Saturday marks the 4th annual Flash Party to be held at the Essex Arts Center. This night will stimulate your senses with an extraordinary multimedia visual and acoustical backdrop. Go-go dancers, video lighting, film, live bands including The If’s, and multiple djs will highlight the evening.
The event will span throughout the multiple rooms and levels of the Essex Arts Center. This is a 21+ event and ticket price includes beer, wine and the chance to design your very own steel sculpture, which will then be plasma-cut by professionals for you to take home.
Tickets are available presale at Terrapin Station (1172 Hertel Avenue) and Everything Elmwood (740 Elmwood Ave & 4446 Main Street, Snyder) for $35.00, and will also be available at the door for $40.
Also see here for clips from last year’s successful party which raised over $5,000 for the charity.
The Essex Arts Center, located on Essex Street on Buffalo’s West Side, was started by Larry W. Griffis Jr. in 1969 to serve as a place for artists to live, create, show their work and grow as creative individuals. The Center was the first of its kind in Buffalo, and was ahead of its time. The complex has many studios presently occupied by painters, musicians, sculptors, photographers, draftsman, filmmakers and Big Orbit Gallery. The complex itself is a turn-of-the-century Ice House and is composed of four buildings. The Essex Arts Center is part of the Ashford Hollow Foundation, which also operates Griffis Sculpture Park in Ashford Hollow, New York.
All proceeds from Flash will benefit the Essex Arts Center and its Boys & Girls and Arts in Education programs. For more information, visit http://www.griffispark.org/ or call 716.883.2066.
Essex Art Center
30 Essex Street
Buffalo, NY 14213
November 8th
$35 presale/$40 door
7PM-Midnight
Carolyn Batt
Carolyn Batt is a Buffalo marketing director by day and international traveler the rest of the time--although always returning to her home for the past 12 years in Allentown.