🥣What can a bowl hold? A meal, a message, and a moment of hope.
Join us for an evening where art becomes action, with every bowl helping to fill another.
Empty Bowls is a global grassroots movement to combat hunger through community-based art events. At The Suffolk Center, this effort supports Suffolk Christian Fellowship Center, a vital local food bank serving over 500 food-insecure households each month- many of whom live in nearby food deserts and face impossible choices between meals, rent, and medication.
🎨Here’s how it works: Local artists donate hand-crafted bowls
Guests select a bowl to take home
A soup tasting by Arts Kitchen is served
Proceeds help feed families across Suffolk and Western Tidewater
Food insecurity affects approximately 5,600 Suffolk residents. Many are employed but still struggling, part of the growing ALICE population (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, and Employed). For these neighbors, even one good meal can offer relief, dignity, and hope.
Empty Bowls 2025 Friday, August 22 | 6 PM | Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts Tickets: suffolkcenter.org/empty-bowls
🎟️ Your $25 ticket includes: • One handcrafted bowl • Soup tasting from Arts Kitchen • A direct contribution to hunger relief
This event is proudly sponsored by Suffolk Economic Development and the Suffolk News Herald, whose support helps make this effort possible.
Be part of something meaningful. Every ticket makes a difference. Tickets & Information: suffolkcenter.org/empty-bowls
The focus with these pieces isn’t music itself, but how it echoes through the stories and spaces we revisit 🍃
Some respond to historical events. Others begin with a place or an object that suggests a song. Each piece treats music as something that can be seen as clearly as it’s heard.
💃Mick Grochowski (www.MickG-Art.com) Mick often starts with a setting. “Tango in the Morning Sun” imagines a couple dancing on the balcony of a beach house he’s passed for years. The scene never happened, but it plays out like a memory. His second work, “Banjo on My Knee”, was drawn while learning the instrument. It carries the looseness and warmth of a moment caught in memory.
🪘Asiko-Oluwa Aderin (@asiko.oluwa) Asiko-Oluwa’s featured prints about sound as survival. In “Below the Drum Fell Silent”, she depicts enslaved people using talking drums to organize rebellion. Another piece, “And Yet, The Sound Didn’t Die”, reflects the moment after those drums were banned. The imagery recalls protest, but the focus is endurance.
🎹Karen Sallaz (@karensallaz) “Roadside Honky Tonk” captures a piano left in the woods. “I could not resist getting a photo of this piano I found in the woods. The wilderness is a musical place and this seems to make that point. The shadows like staff paper, the tree branches like clefs, the dry leaves like notes…the piano itself is hardly necessary but adds a surreal touch to this musical composition.”
Capturing Music is on view through July 26 at The Suffolk Center Galleries. Galleries open Tuesday–Saturday, 10 AM–4 PM. Don’t forget to scan the QR code on each artist’s label to hear the music that inspires them.
Featured Work: Mick Grochowski “Tango in the Morning Sun” | Acrylic on Canvas | 24 × 36” “Banjo on My Knee” | Oil on Panel | 8 × 10” Asiko-Oluwa Aderin “Below the Drum Fell Silent: September 9th, 1739” 2025 | Linoleum Block Print on Stonehenge | 40 × 26” “And Yet, The Sound Didn’t Die: May 10th 1740” 2025 | Linoleum Block Print on Stonehenge | 26 × 40” Karen Sallaz “Roadside Honky Tonk” | Photography | 17.25 × 14.25”
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Clay & Sip is your new favorite night out: Saturday, August 2 | Two sessions: 4 PM – 6 PM or 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM 📍Pottery Studio
Whether you’re an experienced potter or simply curious to try something new, join us for a relaxed, creative evening where you’ll sculpt your own bowl while enjoying a glass of wine and light hors d’oeuvres.
🖐️One bowl is yours to keep and will be ready in time for the Empty Bowls fundraiser on August 22, which your Clay & Sip ticket also covers. Additional bowls you make will be donated to support the cause. It’s a hands-on way to give back, and a night to remember.
🎟️Limited seats left! Reserve your spot: 👉suffolkcenter.org/clay-sip
This event is part of the Empty Bowls Fundraiser, made possible with support from sponsors Suffolk Economic Development and the Suffolk News Herald.
Movies on The Big Screen: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is coming to life at The Suffolk Center this Sunday, July 20 at 2 PM. And, it’s completely FREE with RSVP!
🎥Watch the chaotic new chapter of the cult classic in our beautiful Birdsong Theater 🧟♂️Meet Beetlejuice himself before the movie 🎁Win spooky fun prizes and enjoy a few surprises! 🔗RSVP now: suffolkcenter.org/beetlejuice-beetlejuice
Presented in partnership with @visitsuffolkva Suffolk Tourism.
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🥣What can a bowl hold? A meal, a message, and a moment of hope.
