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Serving up Art, Music, and Specialty Soups!
Please join Feeding Umpqua for our annual meal of soup and bread. By supporting Feeding Umpqua and our network of partner agencies, you are feeding children and families struggling to access food.
Empty Bowls Project dinner attendees will get their choice of an artisan bowl to use to taste an array of signature soups made by some of Douglas County’s top restaurants and cooks.
October 7, 2024 from 5:30pm-7:30pm
Join your fellow community members, businesses, and community organizations in supporting the Empty Bowls Project Dinner!
To learn more about the sponsorship levels click here.
There’s a wonderful feeling that fills the room at the Empty Bowls Project Dinner. People from across the county come together to share a simple meal with a simple mission: to end hunger.
The basic premise of Empty Bowls (an international event) is simple: Potters and other craftspeople, educators and community members work with the community to create handcrafted bowls. Attendees have the pleasure of selecting a bowl from hundreds of one-of-a-kind hand-crafted bowls donated by Southern Oregon artists and community members. Guests are invited to enjoy a meal of soup and bread. At the end of the evening, they can to choose to keep their bowl as a reminder of all the empty bowls in our community or donate it back for future years.
1 in 4 of Douglas County’s school aged children are hungry when they arrive to school—some having not eaten a full meal since they left school the day before. Children are the most vulnerable to the effects of persistent hunger as it reduces their ability to learn and negatively impacts their health, growth, and development.
40% of county residents live in a food desert, meaning they do not have easy access to a supermarket with healthy, affordable food options, and so they often find sustenance in convenience stores or face a long drive to a town with a grocery store that stocks fresh produce, milk, eggs, and other staples.
Feeding Umpqua, through our network of partner agencies, provides over 400,000 meals each year.
