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12 Must Attend Fundraisers For February

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Every month the Miami Valley plays hosts to multiple fundraisers for local nonprofit groups and programs. We’ve highlighted a dozen of the must attend events for the month of February, but there are plenty more you can support.

Some require ticket purchases or pre-registration, others are donation at the door, with participation prices as little as the cost of an ice cream cone, up to $150 tickets. For a full list of charitable fundraisers check out the MostMetro.com calendar.  You can also add your event to our calendar using this link.

Savor Your Sunday Brunches to Benefit Stivers

Coco’s Bistro
February 2, 9, 16 and 23 @ 10:00 am – 1:30 pm $30
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MVPC’s Puppy Love

Wheat Penny Oven and Bar
February 2 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Want to snuggle some puppies? ?? Want to find out information about fostering? ??‍♂️ How about have some great food…

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FSB Gives Back: Film Dayton

Fifth Street Brewpub
February 3 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Join us as FilmDayton steps behind the bar to raise money for their non-profit, volunteer-driven organization dedicated to building the…

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Baum Boutique Blowout Sale

Baum Opera House
February 6 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm    $15 – $20

Join us for a fun night highlighting the most well-known and loved boutiques in the Dayton area. Featuring discounted merchandise…

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Wine & Dine For Your Heart

Salar
February 6 @ 6:30 pm   $75
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2020 Valentines Dance – Dayton Dancing with the Stars

Wright State Nutter Center
February 7 @ 7:00 pm – 11:30 pm    $150

A Special Wish Foundation – Dayton has been making special wishes come true for local children for over 30 years. These wishes…

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Galentine’s Day

Crooked Handle Brewing Co.
February 13 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm   $10

Us beer gal’s gotta stick together! Bring your “berry” best girlfriends to celebrate Galentine’s Day at the brewery! This strawberry…

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PANCAKE BREAKFAST

Beavercreek High School
February 22 @ 8:00 am – 12:00 pm     $5

In partnership with the Beavercreek High School Music Program, the Beavercreek Rotary Club presents the 2020 Community Pancake Breakfast from…

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North Dayton Barstool Open

10 Bars in North Dayton
February 22 @ 11:00 am – 6:00 pm     $180/team

Put together a team of four and join us for a 9-hole, 10-bar miniature golf outing to raise money for…

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Empty Bowls 10th annual

Marriott at the University of Dayton
February 27 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Join us for the annual and much awaited Empty Bowls. Select from two seatings, then sample soups made by several…

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Black & White Gala

Presidential Banquet Center
February 28 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm     $75

Join us for an evening benefitting We Care Arts in Kettering, Ohio. The Black & White Gala will be held…

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2020 Bowling for Pride Fun-draiser

Poelking Lanes Wilmington
February 29 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Join us the our Annual Bowling for PRIDE fundraiser at Polking Lanes. Bowling is $20 per person which includes your…

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Rock Bands Unite to Help Beat Cancer at Blind Bob’s

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I say it often: the Dayton music community is full of the most generous people I know. It’s often a two way street, and this weekend, musicians take care of three of their biggest supporters, who are currently battling cancer. If you love rock’n’roll, this show is a win-win all around!

Night of the Beat (Cancer) takes place at Blind Bob’s on Saturday January 25th, to benefit Jaime Testa, Amanda Hensler and Tyler Gilcher. All three of them have been major supporters of the Dayton music community, staples in the Oregon District, and have huge hearts! They absolutely deserve a fantastic party in their honor, raising money to help them continue their fight.

Music is of course on the agenda! Four area rock bands that are donating their time and talents to this party, including: Abertooth Lincoln, Weathervein, Business Casuals, and We Are The Movies.

Sabrina Cox, one of the organizers of this event, explains what makes this event so special: “Last year was really hard for Oregon District, and Dayton as a whole. In the midst of all the tragedies, three beloved members of the Oregon District community were also fighting cancer. We are a community that comes together to love each other in every situation – and this is no exception. The Cancer Cuties, as we lovingly call them, are our friends, family, and neighbors. All the money collected at the door goes directly to them.”

