The dinner will be held in the Moorestown Friends Meetinghouse on Sunday, March 26.
Nineteen children and three adults recently gathered in an art studio of Moorestown Friends School to make, decorate, and paint bowls for the annual Empty Bowl Dinner of the Friends Enrichment Program of Moorestown Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. The dinner will be held in the Moorestown Friends Meetinghouse, 118 East Main Street, on Sunday, March 26.
FEP will begin serving at 4:30 p.m. and end at 6:30 p.m. For a freewill donation, guests will choose a bowl and select from a variety of breads and homemade soups. Cake and juice will also be served. Children who made the bowls will help host the event and will be on hand to welcome diners.
Led by ceramic artist and Moorestown Friends School art teacher David Gamber, the pottery workshop is an opportunity for participants to learn pottery basics, make one-of-a-kind bowls and help raise money for FEP, a program that has been helping young people since 1997. The program is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
Open to all Moorestown school-age children from kindergarten through high school, FEP runs a school-year program of Sunday afternoon activities from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., free of charge. Additionally, children from financially disadvantaged, underserved Moorestown families are offered FEP scholarships to attend summer camp and enroll in art classes or sports clinics or take private music lessons at no cost to their parents.
For more information or to reserve seats to the Empty Bowl Dinner, call Monique Begg at (856) 235–3963. Though FEP encourages reservations, it is their policy to accommodate everyone who shows up and they have never turned anyone away.
