Brother, Can You Spare A Bowl?

The Kingfield Neighborhood Organization needs your bowls! Well, only your hand-made bowls, and only if you’re a potter, and only if you haven’t used them yet, and only if they're food-grade, that is.

Inspired by a similar, long-running event put on by the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association, Kingfield is holding its first-ever Empty Bowls event to raise money for Nicollet Square, the and for formerly-homeless youth at at 37th Street and Nicollet Avenue. Guests at the Feb. 9 event will be able to select an empty, handmade bowl for a suggested donation of $20 per bowl, and fill it with a hearty meal of soup and bread, and take the bowl home as a reminder of the hunger and homelessness that afflicts many Twin Cities residents.

So far, local artists have committed to making 70 bowls by Feb. 1 for the event, but Sarah Linnes-Robinson, the KFNA’s Executive Director, said they hope to get over 250 such donations. If you would like to donate, call Linnes-Robinson at 612-823-5980, or email her at Sarah@kingfield.org.