Amander Hensler is one of the “Cancer Cuties” who is benefiting from Saturday night’s Night of the Beat concert.

How to Go?

Saturday January 25th at Blind Bob’s

Doors 9pm

$7 at the door (additional donations encouraged!)

21+

FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1022647121404471/

Muse Machine presents “In The Heights” with bonus Pre-Show Celebration!

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One the Dayton’s most valuable assets is its robust arts community, from visual art, music, and all forms of performing arts. We cultivate that talent in our youth, through innovative programs like Muse Machine, which serves over 75,000 students in southwest Ohio.

Every January, Muse Machine presents a musical that features more than 100 young people from across the Miami Valley. I was re-introduced to these musical performances last year, and I was simply blown away by the talent these teenagers display. There is no doubt, several . are bound for Broadway!

This year Muse Machine presents “In the Heights“, a musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda (creator of Hamilton). The story explores three days of the characters’ lives in the NYC Latino neighborhood of Washington Heights. On the brink of change, friends and family bring their hopes and dreams to life. The score features hip-hop, salsa, meringue and soul music.

The Muse Machine musical has been praised by The Dayton Daily News as “a performing arts all-star effort,” while The Oakwood Register has called it “an evening of true theatrical joy… ” You can see it for yourself Thursday January 16th through Sunday January 19th at the Victoria Theatre in Dayton, Ohio, January 16-19, 2020. Tickets available now through Ticket Center Stage.

Of course attending the performance is a fantastic way to support the organization. If you want to go above and beyond, and have some pre-show fun with fabulous people, consider attending Muse Machine’s annual Social & Show from 5:30 – 7:30 on Friday, January 17, 2020.

There you’ll enjoy cocktails & heavy hors d’oeuvres at Table 33. Each ticket will include food and two drink tickets with choice theatre seating.  It’s an evening you won’t want to miss!  Ticket sales for the Social & Show end January 11, 2020, so don’t delay!

HOW TO GO?

Social & Show Pre-Show Party / Fundraiser

Friday, January 17, 2020

5:30 – 7:30pm
Cocktails & heavy hors d’oeuvres
Table 33 (130 W 2nd St, Dayton OH 45402)

Muse Machine presents the hit musical
IN THE HEIGHTS at 8pm
From Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of HAMILTON
Victoria Theatre (138 N Main St, Dayton OH 45402)

Each ticket includes food, two drink tickets and deluxe theatre seating (seats will be assigned on a first come, first served basis). $45 Ticket for Social only / $100 Social & Show

For info and registration: http://musemachine.com/social/

In the Heights performances:

Thursday January 16, 2020 7pm

Friday, January 17, 2020 8pm

Saturday, January 18, 2020 3pm

Saturday, January 18, 2020 8pm

Sunday January 19, 20020 2pm

Tickets start at $27 and can be purchased here:  https://my.ticketcenterstage.com/overview/6144?fbclid=IwAR04TtWvd-b5JrnGUPpTueUuNmU0tlgtFZOS2nboT3JzjTZBIG_wUJYA77w

A Fabulous Casino Night benefits Breast Cancer Funds!

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On Friday November 15, 2019, you can enjoy a fabulous Casino Night while raising funds for Breast Wishes and the Pink Ribbon Girls. Not only do you get to play your favorite casino games with fabulous prizes, you’re served heavy hors d’oeuvres, desserts and fun!

How does it work? Your $50 ticket includes $50,000 in chips, and $100 VIP ticket get you $75,000 in chips! Those tickets also get you a free drink, or two for VIPs. At the end of the night turn in your remaining chips for raffle tickets for some cool raffle prizes! If Lady Luck isn’t kind, don’t worry, you can buy extra tickets too! There will also be a silent auction and Kim Faris will emcee the event.

