On Saturday, Bean’s Café is hosting the George Hieronymus Empty Bowl Project at the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Bean’s Café is wrapping up final preparation work leading into its signature fundraising event of the year. On Saturday, Bean’s Café is hosting the George Hieronymus Empty Bowl Project at the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center.
director of development and community relations at Bean’s Café. “The Empty Bowl Project is a community gathering. It has a shared purpose to raise awareness and funds for those who don’t always know where their next meal may be coming from.” Matheson said the nonprofit has seen an increased need in the past year because of a combination of programs losing funding and people displaced by In the past, she said Bean’s Café would pass out around 30,000 meals a month. Now, the nonprofit is passing out around 40,000 meals monthly. “We are seeing the increased needs at the shelters, the adults that stay at the shelter. We provide meals at Brother Francis Shelter and Claire House,” Matheson said.The event kicks off Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. During the event, guests can have unlimited soup. This year, Bean’s Café is providing six soups. The event will also feature around 1,000 one-of-a-kind ceramic or wood bowls that artists have made for the event — guests can take them home for an additional price. For $45, attendees can purchase a bowl and have unlimited soup. This year, bowls were made by artists at West High School, Eagle River High School, East High School, Turnagain Ceramics, Alaska Woodturners, the Alaska Clay Arts Guild and Rabbit Creek Studios. “They’re all beautiful and all very unique, just like all the people who come to the event. And some are very exquisite. Some are very simple, just like all of our personalities,” Matheson said. “Everyone likes a different bowl.” Ticket prices vary for the event. Children 10 and younger are free. Youth ages 10 to 17 are $10. General admission is $25. All attendees can choose any of the six soups and have unlimited refills. Tickets can be purchased at the door or ‘Every fiber of me wishes I could change it all’: Veteran musher posts tribute to dog who died during IditarodTwo killed in ‘confined space’ aboard tug boat near Ketchikan, Coast Guard reportsAnchorage doctor, 73, returns to Boston Marathon to honor family lost to cancerAnchorage police investigating ‘suspicious’ death in Muldoon neighborhood
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