Join your fellow craftspeople and artists in creating and donating bowls of all sorts for Empty Bowls 2008. Empty Bowls is a grassroots effort by artists and craftspeople in cities and towns across the country to feed the hungry in their communities. Tickets can be purchased for $25 each. The event includes a simple soup lunch with all the fixings, as well as, live music. Plus, you are able to choose you very own, one of a kind, bowl to commemorate your Empty Bowls donation. All proceeds will benefit the Houston Food Bank. Join us in fighting hunger in Houston. Hundreds of local artists and craftspeople contributed to Empty Bowls 2007. The first three years of this event has raised more than $85,000 to help feed the hungry in Houston and neighboring counties and communities. Their goal is set at $50,000. Empty Bowls 2008 will be held May 17, 2008 at two neighboring facilities: the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft at 4848 Main Street, and the Lawndale Art Center at 4912 Main Street. Bowls can be created by ceramists, wood turners, glassblowers, fiber artists, metal smiths, painters, sculptors, and artists and craftspeople of all kinds! For further information, please contact any of the individuals listed below: Co-Chair Lotus Witt 832-675-6419 claygirl_bemudez@yahoo.com Co-Chair Tom Perry 713-660-9488 tomperry56@aol.com Celebrity Bowls Marie Weichman 713-869-2551 marieweichman@sbcglobal.net Volunteers Kathy Blossom 936-582-2611 clayblossom@yahoo.com Live Music Gina Miller 713-858-8883 gina.r.miller.@gmail.com Publicity Paula Murphy 713-520-7111 mryburn@houstonfoodbank.org