Working Title 16: Artist Speed Friending! During this event, attendees will have the opportunity to get to know other artists in the community through two activities:

1) Speed Friending: Attendees will be put into pairs and small groups to chat and socialize. We will rotate so that attendees will get the chance to meet multiple people.

2) Open Mic: Attendees will have the option to sign up to perform at our open mic. You can perform a piece of art (completed or WIP!) or you can talk about a project you've been working on. 

Austin is a city rich with local creativity, and it's time to celebrate it! Join Austin Emerging Arts Leaders for a night at The Far Out Lounge & Stage. Listen to live music, watch muralists create new work, connect with local creatives, and meet our talented 2022-23 mentorship cohort! Tickets are available online now or at the door. 

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Featuring a live mural painting by local arts.

Live music will be performed by Viben & The Submersibles, Los Alcos, and Souls Extolled.  

What makes a great artist is the great people they surround themselves with! Community helps us grow as artists, find people with shared interests, and gives us an audience to share our artwork with.

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Come on out to this month’s Working Title to get some resources and tips on cultivating your own artist community… starting with making connections with other artists who’ll be at the event!

Join Austin Emerging Arts Leaders for an evening of networking and celebrating the achievements of the organization! Meet the Board Members and get to know EAL from very special guests! Learn about the history of EAL straight from the co-founders, Sarah Rucker (Full Gallop Arts) and Anne-Marie McKaskle (City of Austin Cultural Arts Division). Hear more about our Mentorship Program from a former mentor, Matrex Kilgore (Texas Commission on the Arts). Also featuring special presentations from our current mentee cohort!

Free drinks are provided by Austin Beerworks. We will have some amazing raffle prizes up for grabs! Bring a friend and come meet the local arts leaders of today and tomorrow!

Austin Emerging Arts Leaders is composed of local arts professionals, arts administrators, and arts advocates who are passionate about offering professional development and inclusive community building to support the sustainability of a broader, more diverse creative ecosystem in Austin. 

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https://www.letsroam.com/  - "Scavenger Hunts by Let's Roam"

Come on and zoom! Come on and zoom! Zooma-zooma-zooma-ZOOM!

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Have you ever had an idea that was there then gone? Of course you have. A song while driving, a passing line for a poem, or an elusive vision of oil on canvas? Something brilliant, but you didn't rush to write it down fast enough to keep it or use it?

This celebration is dedicated to all of those ideas, the dead & gone. Grieve, reprieve, and allow yourself to be free in this ceremony dedicated to recognizing those glimmering ideas that didn't get their chance to shine. Guided by the loving and steady hands of Austin-based artist and facilitator Angelina Zulas, we can't think of a better way to herald the return of this series, and the return to artistic spaces, than a night honoring all those little working titles that lost their way for one reason or another. This workshop is part of our mission to offer professional development opportunities and inclusive community building, and is open to artists of all levels, wherever they may be in the world. We sincerely hope you'll join us and bring a friend.

Come on and zoom! Come on and zoom! Zooma-zooma-zooma-ZOOM!

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This 1990s-era Zoom themed zoom call (no familiarity required!) is like a longing for the "before times" -- before COVID, before adulthood -- to a time when our hopes weren't fears yet. Taking this reflection as a source of nourishment, we'll make space for the growing, too... the crossing of thresholds, the looking ahead, the intentions we'd like to set for our future ahead. Join us to embrace your childlike self while imagining nostalgic futures in a forgiving and playful space focused on connection. (We'll most definitely be encouraging your to turn off your screen and DO IT!)

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​Austin Emerging Arts Leaders [Working Title] series is a quarterly workshop built to help you explore aspects of your creative practice while holding space for your artistic work, side hustles, or that thing you keep dreaming about but can’t quite pin down (or cross off your list).

Come on and zoom! Come on and zoom! Zooma-zooma-zooma-ZOOM!

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This 1990s-era Zoom themed zoom call (no familiarity required!) is like a longing for the "before times" -- before COVID, before adulthood -- to a time when our hopes weren't fears yet. Taking this reflection as a source of nourishment, we'll make space for the growing, too... the crossing of thresholds, the looking ahead, the intentions we'd like to set for our future ahead. Join us to embrace your childlike self while imagining nostalgic futures in a forgiving and playful space focused on connection. (We'll most definitely be encouraging your to turn off your screen and DO IT!)

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​Austin Emerging Arts Leaders [Working Title] series is a quarterly workshop built to help you explore aspects of your creative practice while holding space for your artistic work, side hustles, or that thing you keep dreaming about but can’t quite pin down (or cross off your list).

Austin Emerging Arts Leaders is teaming up with Get It Gals for a toe-tapping, brain-racking night of trivia! With three rounds to show us your chops, lucky winners will score gift cards, goods, and special services from local small businesses and artists we love. Individual vs. team competition and prize details to come!

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This is a night for a cause. For just a $20 donation, you're in for a fun and friend filled evening, with all proceeds supporting Austin Emerging Arts Leaders' incoming cohort of mentorship participants!

Along the way we'll get to hear a little from Austin EAL Board Member Zac Carr, past mentee Gabriela Kane, and others! We can't wait to see you on Monday November 8th at 7:30 pm CDT.

