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Make the Best of ACL Downtown
Austin City Limits Music Festival is known around the world, bringing in visitors from all over. Passes sold out in record times this year, but even if you don’t have tickets to the festival, there are other fun ways to...
Read More⟶Live Music Venues
Austin is known as The Live Music Capital of the World. Our city has more live music venues per capita than anywhere else. Let’s recognize the wonderful places that helped Austin get that name, the live music venues. Here is...
Read More⟶Downtown Austin Alliance Foundation presents second installment of Writing on the Walls
Published December 7, 2020 Urban art series to result in four new murals on Bouldin Creek The Downtown Austin Alliance Foundation is partnering with Manifold Real Estate, Oak Pointe Real Estate and Michael Hsu Architecture to install four murals on...
Read More⟶Light Up Purple this October for Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Published October 5, 2020 Now more than ever, with increased isolation due to stay at home safety measures during the COVID-19 pandemic; residents, businesses, and agencies across the area are strongly encouraged to show their support for domestic violence survivors....
Read More⟶9 Ways to Enjoy a Socially-Distanced Day Downtown
Now that it’s officially Fall, get outside, enjoy the cooler weather, and experience downtown with this list of recommendations for socially-distanced activities for all ages! 1. Plan a Socially distanced visit to Republic Square Visit and learn about the Auction...
Read More⟶SAVES Fund to Help Live Music Play On Post-Pandemic
The Downtown Austin Alliance represents over 900 downtown property owners and 96,000 employees, wrote to the City of Austin asking to support Item 62 on this week’s Council agenda. Live music is the lifeblood of our downtown economy. Studies show...
Read More⟶Commemorate the Centennial of Women’s Suffrage
August 18 “I think it’s a very important message and there’s a lot that women have been through in the past century and there’s still a lot to achieve, but you know, there’s always these big steps that makes a...
Read More⟶Reopening Guidance for Austin Music Venues to Support COVID-19 Recovery
In partnership with the City of Austin, the Austin cohort of the Reopening Every Venue Safely (REVS) campaign has released a best practices guide outlining practical actions venue owners and operators can undertake when they decide it is time to reopen safely....
Read More⟶Celebrating Juneteenth in Austin 2020
Published June 19 2020 Activities for Celebrating Juneteenth Both Online and In-person Throughout the Weekend! Juneteenth, also called Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, is the celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. The date commemorates June 19,...
Read More⟶Our Commitment to a Downtown for All
Making downtown a safe and welcoming place for all remains our priority. Now is the time to take greater action. We will answer the call, reaffirm our longstanding commitment to addressing community problems, and make a new commitment to review all we are doing and how we can be a more effective community partner for enduring change.
Read More⟶The Downtown Austin Alliance Continues Support of Civic Engagement Downtown
A statement from the Downtown Austin Alliance: We are heartbroken by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Michael Ramos and too many others who have faced injustice for generations. Downtown Austin has long been a gathering place...
Read More⟶Download the Downtown Austin Coloring Book!
Download the Downtown Austin Coloring Book by local artists and designer Becca Borrelli to get creative and relieve stress. Start Coloring!
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