Yuca's Empty Bowls Project
Be the Change You Wish to See in the World
Ceramics Sale/Tasting Event to Benefit L.A. Kitchen
The Fundraiser takes place on Sunday, December 7, 2014 from 5-8pm
4652 Hollywood Blvd, (gated parking lot), Los Angeles, CA 90027
FILL THOSE BOWLS! Join Yuca’s Restaurants and popular Los Angeles area restaurants on Sunday, December 7, 2014 for an evening of great tastings util
izing keepsake handmade bowls donated by local artists and students from Cal Arts, Loyola Marymount, Citrus College and USC Ceramics. The Los Feliz Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library will provide fun activities for children. Additionally, the famous MicheMobil will provide audience curated music and beer on draught! Join us and make this inaugural event a neighborhood success! All proceeds from YUCA’S FILL THOSE BOWLS will benefit the nonprofit organization, L.A. Kitchen, whose mission is to ensure that neither food nor people should ever go to waste. Founded by Robert Egger and supported by notable board members such as Chef José Andrés, L.A. Kitchen recovers healthy, local food that would otherwise go to waste and transforms it into nutritious meals and snacks that strengthen the L.A. Kitchen currently runs a culinary job training pilot program working with young adults aging out of the foster care system and older adults returning home from prison at St. Vincent Meals on Wheels. Dora Herrera, Yuca’s Restaurants
Robert Egger, President & Founder of L.A. Kitchen
Sponsors: Silver Lake Conservancy of Music, MicheMobil, Council District 13,
Taste of México Association, Kathryn Louyse Design, Los Feliz Library, Los Feliz Village BID, Metropolitan Community Church and, Over 150 local supporters, artists and guests
Yuca’s Restaurants is reaching out to their restaurant family, local artists and community leaders to help create a community of “caring through giving”, rooted in the idea that change is accomplished one neighborhood at a time. This first Empty Bowls Project is designed to bring the community together to address and devise ways of alleviating local hunger issues. www.yucasla.com/bowls
L.A. Kitchen believes that neither food nor people should ever go to waste, and uses food to empower, nourish, and engage the community. Kitchen’s 15-week culinary arts and nutrition advocacy training program breaks systemic patterns of poverty and recidivism by connecting those who face the greatest barriers to success to employment opportunities. Kitchen works with leading social services agencies and leaders in the food community, including board members like world-renowned chef José Andrés and co-founder of Tender Greens Eric Oberholtzer, local restaurant partners and a number of organizational partners, including St. Vincent’s Meals on Wheels, Downtown Women’s Center, and Skid Row Housing Trust. With programs like Strong Food, L.A. Kitchen will also develop, incubate, and launch innovative social enterprises that generate community wealth and create paths to self-sufficiency. For more information please visit www.LAKitchen.org
Media and On-Site Contact:
Dora Herrera
818.669-9714
[email protected]
