First Place Awards + Voter Drawing Prize...

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We are continuing to receive great feedback about how much fun and how powerful this event has been. Very exciting! Thanks once again to everyone who has taken part, including Zat, Janabai and Matt from Euphoria Loves Rawvolution Cafe, Dean and Ranjit from DSILive.net, and all of our amazing sponsors!

DSILIVE.NET has posted the video of the Awards Celebration which took place at Euphoria Loves Rawvolution Cafe December 30. They are asking a nominal fee of 99 cents to view this, since they have actual costs associated with producing this for us. Part of the proceeds of this 99 cents will go to support this event further. Please CLICK HERE to view the archives.

TO SEE ALL AWARD WINNERS, CLICK THE THREE AWARDS LINKS.

TO SEE FIRST PLACE WINNERS, VOTER DRAWING WINNERS AND PRIZES, SCROLL DOWN.

AWARDS 1

AWARDS 2

AWARDS 3

To LISTEN to awards announcement show, go to www.visionarycultureradio.com

Voila! Here is the list of prizes and who won which prize. First up are voter prize winners, followed by the Best of Raw Award Winners. These are truly awesome prizes, thanks everyone!

PRIZES FOR VOTER DRAWING

Journey of Health is offering $50 gift package from our raw food retail health food store in Canada!

Ann from Eidi-Results.org

Garden of Life is offering a $100 gift basket of their Vitamin Code RAW items!

eternalpum (awaiting name)

KharmaKameleon Awesome Chinese Astrology Reading ~$98 value ~ by my friend Feng Shui practitioner Lydia Griffith.

Marty Bautista

Julia Jay has designed and is offering two gifts :: A Symbols Buddha Bracelet ~ wood stretch bracelet with large sterling silver heart with hand-stamped embossed hearts + LOVE FRAGRANCE OIL ~ Clean & fresh with rose & lavender notes & a touch of spice.

Esther Suarez

Bryan Au is giving away one of his RAW STAR Ceramic Cleavers! Bryan’s knives never rust; keep food fresher; won’t react with food so flavors won’t change; stay super sharp for one year or longer.

Chrissy Antia

Raw People is donating a yearlong membership to the Raw People Co-Op where members can receive anywhere between 30%-70% off thousands of Raw Food products. The donation is a $97 value and includes about $400 in bonus gifts.

Tara Gardner

Angela Stokes-Monarch + Matt Monarch of The Raw Food World are offering a set of their complete e-book package! Includes :: Raw Emotions, Raw Reform: How To Go Raw for Weight Loss, Raw Reform: Revealing The Physical Changes, Raw Reform: Recipes, The Juice Feaster’s Handbook by Angela Stokes plus Raw Spirit + Raw Success by Matt Monarch.   Erich Lenk
Essential Living Foods is offering a 2 pound bag of their new Balinese “Truly Raw” Cacao Powder, what a treat!

Stephen Huntsman

Favorite Raw Vegan Educator // “Beautiful on Raw Beauty Gift Package” by Tonya Zavasta    Dan McDonald

Favorite Raw Vegan Restaurant // NUTIVA PRODUCTS    Cafe Gratitude

Favorite Raw Vegan Educational Website // www.Oceangrown.com 1 gallon of OceanSolution with a booklet on how to grow your own OceanGrown Wheatgrass    Choosing Raw

Favorite Raw Vegan Film of 2009 // Zeolite Shower Filter from Raffi at www.omicahealth.com is donating a zeolite shower filter + Living Light Culinary Arts Institute Gift   Simply Raw

Favorite Raw Vegan Book of 2009 // Living Raw Magazine (6 Issue Subscription)   80 10 10 by Doug Graham

Sexiest Raw Man of 2009 // IMMORTALITY ALCHEMY’S ORGANIC RAW ROYAL JELLY POWDER+SILVERMOON CHOCOLATES GIFT BASKET    Dan McDonald

Sexiest Raw Woman of 2009 // SACRED CHOCOLATE GIFT BASKET    Alicia Silverstone

Favorite Raw Vegan Chef // ANNAMARIE’S CLEANSER + TONER / RENEGADE HEALTH    Dan McDonald

