Students of East Lyme High School’s art, culinary, and graphic design departments invite the public to the second Empty Bowls Project Fundraiser to benefit Care & Share of East Lyme, March 22nd from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the East Lyme High School Commons. Bowls created by art students will be for sale and a selection of soups prepared by culinary students will be served. The price of admission is $10 for adults and $6 for children, and includes both the meal and bowl. Guests are also asked to bring a non-perishable food item to donate to Care & Share’s food pantry.

The Empty Bowls Project is a nationwide venture of the Imagine/Render Group, a non-profit organization that promotes the use of the arts and education to enact positive and lasting social change. The project is called “Empty Bowls” because the bowl is a reminder that someone’s bowl is always empty, and giving to a local food pantry can help end hunger in a community. The students at East Lyme High School look forward to helping Care & Share while also promoting hunger awareness and charity.

Entertainment will be provided by students, and includes the High School’s all female a capella group Sweet Harmony, guitarist/vocalist Noah Feldman, and local rock band Hands Down. In addition, professional potter David Turano of Small Axe productions (Westerly, RI) will demonstrate pottery wheel throwing. Turano and fellow potter Guy Wolff have also donated some of their own pieces for a silent auction.

Last year’s Empty Bowl Project served more than 400 guests with all of the pottery selling within 90 minutes— raising more than $4,000 for Care & Share. An all volunteer organization, Care & Share is a non-profit that provides emergency food delivery and financial aid, holiday food baskets and gifts, winter outerwear and linens, scholarships and camperships to residents of East Lyme and Salem.

For more information about the Empty Bowls Project, see “empty bowls east lyme” on Facebook. For more information on Care & Share, visit www.careandshareofel.org or call 860-739-8502.