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.
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.
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.
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!
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!