Results tagged “designcenter”

There’s a way to fundraise, that is. Established painter, photographer, and filmmaker William Wegman has a series of short works that will screen this Thursday, September 6th at The Design Center of Austin to benefit EmanciPET. It’s a collaboration made in doggy heaven, given that Wegman’s subjects are most often his own Weimaraners – a German breed of dogs known for their beautiful coats and haunting, gray eyes. On the subject of his medium-crossing...

At the end of this month, local urban development coalition Liveable City will be having its annual award ceremony to honor community-led initiatives that have "contributed to preserving the special character of our community and to making Austin a more livable city." This year, the awards will be going to the following:

The young professional types at Habitat Young Professionals (an official division of Austin Habitat for Humanity) is will host their first ever “Build the HYP” fundraising event this Saturday at 8pm at the Design Center of Austin, 3601 South Congress at Penn Field, Building C. Guests will experience great food and drinks from many local culinary destinations, including III Forks, Moonshine, and Reed's Supper Club. HYP will also raise the roof (Har!) with a...

AIDS Services of Austin (ASA), which provides critical services for some 1,500 local individuals with HIV each year, derives a significant portion of its operating income from its annual ArtErotica fundraising event. Unfortunately, last week's venue closures have rendered their former space, Blue Genie, no longer viable for the 700-person event. As such, ArtErotica 2007, originally scheduled for this Saturday evening, is now postponed. The Octopus Club, the volunteer arm of ASA that coordinates this...

Violinist Charles Yang. Photo by Eric Uhlir Three weeks ago, Austin's newest arts organization, strataTX, launched with a successful kickoff gala at the Design Center of Austin. The latest giving group of the Texas Cultural Trust, strataTX brings together enthusiastic young professionals of all industries and backgrounds to help sustain and expand the Lone Star State's arts community. StrataTX Launch Party Attendees. Photo by Eric Uhlir Amidst heavy fanfare, TCT Deputy Director Jennifer Wijangco...

[Editors' Note -- Austinist would like to express our most heartfelt gratitude to the following people, organizations, and companies for making this party such a tremendous success. We absolutely adore: Beth, Tito, and Matt of Tito's Vodka, Michelle and Tara of Sweet Leaf Tea, Le and Thomas of FactoryPeople, Alicia of Izze, Matt of Daily Juice, Greg, Janet and Jessica of Liquid Assets and Design Center of Austin, Wes of Solux Design, Adrian of...

Shots from our Awesome, Inc. afterparty on Wednesday (and long into Thursday morning) at the Design Center of Austin.

Cine Las Americas is a not-for-profit, multi-cultural media arts center located in Austin which promotes cross-cultural understanding and growth by educating, entertaining and challenging the community through media and film of the Americas. We think they're a vital part in promoting underserved voices in our community, and so we encourage everyone to support them.

It's a sign that we live in a good town that, halfway through the week, there are a bunch of new things to do that we want to share with you. There are so many things happening in the next few days that we're having a hard time deciding what to do. That is a lie. We're going to go to see Ghostland Observatory on Thursday night at The Velvet Spade for the Fischerspooner CD...