Texas Independence Day_Celebration

Texas Independence Day Celebration

Date: 03/07 | Time: 12 PM – 4 PM | Location: The Brass Tap – Austin

What better way to celebrate all things Texas than with boots, burnt orange, brews and Bevo?

Well, put on your best pearl snap shirt (or anything burnt orange) and get to the Brass Tap at the Domain.

Join us for our annual Texas Exes Austin Chapter Texas Independence Day Celebration on Saturday, March 7th from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., presented by 45 Training at The Domain!

We will have a taco bar, beer specials, live music, photo opportunities with BEVO XV and much more! There will also be activities for kids, including face painting! Plus, check out our silent auction to find that perfect Texas spirit piece for your home or office.

AND – we’re auctioning off our Old Smokey package, courtesy of the Silver Spurs, where you can win the opportunity to fire the famous cannon LIVE at a Texas Baseball game this season!

All proceeds go towards our scholarship fund for local area students to attend the University of Texas at Austin.

It’s an event NOT to be missed so COME AND TAKE IT!

For more information on the Texas Independence Day Celebration, click here.

Amplify Austin Day 2020

Amplify Austin Day 2020

Date: 03/05 – 03/06 | Time: 6 PM | Location: Austin, TX

I Live Here I Give Here presents the eighth annual Amplify Austin Day, Central Texas’ biggest day of online giving!

Join your community in giving back local to support the causes that mean the most to you.

Last year, Amplify Austin Day raised $11.2 million for 750+ local nonprofits. On Amplify Austin Day 2020, join the generosity movement to help reach the goal of $12 million and keep Austin thriving!

Why should you give to Amplify Austin Day?

Amplify Austin Day is the Central Texas region’s day of giving. It is a local generosity movement that connects individuals, families, businesses, and foundations with the causes they are passionate about to create real, lasting change for the local nonprofits that address our most pressing needs.

On Amplify Austin Day, your gifts have the opportunity to be amplified through matching gifts and challenges, hourly prize incentives, and through the I Live Here I Give Here Amplify Fund, which is distributed to all participating nonprofits. Over the past seven years, Amplify Austin Day has raised more than $57 million for hundreds of local nonprofits.

When you join your neighbors in giving back on Amplify Austin Day, you are helping your hometown thrive for decades to come!

Let’s give back to the local nonprofits that make Austin the place where we all love to live, work, and play. Search for organizations by keyword or cause category and make a gift of any size.

For information on Amplify Austin Day 2020, click here.

Selling Your Work Through Galleries and Online Platforms

Selling Your Work Through Galleries and Online Platforms

Date: 03/03 | Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM | Location: Dougherty Arts Center

The Artist Resource Center at the Dougherty Arts Center offers FREE Professional Development Workshops for Artists!

Selling Your Work Through Galleries and Online Platforms.

One of the most difficult things creatives face is how to get paid for their work. For many years, the primary place artists sold their work was through galleries, but the internet has created new marketplaces for artists to get their work in the hands of buyers. We will examine the ins and outs of selling your work legally, safely, and with success.

The City of Austin is proud to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

For more information on Selling Your Work Through Galleries and Online Platforms, click here.

HOPE Farmers Market

HOPE Farmers Market

Date: Every Sunday | Time: 11 AM – 3 PM | Location: 412 Comal St

The Sunday HOPE Farmers Market combines the best of Austin: Food, Snap and SFC Double Dollars, Music and Art!

Taking place every Sunday afternoon since 2009, the iconic HOPE Farmers Market combines the very best of Austin culture: food, crafts, music, art, and community exchange. Passersby can find a little bit of everything, including farm-fresh produce, meat & dairy, tasty brunch, hot & cold drinks, beautiful gifts, and some of Austin’s best free live music.

Founded in 2009, the HOPE Farmers Market brings community together each week in an effort to support farmers and small businesses, increase access to healthy food, and celebrate local culture in East Austin, Texas. More than just another pop-up market, HOPE FM is both a weekly showcase and community meeting grounds, inviting Austinites to take part in a growing local food system while experiencing free live music, art and educational programming. 

Every week, customers can expect to find

• Seasonal Local Fruits & Vegetables

• Ethical Texas Meat, Eggs, and Dairy

• Handmade Small Batch Prepared Foods 

• Local Artisans & Crafters

• Non-Profit Advocacy Groups

• Live Music & All-Ages Programming

• Free Yoga

• SNAP/LONESTAR benefits (HOPE offers Double Dollars through SFC, and can match up to $30)

For more information, click here.

Kool & the Gang at ACL Live

Kool & the Gang at ACL Live

Date: 02/29 | Time: 8 PM – 11 PM CST | Location: ACL Live at The Moody Theater

Kool & the Gang with Ms. Mack & the Daddies at the Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater.

Kool & the Gang, officially launched in 1969, after performing for five years under various band titles, has influenced the music of three generations and, at the age of 49, the band has become true recording industry legends.

Thanks to iconic songs like Celebration, Cherish, Jungle Boogie, Summer Madness and Open Sesame, they’ve earned two Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, 25 Top Ten R&B hits, nine Top Ten Pop hits and 31 gold and platinum albums.

Kool & the Gang continues to delight fans around the globe with their timeless hits and amazing live performances.

For more information on Kool & the Gang at ACL Live, click here.

NASA’s Next Mission to Mars

NASA’s Next Mission to Mars

Date: 02/28 | Time: 7 PM – 8:30 PM CST | Location: Burdine Hall (BUR)

NASA’s Next Mission to Mars: Searching for Life on the Red Planet

What is the talk about?

