Kingfield Neighborhood Association

Save the Date: Empty Bowls 2025

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Tackle Hunger: Attend the 14th Annual Empty Bowls Meal

Empty Bowls brings our community together every “SOUPer Bowl Sunday” to raise funds for local nonprofits while sharing a meal of soup, bread, and dessert donated by local restaurants. For a suggested donation of $25 you select a handmade bowl donated by local artists to eat out of and then take home.

This year’s event will be held on Sunday, February 9 at Judson Church, 4101 Harriet Ave, from 10 AM – 2 PM. This communal meal raises funds for affordable housing and hunger-solution work in our community. [Read more…]

Kingfield’s 2024 Empty Bowl Event on Souper Bowl Sunday

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The 13th Annual Kingfield Empty Bowls is a SOUPer Event on Super Bowl Sunday, February 11! We will be gathering as a community and serving a pregame lunch on site from 10:30 AM – 2 PM. This year’s event is hosted by Judson Church, 4101 Harriet Avenue South Minneapolis. We are looking for volunteers for before–during–and after the event to help! 

Kingfield Empty Bowls is an event that brings the community together to share a meal of homemade soup and bread donated by local restaurants out of handmade bowls donated by local artists. At this event we accept a donation from all diners and the proceeds are shared between Nicollet Square, a housing option for formerly homeless youth that provides both efficiency apartments and social/emotional and job support, TRUST Meal on Wheels, a community-based service that promotes health and independence for elders by providing daily, nutritious food as well as human connection, and the Kingfield Neighborhood Association for supporting their work in affordable housing.

For a suggested donation of $25, you can eat a delicious dinner and take the bowl home as a reminder of the event!

Volunteer to work a shift — it’s a fun way to be part of the event, and build connections with the other amazing neighbors!

Sign-Up here: 2024 Empty Bowls Volunteer Sign-Up

 

Lake Country Montessori School is participating in the 13th annual Empty Bowls Pregame Event (on Souper Bowl Sunday)

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Lake Country School is a Montessori school serving ages 3-8th grade.  The school is a learning environment that fosters independence, critical thinking, and creativity within each child. They are a community that promotes diversity and inclusion, as well as respect and responsibility to self, to others, and to the earth.

Vonnie Kleinman, the Community Kitchen Manager at LCS recently contacted us and asked if they could once again (post CoVid) have students provide desserts, soup or bread for the Empty Bowls event.  Lake Country has a commercial kitchen that provides an opportunity for students to be exposed to cooking as part of the practical life experience program.   Of course  we took them up on  their offer and as a group, the students have decided to provide homemade biscuits and honey (from their own hives).

Thank you Lake Country.  We are lucky to have such a great learning environment in our neighborhood.  And even luckier to be able to sample Biscuits and Honey at the Empty Bowls Event!

Empty Bowls Event

Date:  Sunday, February 11 (Souper Bowl Sunday)

Time:  10:30AM-2:00PM

Where:  Judson Memorial Baptist Church (4101 Harriet Ave. Minneapolis)

Paint-A-Bowl Part II (a/k/a Sip and Paint)

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Did you miss the opportunity to Paint-A-Bowl last weekend at MLK? Here’s your next chance to participate!

Paint-A-Bowl for Empty Bowls at Happy Hour: Clancey’s Meat and Deli

This coming Sunday, December 10th please join us for Happy Hour and Bowl Painting in preparation for the Empty Bowls event in February.

Where: Clancey’s Meat and Deli (3804 Grand Ave S. 55409)
When: THIS SUNDAY! December 10th
Time: 3:30-6:00 PM

PAINT-A-BOWL! HAVE A BEER! TAKE HOME DINNER!

Hope to see you there!

Lori, the Empty Bowls Team and the Kingfield Neighborhood Association

Paint-a-Bowl is a ceramics event held in conjunction with February’s Empty Bowls fundraiser for the food insecure in our community.  It’s a no-pressure, easy way to connect with neighbors and express yourself with paint, open to all.

SAVE the Date – Empty Bowls 2024

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The 13th Annual Kingfield Empty Bowls event will take place on “Soup-er Bowl” Sunday, February 11, 2024. Once again, we welcome our community to come together to fight hunger and homelessness in our area while sharing a delicious meal and lively conversation.

  • We look forward to working again with our restaurant community who have been very generous in their support donating soup, bread, dessert and coffee. 
  • On the bowls side of the equation:  We NEED bowls. We are seeking potters, connections to potters, and educators at a school with pottery students, or even poetry collectors.

 If you want to donate or participate, simply reach out to me at . 

–Lori Olson, Kingfield Empty Bowls Chair