The Unity College Basic Pottery Class with assistance from the Office of Community Service and the Cafeteria sponsored the sixth annual Empty Bowls Dinner. The concept of the dinner is very simple.
Artists create and donate clay bowls for the project.
For a donation participants select a bowl, which is then filled with soup, complemented with homemade bread, and enjoyed by candlelight. After dinner when stomachs are full and spirits are high, the bowls are taken home as a reminder of those whose bowls are empty. The dinner has been a past success through the help of many. Squidge Davis, Unity College's pottery instructor, introduced the event to the college and current pottery instructor Gretchen Lucchesi has continued the tradition. The college pottery students prepared many bowls for the event and worked with local potters who also donated their time and work.