POUR’N YER HEART OUT at GARVER FEED MILL
3241 Garver Green, Madison, WI 53704
VIP TICKETED ENTRY @11am-10pm IRON POUR @4pm AFTER PARTY @7pm-10pm
EVENT INFO
The PYHO (Pour’n Yer Heart Out™) community iron casting event will be celebrating its 16th year on Saturday, February 15, 2025 at its NEW location, Garver Feed Mill, on Madison’s east side.
We’re hosting a “coming of age” party like we’ve never done before as we collaborate with the Garver Event’s team to create an extraordinary winter gathering. Foundry artisans from across the country travel into Madison to melt over 2,000 lbs of molten iron that is cast into sand molds prepared during public workshops throughout January and February, before the event.
FeLion’s radically spectacular and hands-on opportunities allow any person / student / youth / elder / artist & non-artist the chance of a lifetime to make a deeply unique iron casting, starting from scratch!
Video Credit: The Cast Iron Gypsy - PYHO 2024.
AT THE EVENT
The furnace will tap out at 4pm CST, starting the metal casting spectacle (ie; the iron pour), but the day is filled with activities planned for enjoyment both inside and outside before this, including our Foundry in a Box tin casting station from 11am-2pm inside Garver Lounge, an artisan market from 2pm-10pm, leather patch + wood coaster branding outside in the VIP tent, and live music w/ drink specials at the afterparty.
Whether you’ve made a mold at one of our WORKSHOPS beforehand, or you are just stumbling upon this event the day it happens, there are lots of ways to view, participate and engage with the creative crew of over 60 foundry artists who come into Madison, WI from across the country.
VIP PASSES
The iron pour is FREE and open for anyone to watch from our general viewing areas outside, or if you want a more elevated experience, you can purchase the VIP wristband for access into the heated tent area closer to the pour floor. The VIP pass includes a PYHO mug for bottomless beer refills at Garver Lounge, a ticket to make a custom tin casting at our Foundry in a Box station, and access to enjoy tent-side fire-related activities and the entrance to the Private Lounge afterparty.
AFTERPARTY
After the iron cools, everyone gathers inside Garver’s Lounge area between 7pm-11pm to shift gears and enjoy live music from the One-Eyed Wally’s, peruse the PYHO Vendor Market, indulge in Garver’s food specials, and exchange camaraderie with each other. This is the best chance for VIP’ers and the public to meet the whole iron casting crew while they are in town together! Anyone bringing an official “Pour'n Yer Heart Out” EVENT MUG to the bar gets free beer refills till the kegs are dry, compliments of FeLion.
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GET INVOLVED
Have you been to one of our pours and want to help in some way?! We have a variety of creative, general labor, and administrative tasks that need a rotation of volunteers at each event. Click the button below to fill out our Volunteer Interest Form so you can get on the email list for current and upcoming opportunities at our events!
FEELING THE PYHO LOVE
We’ve kept PYHO free and inclusive for 15 years through a mix of highly attended workshops and the extended support of a fabulous pool of corporate and individual community sponsors every year. This year we are adding an elevated option to get closer to the pour floor and enjoy a heated tent and wood fires, along with event-day activities with our VIP Tickets available.
Consider joining the team of business & community leaders who enjoy the exposure of their engagement with local creative and manufacturing industries at the big event. Everyone benefits from the material and financial sponsors by keeping the event safe, organized, comfortable & fun for all who attend!
WHAT IS AN IRON POUR?
We’re lighting up a cupola style furnace that is designed to continuously melt raw cast iron using coke fuel and scrap iron that has been broken down from iron radiators and bathtubs. The furnace is a refractory-lined steel shell with a few strategically placed holes cut through the middle to allow for forced air to blow and ignite the coke fuel inside.
The coke gets hot enough to melt raw iron that is charged above it in the stack, eventual turning it from cold ships of iron scrap into molten raindrops of grey iron. This “iron rain” makes it’s way to the bottom of the furnace where we tap it all out at 2500 F into hand-held ladles, and cast into various sand molds laid out on a pour floor.
It takes approximately 2-4 hours to cast 1000-2000 lbs of iron with the size of furnace that we use. You can also expect to see 15-30 artisans working together on the pour floor to fulfill all of the jobs involved in running the furnace and casting iron into the molds.
Photo Credit: Rob Dutcher (Dutcher Photography)