Soup-a-Bowl - 1st Annual Poughkeepsie Celebration of Food & Art

How about a taste of soup to help out local families? Mark your calendars for Soup-a-Bowl, the 1st Annual Poughkeepsie Celebration of Food and Art. This soup luncheon, served in handmade pottery bowls, will promote local restaurants and culinary talent while showcasing the work of local pottery artists. Fresh, homemade soup & hand-crafted pottery!

Following the model of a nationwide fundraiser, one local nonprofit will host Poughkepsie's first "Soup-A-Bowl" featuring a variety of soups concocted by local restaurants.

Some of the local restaurants cooking the soup for this event are Twisted Soul, The Artist's Palate, Soul Dog, Silver Spoon.

This inaugural event will take place on Saturday, September 13, 2008, 12:00 - 2:30 at the Mid-Hudson Children's Museum Pavilion on the banks of the Hudson River, north of Poughkeepsie's Waterfront near Waryas Park.

An event ticket includes a Bowl and 2 Soups.

Proceeds of the event will support Food Share, a program of the Poughkeepsie Farm Project, providing low-income families with food each year through the City of Poughkeepsie Main Street Farmers' Market. Benefitting from this event will be local agencies like Grace Smith House, Dutchess Outreach and Hudson River Housing which run soup kitchens, food pantries and shelters.

For more information, call (845) 473-1415 or visit www.farmproject.org.