The Ballard Community Center will celebrate its 23rd annual Daddy Daughter Dinner March 13, and the theme this year is Totally Awesome 80s.

Dads and daughters are encouraged to pull out those old acid washed Jordache jeans, fanny packs, big hair, scrunchies, spandex, shoulder pads, parachute pants and neon garb of any type for the event. Attendees should be ready to have a cow and to hang with tubular dweebs and gnarly dudes in true 80s style. That’s a fer sher, man! Totally!

Join the new-wave-o-rama and take a chill pill for a righteous Italian dinner catered by Buca Di Beppo. Party hearty with giant Rubik’s Cubes on the dance floor and show off your favorite dance moves like the Alf, Hammer Dance, Lambada, Boogie Down, Robo Cop and, of course, the Moon Walk.

Now in its 23rd year, this, like, totally radical Ballard tradition celebrates dads and daughters, and is, like, a great time for all ages. Duh!

Totally cool, Nick White, Recreational Leader for Ballard Community Center, has been helping Coordinator, Tommi Jo McCarrier, with the event for the last three years. He said he has met some awesome dads and totally excellent daughters who have been going to the event since the very beginning.

“We have dads that have taken their kids for years all the way from preschool-age to college-aged. So it’s pretty cool to see that wide demographic coming each year,” said White.

After recently skipping a year because of budget cuts (As if!), White said there were many dads and daughters wondering what happened.

“We skipped one year, and we heard back from a lot people saying that this is really a special event, and so we listened and kept it going.”

Get stoked, because all proceeds go toward supporting youth scholarships, summer programs, before and after school programs and classes offered at the BCC.

The event will be held at the totally wicked and bodacious Ballard Community Center (6020 28th Ave NW) on Saturday March 14 at 6 p.m. Tickets are $60 (Dad + 1 child), $70 (Dad + 2 children), $80 (Dad + 3 children).