 want more structure than a casual meetup
- 🧩 find it easier to connect over a game than over small talk
- 🧩 have been meaning to meet more local vegans
Whether you’ve been rolling dice with us since 2022 or this is your first time, you’re welcome at the table. Connect, unwind, and have fun with fellow vegans in a welcoming, stimulating environment.
Come for an hour or stay the whole night, but don’t miss this one!
📧 Want more vegan events + food finds? Join our mailing list here!
Check out the event page here!
1 attendee
Vegan Halloween Potluck
Lafayette Square Inn, 1815 Lafayette Avenue St. Louis, Missouri, 63104 United States, St. Louis, MO, US👻🌱🎃 Join us for a 100%-vegan Halloween potluck, hosted at the “spook-tacular” Lafayette Square Inn!
At this frightfully fun monthly celebration, we will:
- 🤤 Feast on a homemade, 100%-vegan potluck spread featuring a wide variety of devilishly delicious dishes
- 💚 Connect with longtime vegans, new vegans, and vegan-curious friends in a warm, welcoming space
- 🍬 Celebrate Halloween as part of our Plant Lovers Potluck series, St. Louis’ only regularly recurring monthly vegan potluck
That’s right: we gather on the second Tuesday of every month to share food, friendship, and fellowship, vegan style!
🥣 WHAT TO BRING:
Just bring a vegan dish or drink to share! Bonus points if it’s spooky and seasonal! (Vegan = no meat, dairy, eggs, honey, or any other animal product.) Ingredient labels are appreciated for friends with allergies, and don’t forget a serving utensil if your dish needs one. Costumes are welcome but not required!
🏡 OUR BEAUTIFUL VENUE:
Dating to 1876, the Lafayette Square Inn is a lovingly restored Victorian gem in the heart of Lafayette Square, a historic neighborhood renowned for one of the largest collections of Victorian homes in the country. With its cozy parlor, elegant dining room, and full kitchen, the inn is the perfect “haunt” for St. Louis’ spookiest vegan potluck.
A heartfelt thank-you to the inn’s wonderful owners for so generously opening their doors to our community! 💚
We believe vegan community should be within everyone’s reach. That's why this potluck is completely free to attend (no tricks, just treats!), making it one of the most affordable, accessible ways to plug into St. Louis’ vegan scene, month after month after month.
This event is for you if you:
- 🥕 are vegan, veg-curious, or simply love good homemade food
- 💸 want an affordable, low-pressure way to find vegan community
- 🏛️ have always wanted to celebrate Halloween inside one of Lafayette Square’s Victorian beauties
Whether you bring a treasured family recipe or a simple store-bought treat, you belong here.
What are you waiting for?Don’t ghost us: RSVP today and help us make St. Louis more vegan friendly, one spooky potluck at a time!
📧 Want more vegan events + community? Join our mailing list today!
Check out the event page here!
1 attendee
Elwood's Organic Dog Meat Tasting Demo
Soulard Park, 7th and Lafayette (next to Soulard Market), Saint Louis, MO, US🐶🥩🤠 Join us for our first-ever “dog meat” tasting, hosted at Soulard Farmers Market!
That’s right: we’re bringing Elwood’s Organic Dog Meat, the internet’s most infamous family farm, to the streets of St. Louis.
At this deliciously deadpan demonstration, we will:
- 🍖 Serve free samples of “dog meat” to unsuspecting passersby (100% vegan, 0% dog)
- 🐷 Ask one simple question: why do we love dogs but eat pigs?
- 💚 Spark kind, curious conversations about veganism, one free sample at a time
Elwood’s dogs are free-range, local, organic, antibiotic-free, and humanely slaughtered. Sound familiar? That’s the point.
Elwood’s isn’t real. But the outrage it sparks is, and so is the question behind it: if the thought of eating a Labrador turns your stomach, why doesn't the thought of eating a pig, an animal every bit as sensitive and loving as any dog?
Most people never think about this at all. Our job is to make them think: with a smile, a free sample, and a menu they’ll never forget.
This tongue-in-cheek action is for you if you:
- 🐶 love dogs (and want people to love pigs, cows, and chickens just as much)
- 😂 believe humor can open hearts that arguments can’t
- 🌱 are looking for a fun, low-pressure first action
🤠 HOW IT WORKS:
We’ll set up shop with Elwood’s signage, menus, and farmhand badges, then offer free samples of “Pug Bacon,” “Labrador Steaks,” and other farm favorites to anyone who walks by. When people recoil (and they will), we’ll gently ask why. No gotchas, no lectures, and nothing about any other country or culture: this is about us and our own double standards. As Elwood’s likes to put it, anyone upset by the farm is simply having a vegan experience.
All samples are 100% vegan. Dogs are welcome (as guests, not as samples).
🐾 ABOUT ELWOOD’S ORGANIC DOG MEAT:
Elwood’s has offered “delicious dog, since 1981.” Or, more accurately, since 2021, when vegan activist (and standup comic) Molly Elwood launched a satirical “family farm” that markets dog meat using the same language real farms use to sell pigs, cows, and chickens. The farm has since racked up over 4 million website visitors, an ad campaign on the London Underground, and “dog meat” tastings from Toronto to Zagreb. Not bad for a farm with no dogs.
Every animal deserves to live safe, happy, and free, whether they sleep at the foot of your bed or behind the walls of a factory farm. What are you waiting for? RSVP today and become an honorary Elwood’s farmhand!
📧 Want more vegan advocacy opportunities + community? Apply to volunteer with us here!
Check out the event page here!
1 attendee
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