Carson City Empty Bowls hunger awareness campaign seeks materials for 2016 project
Submitted by editor on Mon, 02/29/2016 - 5:01pm
As we are starting another year of Empty Bowls in Carson City, we wanted to take a minute and ask for help ... early on.
We are currently collecting bisquited, unglazed and undecorated handmade bowls. We are also seeking cone 6 white clay, kiln firings and other materials.
Our first event is in a few months, and we'll be bringing bowls to be painted on with underglazes, so we could use any of the above. If you would like to help sponsor our need for materials, your donation would be quite lovely (as well as tax deductible!).
Potters please make us some bowls!! If every potter in the area donated just 15 bowls, we would be well on our way to a goal of a thousand bowls. All proceeds go to an organization that feeds the hungry while also raising hunger awareness. Please contact us for more information. Thank you so much for helping us raise hunger awareness!
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Empty Bowls is an international grassroots effort to fight hunger and was created by The Imagine Render Group.
The basic premise is simple: Potters and other craftspeople, educators and others work with the community to create handcrafted bowls. Guests are invited to a simple meal of soup and bread. In exchange for a cash donation, guests are asked to keep a bowl as a reminder of all the empty bowls in the world. The money raised is donated to an organization working to end hunger and food insecurity.
It is the collective genius of all the people involved that has made Empty Bowls what it has become. Events have now taken place across the United States and in at least a dozen other countries. Many millions of dollars have been raised and donated to hunger-fighting organizations. We could never have imagined all the things people have done or all the ways the project has touched people.
After chairing Empty Bowls in Manchester, New Hampshire for four years, Robin McGregor moved to Carson City, wanting to help out here and establish her new business, Carson City Pottery. In 2013 she brought the idea to Jim Peckham of FISH and with the help of her friends and students was able to start the Empty Bowls Carson City Project!
In December, 2013, for the first time in Carson City, the community gathered at the Capital Tree Lighting Ceremony and collected donations for hundreds of beautiful hand-made bowls. The bowls were created throughout the year by local artists for the event. Several local restaurants donated soup to fill the bowls that patrons were to keep as a reminder that there are empty bowls in our community.
The project has continued since 2013 and has grown into a popular community wide holiday event.
The largest hunger-relief organization in the United States, Feeding America, reports that the nation’s food banks could soon be overwhelmed by demand. Statistics show that 1 out of 8 Americans struggle with food insecurity every day. Millions of people have lost their jobs during the most recent recession and the number of food stamp recipients has increased dramatically. Your help is needed now more than ever.
Please find the time, make the commitment, get involved. Your single effort can have a profound impact.
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