Chris Schafale on thu 2 mar 00
Antoinette,
I like the idea of your clay day, and I'd love to know more about the
publicity things you did.
We held our initial event at a church, immediately after the Sunday
service. We publicized it through their newsletter and bulletins, the
potters guild newsletter, email distribution lists from a local gallery,
press releases to print, radio, and TV, and word of mouth. We
involved potters from the guild as well as potters who use the local
community arts center studios. We also had a "bowl-a-thon" held
at a local production studio -- DK Clay -- run by our guild president.
They donated the clay, glazes, and firing, and potters from the
guild came and threw bowls for a day. A guild volunteer trimmed
them all, and glazed them, and DK Clay folk fired them. The Food
Bank of NC also helped with some publicity, gave us some
produce for the soup, and let us store the soup overnight in their
walk-in cooler. I organized making the soup, which I and another
volunteer did the day before the event, and we got donations of
bread from two local bakeries. We also had donations of cookies
from folks in the church and community. When it was all over, we
took the leftover soup to a local shelter. Phew. It was a lot of
work, but great fun, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Our second event was mostly intended to be a way of selling
whatever bowls we had left (since I was afraid we might have a lot --
not a problem, as it turned out). In this instance, the church was
having an Ash Wednesday supper anyway, and they asked us to
bring whatever bowls we had left. Guests will have the choice of
either a free meal served in a disposable bowl, or making a
donation and receiving a pottery bowl to eat out of and take home.
The church will provide all the setup, cleanup, food, etc, and all we
have to do is show up with the bowls and take money. It's only
being publicized within the church, but it's a huge church (close to
1000 members) and they are expecting at least 200 people to
attend this event. Which is why I'd dearly love to have some more
bowls by next Wednesday!!
That's all I can think of at the moment. Let me know if you have
more specific questions.
Chris
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Chris, I would like to hear more about this from you and others. Our Empty
> Bowl event comes up on 8 March too. I've been pushed into this tail over head
> about a month ago. We had a successful clay day where a group of potters made
> pieces and the public watched and learned more about the throwing process. We
> done this on very short notice and just when the hackers got on the net
> services. Any suggestions will be welcome. We will definitely do this again.
> It is once a year that potters can come to a stand still and do charity work
> on an organized way. We added publicity to it from which potters can always
> benefit.
> Did you work with any sponsorships for clay and glazes. How did you organize
> it?
> Antoinette.
>
Light One Candle Pottery
Fuquay-Varina, NC
candle@intrex.net
http://www.lightonecandle.com
Huske Christina on fri 3 mar 00
May I suggest that in your up coming event - serve everyone soup in
disposable bowls so that people don't have to carry home dirty dishes. It
might help sales, too.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Schafale [mailto:candle@intrex.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 3:59 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.UKY.EDU
Subject: Re: Empty Bowls Success
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Antoinette,
I like the idea of your clay day, and I'd love to know more about the
publicity things you did.
We held our initial event at a church, immediately after the Sunday
service. We publicized it through their newsletter and bulletins, the
potters guild newsletter, email distribution lists from a local gallery,
press releases to print, radio, and TV, and word of mouth. We
involved potters from the guild as well as potters who use the local
community arts center studios. We also had a "bowl-a-thon" held
at a local production studio -- DK Clay -- run by our guild president.
They donated the clay, glazes, and firing, and potters from the
guild came and threw bowls for a day. A guild volunteer trimmed
them all, and glazed them, and DK Clay folk fired them. The Food
Bank of NC also helped with some publicity, gave us some
produce for the soup, and let us store the soup overnight in their
walk-in cooler. I organized making the soup, which I and another
volunteer did the day before the event, and we got donations of
bread from two local bakeries. We also had donations of cookies
from folks in the church and community. When it was all over, we
took the leftover soup to a local shelter. Phew. It was a lot of
work, but great fun, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Our second event was mostly intended to be a way of selling
whatever bowls we had left (since I was afraid we might have a lot --
not a problem, as it turned out). In this instance, the church was
having an Ash Wednesday supper anyway, and they asked us to
bring whatever bowls we had left. Guests will have the choice of
either a free meal served in a disposable bowl, or making a
donation and receiving a pottery bowl to eat out of and take home.
The church will provide all the setup, cleanup, food, etc, and all we
have to do is show up with the bowls and take money. It's only
being publicized within the church, but it's a huge church (close to
1000 members) and they are expecting at least 200 people to
attend this event. Which is why I'd dearly love to have some more
bowls by next Wednesday!!
That's all I can think of at the moment. Let me know if you have
more specific questions.
Chris
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Chris, I would like to hear more about this from you and others. Our Empty
> Bowl event comes up on 8 March too. I've been pushed into this tail over
head
> about a month ago. We had a successful clay day where a group of potters
made
> pieces and the public watched and learned more about the throwing process.
We
> done this on very short notice and just when the hackers got on the net
> services. Any suggestions will be welcome. We will definitely do this
again.
> It is once a year that potters can come to a stand still and do charity
work
> on an organized way. We added publicity to it from which potters can
always
> benefit.
> Did you work with any sponsorships for clay and glazes. How did you
organize
> it?
> Antoinette.
>
Light One Candle Pottery
Fuquay-Varina, NC
candle@intrex.net
http://www.lightonecandle.com
Chris Schafale on sat 4 mar 00
Thanks for the suggestion. Actually, it wasn't a problem. We had
two bus tubs set up near the exit, with soapy and clean rinse
water, and washed and wrapped people's bowls for them when they
were ready to leave. The people who did this job loved it, because
they got to see and handle all the bowls! We did have disposable
bowls available for those people who didn't want to eat out of their
pottery bowl, but few people took us up on it.
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> May I suggest that in your up coming event - serve everyone soup in
> disposable bowls so that people don't have to carry home dirty dishes. It
> might help sales, too.
>
>
Light One Candle Pottery
Fuquay-Varina, NC
candle@intrex.net
http://www.lightonecandle.com
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