Food and Funk for Good Causes on the Menu Tonight

The Denver Athletic Club will play host to the World as a Classroom, a dinner benefiting Denver Public School students tonight at 6 p.m. This dinner will raise scholarship money to send Denver Public Schools students on travel, language immersion, community service and cultural exchange experiences around the globe. The...

By Ben Landreth

April 23, 2015

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The Denver Athletic Club will play host to the World as a Classroom, a dinner benefiting Denver Public School students tonight at 6 p.m. This dinner will raise scholarship money to send Denver Public Schools students on travel, language immersion, community service and cultural exchange experiences around the globe. The keynote speaker is Jamie Van Leeuwen, senior advisor to Governor John Hickenlooper and founder and CEO of the Global Livingston Institute. Tickets for the dinner are $125; find more information here.

Women's Partnership Market and Resilient Futures International are co-hosting Funk for Ghana, a fundraiser with funk band Atomga tonight at the Armoury; proceeds will benefit projects to build sustainability in the Ekumfi-Arkrah Village in Ghana. The party starts at 6:30 p.m. and tickets are $30 in advance; $35 at the door. Find out more here.

For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online Food & Drink listings — and if you have information for a culinary event you'd like included in our online calendar, send it to [email protected].

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