Tacoma, Wash. – Charles Wright Academy is hosting the Emergency Food Network’s Empty Bowls event on Saturday, Nov. 21, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. More than 500 people attend every year; the event is free and open to the South Puget Sound community.
More than 1,200 bowls have been donated to this event—many created by Upper School ceramics students—and will be available for purchase (starting at $10 a bowl) as a fund-raiser for Pierce County’s major resource for food banks, hot meal sites, and shelters serving low-income families and individuals.
Once guests purchase a bowl, they will be served (in a different bowl) soup donated by local chefs. “It is humbling to remember that in spite of all the progress and change humanity has experienced over the millennia, we all still need at least one common thing regardless of culture, class, and even time—a bowl of food,” says CWA Chaplain Mike Moffitt.
More than 1.4 million visits were made to Pierce County food banks in 2014, and Emergency Food Network provides more than 15 million pounds of food every year. EFN distributes $12 worth of food for every dollar received. “It is very fulfilling to have the opportunity to use these skills for such a good cause,” says Nick Bivins, an Upper School visual arts teacher who led 20 ceramics students in the making of bowls for this year’s event. “I hope that through completing the cycle, from making to delivering the work, our students will see that they can make a positive impact on someone else’s life.”
Empty Bowls will take place in the Lower and Middle School Commons and hallways. For more information about EFN’s services, please visit their website here.
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