Empty Bowls Returns to UNC

by Emory Nager

The Campus Y Committee Tar Heel TABLE has its focus on fighting food insecurity in the local Chapel Hill/Carrboro community. Tar Heel TABLE works closely with the local organization TABLE NC, which helps provide local hungry children with food. TABLE is holding an event at Weaver Street Market this coming Sunday, October 16 from 3:30-7:00 called Empty Bowls. This is the 4th year it has been held.

Empty Bowls is an international non-profit created to fight hunger, managed by the larger charitable organization IMAGINE. Empty Bowls consists of artists and art organizations who try to bring awareness of the hunger issue to a local community level. The event involves artists crafting bowls in the style of the locale, and then having a simple meal served in them. The event draws in all sorts of artists, such as wood turners, glassblowers, fiber artists, metal smiths, painters, sculptors, and more. This also brings recognition to the art scene of Chapel Hill.

Anyone is invited to purchase a ticket and attend the event. Those who attend the event will receive a meal, their own individual bowls (with an additional fee), which they get to keep after the event to remind them of all of those still hungry in the world. Participants are suggested to give a donation for their meal, which is given TABLE so that it can continue to fight food insecurity.

Soup, sandwiches, and dessert will also be for sale, along with hors d'oeuvres and wine from Provence. A live band along with a raffle with prizes such local pottery items are also going to be present.

For more information, please go to: https://www.tablenc.org/empty-bowls/

We hope to see you there!