For the past 14 years, hundreds of Tempe-area elementary and high school area students, as well as local artists have created clay bowls and other pottery to help raise money for the hungry in our community as part of the Tempe Empty Bowls program.
At the event, a $10 purchase of a hand-made bowl helps fight hunger in our Tempe community. As part of the $10 cost, Whole Foods Market Tempe will offer a simple meal of soup and bread, symbolic of the caloric intake that must sustain many in our community for an entire day.
The 2016 Tempe Empty Bowls will be held two days from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
* Friday, Feb. 26 at Sixth Street Park (east of Mill Avenue, south of Tempe City Hall )
* Saturday, Feb. 27, 3500 S. Rural Rd. (in the courtyard between Tempe Public Library, Tempe History Museum and Vihel Center buildings on the southwest corner of Rural Road and Southern Ave.)
Hand-crafted bowls, planter pots, mugs, necklaces, platters and vases, made by potters at the City of Tempe Ceramics Program, local artists, and children ranging from elementary to high school students, will be available for purchase. In addition, several local artists will be creating 50 large-scale bowls, selling for $50 each, in commemoration of TCAA’s 50th Anniversary in 2016.
Whole Foods has donated the soup for the past 15 years.
Proceeds benefit Tempe Community Action Agency, www.tempeaction.org, the Escalante Community Garden, and United Food Bank’s Kid’s Café program, www.unitedfoodbank.org. Last year more than $14,000 was raised. Since the event started, more than $165,000 has been raised to feed the hungry in our community.