Empty Bowls Fundraiser
Designed as a way to raise awareness of hunger globally, and feed the local hungry, Empty Bowls is in its fourth year. Local artists, teachers and students have combined forces with local restauranteurs to create this event first conceived by the Art Education and Design Department at Buffalo State College.
Here's how it works: Individuals purchase one of 1,000 bowls made by local students throughout the community ($5 to $10) and receive a meal in return. The proceeds from the sale then go to the Food Bank of Western New York and Friends of Night People. Last year's event netted $5,000.
The festive gathering will also feature live music and fun activities. A documentary about Empty Bowls with Buffalo Schools Visual and Performing Arts high school film students will also have its first showing at the event.
Special Empty Bowls lesson plans were created by students in the college’s Art Education Department and distributed to teachers throughout Western New York to reinforce the fight for hunger in students' minds as well as the importance of community service. This year, over 45 area schools, 35 artists and several restaurants are engaged in the program.
The Buffalo Niagara Association of Realtors along with One Western Region of The New York State Art Teachers Association (NYSATA), and the Buffalo State Art Education Department’s Student Chapter of NYSATA are co-sponsors. For more information, contact Laura Minor (716) 969-4603 or John Siskar (716) 878-3610.
You get lunch, get to keep a handmade bowl, and your money feeds another. Look for a slideshow in the next few days of this year's bowls including a discussion with Buff State's Dr. John Siskar.
May 20 Noon to 5 Buffalo State’s Rockwell Hall
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metalpeter
It sounds like a good idea and a good way to give to charity, I hope it is verry successfull.
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