Let Live Foundation

“On Sunday July 19th, Akemi Salon will be hosting a benefit for the Let Live Foundation. Stylists Suzzette Fasching, Augustus Bowman, Christian McNutt, and one more TBA will be donating their talents for a very worthwhile cause. From noon until eight p.m. the stylists will be performing haircuts for the benefit of the Let Live Foundation. For a suggested donation of $20 for women’s hair, and $10 for men’s hair, you can look as good as you’ll feel after spending time in the chair of some of Portland’s most talented stylists. Come treat yourself to a full salon service experience while donating money to a very worthwhile cause.

Augustus, Suzzette, and Christian are all stylists who feel very strongly about a vegan lifestyle, and welcomed the opportunity to pool their talents to raise money for the unexpected expenses incurred in putting on this years Let Live Conference. All the shampoo and hair products used at Akemi Salon is completely cruelty free.

We do ask that you make an appointment, although walk-ins will be serviced as time permits. Please schedule with your desired stylist in advanced to make sure you can be a part of what will surely be a great time for a great cause.

To Schedule Appointments for the day, please call the Stylists directly. All men’s haircuts will be handled by Augustus Bowman.

Suzzette – 503-750-8584 (Suzzette is only offering this to new clients only please)
Christian – 503-863-4531
Augustus – 503-528-4173

Akemi Salon is located at 3808 N Williams Ave

Thanks, and hope to see you on the 19th!!!!”

From last weekend’s Let Live Series event, “Sanctuary Stories: Tales of Hope”, enjoy.

Wow, just today we’ve learned that two other rad vegan Portland businesses are throwing some love our way. 

This morning we heard from Aaron at Portobello:

“”From now until the conference, we will donate 10% of sales from Wednesday nights to the Let Live Foundation. Come on by and munch on vegan goodness whilst sipping a fine vegan wine! Reservations recommended.
Peace, Aaron”

and just got a text message from Lisa at Sweetpea:

“Hey, I’m posting online that we are donating half of our brunch sales to Let Live this week.”

Holy crap. Very touching to have such support from the community. Please go give these folks some money, and get full and happy.

This is simple. You come spend money at the Vegan Minimall (SE Stark and 12th), as you normally would (maybe a bit more) on June 13th. All day long. After the day is over, all the shops will donate a nice percentage of the day’s sales to the conference expenses. It should help quite a bit if they all have good sales that day. Scapegoat Tattoo is doing something special too. Very exciting. John, Ryan, and Henry will be doing $30 tattoos starting at noon. They are designing up a big sheet of animal rights / vegan related flash artwork for you to choose from. Just show up at noon, and take a number. First come, first served. Great, huh?

Friday night conference kickoff party
June 26, 7 to 10 pm
PSU Smith Memorial Union, Room 228

Hello! Your presence is requested at the Let Live Conference kickoff party, Friday night, June 26. Please join us for a night of community building, vegan soft serve ice cream eating (thanks Blossoming Lotus), and off the hook fun. All speakers and attendees are invited. The festivities will begin with a talk by Will Potter about the importance of community in this movement and how important it is for all of us to support each other in the pursuit of our common goals for the animals. This talk gets to the heart of what this conference is all about and will set the tone for the weekend.

Once the hugfest is complete, the karaoke machine will roar to life and your greatest triumph/humiliation will be set to begin. Hopped up on soft serve, surrounded by a room full of new and old friends, your performance is bound for legendom! Bring your voice and your guts and lay it down! A warning: Word on the street is that some amongst us have been practicing for months.

If you aren’t the karoake type, you can camp out by the soft serve machine, filling your belly, making friends, and cheering on the singers.

We are hoping this conference will blur the lines between speakers and attendees, beginners and more seasoned activists. We could think of no better way to do that than belting out the hits with each other. Come sing, laugh, and cheer, or just laugh and cheer. Whatever you do, just don’t miss this!

See you there!

-Let Live Crew

Tomorrow (6/4) is Sip’s one year anniversary! Congrats to Mr. Heck for making Portland a nicer place.

Go over tomorrow (in front of People’s Coop) and celebrate with a milkshake. Sip is going to donate 100% of the milkshake profits help fund the Let Live Conference. So… no excuses. Go freeze your brain and support a good cause.

Yo. Emiko and Rachael are going to be selling baked goods, iced tea, and ice cream sandwiches outside of Food Fight on Saturday starting at noon. All hard earned moneys will go to the Let Live Conference. Please come get some cookies and what nots.

Hello, Friends!

The Let Live Animal Rights Conference is just around the corner and we are in need of volunteers. Volunteering is a great way to get involved and for those who volunteer at least two hours- it also means FREE admission to the entire conference! How can you beat that? You can’t! So join us Wednesday, June 10th at 8pm at Food Fight (1217 SE Stark) to learn more.

If you can’t make the volunteer meeting but are interested in helping out, please e-mail us at elsbeth@letlivefoundation.org and we’ll set you up. Thank you for supporting animals and Let Live!

xoxo
the Let Live crew

The Let Live Series Presents Sanctuary Stories: Tales of Hope

Portland, OR, May 31, 2009— This year, nearly two thousand chimpanzees will be used for testing in laboratories across the United States. Thousands of animals will be left to starve on foreclosed farms and hundreds of malnourished horses will be abandoned on public lands because the cost of their care is too high. These are just a few examples of the types of abuse and neglect that animals face each day. Although many of these animals will never know kindness, affection or proper nutrition- for those who find their way to a sanctuary, there is hope. This talk highlights the inspiring stories of three Northwest no-kill sanctuaries that provide lifetime quality of life to abused, abandoned and neglected animals.

Diana Goodrich, Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest (CSNW): Founded in 2003, CSNW is home to the “Cle Ellum Seven,” a group of seven chimpanzees released from biomedical research. Through education and collaboration, CSNW advocates on behalf of great apes in hopes of one day eliminating their exploitation for entertainment and biomedical research.

Wayne Geiger, Lighthouse Farm Animal Sanctuary: Started as an unofficial sanctuary in 1998, Lighthouse is currently home to two hundred farm animals who have suffered abuse and neglect. Lighthouse has helped provide homes for pigs displaced by the Iowa floods and works closely with the Humane Society of the United States to help abandoned and neglected horses.

John Collins, Out to Pasture (OTP): OTP provides permanent housing to abused, neglected and abandoned large farm animals, pigs, chickens, rabbits and dogs. OTP also does special work with miniature pigs and provides them with no-charge vet care. In addition to their sanctuary work, OTP also maintains feeding stations for feral cats and provides loaner traps and transportation so they can be spayed or neutered.

The Sanctuary Stories: Tales of Hope presentation will be held on May 31, 2009, at 2p.m. at Portland State University in Room 238 of the Smith Memorial Union Building. Admission is free. The Let Live Series is a monthly series of speakers, workshops and social events dedicated to promoting animal rights activism and education in Portland, Oregon. Sponsored by the Let Live Foundation, Vegans for Animal Advocacy, Food Fight Grocery and Herbivore Magazine.

Come hang out Sunday, April 12th and get your fill of sword swinging with a presentation of the classic film, “Conan the Barbarian”. There will be some kind of snack too. Money will help fund the conference, so… bring some pals, OK? 

The Artistery.
4315 SE Division St
8pm-ish. $5.