April 28, 2019, Sunday - 6th Annual Empty Bowls NE - Minneapolis!

Time: 11a - 6p

6th Annual Empty Bowls NE - Minneapolis!

***Suggested Donation: $20 (includes handmade ceramic bowl + all you can eat soup from amazing local restaurants...no one turned away!)***

"Empty Bowls," an international grassroots effort to address hunger, is coming again to the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District for its 6th year and back where it all began at East Side Neighborhood Services!

ABOUT EMPTY BOWLS NE

Its concept is simple: Empty Bowls NE - Minneapolis asks local potters - who have teamed up with Thomas Edison High School art students - to provide handcrafted ceramic bowls and asks amazing local restaurants to provide delicious soup; guests of the event pay whatever they can and keep the bowl itself as an excellent reminder of the empty bowls in the world and in our own community.

Empty Bowls NE is a 100% volunteer-driven effort and 100% of all proceeds raised go towards three terrific NE Minneapolis hunger causes: The Sheridan Story (kids), Helping Hand Food Pantry (adults), and East Side Neighborhood Services' Senior Food Shelf (seniors), serving a spectrum of generations within our NE Minneapolis community. Last year, Empty Bowls NE raised over to $18,000 for these local hunger causes. This year's goal is to raise over $20,000.

Similar projects have been held for years in nearby communities: St Catherine's University, Columbia Heights, Hopkins, Rogers, Northfield, Plymouth, Maple Grove, New Prague, and Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis.

Empty Bowls NE has secured over 500 handmade ceramic bowls. Many Northeast potters have been Empty Bowls participants in surrounding areas, but until recent years had no means to join the effort in their own community. Expanding on that community spirit, Empty Bowls NE has again partnered with Edison High School's Fine Arts department to both produce pottery and provide students exposure for their work and experience interacting with prominent local artisans.

This year's Empty Bowls NE will again feature a "Pottery Lottery" where the community can purchase raffle tickets for original artwork and ceramics donated by local artists. The proceeds from this raffle will be donated directly to Edison High School's Fine Arts department to support their Arts programming.

100% of the funds are distributed to Sheridan Story, Helping Hand Food Pantry (https://helpinghandfoodpantry.webs.com), and East Side Neighborhood Services Senior Food Programs.