Favorite Raw Vegan Caterer/Festival Food Booth Vendor // NOMI SHANNON    Brian Belive Lucas

Funniest Raw Vegan Man // Variety pack of liquid supplements from Raffi at www.omicahealth.com    Woody Harrelson

Funniest Raw Vegan Woman // MAKE UP JUNKY’S RAW FITNESS + BEAUTY MAKE UP    Angela Stokes-Monarch

Favorite Raw Vegan Musician // RAWVOLUTION BOX!   Jason Mraz

Favorite Raw Vegan Event // Bryant Myers www.energyway.com is giving a 3-day cleanse!    Raw Spirit Festival

Favorite Raw Vegan Online Store // Gabrielle Brick’s ‘The One Bar’ Gift Basket    The Raw Food World

Favorite Raw Vegan Radio Show // Living Light Culinary Arts Institute Gift    The Raw Food World Radio Show

Favorite Raw Vegan Magazine // Elements for Life Gift Package!    Purely Delicious

Favorite Raw Vegan Blog // VIVAPURA GIFT BASKET    Choosing Raw

Favorite Raw Vegan TV Show/Vlog // Bare Foot Health bed pad!    Renegade Health Show

Favorite Raw Vegan Outreach Work // Elements for Life Gift Package!    Kevin Gianni / Renegade Health

Favorite Raw Vegan Crunchy-Salty Snack // Borosilicate Glass straw set by Rawmaste. Each set includes a Smoothie Straw, a Mate’ Tea Straw, a pouch and a cleaning brush   Belive’s Nacho Cheese Chips

Favorite Raw Vegan Cracker // Raw Family Jawercizer and latest books   Lydia’s Organics

Favorite Raw Vegan Sweet Snack // $50 Gift Certificate from Heather Baker + The Organic Acorn   Lara Bars

Favorite Raw Vegan Green Powder // Rawmaste Borosilicate Glass straws. Each set includes a Smoothie Straw, a Mate’ Tea Straw, a pouch and a cleaning brush.    Vitamineral Green

Favorite Raw Favorite Raw Vegan Chocolate // Gabrielle Brick’s ‘The One Bar’ Gift Basket    Sacred Steve

Favorite Raw Vegan Company // RAW MATT’S EPIC ELIXIRS Elixir of Beauty + Elixir of Immortality    The Raw Food World

Favorite Raw Vegan Community Site // // Elements for Life Gift Package!   Give It To Me Raw

Favorite Raw Vegan Business Opportunity // Borosilicate Glass straw set from Rawmaste. Each set includes a Smoothie Straw, a Mate’ Tea Straw, a pouch and a cleaning brush.   Chef Belive’s Meetups

Favorite Raw Vegan Athlete // Raw Family Jawercizer and latest books    Woody Harrelson

Best of Raw Award Winners 2009!...

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TODAY! DECEMBER 31 4:30-5  PM PST

BEST OF RAW WINNERS AND VOTER PRIZE DRAWING :: www.visionarycultureradio.com or listen live at 646-649-1957

Laura Fox will interview and celebrate with first place winners Dan “The Man” McDonald, Matt Monarch + Angela Stokes, Kevin + Annamarie Gianni, Brian “Belive” Lucas, and Rebecca Carlson of Purely Delicious Magazine

The Best of Raw Awards Celebration at Euphoria Loves Rawvolution last night was awesome! Thanks so much to everyone who came out!

Eternal gratitude to Janabai, Matt and Zat of Euphoria Loves Rawvolution for hosting the event; to Ranjit and Dean of DSILive.net for coming out and live-streaming video technology at the party (soon to be archived); to Essential Living Foods and Euphoria Loves Rawvolution for providing ingredients for delectable raw treats; to Nomi Shannon for helping me with the Awards; to Erich Lenk for all your help and performing; for the Kirtaniyas, J Brave Luminous, Alejandro and Cindy Israels  for their awesome musical  performance; to Aurora Danai for her beautiful makeup artistry and awards announcements; to all the people who showed up to help; to all the servers at Rawvolution Cafe; to the 517 people who nominated and the 6,728 people who voted; and especially to ALL THE SPONSORS OF BEST OF RAW 2009 for making this publicly nominated celebration possible!

