Tickets are $18 each, and doors of the Julian Carroll Convention Center open at 11 am.
About 1,500 bowls have been made by local people since September, and they will be filled by 21 area restaurants on Saturday, from 11:30 am until 2 pm. Those who buy tickets get to choose one of the bowls, then make up to ten visits to booths to get food. Afterwards, participants get to keep the bowl as a souvenir, knowing that they will have helped fill bowls for hungry and vulnerable folks in the community.
Organizer Michael Terra said, "You will have had an incredibly generous lunch, a bowl that you get to keep, take home and use, and you also will have contributed to an effort that takes care of our most fragile and needful members of our community."
So far, the events have raised around $200,000 for Community Ministries. "But, you know, it's just a drop in the bucket, because the Community Kitchen, last year alone, served over 70,000 hot meals to people in need in Paducah without any charge."
About 1,500 bowls have been made by local people since September, and they will be filled by 21 area restaurants on Saturday, from 11:30 am until 2 pm. Those who buy tickets get to choose one of the bowls, then make up to ten visits to booths to get food. Afterwards, participants get to keep the bowl as a souvenir, knowing that they will have helped fill bowls for hungry and vulnerable folks in the community.
Organizer Michael Terra said, "You will have had an incredibly generous lunch, a bowl that you get to keep, take home and use, and you also will have contributed to an effort that takes care of our most fragile and needful members of our community."
So far, the events have raised around $200,000 for Community Ministries. "But, you know, it's just a drop in the bucket, because the Community Kitchen, last year alone, served over 70,000 hot meals to people in need in Paducah without any charge."
Events like the one in Paducah take place in about 400 communities around the world, and Terra said it's a grass-roots effort, where people help others in their own city.
Terra said "throwing" a bowl takes anywhere from 15-20 minutes to maybe an hour, depending on the experience of the person who is doing it. After the clay bowl dries for about a week, it is fired in a kiln once, slowly reaching the right temperature over about 14 hours, then cooling just as slowly. The bowl is washed, then glazed and fired again. Terra said the entire process to make a bowl takes around three weeks.
Anyone with questions about the event can call 270-908-0090.
