Mohawk school plans Souper Artists’ Dinner
Staff report
BESSEMER, Pa.
This year’s Souper Artists’ Dinner at Mohawk High School is from 4 to 8 p.m. March 8 in the school’s cafeteria on Mohawk School Road.
The dinner, which raises money to fight hunger, is in its sixth year.
The profits go to fight hunger in the school district. As a way for guests to remember that people in the district go to bed hungry every night, they get a ceramic bowl to take home.
Art students in grades nine through 12 have made 350 ceramic bowls for the dinner, said art teacher Linda Joyce.
For $5, guests get their choice of chicken noodle or wedding soup, a roll, a cupcake and tea. Takeout will be available.
Cafeteria workers will help students make the soup from donated ingredients.
This year’s theme is “Alice in Wonderland.” There will be a tea table set up like the one in the movie. Several students will be in costume as Alice, the Mad Hatter and other characters. Children and adults can come in costume for the event.
The art students decorate the cafeteria, and they have made a 3-D flamingo and dodo bird. They also have made 26 large spools of thread for the centerpieces.
The students also design the fliers, tickets, placemats and thank-you notes. All are designed around the “Alice” theme.
Students contact television and radio stations and newspapers. They also write letters to neighboring schools, universities and churches. The students speak at the school’s board meeting and their churches.
Faculty also have made bowls with assistance from the students.
Wearing T-shirts designed by fellow classmates, the students are given jobs at the dinner such as selling tickets, serving soup and taking pictures. More than 100 students took part in the bowl making, and more than 30 will be working at the dinner.
Participating students will receive community-service credit toward their graduation project.
The dinners have been a model for other schools, said Joyce. Other schools in Pennsylvania as well as Austintown Fitch High School and an elementary school in Fairfax, Va., have attended the event and have started dinners of their own.