The Conscious Alliance hosted its first food drives at Denver's Fillmore Auditorium, during the spring of 2002. The drives were organized in an effort to generate food and awareness towards our annual food deliveries to impoverished Indian Reservations in South Dakota, Arizona, Montana, and New Mexico. Our first food drives at the Fillmore filled a 14ft. box truck, which was a testament to the potential of this project. Now, six years later, and with the help of supporting bands and venues, we have collected over 500,000 lbs. at concerts across the United States.
As the Conscious Alliance has grown, we have also simultaneously expanded on our events within Colorado. In 2005, we started an initiative to host a food drive at every Fillmore show to benefit the Denver's MetroCare
Ring emergency assistance center. Volunteers, stationed outside of the main entrance, collect donations and furnish special edition posters to supporters. Currently, a 2009 Fillmore poster masterpiece created by artist, John
Lackey is being offered to all patrons that donate 10 non-perishable food items.
The Conscious Alliance always encourages food donations to be low-sodium and health oriented products. “Organic” food donations are especially encouraged. RAMEN
NOODLES will NOT be accepted for the free poster.
Our hope is that as the Fillmore food drives grow stronger and stronger, the “Art that Feeds” program will eventually produce upwards of 100,000 lbs. of food donations per year for Denver's Hungry.
