The Steel City Big Pour
Supporting reuse since 2007
Beer, food, art, music & more – our yearly fundraiser is a good time for a good cause!
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Steel City Big Pour
The 15th Steel City Big Pour fundraiser will be held on Saturday, October 8th, 2022
This year the event will be held at the Rockwell Park Apollo building.
Get ready for a jam-packed Big Pour 15!
We are currently recruiting food vendors to participate in the event. If you aren’t familiar, the Big Pour is an all-inclusive sampling event. Vendors are not selling food, but providing small plate tastings for attendees to try. Paid stipend provided.
For info about being a food vendor please email Terry Wiles.
We are also looking for interested artists for live art demonstrations during the event. live-art demonstrations that work with CJ inventory or other sources of reusable materials. We get particularly excited about large pieces that can be assembled on site and we seem to be amassing a collection of animals, including a fish, duck, raccoon, and the space monkey!
If you’re interested in presenting live art at the event, please email Mike Gable for info.
Thank you to our 2021 sponsors!
Presented by
Keg Level
Flaherty & O’Hara Beverage Alcohol Law
Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services
Honeycomb Credit
Kelly Insurance Group
Sitko Bruno
Growler Level
Goodwill of Southwestern PA
Schell Games
Doors Unhinged
Brunner
National Apartment Laundries
FortyEighty Architecture
First National Bank
Merit Electrical Group
KU Resources, Inc.
Jeni Benz Photography
CJ Board Member
Pint Level
NuGo Nutrition
Michael Brothers Companies
Lab8 Architecture + Design
Fort Pitt Capital Group
Pennsylvania Resources Council
David Lagneses
CJ Board Members
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Sponsorships
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Ticket sales
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Merch sales
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Donations
All go to support Construction Junction
Why do we have a Big Pour?
More than 12 years of Big Pour fundraisers have created the equivalent of over an entire extra year’s worth of revenue to help make so many things possible at CJ that we would not otherwise be able to accomplish, including our deconstruction program and job training programs.
All proceeds from the sale of Steel City Big Pour tickets and merchandise go to supporting the mission and operation of Construction Junction. The Big Pour is a huge part of raising much needed funds for our organization. Thanks to everyone who supports this event and all it has grown since 2007!
Want to volunteer at the Big Pour?
View the galleries of Big Pour photos from our official photographer, Jeni Benz!
2019 (Big Pour 13) | 2018 (Big Pour 12) | 2017 (Big Pour 11) | 2016 (Big Pour 10) |
2015 (Big Pour 9) | 2014 (Big Pour 8) | 2013 (Big Pour 7) | 2012 (Big Pour 6) | 2011 (Big Pour 5)
Find out more about the Big Pour and why it exists in this YouTube excerpt from Rick Sebak’s “25 Things I Like About Pittsburgh” – we are #s 7 and 8 (Big Pour and Construction Junction). Click here to buy the DVD from WQED!