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Empty Bowls

Thank You for making Empty Bowls 2013 a wonderful evening to help our Fairfax County area neighbors in need!

Our popular Empty Bowls dinner gathering is always a heart-warming and  family-friendly evening of great art, music, food and friendship -- our largest fundraiser of the year. Your ticket includes selecting a one-of-a-kind soup bowl to take home, handcrafted by a local artist or community member. Hundreds of beautiful bowls to select from! Then join your neighbors in a simple meal of soup and bread as a symbolic reminder of those in our community who go hungry.  All proceeds benefit local families facing financial crises - whose bowls and pantries are empty - so that they may be filled.  Funds go directly to ODB's programs to help our neighbors in need achieve financial stability.

Its All About Neighbors Helping Neighbors!

VIEW Photos from the Evening

CLICK HERE to Read the Fairfax Connection article about Empty Bowls 2013!
CLICK HERE to Read the Fairfax City Patch article
CLICK HERE to Read about local artist Susan Fox Hirschmann and her young student Stephen Shaffran, who are contributing bowls for Empty Bowls 2013

A Very HEARTY Thank You to Empty Bowls Sponsors and Supporters!

Sponsors

The Democratic Women of Clifton •  Cooley LLP Apple Federal Credit Union • Edelman Financial Services • Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. • Virginia Commerce Bank • Jim and Mary Shaffran

Food, Entertainment and Support Services

 •• •    •   •   •  VirChantel's Love at First Bite          • Choices by Shawn • Dolce Vita   Fairfax Saxophone Quartet •  Great Harvest Bread Company (Burke)•  Hard Times Café (Fairfax) •  Piero's Corner (Fairfax) • The Baking Squad (Herndon) Zöe's Kitchen (Fairfax)

Photography by Hernan Vargas Shoppers Food & Pharmacy (Fairfax) •  Whole Foods Market (Vienna) Face Painting by Julia Choe - Young's Cleaners (Fairfax) • Balloon Art by Martha Ades Debbie Dogrul Associates

Bowl Artists 

Annandale High School • Beech Tree Elementary Students  Clay Café Studio of Chantilly Color Me Mine of Fairfax • Keith Conway • Nanette Henderson   Susan Fox Hirschmann Art Pottery • James Madison High School National Arts Honor Society Students •  Marshall High School Octagon Club • Maruja Ubelaker – Mu Pottery •  Stephen Shaffran •  Shark Tank Racing Squad Swimmers • South County High School •  The Baking Squad (Herndon) • Jack Weyant • Westfield High School

Please let them know you appreciate their support for our community!




ODB Depends on Community Support to Make Empty Bowls a Success!

Local Artists: Donate Your Handcrafted Bowls

Be an Empty Bowls Sponsor: Provide a financial or in-kind donation

Contact Jennifer Rose for more information.



Empty Bowls 2012 Re-Cap

CLICK HERE to view Photos from the 2012 Empty Bowls

READ the Connection Newspapers article

READ the Fairfax City Patch article

READ an article from the James Madison HS Hawk Talk

CLICK HERE to watch a Public Service Announcement about Empty Bowls 2012.

Many thanks to Jerry Ferguson of Fairfax Public Access for producing and airing this segment!


Contact ODB Development Manager Jennifer Rose by email or phone 703-273-8829 with questions - or if you can help!