FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May
1, 2013
Contact: Sojourner
Marable Grimmett
SojournerGrimmett@gmail.com
Crafting Bowls for Change at Wheat Street Garden
ATLANTA
- May 1, 2013 – New Leaders Council – Atlanta, Truly Living
Well Center or Urban Agriculture (TLW), and WonderRoot will host Crafting Bowls for Change, a
community-based food and art celebration on Saturday, May 25, 2013 from 11 a.m.
- 3 p.m. at Wheat Street Garden, 75 Hilliard Street, NE, Atlanta, GA 30312.
Crafting
Bowls for Change is a one-day event to raise funds in support
of Wholesome Wave of Georgia and NLC -Atlanta. TLW’s
partnership with Wholesome Wave allows every SNAP, WIC, or SFNMP dollar spent
at its farmers market to double its value when purchasing healthy locally grown
produce. Each year the New Leaders Council - Atlanta trains the next
generation of progressive leaders in Georgia and works to solve problems like
food insecurity in underserved communities.
"As the founding City
Council sponsor of Truly Living Well's Wheat Street Urban Farm and the New
Leaders Council, I am delighted to see these two groups partnering with
WonderRoot to increase Atlantans' awareness about food deserts and food
insecurity. District 2's Boulevard corridor, the host neighborhood for this
event, has the highest concentration of poverty in the southeastern United
States. I am hopeful that Crafting Bowls
for Change will help us place a glaring spotlight on the reality of poverty
and hunger in the neighborhood that raised Martin Luther King Jr.", stated
New Leaders Council Honorary Chair and City Councilmember Kwanzaa Hall.
Community leaders and
members are invited to share a simple and delicious meal of soup served in a
handcrafted bowl at Wheat Street Gardens on Saturday, May 25th. In exchange for
a cash contribution, guests receive a bowl as a reminder of those struggling
with food insecurity in our city, nation and world. Wholesome Wave, SNAP and
food security information will be available at the event. Participants are
invited to take part in garden tours, family garden activities and crafts, and
volunteer opportunities. Open to the
public, tickets are $40 for entry and include soup prepared by local chefs, an
artist made bowl and a chance to win a TLW CSA subscription or a garden class.
To purchase tickets for the event, please visit: http://www.craftingbowlsforchange.org
Truly Living Well and New
Leaders Council - Atlanta are proud to partner with Wholesome Wave of Georgia
to increase food security in Atlanta and support progressive leadership in our
community.
Follow
the event on Twitter: #Bowls4Change
About New Leaders
Council Atlanta
New
Leaders Council (NLC) works to train and promote the progressive political
entrepreneurs of tomorrow — trendsetters, elected officials and
civically-engaged leaders in business and industry who will shape the future
landscape.
About Truly Living
Well
Truly Living Well, a 501(c)3 based
in Atlanta, works to engage the community in developing local food systems
through education and food production. In
addition, TLW demonstrates urban agriculture as a sustainable and economic
solution for helping people to eat and to live better. TLW has strategically located its farmers'
markets in areas that have had little or no access to fresh, healthy produce,
providing a valuable service in our community.
About Wholesome Wave
Georgia
Wholesome
Wave Georgia believes that all Georgians should have access to good, wholesome
and locally-grown food. Our goal is to increase access to good food for all
Georgians while contributing to the local food economy. By doubling each
federal or state nutrition benefit (SNAP, WIC, SFMNP) dollar spent at our
partner markets, we leverage existing government food nutrition programs to
encourage shopping at local farmers markets.
About WonderRoot
WonderRoot
is an Atlanta-based non-profit arts and service organization with a mission to
unite artists and community to inspire positive social change. By providing
production facilities to Atlanta-based artists and coordinating arts-based
service programs, WonderRoot empowers artists to be proactive in engaging their
communities through arts-based service work. We believe that art is an agent of
change and that by empowering people with the means to create art, we are in
turn empowering people with the means to create change.
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