Don’t get out your bowling shoes and favorite bowling ball, though.

The focus of the event, scheduled for next Monday and Tuesday, is making bowls out of clay for subsequent sale at a fundraiser set for October to benefit the Weber Cares Pantry. The Bowl-a-Thon goes from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day and will be held in the main atrium of The Monarch at 455 25th St.

“It’s all free, everything’s free. Anybody can come,” said Monica Linford, an adjunct instructor and academic advisor at Weber State and the main organizer of the event. Clay will be provided and professional potters will be on hand to help participants craft bowls on pottery wheels.

Those taking part won’t be able to keep their masterworks. Professional potters will finish the bowls and glaze them and they’ll be sold at the Empty Bowls event scheduled for Oct. 14 from 4-7 p.m. at the Eccles Community Art Center at 2580 Jefferson Ave.

Linford hopes the October sale generates $10,000 for the Weber Cares Pantry, up from $5,300 last year, the inaugural Empty Bowls event here. Some 35% of WSU students report food insecurity, organizers say, and the pantry serves Weber State students and staff.

The Ogden plans are part of the Empty Bowls initiative, a grassroots movement spearheaded by artists that’s aimed at raising money at similar events around the world for groups that fight hunger.

Students in a class Linford teaches also take part in the Ogden effort.

The Empty Bowl event in Ogden is funded by a grant from the Alan and Jeanne Hall Endowment For Community Outreach.