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
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
Get ready for a jam-packed Big Pour 15!
This year the event will be held at the Rockwell Park Apollo building.
The Apollo Building | Rockwell Park
7511 Thomas Blvd (Behind CJ)
The Big Pour experience – beer, food, art + music – in a new adaptive reuse space!
The renovated Apollo building, originally built in 1901, was a part of Rockwell Standard’s Pittsburgh headquarters complex before the company merged with North American Aviation and relocated to California, going on to build the Command and Service modules for all 11 NASA Project Apollo lunar missions and development of the Space Shuttle.
Thank you to our 2022 sponsors!
presented by
Zero Waste
Sustainable Power
Keg Level
Safe Travel
Growler Level
Pint Level
Greg LaForest – CJ Board
National Apartment Laundries
Turner Construction Co.
Anonymous – CJ Board
Iams Consulting
John Wilds
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.
Partner Application Packets
Click to view and download a PDF form
Please email all completed application forms to bigpour@cjreuse.org
Why do we have a Big Pour?
Yearly Big Pour fundraisers have create the equivalent of over an entire extra month’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!
Sponsorships | Ticket Sales | Merch Sales |Donations
All go to support Construction Junction and our mission of conservation, reuse and a circular economy!
Want to volunteer at the Big Pour?
View past Big Pour photo galleries from our official photographer, Jeni Benz
2021 | Big Pour 14
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!