Space is limited to this exclusive jeans & jewelry themed event – so secure your spot soon! Tickets are available here. All proceeds to benefit the Pink Ribbon Girls and the Breast Wishes Foundation.

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CO-OP Fest brings Friday night fun, food and music to support Gem City Market!

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On Friday, October 25th, The Yellow Cab Tavern is excited to host CO-OP Dayton for their second annual CO-OP Fest, presented by IUE-CWA. With support from local labor unions and independent, cooperative, and employee-owned businesses, CO-OP Fest is a celebration of Dayton workers and cooperators. It is also a fundraiser for the Gem City Market incubator, Co-op Dayton. The event features some of Dayton’s finest food trucks, bands, poets, worker and cooperative initiatives, raffles, and games!

The musical acts include some seriously funky bands!

6:30pm – Deron Bell Band
8:00pm – Premium Blend Music
9:30pm – Freakquency

There will also be a tap takeover at the Yellow Cab’s bar with Fifth Street Brewpub, Dayton’s own Co-Op Brewery!

Founded in 2015, Co-op Dayton is committed to incubate cooperative businesses to bring sustainable jobs to Dayton and address Dayton’s food crisis through the Gem City Market co-op.

How to Go?

Friday, October 25th, 2019 at The Yellow Cab Tavern 

Cover starts at 5pm with food trucks and meet & greet

6pm the spoken word performances and live music begin.

$15 at the doors / $10 for Gem City Market co-op members.

The Dayton Peace Festival is former NFL Player’s Passion Project

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Join in the first ever Dayton Peace Festival being held October 12th-14th, 2019 at the Dayton Peace Museum, which is located in a gorgeous historic home downtown at 208 W Monument St. The festival offers free yoga, meditation sessions, food trucks, games with celebrity guests, and much more!

This 3-day event is the brain child of Alter High School alumni and former San Francisco 49er Chris Borland. He is currently based in Los Angeles, and was moved to come back to Dayton after the mass shooting in the Oregon District. This festival is his way of helping bring a sense of peace, as well as fun, to his hometown that he cares about so deeply.

See below for the full schedule of events:

Saturday 10/12/19

  • Free yoga 8am-9am
  • Free mindfulness seminar with meditation teacher James Gallagher 10:30am-11:30am
  • Free festival 1pm-5pm. Music, Food, Four-square tournament, Yard games. Join with special celebrity guests!
  • Free book conversation with Wash author Margaret Wrinkle, Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist 7-830pm

Sunday 10/13/19

  • Free yoga 8am-9am
  • Free mindfulness seminar with meditation teacher James Gallagher 10:30am-11:30am

The rest of Sunday’s events are not open to the public. They can be watched on the Peace Summit streaming on Facebook at @DaytonInternationalPeaceMuseum. Religious leaders, local and state policy makers, national thought leaders, and activists will be discussing:

Monday 10/14/19

  • Free yoga 8am-9am
  • Free mindfulness seminar with meditation teacher James Gallagher 10:30am-11:30am
  • Free festival Noon-4pm. Music, Food trucks, Four-Square tournament, Yard Games. Join with special celebrity guests!

All events will be held at The Dayton International Peace Museum at 208 W Monument St!

Saturday Karaoke Benefit for Breast Cancer Cure

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877 E. FRANKLIN ST, CENTERVILLE

Soft Rock Cafe in Centerville has a huge night planned Saturday Oct. 12th. For $5 admission at the door they will have a food spread, raffles, 50/50, drink specials and their signature karaoke party all night til close !

Come experience the best known party secret in town.  Dayton’s #1 spot for karaoke.  This is a fundraiser that you will be so glad you visited.  Time to get your groove on, whether you sing, dance, listen, or just support the breast cancer cure.

