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Empty Bowls Project to benefit homeless shelter
Oct 14, 2004 8:00 AM
By Tannika King - Faculty
A community collaboration between potters, storytellers, restaurants, Garner and Glover Insurance and Rome Area Council for the Arts will sponsor the Empty Bowls Project Thursday, Nov. 9, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. to benefit the new William S. Davies Women’s Homeless Shelter. The event will be held at the Rome Civic Center on Jackson Hill, and tickets are $15, which includes a meal and a handmade ceramic bowl.
The basic idea for Empty Bowls is simple, according to Allen Bell, executive director of RACA. “Participating potters create ceramic bowls, then serve a simple meal of soup and bread. Guests choose a bowl to use for the meal and to keep as a reminder that there are always Empty Bowls in the world,” he said. “The local Empty Bowls Project last year raised more than $4,500 for the William S. Davies Homeless Shelter in its first year of operation.”
All food has been donated by local restaurants: The Brick Oven Bistro, Coosa Country Club, Harvest Moon Café, Jefferson’s, Schroeder’s New Deli, The Partridge, Victorian Rose Tearoom and Café, Zuppa and others.
Participating potters from throughout northwest Georgia include: Darrell Adams, Gene Billian, Kristie Dixon, Tesa DuPré, Val Featherston and students at St. Mary’s School, Steve Frazier and students at Shorter College, Jeri Jankovsky, John Johnston, Mark Issenberg, Jere Lykins and students at Berry College, Fran Myers, Palma Rhodes, Jan Cordle, Micah Cain, Ian Childers, Amelia Boyd, Conne Saunders, Chris Bauman, Stacy Stanhope, David Hill, Sheena Williams and others.
Empty Bowls originated in 1990 when a high school art teacher in Michigan came up with a class project to make ceramic bowls for a fundraising meal to support a local food drive. The following year, the concept was developed into Empty Bowls, and a project to provide support for food banks, soup kitchens and other organizations that fight hunger. Since then, these events have been held throughout the world, and millions of dollars have been raised to combat hunger.
The Empty Bowls Project founders can be reached by telephone at 248.628.4842 or by e-mail at imagineren@aol.com, or click here.
Tickets for the Nov. 9 event are available at RACA and Harvest Moon Café. For more information, call RACA at 706.295.ARTS.
The basic idea for Empty Bowls is simple, according to Allen Bell, executive director of RACA. “Participating potters create ceramic bowls, then serve a simple meal of soup and bread. Guests choose a bowl to use for the meal and to keep as a reminder that there are always Empty Bowls in the world,” he said. “The local Empty Bowls Project last year raised more than $4,500 for the William S. Davies Homeless Shelter in its first year of operation.”
All food has been donated by local restaurants: The Brick Oven Bistro, Coosa Country Club, Harvest Moon Café, Jefferson’s, Schroeder’s New Deli, The Partridge, Victorian Rose Tearoom and Café, Zuppa and others.
Participating potters from throughout northwest Georgia include: Darrell Adams, Gene Billian, Kristie Dixon, Tesa DuPré, Val Featherston and students at St. Mary’s School, Steve Frazier and students at Shorter College, Jeri Jankovsky, John Johnston, Mark Issenberg, Jere Lykins and students at Berry College, Fran Myers, Palma Rhodes, Jan Cordle, Micah Cain, Ian Childers, Amelia Boyd, Conne Saunders, Chris Bauman, Stacy Stanhope, David Hill, Sheena Williams and others.
Empty Bowls originated in 1990 when a high school art teacher in Michigan came up with a class project to make ceramic bowls for a fundraising meal to support a local food drive. The following year, the concept was developed into Empty Bowls, and a project to provide support for food banks, soup kitchens and other organizations that fight hunger. Since then, these events have been held throughout the world, and millions of dollars have been raised to combat hunger.
The Empty Bowls Project founders can be reached by telephone at 248.628.4842 or by e-mail at imagineren@aol.com, or click here.
Tickets for the Nov. 9 event are available at RACA and Harvest Moon Café. For more information, call RACA at 706.295.ARTS.
