If you go
› What: March Hare Disco.› When: 6:30-10:30 p.m., Friday, March 10.› Where: The Well, 1800 Rossville Ave.› Admission: $25 in advance, $30 day of.› Website: art120.org/marchhare.
Art 120 is sponsoring a March Hare Disco on Friday, March 10, at The Well on Rossville Avenue.It's time to get out those knit slacks and 2-inch-high stacks and do a little boogie-woogie for the arts.
Art 120 is sponsoring March Hare Disco on Friday night, March 10, at The Well, the old Loose Cannon space at 1800 Rossville Ave. The event is the first of a couple of fundraisers that will benefit Art 120's Art-Car-A-Van to elementary schools with its arts-in-education programming, according to executive director Kate Warren.
DJ MillionDollaMan will provide the music, while Tiffany Malapanese, owner of Possitiffitea, will create custom tea blends at the MadHatter Tea Bar. There also will be a dessert bar.
Art 120 will present its bigger fundraiser called the Mad Hatter Ball on April 28 at the Hunter Museum of American Art as part of Art Car weekend, April 28-30. The Art Car Parade will be that Saturday, April 29.
Patrons who buy tickets in advance for the Mad Hatter Ball will be able to pick out one of the nearly 200 ball/prom gowns that Deshel Hamrick began gathering for her 4 Ever Young Thrift Store when she was attending high school at Howard.
As a senior project, Hamrick created the store to raise funds for the school. Warren says Art 120 transitioned to an unused space in Howard's gym after fire destroyed its space off Main Street last year and has been working with the school on several projects. Its main objective is to provide two art teachers in county schools that have no arts programming.
Hamrick is now in nursing school but has kept the thrift shop going.
"We found out she had hundreds of ball gowns and dresses, so we decided to have this funky giveaway," Warren says. "We're calling it 'Dress-a-Tron 200' because there are about 200 dresses. For $25, you can get a dress and wear it to the Mad Hatter Ball and art it up however you want."
Contact Barry Courter at bcourter@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6354.