FEP's Empty Bowl Dinner Is Sunday In Moorestown

MOORESTOWN, NJ — A total of 19 children and three adults recently gathered in an art studio of Moorestown Friends School to make, decorate, and paint bowls for the annual Empty Bowl Dinner of the Friends Enrichment Program (FEP) of Moorestown Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.

The dinner will be held on Sunday, March 26, in the Moorestown Friends Meetinghouse, 118 East Main Street, at the intersection of Chester Avenue. Dinner will be served from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

For a freewill donation, guests will choose a bowl, and select from a variety of breads and homemade soups. Cake and juice will complete the meal. Children who made bowls will help host the event and will be on hand to welcome diners.

Participants will have the chance to learn pottery basics, make one-of-a-kind bowls, and help raise money for FEP as part of a workshop led by David Gamber, a ceramic artist and Moorestown Friends School art teacher.
FEP is celebrating its 20th anniversary as a program that helps young people.

Open to all Moorestown school-age children from kindergarten through high school, FEP runs a school-year program of Sunday afternoon activities, from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., free of charge.

Additionally, children from financially disadvantaged, underserved Moorestown families are offered FEP scholarships. The scholarships allow them to attend summer camp and enroll in art classes or sports clinics or take private music lessons at no cost to their parents.

For more information or to reserve seats to the Empty Bowl Dinner, call Monique Begg at 856-235-3963.

Reservations are encouraged, but it is FEP’s policy to accommodate everyone who shows up.

The attached image of Karina Santos and her brother, Antonio Jr. Velasquez was provided by FEP.