Some of our most valuable mentors never even know they are providing us the gift of mentorship. And if that is true for you, then you may well be someone’s mentor without knowing it. So what is mentorship? What makes it fruitful? And how do we recognize it and utilize it to its fullest potential while we have it? Join our most recent cohort of mentees to recap their experience in our mentorship program and how they can apply it to their mentorship in the future.

Humor: it’s known as a comic expression, a mental state, and back in the day the term was even used as a way to determine your physical and mental constitution based on your bodily fluids. It’s the sibling of tragedy and a powerful verb (to humor) that allows us to compassionately interact with absurd and unreasonable situations and personalities. It’s also been known as a tool for passive-aggressive snarkiness, a deflection of truth through sarcasm, and in its darkest shade, as an act of cutting and insulting cruelty. However, within all of the wit, humor can also serve as a vulnerable revealing and powerful relational tool, especially in creative practice. Our favorite part of humor is that it can unapologetically be all of these things or none of them. Join us for a fun(ny?) evening exploring the hahas, giggles, and beyond as we explore this concept in a “show up as you are and you don’t need to try to be funny just have fun!” way.

We all have that moment we remember. When we heard that certain song at just the right moment. When a painting summed up what we couldn't find the words for. When a dancer pulled us onto the floor with them. This session will explore the power and potential of arts in curación - healing - and allow you time to reflect on those moments of inspiration in your own life. Artists and facilitators Cesar Diaz and Julieta Caamano will share their stories and invite you to experiment, have fun, make mistakes, and find space for the sacred so that you can carry that inspiration forward into your creative practice.

Burnout—you feeling it? Us, too. Burnout happens when you’re too stressed for too long, and after a year like 2020 (with the punches still rolling in), we could all use a little help learning to complete the stress cycle. Luckily, there’s solid research that tells us what actions we can take to get our emotional purge on. Join facilitators Kalyn Saylor and Lucas Loredo for a participatory dialogue where we’ll discuss burnout and emotional fatigue—and engage in some hands-on stress purging to clear the emotional plumbing.

Since the new year often comes with high-pressure expectations to make meaningful life choices, we'll provide you with a low key, playful, and exploratory environment where you can engage with decision making in an empathetic manner that is forgiving and fun. Come and ruminate on last year, make resolutions for next year, or throw them both off the boat! Come as you are and take some time to fortify yourself against the barrage of expectations.

Facilitators Rachel Dennis and Kate Murray will facilitate a participatory dialogue and an "exercise" exploring what it takes to be a creative, a placemaker, and a facilitator when we're feeling burnout, COVID anxiety, financial stress, seasonal depression, election fall out, all along with regular doses of downer days and existential dread. Just like we're doing when writing this! We're hoping to give you a restorative break, no matter what challenges you may be facing at the moment.

This year we’re teaming up with The Get It Gals for a fun virtual event with musical bingo (aka: Muzingo). This is a night for a cause! For just a $10 donation, you're in for a 3 round toe-tapping, brain-racking game of music bingo with all proceeds going to Austin Emerging Arts Leaders!

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This session will explore the ever-elusive task of finding funding for your work. Rachel Dennis and Kate Murray will frame a conversation with Ian Tuski, artist-turned-development-director, to share essential principles and resources that can help bring your artistic vision to life. Participants will have the chance for a direct Q&A with the facilitators to receive guidance as it relates to their specific project, scenario, or interest. We'll end the session with some guided and focused time to apply the lessons to your own goals.

This session will explore the meaning of mentorship. Rachel Dennis and Kate Murray will facilitate a goal setting exercise for participants, followed by a participatory dialogue exploring everything from the diversity of mentorship relationships to best practices within them. You'll walk away with your goals outlined, pragmatic next steps for how to start tackling them, and connections to a community of peers to help you achieve them. Most of all, you'll leave empowered to seek out or formalize that mentorship you need right now, no matter what challenges you may be facing at the moment. We look forward to having you join us!

​This session - a participatory dialogue - will explore art from a distance. Supporting the local arts community doesn't look the same as it did 6 months ago. There aren't tickets to be sold, exhibitions to debut, or audiences to perform for -- at least not in the same way. Whether you're an artist, a patron, or a little of both, it looks like we might be supporting the arts in a different way for a while. So instead of waiting for things to get back to "normal" (whatever that means), let's settle in and learn how to embrace the situation we're in. How are you supporting the art forms, artists, and arts orgs you love? What sort of support do you wish you had? The experience will be facilitated by Mitch Harris with assistance from Kate Murray and/or Rachel Dennis.

​This participatory dialogue will explore the collisions, censors, and connections that are essential to our creative practice. Who we are in the time and spaces when we’re not actively engaged in our craft? Am I an Artist, an artist, an arts administrator, something in between, or something else altogether? Who do I and We collide? We'll talk through your creative practice, hack at your inner censor, set at least one specific and tangible personal goal, and explore the potential of connecting with others whose skillsets and perspectives balance our own. The experience will be facilitated by Kate Murray with assistance from Rachel Dennis.

Austin Emerging Arts Leaders is hosting a new monthly series built to help you explore aspects of your creative practice while holding space for your artistic work, side hustles, or that thing you keep dreaming about but can’t quite pin down (or cross off your list). Inspired by the likes of Madeleine Dore’s Side Project Sessions, each monthly workshop will center around a topic from a dedicated facilitator in the field, bringing together artists, arts administrators, and creatives through a series of questions to be answered together.