Fill Your Empty Bowl at Perkins on Saturday

For $10, you get a hot meal from a great local restaurant, a hand-made piece of pottery from a local artist, and a chance to help your hungry neighbors.

"To work with clay is to be in touch with the taproot of life." --Shoji Hamada, Japanese potter This weekend, Perkins Center for the Arts hosts “Empty Bowls,” a unique charity event, as part of its Clay Fest. From trying out a kick wheel to demonstrating how to use clay artwork in your home, the entire exercise is meant to introduce guests to “the whole experience of clay,” said Perkins Center Director Alan Willoughby, himself a clay artist. “People who maybe aren’t around handmade clay work all the time are hesitant to actually use [and display clay art in their home],” he said. But the centerpiece of the weekend is the Empty Bowls fundraiser that will take place Saturday from 12 to 3 p.m. For those three hours, guests can pay $10 for a …

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Five Things to Do This Week

Five Things to Do in Collingswood This Week: 11/26/12 to 12/1/12

This week in Collingswood you can: catch a meaningful film, learn how to be a better listener, share fellowship and suds, help the needy and help yourself to some new duds!

Monday, Nov. 26 at 6:30 p.m.—Collingswood Public Library Bob Pileggi will present on the fundamental aspects of mindfulness, and how learning to be "more present to ourselves and the other person we’re speaking with" can help us "more compassionately and effectively say what we really mean, and how we can listen more effectively to others."  Patch's own GLBTQ blogger Robb C. Sewell wrote more about this event here. Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 7 p.m.—Collingswood Public Library Collingswood Movie Club is led by Patch cinema blogger Robert Castle, who hosts a monthly presentation and discussion of meaningful movies on the fourth Tuesday of every month in the Collingswood Public Library. This month's selection is the 1991 Richard Linklater film, …

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