2008 Woodie Awards
Students fill empty bowls to stop hunger
By Dara Salley
Rocket Assistant Life/A&E Editor
Issue date: 10/7/05 Section: Life
The ceramics studio will host all Night Bowl'ing, an event where students will have the opportunity to watch professional ceramic making, listen to eight different bands and create their own works of art.
In preparation for the 10th annual Empty Bowls Dinner, the ceramics shop will be open from 8 p.m. until 2 a.m. on Friday night. Several local artists including Junkyard Eddy will attend to demonstrate the art of throwing.
"The potters are going to be alumni, former SRU students and some of the most accomplished artists in the area," ceramics professor Richard Wukich said. "Junkyard Eddy, my wife and I. There will be about a half dozen potters here."
The students who attend will also have the opportunity to listen to eight local bands, including 5ive Star Service, Malakhi, Outclassed, 10 Count Fall, The Switch, A Voice Like Rhetoric, Reflection and Tommy Gutless. All the bands are punk bands.
Students will also have the chance to decorate pottery of their own.
"We will have bowls already made that people can come and decorate with glaze stains. It will not cost anything, it will be free," Wukich said. "The bowls we have were made by students in the advanced pottery class. It is for the Empty Bowls Dinner on Sept. 24."
So what exactly is the Empty Bowls event?
"Entertainment throughout lunch and dinner by SRU students/faculty/staff, two types of homemade soups prepared with organically grown veggies, several types of freshly baked breads and drinks," Alice Kaiser-Drobney, the director of the Service Learning Institute, said. "It will be $10 per person for a good meal, live entertainment, stimulating conversation - making a difference in the world: priceless!"
The funds will benefit local charities such as Butler County's Area Agency on Aging, which helps to feed elderly citizens who do not have the mobility to get meals on their own.
"The first year we did Empty Bowls, SRU students had been doing various volunteer programs with AAA," Kaiser-Drobney said. "Through those experiences we realized that there were seniors in Butler County on the waiting list for home delivered meals because their funding was not enough to meet the needs. Since 1997, there have been no seniors on the waiting list for these meals in Butler County because of the money we raise via Empty Bowls."
In preparation for the 10th annual Empty Bowls Dinner, the ceramics shop will be open from 8 p.m. until 2 a.m. on Friday night. Several local artists including Junkyard Eddy will attend to demonstrate the art of throwing.
"The potters are going to be alumni, former SRU students and some of the most accomplished artists in the area," ceramics professor Richard Wukich said. "Junkyard Eddy, my wife and I. There will be about a half dozen potters here."
The students who attend will also have the opportunity to listen to eight local bands, including 5ive Star Service, Malakhi, Outclassed, 10 Count Fall, The Switch, A Voice Like Rhetoric, Reflection and Tommy Gutless. All the bands are punk bands.
Students will also have the chance to decorate pottery of their own.
"We will have bowls already made that people can come and decorate with glaze stains. It will not cost anything, it will be free," Wukich said. "The bowls we have were made by students in the advanced pottery class. It is for the Empty Bowls Dinner on Sept. 24."
So what exactly is the Empty Bowls event?
"Entertainment throughout lunch and dinner by SRU students/faculty/staff, two types of homemade soups prepared with organically grown veggies, several types of freshly baked breads and drinks," Alice Kaiser-Drobney, the director of the Service Learning Institute, said. "It will be $10 per person for a good meal, live entertainment, stimulating conversation - making a difference in the world: priceless!"
The funds will benefit local charities such as Butler County's Area Agency on Aging, which helps to feed elderly citizens who do not have the mobility to get meals on their own.
"The first year we did Empty Bowls, SRU students had been doing various volunteer programs with AAA," Kaiser-Drobney said. "Through those experiences we realized that there were seniors in Butler County on the waiting list for home delivered meals because their funding was not enough to meet the needs. Since 1997, there have been no seniors on the waiting list for these meals in Butler County because of the money we raise via Empty Bowls."