There are three links  for all the awards. To view more than the top 6, click the VIEW button on each page.

AWARDS 1

AWARDS 2

AWARDS 3

To LISTEN to awards announcement show, go to www.visionarycultureradio.com

To WATCH archives of DSILive.net’s video recording, check back as the video will be uploaded soon.

3 Ways To Hear Awards Announcements Wed ...

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WEDNESDAY, DEC 30 :: BEST OF RAW AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENTS + CELEBRATION!

LIVE from Euphoria Loves Rawvolution Restaurant

2301 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA (310) 392-9501

7 PM to 8 PM :: VISIONARY CULTURE RADIO LIVE BROADCAST  featuring 28 CATEGORY WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENTS

TO LISTEN FROM YOUR LOCATION :: CLICK HERE // Live + Archived

8 PM to 9 PM :: LIVE STREAMING VIDEO // Provided by our sponsor www.DSILive.net

TO VIEW FROM YOUR LOCATION :: CLICK HERE

“Sponsored by DSILive, the best place for broadcasting and watching LIVE streaming videos from around the world.  A Division of Digital Stream, Inc.  Connecting communities at the Speed of Light”

This year at Best of Raw has been a huge success! I am so grateful for everyone for participating, and so grateful for everyone’s patience as the voting and nominating systems get refined each year. Due to this years success with nearly 7000 voters sharing their votes for their favorite people, products, websites and companies in the raw vegan foods movement! VOTING CLOSES AT MIDNIGHT TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29~1

I appreciate everyone’s patience as we smoothed out some technical difficulties. Special note :: Internet Explorer is not a good browser to use for this voting process. Choose a different browser to vote if you are having trouble. Thank you. Again, I will be consulting with the community to make refinements for next year.

Voting Complete~Announcements Tonite!...

Aloha Raw Enthusiasts!

THE VOTES ARE IN! JOIN US ON VISIONARY CULTURE RADIO FROM 7-8 pm PST and/or WATCH THE AWARDS CEREMONY IN LIVE STREAMING VIDEO FROM 8pm PST to 9pm PST! Special thanks to DSILIVE.NET!

At Best of Raw, we want to celebrate ALL people who are teaching others to add more fresh, raw, organic fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds to their diets, helping the raw vegan + beegan movement become more powerful, fun, healthful and joyful.

Thousands of people are on the leading edge of this powerful culture of RAW living, which is life promoting, life enhancing and life sustaining.  Many experience the healing itself through adding more raw foods to the diet while eliminating the worst foods of our culture.

The BEST OF RAW philosophy is to have fun while encouraging the energy of playful coopetition — cooperation plus competition. We truly wish to celebrate all leaders and to have some fun with an engaging community activity designed to be delightful and promote the raw vegan lifestyle.

The GORGEOUS Raw Vegan Lasagna pictured above was created by owner and chef Cynthia Beavers of Pure Raw Cafe www.purerawcafe.com. Thanks Cynthia!

SPECIAL THANKS TO BEST OF RAW SPONSORS!

About Best of Raw 2008...

Last year, Laura Fox of Raw Inspirations Radio and Visionary Culture and Giselle Tarres came up with the idea for Best of Raw, a fun contest to celebrate the leaders of the raw foods movment. Dhrumil of Give It To Me Raw, Steve Prussack of Raw Vegan Radio, Revvell of Rawkin’ Radio, Eric Csoka of Quest.tv, and Paul Mamakos of The Raw Games helped out as media sponsors for BoR2008.

This fun community activity was designed to inspire and call attention to the many fabulous beings who are sharing the Raw Vegan Love around the planet! 296 community members nominated hundreds of raw vegan leaders in 14 categories! 2,510 people voted for over 100 nominees!

You can see the winners in the right sidebar and the first place winners in the collage.

We are sending light and love to EVERYONE in the Raw Vegan Movement, knowing that we are all truly winners! And we are celebrating those who have truly excelled this year. Many blessings and CONGRATULATIONS to our 2008 Prize Winners! Special thanks to everyone who donated a prize in 2008, and thanks to everyone for your part in the raw vegan movement, and for participating!