Canton Empty Bowls

Welcome to our first annual Canton Empty Bowls event!
We are excited to use our skills as clay artists and potters to help alleviate food insecurity in our community. Since many of our members live close to Canton, we're focusing our efforts on this area. Eventually we'd love to support more events in the surrounding North Georgia area.

March 15, 2025
11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

For 2025 all proceeds, 100%, will go to the following three organizations that are impacting our community in a meaningful way.
Please consider donating your time, energy, and money to these worthy charities and join us March 15th for a special event.

Community Program Beneficiaries

The Homeless Coalition of Cherokee County

Provides a Motel Meal Kit for each of our guests entering the Operation Roof program. This box contains motel friendly food (shelf stable, single serve, only requires microwave and water to prepare) for 10 breakfasts, 10 lunches or dinners, 10 sides, 20 snacks, and paper products.

Dominic's Mission & Community Food Kitchen

Dominic's Mission is a Community Food Pantry in Ball Ground Ga. The Mission is to help feed families in need in our community with weekly groceries as well as hot meal food vouchers that can be used at Dominic's Food Trucks and Dining Restaurant. Over the course of 2024 we have given out over 100,000 pds of food, given away over $10,000 in free food meal vouchers, and are serving an average of 200 families a month!
Our motto is "We are not here for ourselves" and we try to lead the community with this motto at heart and hope to continue to have many partners with us to continue to grow and serve those in need in our community.

Cherokee County Homeless Veteran Program

by American Legion Post 45
Examples of our service include: Food assistance, Clothing, Limited shelter, Financial assistance, VA claims support, Job assistance, Transportation assistance, Home repair and maintenance, Vehicle donation, help pay for housing and assistance to understand government programs and navigating the system.

A special thank you to the City of Canton for hosting the
Canton Empty Bowls Event!

What is an Empty Bowls event?

Empty Bowls is a grassroots movement created to raise money for food banks, soup kitchens, and other organizations that fight hunger. Artists and craftspeople create handcrafted bowls, and guests purchase a ticket to eat a simple meal of soup and bread.

This meal represents the reality of the food insecure and how a soup kitchen meal may be the only hot meal some in our community have access to.

Guests can keep their bowl as a reminder of the empty bowls in their community. 100% of the money raised will be donated to the local food organizations.

The bowls for this event will be created by the members of the Georgia Clay Council and some will be collected from other artists in the area. The GCC is a group of ceramic artists and potters in the Northwest Georgia area.

But...
We need your help to give these worthy charities a hand in helping our community. While the bowl is important to the event, it’s only an empty bowl until someone fills it... and provides hope for the food insecure.
Items needed include soup, rolls, cookies, water, paper goods, advertising, volunteers, equipment, and more!

See below for a more comprehensive list.

How Can You Help?

Business and Corporate Sponsors:

Food Donations: soup, bread, cookies, drinks.
Disposables: paper plates, bowls, cups, napkins
Monetary Donations: advertising, printing, serving ware

Perks:

Sponsors are included in advertising for the event, signs for display in their businesses, highlighted in our social media advertising, and included in a special digital presentation to be played during the event.

Volunteer roles for organizations and individuals:

Ticket sales
Marketing distribution (putting up posters)
Line and Entry control
Set up
Serving
Clean-up
Bowl distribution
Bowl collection
shopping

Artists and Potters

Bowl Donation Guidelines:
- Ideally holds at least 12 ounces.
- Food safe, or clearly marked as decorative only.

Drop off locations in Canton, Dalton, and Milton, pickups available for other areas. Email us at CantonEmptyBowls@gmail.com for arrangements.

Join us for a monthly Bowl-a-thon!

Coming Soon!

Purchase Tickets Here.

$35 per ticket, includes a handmade ceramic bowl and a "soup kitchen" lunch.

Questions?

Want to talk to us about how you or your organization can help?

Email us at :

CantonEmptyBowls@gmail.com

March 15, 2025 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.