Spaghetti Disco is our favorite wacky neighborhood tradition and benefits the VLP. This amazing party brings together delicious food, kids’ crafts and games, and great neighbors on a sizzling dance floor. Not too many parties combine meatballs with literacy, the Bee-Gees with the ABCs, like this one does.
Mark your calendars for Spaghetti Disco XIV!
When: Saturday, February 25, 2012! (Dinner: 5:30-8:00 pm, Dance: 8:00-11:00 pm)
Where: St. Johns Church, 2640 Saint Paul Street
Tickets: Click here to purchase tickets online
Thanks to our 2012 Event Sponsors:
Donna’s Coffee Bar & Restaurant
Eddie’s Market of Charles Village
Woolsey Farm
One Hot Couple: The History of the Library and the Disco
When the Pratt Library closed its Charles Village branch in 1997, the neighborhood was incensed. Community activists (many of whom Disco with us each year), filed a lawsuit and shut down Saint Paul Street by staging a full-blown funeral march for their library.
Though they lost their lawsuit, they gained control of the historic building, which they lovingly restored with volunteer hours. By community forum, they created the Village Learning Place (VLP) to fill the neighborhood’s need for accessible resources of all kinds, from books to computers, from educational classes to a community garden.
The Spaghetti Disco was originally dreamed up by ingenious neighborhood residents (who still run the Disco kitchen and get down on the dance floor) as a way to raise money for playgrounds in Charles Village. In 2004, with neighborhood greenspaces thriving, no one wanted to see the Disco die, so it went looking for a worthy cause to support.
That’s when the Disco and the VLP got together, and it has been a simply sizzling relationship ever since. Not too many parties combine meatballs with literacy, the Bee-Gees with the ABCs, like this one does.
The VLP’s mission is to promote literacy, cultural awareness, and lifelong learning. Every program and service we offer is free all year round, and that’s why your support of the Disco is so important.
To see pictures from Disco 2011, check out our Disco-tastic Flickr slideshow here!
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