EVENT - Fillmore Denver, Spring Food Drive 2008
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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, five 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 Metro Care Ring emergency assistance
center. Volunteers, stationed outside of the main entrance,
collect donations and furnish special edition posters to supporters.
Currently, we create four Fillmore posters a year that are
available for a donation of 10 non-perishable items.
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.
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