Tuesday / April 28, 2015 / 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Canstruction Chicago: Interested Teams Meeting
AIA Chicago, 35 East Wacker Drive, #250
Want to know more? Come to the Interested Teams Meeting. New firms and Canstruction Chicago veterans are welcome. We’re looking for design/build teams to take on a fun and rewarding challenge. Show off your company’s skills while helping stock local food bank shelves.
Canstruction’s Mission: To feed and inspire the world – one can at a time.
Canstruction® is a unique charity which hosts competitions, exhibitions and events showcasing colossal structures made entirely out of full cans of food. After the structures are built, the cansculptures® go on display to the public as a giant art exhibition. At the end of the event, all food is donated to local hunger relief organizations.
Recognized for our commitment to innovation, hunger relief and collaboration, our work has helped raise over 25 million pounds of food since 1992. Canstruction® events are held annually in over 150 cities around the world including North America, Australia, South America, Europe, and Asia.
Canstruction Chicago, its design/build teams, our location host, The Merchandise Mart, and food bank partner, the Greater Chicago Food Depository, have done great work over the past eight years and made Canstruction a major event for the Food Depository. According to Canstruction totals for 2013-14, Chicago ranks third in food collected - 98,103 lbs - and first (by a huge margin) in total meals provided through food and cash: 546,582 meals.
Will you part of our success this year?
Key dates:
Build Night Wednesday, August 12
Awards Reception Thursday, September 03
Decanstruction Tuesday, September 08
