The Whistler Pottery Club’s ceramic artists have been busily creating bowls for a new food bank fundraiser.

“Empty Bowls” is an event where people purchase a handmade bowl and fill it with delicious soup made by some of the resort’s top chefs. This is the first year the pottery club has organized it, though it has taken place in other communities.

Chefs from The Four Seasons, the Grill & Vine and Alta Bistro have already agreed to make soup for the night, says one of the organizers, Mary Ann Collishaw.

Around 100 bowls have been made especially for the event. The pottery club hopes to raise $3,000, which will be distributed to food banks in the Sea to Sky region.

“Pottery is a really community-oriented activity. We’re really excited. Visually there is such a connection, we doing it in the Istken Hall at the SLCC (Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre), which is a round room. Then there are the bowls and we all work on wheels,” Collishaw says. “It’s really easy to grasp the concept of what goes around comes around.”

Empty Bowls will take place at the SLCC on Friday, Feb. 21. Tickets are $30 from the SLCC, at Kay Austen Pottery in Squamish or at whistlerpotteryclub@gmail.com.

Along with the soup there will be bannock supplied by the SLCC and non-alcoholic beverages. There will also be a cash bar.