Name: Empty Bowls 2023
Start: 2023-06-17T17:30:00
End: 2023-06-17T20:30:00
Location: Boundary Bay Brewery

Eat Soup, End Hunger: Empty Bowls benefit returns to Bellingham! WHEN: June 17th, 2023, 5:30-8:30pmWHERE: Boundary Bay Brewery Beer Garden Empty Bowls is a benefit event to raise funds to help feed the hungry in our community. A $20 entry ticket includes your choice of a one-of-a-kind handmade bowl, a bowl of delicious soup, and bread from a local restaurant. A silent auction of handmade serving dishes by local artists and live musical entertainment will fill out the evening in Boundary Bay Brewery’s Beer Garden. Drinks will be available to purchase from Boundary Bay Brewery on site. Your donations, ticket purchases, and 40% of all silent auction winning bids will benefit Maple Alley and Bellingham Food Bank. Artists providing silent auction items receive 50% of silent auction winning bids on their items. The empty bowls movement started in the early 1990s when Lisa Blackburn and John Hartom wanted to counteract the negative news around hunger and poverty in their community in Michigan. Since 2015 WACK (Whatcom Artists of Clay and Kiln) has raised between $5000-$8000 annually for the community through Empty Bowls, and donations are split equally between the Bellingham Food Bank and Maple Alley Inn. The core of the event is a supper where, for a donation, guests choose a handmade bowl and receive a delicious meal of soup and bread donated by local restaurants. They then sit down among the other guests to eat together, and return home with their empty, handmade bowl.This event is made possible by local potters (students, hobbyists, and professionals) creating bowls, and by generous local restaurants donating food. This has been a Bellingham yearly event since 2010, and WACK is delighted to bring the event back this year after a 3-year hiatus due to COVID.