Join us for an evening where art becomes action, with every bowl helping to fill another.
Empty Bowls is a global grassroots movement to combat hunger through community-based art events. At The Suffolk Center, this effort supports Suffolk Christian Fellowship Center, a vital local food bank serving over 500 food-insecure households each month- many of whom live in nearby food deserts and face impossible choices between meals, rent, and medication.
🎨Here’s how it works:
Local artists donate hand-crafted bowls
Guests select a bowl to take home
A soup tasting by Arts Kitchen is served
Proceeds help feed families across Suffolk and Western Tidewater
Food insecurity affects approximately 5,600 Suffolk residents. Many are employed but still struggling, part of the growing ALICE population (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, and Employed). For these neighbors, even one good meal can offer relief, dignity, and hope.
Empty Bowls 2025
Friday, August 22 | 6 PM | Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts
Tickets: suffolkcenter.org/empty-bowls
🎟️ Your $25 ticket includes:
• One handcrafted bowl
• Soup tasting from Arts Kitchen
• A direct contribution to hunger relief
This event is proudly sponsored by Suffolk Economic Development and the Suffolk News Herald, whose support helps make this effort possible.
Be part of something meaningful. Every ticket makes a difference.
Tickets & Information: suffolkcenter.org/empty-bowls
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The focus with these pieces isn’t music itself, but how it echoes through the stories and spaces we revisit 🍃
Some respond to historical events. Others begin with a place or an object that suggests a song. Each piece treats music as something that can be seen as clearly as it’s heard.
💃Mick Grochowski (www.MickG-Art.com) Mick often starts with a setting. “Tango in the Morning Sun” imagines a couple dancing on the balcony of a beach house he’s passed for years. The scene never happened, but it plays out like a memory. His second work, “Banjo on My Knee”, was drawn while learning the instrument. It carries the looseness and warmth of a moment caught in memory.
🪘Asiko-Oluwa Aderin (@asiko.oluwa) Asiko-Oluwa’s featured prints about sound as survival. In “Below the Drum Fell Silent”, she depicts enslaved people using talking drums to organize rebellion. Another piece, “And Yet, The Sound Didn’t Die”, reflects the moment after those drums were banned. The imagery recalls protest, but the focus is endurance.
🎹Karen Sallaz (@karensallaz) “Roadside Honky Tonk” captures a piano left in the woods. “I could not resist getting a photo of this piano I found in the woods. The wilderness is a musical place and this seems to make that point. The shadows like staff paper, the tree branches like clefs, the dry leaves like notes…the piano itself is hardly necessary but adds a surreal touch to this musical composition.”
Capturing Music is on view through July 26 at The Suffolk Center Galleries. Galleries open Tuesday–Saturday, 10 AM–4 PM. Don’t forget to scan the QR code on each artist’s label to hear the music that inspires them.
Featured Work: Mick Grochowski “Tango in the Morning Sun” | Acrylic on Canvas | 24 × 36” “Banjo on My Knee” | Oil on Panel | 8 × 10”
Asiko-Oluwa Aderin “Below the Drum Fell Silent: September 9th, 1739” 2025 | Linoleum Block Print on Stonehenge | 40 × 26” “And Yet, The Sound Didn’t Die: May 10th 1740” 2025 | Linoleum Block Print on Stonehenge | 26 × 40”
Karen Sallaz “Roadside Honky Tonk” | Photography | 17.25 × 14.25”
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🎨🍷Craft, sip, and support a cause.
Clay & Sip is your new favorite night out:
Saturday, August 2 | Two sessions: 4 PM – 6 PM or 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
📍Pottery Studio
Whether you’re an experienced potter or simply curious to try something new, join us for a relaxed, creative evening where you’ll sculpt your own bowl while enjoying a glass of wine and light hors d’oeuvres.
🖐️One bowl is yours to keep and will be ready in time for the Empty Bowls fundraiser on August 22, which your Clay & Sip ticket also covers. Additional bowls you make will be donated to support the cause. It’s a hands-on way to give back, and a night to remember.
🎟️Limited seats left! Reserve your spot:
👉suffolkcenter.org/clay-sip
This event is part of the Empty Bowls Fundraiser, made possible with support from sponsors Suffolk Economic Development and the Suffolk News Herald.
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💀Say it once… say it twice… you know the rest.
Movies on The Big Screen: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is coming to life at The Suffolk Center this Sunday, July 20 at 2 PM. And, it’s completely FREE with RSVP!
🎥Watch the chaotic new chapter of the cult classic in our beautiful Birdsong Theater 🧟♂️Meet Beetlejuice himself before the movie 🎁Win spooky fun prizes and enjoy a few surprises!
🔗RSVP now: suffolkcenter.org/beetlejuice-beetlejuice
Presented in partnership with @visitsuffolkva Suffolk Tourism.
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