 

HERE IS THE SKINNY ON THE BENEFIT TO BEAT BREAST CANCER–

TIMELINE OF EVENTS:

Help find a cure

8pm –
Doors Open $5 admission donation
Food table will be out with all night drink specials.
Raffles, 50/50, Silent Auction, Fundraisers

10pm –
Karaoke and dancing starts

2am –
Karaoke ends/ Bar closes

LOCATION– 877 E. Franklin St, Centerville 

Packed house – view from the stage

If you have never been to Soft Rock Cafe, this is a perfect night to experience all the fun, hype and music.  From Country to Rock n Roll, from oldies to current music you will hear it all.

First time singers, good singers, off-key singers and “American idol” finalists are the kinds of performers you will see on stage.  A fun, safe and relaxed crowd.  No pressure, just fun !  There will be spotlights, fog machine, and it is a concert like atmosphere.

Host Curt Delk and Mark Hall are the premiere Karaoke hosts in the Dayton area for 20 years strong.  Managing Bartender Nicole Gordon has been running this annual event for years and with her mom Vicki, they have raised tens of thousands of dollars for the Susan Komen Fund to fight Breast Cancer.

ROCK ON, COME SING, COME DANCE & HELP CURE BREAST CANCER !

The Soft Rock Cafe Staff are ready to rock with you for cure

The morning view into Soft Rock Cafe ….

 

Two Chili Cookoffs Slated for September !

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Archers Chili Cookoff

The Dayton area has 2 exciting chili cookoffs taking place in early September.  You can come eat the chili. or you can enter the contests and go for the win !

Do you love chili? Spicy or mild?  Beans or no beans?  Do you have a chili recipe that will knock out socks off ???

It may be time for you step up and fulfill you destiny as a Dayton chili champ.  Grab your stirring spoon and take plunge.

Food Adventures is here to tell you about 2 of our favorite annual events.

FIRSTLY —

ARCHERS CENTERVILLE hosts their annual chili cookoff


WHEN: SATURDAY, SEPT 7th at 4pm.
WHERE:  9496 Dayton Lebanon Pike,Centerville, Ohio 45458
WHAT: The winner gets $250, and their chili on the Archer’s menu for a year !T

Admission to the Archers restaurant is free, chili samples will be sold as requested.

Archers Co-owner Dan Apolito and 2018 Archers Chili champ David Klass

***IMPORTANT !! Archers is looking for some more entries for this event !***
Email  [email protected] to enter the contest and he will give you all the info you need.
Last year, David Klass won the cookoff when his chili, made with Reigele beer was voted the winner.
Riegele is brewed in Dayton’s sister city in Germany, and Archers is one of the few places you can find this brew in the USA.

This year, the field is wide open and the judges are excited to see what incredible concoctions are boiled up for this fun cookoff !

If you think you make a good chili, here is your chance to win some $$$.

Enter the contest today !!

 

longhorn Steakhouse’s entry at the AMBUCS chili cookoff 2015

SECONDLY,

AMBUCS hosts their 32nd annual chili cookoff and casino night for charity


WHEN: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13th from 6pm-11pm
WHERE: IBEW LOCAL 82 at 6550 Poe Ave, Dayton, 45414
WHAT: 16 Restaurants to battle it our for best chili in Dayton
WHAT ELSE: All the chili, beer, wine, hot dogs and soda you want included.
CASINO GAMES TOO !
WHY: AMBUCS charity for disabled Daytonians gets the proceeds
COST: $20 at the door – all ages welcome (16 and over must pay)

Casino Games at the AMBUCS chili cookoff Sept 13th

This is the grandaddy of all chili cookoffs in Dayton.   Sixteen area restaurants and a few notable cooks, bring their entries in to this contest.

And come on, how about the free hot dogs, beer. wine , soda and Casino games!  Yss this is correct they have allthe hot dogs you want with a toppings bar.  Make your own cheese coney or a loaded hot dog.

A beer truck will be there pouring endless beers for all those over 21 in attendance.  Usually light beers rule the roost.

There are usually mini bottles of wine and of course a full amount of soda pop.

A DJ will be on hand for those who love music and the dance floor will be open !

