Many things have changed, but people are still in need of food, and the Empty Bowls event is still offered every fall to help feed them.

The annual event offered by Connecticut Foodshare brings together local artisans, area restaurants and volunteers. Held at CT State Community College Manchester’s campus, the event will begin Saturday at 11 a.m. in the Culinary Arts Center and end at 2 p.m.

One thing that has changed about Empty Bowls is the ticket price. Once $25, it is now $30. Tickets can be purchased at the door. Attendees get to choose a handcrafted bowl and can fill it with unlimited soup and bread. The food comes from a variety of area eateries (see full list below).

But the bowls are donated by area potters as well as pottery enthusiasts and students at CT State Manchester.

Kate Oggel, who teaches ceramics at CT State Manchester, said she has had a dozen students crafting bowls in the last month.

“So far, we have made 100 bowls and there is no limit on the number of bowls being made,” she said just a few days before the event. “We are just trying to do our part, and our target was to make 100 or more bowls.”

Once the bowls are thrown on the wheel, they are glazed with a commercial, food safe glaze and fired, Oggel said.

But size and decoration are up to the artist.

“They decorate whatever they want; the goal here is to try to make them into a size of a soup bowl, not too small or gigantic but kind of a singular sized bowl,” she said.

For more information or to make a donation visit https://www.ctfoodshare.org/events.