EMPTY BOWLS? WHAT IS THAT?

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January 3, 2020

THE EMPTY BOWLS CONCEPT

Empty Bowls is an international grassroots effort to fight hunger and was created by the Imagine Render Group, a non-profit organization.  The basic premise is simple:  Potters and other craftspeople, educators, and others work with the community to create handcrafted bowls.  Guests are invited to a simple meal of soup and bread.  In exchange for cash donations, guests are asked to keep a bowl as a reminder of all the empty bowls in the world. The money is raised to be donated to an organization working to end hunger and food insecurity.  Excerpted from the Empty Bowls Project, http://www.emptybowls.net/

EMPTY BOWLS IN CEDAR KEY

In Cedar Key, that organization “working to end hunger and food insecurity” is the Cedar Key Food Pantry. Now the Pantry is administered by Sue Colson and formerly by Donna Beach, Jeri Treat, and staff, and before that, by Bill DeLaino and his wife.

EMPTY BOWLS INITIATOR

The person crafting the bowls is Cedar Key’s own potter Amy Gernhardt.  She has done so for as many years and donates all the material, which results in beautiful bowls, and the time and energy it takes to form, hire, and glaze them. Without Amy, no Empty Bowls event would not have taken place in Cedar Key. She says it is her way of giving back to the community.

Gernhardt, an artist herself, and husband Henry, make fine art and functional pottery at their pottery and greenhouse at 13951 SW 77th Place, just five miles outside of Cedar Key FL off County Road 347.  For more information, click here: http://cedarkey.org/business/cedar-key-pottery/

EMTY BOWLS COOKS

The providers of the soup and the bread that fill your empty bowl s and plates are volunteers in the Cedar Key area. They bake the bread or create the soup that they enjoy and share it with those coming to the Empty Bowls event.  They donate all ingredients and, of cures, their time and energy.

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