Soup Bowl

The Clatsop County Women’s Resource Center (WRC) has set the date for its annual Soup Bowl, for Thursday, April 29, 2010, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. As the agency’s signature fundraiser, the event has become so popular that it will be held at the Seaside Convention Center this year. The money generated serves as an important source of funding for the WRC’s critical Victims’ Services programs.
As in the past, the agency is partnering with Clatsop Community College to put on this event. Richard Rowland, Ceramics Instructor at the college and his faithful band of potters have meticulously crafted one-of-kind bowls, fired in Astoria’s renowned Dragon (anagama) kiln.

The Clatsop County Women’s Resource Center (WRC) strives to build community. At Soup Bowl, each bowl represents that community and our connectedness to each other, emerging from a process that involves hands, natural elements, raw materials and the kiln working together to form it. The process would be incomplete without any one of these things. We cannot control the outcome and can only guess how it will turn out, and each bowl that results is unique. Like the bowls, we are all different. It is my hope that we’ll continue to work together, finding strength in each other and accepting our differences.

This year, some 300 bowls will available on a first-come-first-served basis. The cost of a bowl is $30 for a “Soup and Bowl” ticket. If you don’t fancy a bowl, purchase a “Soup Only” ticket for $15, which lets you sample a bevy of delicious soups that will have been prepared expressly for your enjoyment. Try the chicken and dumplings made from one soup maker’s secret recipe (from her grandmother) or perhaps a piping hot bowl of the popular Cioppino. There will be over two dozen different kinds of soups that will be prepared for this gathering, many by chefs from our area’s top restaurants.

This year, we especially welcome our own Senator Betsy Johnson will be on hand this year as a featured guest. In addition, you’re invited to come early to visit with Richard Rowland and many of the potters about the Dragon kiln and the process of making the pottery bowls that are so central to our annual Soup Bowl celebration. Please join us in celebrating our community with a wonderful blending of the arts, culinary presentation and social services? Hope to see you there.

Tickets for this event are available for purchase at the following locations:
In Astoria:
The Women’s Resource Center
Déjà vu Thrift Shop
Lucy’s Books

In Seaside:
Chamber of Commerce

In Cannon Beach:
Chamber of Commerce

Event Information

Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010

Time: 06:00 pm