Community Calendar

September 15 - October 15 - Join us for a month-long celebration of new vegan dishes all over the Lehigh Valley!

Businesses across the area will showcase exciting special vegan menu items, giving everyone the opportunity to explore creative plant-based dishes crafted by talented local chefs.

🗓 How It Works:

1. Visit participating restaurants across the Lehigh Valley.
2. Try their exclusive vegan offerings.
3. Share your experience—rate and review the dishes you try, comment, post photos of your favorite meals, and tag us at @VeganChefChallengeNE.

This event is open to everyone, not just vegans! It’s about bringing our community together to celebrate incredible food and support our region’s chefs.

🙌 Get Involved: Looking for ways to connect? Volunteer with us! We’re seeking passionate individuals to help with outreach, event promotion, and community building throughout the month. It's a great way to meet like-minded people and make a difference! Volunteer using this link: TinyURL.com/VOLVCC

Join us in making the Lehigh Valley an even more inclusive, vibrant, and compassionate community.

For details on participating businesses, menus, sponsorship opportunities, and more, visit our website at veganchefchallenge.org/Lehigh.

Every October in Downtown Easton, PA. Eat! Drink! Stink! Weekend event, FREE ADMISSION!

2025 Headline Chef Paul Ratchaphol Rojrattana of La Kang

We're thrilled to announce that Chef Paul Ratchaphol Rojrattana of La Kang Thai-French Cuisine will be the Headline Chef for 2025!

Official Festival Website

The popular Faith Crawl, offered by the Bethlehem Interfaith Group - BIG, is coming again on Sunday, Oct. 5.

Meet up at Congregation Brith Sholom at 2:30 pm for a tour and description of their faith, and then participants will board the bus to visit and tour St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral - Bethlehem, PA and Respect Graduate School, to learn about the Islamic faith.

The tour should last until about 6 pm, and there is a $15 suggested donation. All are welcome on this interesting and informative tour!

RSVP: bit.ly/3KancLF

Ellis Paul returns to Godfrey Daniels for a special 4PM matinee on Sunday, October 5, joined by guest songwriter Sadie Gustafson-Zook. Known as one of the defining voices of modern folk, Ellis Paul transforms the stories of everyday life into timeless songs that resonate with truth and heart. With 23 albums, multiple awards, and songs featured in films and covered by major artists, Paul remains a powerful voice in American songwriting.

Sadie Gustafson-Zook, a rising artist whose warm melodies and thoughtful lyrics have earned national recognition, will open the show. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience two celebrated voices in an intimate setting at our Live Music Listening Room.

Kurbasy is an avant-garde musical project of the renowned progressive Les Kurbas Theatre in Lviv, Ukraine. Founded in 2008 as an informal vocal gathering of singer-actresses, the group has performed across Europe - from the front lines of occupied Eastern Ukraine to concert halls in Western Europe and the USA. The ambient approach of Kurbasy gives life to the indigenous polyphonic sounds of Ukraine's rich traditional music heritage. Their sonic-theatrical explorations of Ukraine's rich trove of calendar songs, lullabies, and legends, conjure the natural world, beliefs, and rituals, channeling contemporary connections to an archaic past.

By Christopher Chen
A searing and timely exploration of colonialism, power, and the invisible walls that divide us. Passage is a gripping modern-day allegory that speaks directly to our current moment-challenging us to reflect on systems of oppression and the struggle to connect across differences. Urgent, thought-provoking, and profoundly human, this play invites audiences to question how we move forward in a fractured world. Adam Ercolani, director.

Fri, 10/03/2025 - 7:30pm
Sat, 10/04/2025 - 7:30pm
Sun, 10/05/2025 - 2:00pm
Wed, 10/08/2025 - 7:30pm
Thu, 10/09/2025 - 7:30pm
Fri, 10/10/2025 - 7:30pm
Sat, 10/11/2025 - 7:30pm

September 15 - October 15 - Join us for a month-long celebration of new vegan dishes all over the Lehigh Valley!

Businesses across the area will showcase exciting special vegan menu items, giving everyone the opportunity to explore creative plant-based dishes crafted by talented local chefs.

🗓 How It Works:

1. Visit participating restaurants across the Lehigh Valley.
2. Try their exclusive vegan offerings.
3. Share your experience—rate and review the dishes you try, comment, post photos of your favorite meals, and tag us at @VeganChefChallengeNE.

This event is open to everyone, not just vegans! It’s about bringing our community together to celebrate incredible food and support our region’s chefs.

🙌 Get Involved: Looking for ways to connect? Volunteer with us! We’re seeking passionate individuals to help with outreach, event promotion, and community building throughout the month. It's a great way to meet like-minded people and make a difference! Volunteer using this link: TinyURL.com/VOLVCC

Join us in making the Lehigh Valley an even more inclusive, vibrant, and compassionate community.

For details on participating businesses, menus, sponsorship opportunities, and more, visit our website at veganchefchallenge.org/Lehigh.

The presentations are free and open to the public, and feature an interesting array of topics such as history, local culture, music, and current events. We appreciate the efforts of Susan Wolf, our volunteer program coordinator, for her diligence in securing such interesting speakers!

The programs begin at 9:30 a.m. with a social time in Fellowship Hall, followed by the hour-long presentation at 10 a.m. A lively question-and-answer period is included.

Oct. 6: Learn the origin story and development of automobiles through the ages, and the interesting story of Fordlândia, Henry Ford’s failed attempt at a South American rubber plantation. Al Ruozzi of the America on Wheels Museum is our presenter.

By Christopher Chen
A searing and timely exploration of colonialism, power, and the invisible walls that divide us. Passage is a gripping modern-day allegory that speaks directly to our current moment-challenging us to reflect on systems of oppression and the struggle to connect across differences. Urgent, thought-provoking, and profoundly human, this play invites audiences to question how we move forward in a fractured world. Adam Ercolani, director.

Fri, 10/03/2025 - 7:30pm
Sat, 10/04/2025 - 7:30pm
Sun, 10/05/2025 - 2:00pm
Wed, 10/08/2025 - 7:30pm
Thu, 10/09/2025 - 7:30pm
Fri, 10/10/2025 - 7:30pm
Sat, 10/11/2025 - 7:30pm

Dan DeChellis piano
Scot Hornick bass
Tom Papadatos drums