Empty Bowls & Baskets Dinner Thursday
The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford will hold the sixth annual Empty Bowls and Baskets Dinner of homemade soup and bread to raise awareness of the fight against hunger and to raise money for the Friendship Table.
The dinner will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 17, in the Mukaiyama University Room of the Frame-Westerberg Commons. Tickets are $10 and will be sold at the door. Diners are invited to take home a hand-painted ceramic bowl, handcrafted basket or hand-sewn cloth napkins as a reminder that someone else’s bowl might be empty. To date, close to $7,000 has been raised to benefit the Friendship Table.
Dr. Holly J. Spittler, associate dean of student affairs and director of career services, and chairwoman of the event said the event is a community-wide effort.
Pitt-Bradford faculty and staff, members of the Alpha Phi Omega Service fraternity and other volunteers wove baskets or painted ceramic bowls. Art Club students at Fretz Middle School and at the Bradford High School participated by making coil and pinch bowls. The Student Art Club at Pitt-Bradford made bowls for the event in the ceramic studio, and the American Association of University Women spent a Saturday morning sewing the fabric napkins.
Third grade students from School Street Elementary, St. Bernard Elementary School, as well as third- and fourth-graders from The Learning Center and the Bradford Area Christian Academy decorated placemats as part of a lesson about hunger. Pitt-Bradford faculty, staff and community volunteers are making the soups and cookies.
The Empty Bowls Dinner was initiated in 1990 when a Michigan high school art teacher and his students sponsored the first dinner served in handmade bowls to benefit the cause. By the following year, the originators had developed the concept into Empty Bowls, a project to provide support for food banks, soup kitchens and other organizations that fight hunger. Since then, Empty Bowls events have been held throughout the world, and millions of dollars have been raised to combat hunger. For more information on the originators of the event, go to: www.emptybowls.net.
Other groups and individuals who contributed to the event are The Bradford Club, Diana’s Ceramic Heaven, Cindy Cavallero, Metz and Associates, Miss Maggies, Cindy Nowacki, Pitt-Bradford’s Alpha Phi Omega Service Fraternity, Community Engagement Office, Division of Communication and the Arts and the Art Department, Division of Management and Education, Non-Traditional Student Association, Staff Association, Office of Student Affairs and the Student Art Club, and Tops Friendly Markets, Wal-Mart and WESB-1490 AM. This event is part of the Women’s History Month celebration.
We'll be talking about the Empty Bowls & Baskets Dinner, and The Friendship Table, on Tuesday's LiveLine on 1490 WESB and online at WESB.com.
The dinner will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 17, in the Mukaiyama University Room of the Frame-Westerberg Commons. Tickets are $10 and will be sold at the door. Diners are invited to take home a hand-painted ceramic bowl, handcrafted basket or hand-sewn cloth napkins as a reminder that someone else’s bowl might be empty. To date, close to $7,000 has been raised to benefit the Friendship Table.
Dr. Holly J. Spittler, associate dean of student affairs and director of career services, and chairwoman of the event said the event is a community-wide effort.
Pitt-Bradford faculty and staff, members of the Alpha Phi Omega Service fraternity and other volunteers wove baskets or painted ceramic bowls. Art Club students at Fretz Middle School and at the Bradford High School participated by making coil and pinch bowls. The Student Art Club at Pitt-Bradford made bowls for the event in the ceramic studio, and the American Association of University Women spent a Saturday morning sewing the fabric napkins.
Third grade students from School Street Elementary, St. Bernard Elementary School, as well as third- and fourth-graders from The Learning Center and the Bradford Area Christian Academy decorated placemats as part of a lesson about hunger. Pitt-Bradford faculty, staff and community volunteers are making the soups and cookies.
The Empty Bowls Dinner was initiated in 1990 when a Michigan high school art teacher and his students sponsored the first dinner served in handmade bowls to benefit the cause. By the following year, the originators had developed the concept into Empty Bowls, a project to provide support for food banks, soup kitchens and other organizations that fight hunger. Since then, Empty Bowls events have been held throughout the world, and millions of dollars have been raised to combat hunger. For more information on the originators of the event, go to: www.emptybowls.net.
Other groups and individuals who contributed to the event are The Bradford Club, Diana’s Ceramic Heaven, Cindy Cavallero, Metz and Associates, Miss Maggies, Cindy Nowacki, Pitt-Bradford’s Alpha Phi Omega Service Fraternity, Community Engagement Office, Division of Communication and the Arts and the Art Department, Division of Management and Education, Non-Traditional Student Association, Staff Association, Office of Student Affairs and the Student Art Club, and Tops Friendly Markets, Wal-Mart and WESB-1490 AM. This event is part of the Women’s History Month celebration.
We'll be talking about the Empty Bowls & Baskets Dinner, and The Friendship Table, on Tuesday's LiveLine on 1490 WESB and online at WESB.com.
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