BELLOWS FALLS — Tickets are on sale for the 19th annual Empty Bowl dinner and auctions Sunday, Nov. 6, at 5 p.m., at Alyson's Orchard in Walpole, N.H., to benefit the food programs of Our Place drop-in center.
The event includes a supper featuring soups from local restaurants and chefs, and silent and live auctions with auctioneer Sharon Boccelli, according to a news release.
Tickets are $35 at Village Square Booksellers in Bellows Falls, Galloway Real Estate in Walpole, or at Our Place. A table for eight can be reserved for $400.
Volunteers are collecting bowls and auction items for the event. Potters who have already pledged bowls include Dan Lasser, Virginia Wyoming, Susan Dunning, Claudia Teachman, Dawn-Marie Gehrung, Linda Bouchard-Bracken, Melissa Clark, Jean Meinhardt, Willie Finkel, and Ryan Burch and his Vermont Academy pottery students.
Dinner proceeds go toward the food programs of Our Place, which include a food pantry, a daily breakfast and lunch, and nutrition education.
Live-auction items include a two-hour session with the designer at Silver Forest to create a pair of earrings, an hour class with glassmaker Chris Sherwin to create your own piece, a week in a rustic cabin, and a hay ride through the hills of Vermont.