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Frida Friday ATX JUNE presents Puro Pride Pachanga

Waller Creek Conservancy is thrilled to partner with Frida Friday ATX to present a womxn-of-color centered mercado y más that supports and amplifies womxn-of-color and allies in Tejaslandia every second Friday of the month at Symphony Square! Friday, June 14 | 6:00 – 10:00 PM Free; RSVP on Facebook! For two years, Frida Friday ATX […]

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Rainbow on the Creek on June 15

Join Waller Creek Conservancy and our community partners as we celebrate LGBT Pride Month by commemorating the Stonewall Riots of 1969 and celebrating the impact LGBTQIA persons have had in the world! Love, dance, and celebrate into the evening at Symphony Square with a lineup of electrifying entertainment including a headlining performance from RuPaul’s Drag […]

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Women in Jazz on June 12

Community Salon Featuring Works by Ernie Mae Miller & Interview with Margaret Wright Celebrating Black Music Month, the Austin History Center recreates the jazz scene experienced on Red River Street during the 50’s and 60’s through a special community salon. Featuring a performance and interview with music legend Margaret Wright and discussion about the life […]

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POSTPONED Music that Advocates: Considering Matthew Shepard on June 5

Due to foretasted inclement weather, Music that Advocates: Considering Matthew Shepard is being postponed to a later date. Check back soon for updates. ——————- Waller Creek Conservancy, KLRU-TV, Austin PBS and Conspirare have partnered to present a special screening of Considering Matthew Shepard, a unique performance documentary born in Austin and experienced around the country. […]

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Artists in Conversation: New Monuments for New Cities on May 16

Join us for our final panel discussion for New Monuments for New Cities, featuring Nicole Awai and Vincent Valdez! This current art exhibition raises a number of questions about who and what has been memorialized in the past and how applying new lenses could shift that paradigm in the future. Join the dialogue as we […]

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Concert on the Creek: Forever Bicycles May 11

Join Waller Creek Conservancy and KMFA Classical 89.5 for an outdoor exploration of music in celebration of National Bicycle Month! Austin musician and artist, Steve Parker, will lead a series of performances and workshops that will explore the traditional and non-traditional properties of music through an unusual combinations of sound-makers including bicycles! Steve Parker will […]

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Enjoy Ai Weiwei’s Forever Bicycles Through May 15

Brought to Austin by a partnership between the Waller Creek Conservancy and The Contemporary Austin, Forever Bicycles (2014), by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, has been on display at Waller Creek since June 2017. The temporary installation was funded in part by a generous grant from the Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation. Located along […]

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Austin Monuments: Past, Present, Future

Panel discussion presented in partnership with Preservation Austin and the Austin History Center. Free; registration required. Refreshments will be available. Interactive panel discussion exploring themes and issues raised in “New Monuments for New Cities,” hosted by Waller Creek Conservancy, Preservation Austin, and the Austin History Center. Based in the Austin experience, dynamic guest speakers will […]

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Pop-Up Picnic – Thank you!

Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s Pop-Up Picnic! We were bummed about the weather, but loved seeing all of your smiling faces for picnic basket pick up. We enjoyed all of the #PopUpPicnic social posts by guests creating their own indoor picnics with family and friends. Want to Write a Rain Check? […]

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Ernie Mae Miller and the New Orleans Club

During this Black History Month, we’d like to profile one of many special stories on the history of Symphony Square. Have other stories or memories you’d like to share? Please let us know! Symphony Square was originally designed as a southeastward extension of Waterloo Park on both sides of East 11th Street east of Red […]

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