What is involved in selecting the perfect landing place for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover mission? What is involved in getting there? What will we find? Dr. Tim Goudge shares what makes the Jezero Crater such a perfect location, with its amazing geological formations.

Cool Activities

Explore the evening’s topic through hands-on activities and information from 5:30 – 6:40 p.m. in the hallways of Burdine Hall. Closer to the event date, we will share a list of organizations participating in Cool Activities.

About Hot Science – Cool Talks

Hot Science – Cool Talks provides a front-row seat to world-class research. Presented by the Environmental Science Institute (ESI) this nationally recognized series allows leading researchers from The University of Texas and other prominent universities to share their passion for science, technology, engineering and math with the general public. Events are held six times a year.

For more information on NASA’s Next Mission to Mars, click here.

 

Harlem Globetrotters

Harlem Globetrotters

Date: 02/27 & 02/28 | Time: 7 PM – 9 PM CST | Location: Frank Erwin Center

The Original Harlem Globetrotters all-new Pushing the Limits World Tour is headed your way!

This is more than a basketball game. It is more than a show. It is the one and only Harlem Globetrotters in an all-new, larger-than-life world tour. You’ll be on your feet, out of your seat, laughing until it hurts and loving every moment.

Upgrade your game experience!
Before the game, take part in a once-in-a-lifetime experience with your family where you have an opportunity to spend time on the court with the Globetrotters – shooting, trying out ball tricks, and getting autographs, and photos! The unique 30-minute pre-show, “Magic Pass,” will create memories of a lifetime. All customers must have a game ticket AND Magic Pass for entry. Soft/rubber soled shoes must be worn on the court. Catch the pass! 

For more information, click here.

Social Media Week Austin 2020 | #smwatx

Social Media Week Austin 2020 | #smwatx

Date: 02/26 – 02/28 | Time: 9 AM CST | Location: Austin Central Library, Austin Public Library

Social Media Week Austin is one of the world’s premier conferences for professionals at the intersection of media, marketing, and technology.

A global conference and content platform, Social Media Week shares insights, ideas, and trends with a global community of thought leaders and practitioners helping to shape the future of our industry.

The 2020 event will take place at the Downtown Austin Central Public Library during the week of February 26-28, 2020. Each badge includes access to keynote speeches, panel sessions, master classes, workshops, mentorship sessions, daily networking coffees and nightly happy hours, all of which will be housed within Austin technology and digital marketing companies.

Sponsorship opportunities are now available! Sponsors can expect to reach an audience comprised of C-Level executives, mid-senior level marketing executives, digitally focused enterprise professionals, technology entrepreneurs and founders, media and publishing executives, bloggers and social media influencers.

For more information on Social Media Week Austin 2020, click here.

ABBA MANIA at ACL Live

ABBA MANIA at ACL Live

Date: 02/25 | Time: 8 PM – 11 PM CST | Location: ACL Live

Take A Chance On ABBA MANIA… …and you won’t be disappointed!

The world’s number one touring ABBA tribute concert returns to your very own ACL Live on February 25!

ABBA MANIA formed in 1999 and the show has been selling out theatres and concert halls internationally ever since. This show has toured the world in its quest to bring the music of the Swedish ‘Supergroup’ to their millions of fans, old and new!

ABBA MANIA has previously grossed over Aus $1 million at the box office in Sydney, Australia. The show has ventured to France, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, South Africa, New Zealand, Singapore, Australia and South Korea as well as touring the UK extensively.

It’s a very exciting time for all things ABBA as there is talk of an ABBA reunion concert in 2018 and a sequel to the hit movie Mamma Mia.

Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anni-Frid, collectively known as ABBA, dominated the charts for nearly ten years and enjoyed nine UK number 1 hits. At their height they became Sweden’s highest export earners, amazingly, outselling Volvo cars. Sadly, in the early eighties, they decided to go their separate ways, but their music lives on. ‘ABBA Gold’ was continuously in the Album Charts throughout the nineties and is one of the biggest selling albums ever.

ABBA’s timeless songs were written to be enjoyed live and ABBA MANIA gives you exactly that. Two hours of uplifting, dance inducing and sometimes heart-breaking songs, fully live with fantastic staging, lighting and effects. The show recreates ABBA’s sound not only perfectly, but respectfully too. ABBA MANIA is not only for life long, die hard ABBA fans but the new generation of fans, who never had the opportunity to see ‘ABBA’ live. Hits include ‘Dancing Queen’, ‘Waterloo’, ‘Mamma Mia’, ‘The Winner Takes it All’, ‘Super Trouper’, ‘Fernando’, ‘Take A Chance On Me’ and many more that continue to fill dance floors worldwide.

If you’re looking for an excuse to party, reminisce or simply be entertained by the best music ever, then this is the show for you.

“Beware of imitations…this is the real musical tribute!” – Polly Graham, Sunday Mirror.

For more information ABBA MANIA at ACL Live, click here.

What's All That Jazz About

What’s All That Jazz About?

Date: 02/24 | Time: 3:30 PM | Location: Austin Public Library, Hampton Branch at Oak Hill

What’s All That Jazz About? A Musical Black History Month Program

Clever listening games, live music, dramatic storytelling, group participation, and humorous demonstrations are some of the fun activities that are used to lead the young audience through a highly interactive and entertaining presentation that will introduce them to the colorful and expressive American music known as jazz.

Recommended for ages 4 – 10.

Free and open to the public.

For more information, click here.