Tempe Empty Bowls is a 2-day hunger awareness fundraiser that benefits Tempe Community Action Agency, www.tempeaction.org, and United Food Bank www.unitedfoodbank.org.
Hand-crafted bowls, planter pots, mugs, necklaces, platters and vases, made by potters at the City of Tempe Ceramics Program, local artists, and children ranging from elementary to high school students, will be available for purchase.
Tempe Empty Bowls has 19 Tempe-area elementary and middle schools, five Tempe Union high schools, and local artists creating clay bowls and other pottery to help raise money for the organizations that help hungry people in Tempe.
The 2020 Tempe Empty Bowls will be held two days from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Friday, February 28 at 6th Street Park (just south of City Hall in Downtown Tempe), and Saturday, February 29 in the Community Center Courtyard, 3500 S. Rural Rd., between Tempe Public Library and Vihel Center buildings on the southwest corner of Rural and Southern.
At the free event, $10 purchases a bowl and a simple meal of soup and bread, symbolic of the caloric intake that must sustain many in our community for an entire day.
Hand-crafted bowls, planter pots, mugs, necklaces, platters and vases, made by potters at the City of Tempe Ceramics Program, local artists, and children ranging from elementary to high school students, will be available for purchase.
Proceeds from the two-day event benefit Tempe Community Action Agency, www.tempeaction.org, and United Food Bank www.unitedfoodbank.org.
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