Placemat 2024 (drawings by ArtWorks)
Menu, 2025 (drawings by ArtWorks)
Today our Food
2023-ongoing
with Employment Skills Center and Project SHARE
Today Our Food is an ongoing collaboration between CALC, the Employment Skills Center, and Project SHARE. It occurs each Spring during Carlisle’s annual Empty Bowls community dinner, which is hosted by Carlisle Arts Learning Center at Project SHARE’s warehouse. Each year, teachers in the Employment Skills Center ESL program identify a student or group of students to invite to contribute a soup recipe from their country of origin. CALC ArtWorks teens help create storytelling around this recipe, and they help cook the soup at SHARE’s kitchen. During the event, hundreds come out to support food accessibility, and Today Our Food offers an opportunity for each to taste a recipe from one (or more!) of Carlisle’s many vibrant immigrant communities. This soup is one of many options available at the dinner — the rest of which are generously donated by local business and restaurants.
2025 Recipe Contributors: Hùng Kwang and Family (Vietnamese Pho)
2024 Recipe Contributors: Nina Oliveria and Tania Bianca Smith (Brazilian Caldo Verde)
2023 Recipe Contributors: Henriette Evans (Lebanese Split Pea Soup), Krystyna Huliako, Natalia Skubii, Halyna Murovana, Lyudmyla Dubchak, Viktoria Firman (Ukranian Borscht), Mohammed Lamkiysse, Hasnaa Salih-eddine (Morroccan Harira), Fatima Rasouli (Afghan Chicken Soup)
Mohammed speaks about his wife Hasnaa’s Moroccan Harira in 2023
Menus (colored by guests) for each of 4 ESL-contributed soups (2023)