Tickets for the 11th annual Talbot County Empty Bowls community dinner, scheduled for Sunday, February 24, 2019, are now on sale. The first seating at 5:00 pm sold out quickly. Tickets are still available for the second seating at 6:30pm. The dinner will be held at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Easton.
A ticket to the Talbot County Empty Bowls dinner is $20, which includes soup made by local restaurants and volunteer “soupers.” Bread and cookies round out the menu. Diners take home the hand-painted bowl in which their soup is served as a reminder that someone else’s bowl is often empty.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.talbotcountyemptybowls.org (a credit card processing fee is charged) or by sending a check to Mid-Shore Community Foundation, 102 E. Dover Street, Easton, MD 21601. Make checks payable to “MSCF – Empty Bowls” and include your phone number and email address.
Thanks to the generosity of volunteers and sponsors, every penny raised from dinner ticket sales and donations is given to food pantries and other organizations committed to serving the hungry in Talbot County. The beneficiaries of the 2019 Talbot County Empty Bowls fundraising initiatives are: Asbury Methodist Church, Easton; Care Packs, Easton; Christ Church St. Michaels Food Pantry; Harvest of Hope Food Pantry, Easton; Neighborhood Service Center, Easton; Presbyterian Church, Easton; St. Vincent de Paul Society, Easton; Scotts United Methodist Church, Trappe; Tilghman Island Food Pantry; and Union United Methodist Church, St. Michaels.
A collection of bowls in which soup is served at the community dinner are made by local potters and high school art students. The majority of the bowls are painted by Empty Bowls supporters at Kiln Born Creations located at 1 S. Washington Street in Easton. The studio fee for bowls painted for Empty Bowls is $15 plus tax. For no additional charge Kiln Born also provides “To Go” boxes filled with unpainted bowls and a selection of paint colors for groups that want to host a bowl painting party at another location.
Bowls painted through Kiln Born are donated for the Empty Bowls dinner along with a portion of the studio fee. The last day to paint bowls for the 2019 Talbot County Empty Bowls dinner is February 14. Call Kiln Born at 410-770-9091 or visit kilnborncreations.com for more information.
“Many of the Empty Bowls community dinner guests have been attending this event for years,” says Anna Harding, the founder of Talbot County Empty Bowls. “Anyone who has an abundance of bowls from past Empty Bowls dinners can bring their surplus bowls to the dinner on February 24. We will recycle these bowls by giving them to people who attend the Community Resource Fair hosted by the Talbot County Hunger Coalition in April.”
Donations to Talbot County Empty Bowls are accepted year round through the Mid-Shore Community Foundation. Make credit card payments atwww.mscf.org. (Specify Talbot County Empty Bowls as the fund under “Additional Information.”) Mail checks payable to Talbot County Empty Bowls to Mid-Shore Community Foundation, 102 E. Dover Street, Easton, MD 21601.
Visit www.TalbotCountyEmptyBowls.org and like Talbot County Empty Bowls on Facebook to learn more about how to participate in ending hunger in Talbot County.
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