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Tag Archives: Arts Commission
Survey says spend creative spaces money throughout East Austin
More than 600 respondents to a recent survey have weighed in to push for the city to use $12 million in bond money to create multiple performance centers for arts and music uses in East Austin. Initial results of the…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jun 12, 2019
Groups eyeing $12M for creative spaces learn 'process is complicated'
Organizations with designs on how best to use the $12 million the city has pledged to preserve creative spaces will likely have to clear a complicated set of legal requirements before any of the money is released this fall. That…
Bonds & Propositions • By Chad Swiatecki • Feb 27, 2019
With $12M for creative spaces, arts/music group starts shaping allocation process
With $12 million for acquisition of creative space approved by voters earlier this month, members of the city’s music and arts commissions will spend the rest of November generating ideas for how to best use the money for saving and…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Nov 19, 2018
With cuts reduced, arts groups push city to reshape future funding
The city’s Arts Commission has asked City Council to allocate more than $1 million in extra money to arts organizations recently informed they were facing sharp cuts in their funding from the city’s Cultural Arts Division. At last Monday’s special…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Oct 1, 2018
Reporter's Notebook: Places and names
What do you say... The Austin street with the most confounding, or at least distinctively quirky, pronunciation could be headed for a name change. A public hearing scheduled for Thursday’s City Council meeting will focus on a request to rename…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Oct 1, 2018
Cuts to arts groups brings call for changes to funding mechanism
Local arts groups facing dramatic cuts in their funding levels from the city could get some relief this budget year, and possibly an earlier heads-up in future budget years if their funding allocations appear headed for a decrease. The city’s…
Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Sep 18, 2018
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Reporter's Notebook: Communication
They don’t want to talk to you… Staff from the Development Services Department repeatedly told members of the Zoning and Platting Commission at their Tuesday meeting that they were legally obligated to approve a site plan for the controversial Champion…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Jul 23, 2018
Arts programs could showcase diversity under 'inclusion rider' concept
Austin’s Music and Arts commissions are in the early phase of a push to make the city’s contracts for cultural services take steps to reach out to underrepresented groups, in an attempt to give more opportunities to those who have…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 24, 2018
Extra bond requests – $65M and counting – bring worry for cultural centers
Requests for additional funds for cultural and arts needs in a bond proposal expected to be voted on in November are causing worry from community groups that sticker shock could put much-needed funding at risk. Some of those concerns bubbled…
Bonds & Propositions • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 19, 2018
Creative 'hubs' requests moving forward for $40M bond ask
The questions surrounding a movement to build multiple creative “hubs” – or possibly one single campus – for Austin’s arts and music communities are becoming somewhat clearer as proponents of those groups continue talks ahead of an August decision on…
Bonds & Propositions • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 12, 2018
Music Commission's 'hub' concept prompts request for $15M bond increase
The Austin Music Commission is asking City Council to add $15 million to November’s bond package to buy or build property that could be used as a music hub to support the city’s flagging music industry. At Monday’s meeting the…
Bonds & Propositions • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 4, 2018
Arts Commission seeks $25M bond increase to fund 'adaptive' creative space
The Arts Commission has asked City Council to add $25 million to this fall’s infrastructure bond package. The money would be used to provide more rehearsal and performance space for arts groups that are quickly running out of usable space…
