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Special Events

   

Tarrant Area Food Bank's special events are listed at the appropriate times of the year in this site's Calendar section.

  

Some of our major events with past years' photos are described below.

Empty Bowls
Tarrant Area Food Bank's most popular fundraising event is one of hundreds of such events held around the world to fight hunger. Paying guests sample savory soups, breads and desserts donated and served by local restaurants and caterers; then select handcrafted or hand-decorated bowls donated by professional artisans, art students and hobby potters. Tarrant Area Food Bank's first Empty Bowls event, held in February 2003, attracted 1,000 guests to Bass Performance Hall's elegant Maddox-Muse Center in downtown Fort Worth. In 2007, to accommodate the growing number of guests, the Fifth Annual Empty Bowls moved to Round Up Inn at Will Rogers Memorial Center.

    

   

                      Empty Bowls 2005

    Photo courtesy of Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

                    Photo by Ron Jenkins.

 

CANSTRUCTION®

The Fort Worth Chapters of The American Institute of Architects and the Society of Design Administration sponsor this event of imaginative and cleverly engineered sculptures built entirely of canned and packaged foods. Tarrant area architectural, design and engineering firms and students form teams to design and build these "canned art" structures, which are judged by local celebrities for awards such as "Best Meal" and "Best Use of Labels."  

All food used in the can-structions, which was 52,910 pounds in 2006,

is donated to Tarrant Area Food Bank. The 2006 CANSTRUCTION® event was October 15-21 at North East Mall in the Mid-Cities

(northeast Tarrant County).

For information on the next CANSTRUCTION®, see our

Calendar in October of that year.

All I Want for Christmas   

byFrank W. Neal & Associates won

2006 Best Use of Labels

 

 

Lending a Helping Hand

(Based on Hamburger Helper Hand)

by Quorum Architects won
2006 Structural Ingenuity

   

 

CANdergarten Lunchtime

(Open lunchbox with peanut butter & jelly sandwich inside and lunchbox lid showing Snoopy as the Red Baron) by Gideon Toal won 2006

Jurors' Favorite

  

Kick the Can
At high noon on the first Friday of November, hundreds of adults and children gather on Main Street in Fort Worth to kick hunger out of north central Texas. Relay teams of four kick large empty cans around barrels down one block of red bricks. A tradition since 1983 when Tarrant Area Food Bank held its second community food drive, Kick the Can each year launches our Annual Fall/Holiday Cans & Cash Drive. The relay races are "judged" by local court judges, other government officials and corporate representatives while a local popular radio announcer gives a running commentary on the wild, crazy activities of racers and their cheering squads, who are often in costumes. Teams are asked to keep cheating and bribing of judges to a minimum while having as much fun as possible. Groups from businesses, clubs, medical facilities, government agencies, schools and others participate. To join this food-drive fun, register in October on the Kick the Can form. Registration and participation are free of charge.

 

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