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SPREE INSIDER
The last days of disco? Hardly!
By Leah Rankin
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World’s Largest Disco 2008 and Coffee & Chocolate 2007 photos by Cheryl Jackson.
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Jim Kelly photo by Jean-Pierre Thimot.
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Western New York prides itself on diversity, as does the Spree Insider. Try this: November features the World’s Largest Disco, the ATHENA Awards, Coffee & Chocolate for the Literacy Volunteers of Buffalo & Erie County, and the Hunter’s Hope Candlelight Ball. Let’s dance, eat, and raise money for some of the area’s most worthy causes—and have fun doing it.
The month begins with a salute to girl power with the twentieth annual ATHENA Awards on November 4. The event celebrates women in the Buffalo Niagara region who have been pioneers in their professional fields. This year’s luncheon will introduce the new ATHENA Young Professional Award, which was established to celebrate young women who have piloted creative initiatives within their communities. The ceremony will identify female professionals as role models and honor them for advancing the status of women in the Buffalo Niagara region. The event will take place at the Adam’s Mark Hotel from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. A portion of the proceeds benefits the American Cancer Society. Visit www.thepartnership.org for info, including the full list of nominees.
The Literacy Volunteers of Buffalo & Erie County, Inc. know how to make literature a blast, and that’s why they are again hosting their annual Coffee & Chocolate event on November 12. This mouthwatering event, sponsored by Starbucks Coffee and Fowler’s Chocolates, helps to raise awareness of illiteracy prevention while providing patrons a most decadent literary experience. In the spirit of Willy Wonka, a pair of scrumdiddlyumtious chocolate diamond earrings, courtesy of S&E Jewelers, will go to the lucky person who finds a golden ticket in a chocolate bar. The event will be held at Shea’s Smith Theatre & Grand Lobby. Go to www.literacybuffalo.org for more details.
Buffalo Bills legend and National Football League Hall of Famer Jim Kelly has devoted much of his post-gridiron career to raising money for a cause near and dear to his heart, and continues this quest on November 20, the date of the Hunter’s Hope Candlelight Ball. The black-tie event raises research dollars for Krabbe Leukodystrophy, a fatal neurological disease from which Kelly’s son, Hunter, passed away in 2005. The fundraiser takes place at Samuel’s Grande Manor on Main Street in Clarence and features some of the finest culinary masterpieces from thirty established restaurants and wineries in the region. Registration is online at www.huntershope.org.
Something called Festivals.com voted the World’s Largest Disco “The Greatest Event on Earth,” and that’s no surprise. The event, scheduled this year for November 28 at the Buffalo Convention Center, is bigger than ever. The Convention Center uses 500,000 watts of sound and lights to brighten the largest dance floor in New York State, and every year the event welcomes seventies-era celebrities like the cast of The Brady Bunch and Happy Days to help transform Buffalo into the most psychedelic funky town on the planet, again. (Celebs have included Danny Bonaduce, Erik Estrada, the Hanson Brothers.) Embarass yourself, and your friends, and do it proudly—what happens at the World’s Largest Disco ... you know the rest. Visit www.worldslargestdisco.com for more info.
Leah Rankin, a senior at the University of Rochester, was a summer 2009 Spree intern.
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