Craft Center sponsors charity dinner, auction
Erin Mershon
Issue date: 9/25/08 Section: Features
Empty Bowls, a project sponsored by the Kenyon Craft Center to raise funds and awareness to support the hungry, will host a campus and community-wide workshop this Saturday, Sept. 27, in order to make ceramic bowls to auction at the Nov. 7 Empty Bowls soup supper. All are welcome to attend the pottery-throwing workshop free of charge and no experience is necessary.
The soup supper includes an auction of these homemade bowls, all the proceeds of which go to raise money for a local Mount Vernon charity that supports the hungry. Though AVI has catering rights, the organization hopes to receive, as last year, donations of food from the community. The Nov. 7 dinner will be held in a private dining room in Lower Dempsey in Peirce Hall, and bowls will have a suggested donation price of $8.
For the first time this year, the Empty Bowls dinner will be held in collaboration with the Kenyon Review's Writers' Harvest, a local charitable event that has also raised money for the hungry, specifically Interchurch and the Salvation Army. "I think it's a wonderful progression to incorporate other forms of art like writing and poetry into the event," Audrey Bebensee '10 said. "The [Writers' Harvest and Empty Bowls auction] both look at raising awareness of art and its role in the community by using the art we create as an incentive to help those who are less fortunate." The Writers' Harvest will follow the dinner and include readings and desserts.
Many bowls will be made by beginners, though others will be donated by skilled craftsmen. All will be glazed, and the average time involved in creating each bowl varies between an hour and an hour and a half. The bowls vary in size between four and 11 inches in diametere. Last year's Parish House event saw the auctioning of more than 120 hand-crafted bowls.
In further collaboration, the Craft Center and the Kenyon Review plan to jointly sponsor a contest for quotations to put onto ten special bowls for the auction. Further details will be available through e-mail or from the Craft Center.
The soup supper includes an auction of these homemade bowls, all the proceeds of which go to raise money for a local Mount Vernon charity that supports the hungry. Though AVI has catering rights, the organization hopes to receive, as last year, donations of food from the community. The Nov. 7 dinner will be held in a private dining room in Lower Dempsey in Peirce Hall, and bowls will have a suggested donation price of $8.
For the first time this year, the Empty Bowls dinner will be held in collaboration with the Kenyon Review's Writers' Harvest, a local charitable event that has also raised money for the hungry, specifically Interchurch and the Salvation Army. "I think it's a wonderful progression to incorporate other forms of art like writing and poetry into the event," Audrey Bebensee '10 said. "The [Writers' Harvest and Empty Bowls auction] both look at raising awareness of art and its role in the community by using the art we create as an incentive to help those who are less fortunate." The Writers' Harvest will follow the dinner and include readings and desserts.
Many bowls will be made by beginners, though others will be donated by skilled craftsmen. All will be glazed, and the average time involved in creating each bowl varies between an hour and an hour and a half. The bowls vary in size between four and 11 inches in diametere. Last year's Parish House event saw the auctioning of more than 120 hand-crafted bowls.
In further collaboration, the Craft Center and the Kenyon Review plan to jointly sponsor a contest for quotations to put onto ten special bowls for the auction. Further details will be available through e-mail or from the Craft Center.
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posted 2/04/10 @ 8:35 AM EST
I must admit, great news. Thanks!
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