Want to try your luck?  Hit a dice game, showdown or black jack table.  More Monte Carlo style games will be there as well.  From spinning wheels to ring tosses, it will be a blast.  You may even see some BINGO !

Please make sure you dont’t miss these two events.  If you think you can cook then enter the chili contest at Archers and maybe you could win $250.   If you are a chili lover – these are must eats !!

Dancing at the AMBUCS event

The best part is the AMBUCS charity benefits from this night.  AMBUCS helps disabled children and adults by building them transportation bike to make their like easier and more mobile.  This helps them go places and enjoy more social outings.  Whether born with a challenge or suffering a crippling injury, AMBUCS helps adults and children in the Dayton area.  This is a worthwhile, and noble cause.

These two Food Adventures are some of the highlights of the year.

All the meat, beans and spices means it will be a GAS!

Judges at the 2018 Archers Chili Cookoff

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Feel free to browse the gallery below from two chili cookoffs.

 

AMBUCS SHOWDOWN ABLE !

Archers Chili contestant 2018

The chef at Christophers talking chili

Archers Chili contestant 2018

AMBUCS CROWD

Mr Eatons Chili

The votes are in !

AMBUCS chili contestant

 

 

Get Soulfully Funkalicious with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company!

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Dayton is birthplace of amazing artistic as well as engineering feats. That spirit of innovation blossomed during the late 1960s-1980s in a couple of unique ways: the invention of funk music and the birth of modern dance.  In 1968, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company became the first modern dance company established in Ohio. Shortly after, Dayton become the proud capital of Funk music in the 1970s and 1980s.

On Saturday August, 24, 2019 both of those innovative art forms are celebrated together at DCDC’s Soulfully Funkalicious All-White Party! Enjoy delicious soul food while watching DCDC’s dance artists take to the floor in grand funk style with live music from the Dayton Funk All-Stars! Make sure to bring an appetite and your dancin’ shoes for this truly fun and fabulous way to support one of Dayton’s world-class artistic institutions!

How To Go?

What: Soulfully Funkalicious All-White Party

When: August, 24, 2019 from 6-11pm

Where: Dayton Convention Center (22 E 5th St, Dayton)

Tickets: $80 General Seating / $120 VIP Seating / $800 General Table (seats 10) / $1200 VIP Table (seats 10)

For this event only, please purchase tickets at Eventbrite or contact DCDC at 937-228-3232. Ticket purchases are non-refundable.

Please note: All white attire requested.

 

Dayton Porchfest offers free music in a beautiful neighborhood!

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Dayton Porchfest is an annual event occurring the final Saturday of August in St Anne’s Hill. PHOTO BY LIBBY BALLENGEE

Dayton Porchfest is back for a third year! It’s a day where music fills the streets and porches of St Anne’s Hill, one of Dayton’s most charming historic neighborhoods. It’s a free, family friendly event that runs from 1:30-7pm on Saturday August 24, 2019.

​Dayton has a rich musical history and active music scene, which continues today. Dayton Porchfest is committed to reflecting that in its selection of musical artists, from funk and blues to indie rock and jazz, classical and country, to bluegrass and old timey that has deep Appalachian traditions here. The event also celebrates the ethnic diversity of the region, a reflection of our “Welcome Dayton” spirit that has contributed to a significant influx of immigrants and refugees over the past decade.

​Dayton Porchfest is an initiative of The Collaboratory, a civic innovation lab that moves ideas to action. The Collaboratory provides infrastructure for people and organizations to collaboratively develop community initiatives that generate new economic, civic and creative opportunities and value. The result is a healthier, more thriving region. All proceeds from Dayton Porchfest go to support the work of The Collaboratory.

How to Go?

When: Saturday August 24, 2019. 1:30pm kickoff. 2-7pm music. Link to full . schedule – click here or see below

Where: Throughout St Anne’s Historic Neighborhood (E 5th St, just east of Keowee). Link to map – click here or see below

Who: All ages welcome!

Cost: Free (tips for musicians accepted!)