Marketing, Ticketing, and Audience Development

NowPlayingAustin

A leading online resource for arts and cultural information for Austin and Central Texas, NowPlayingAustin.com offers a large database of area arts and cultural events; venue and organization directories; classes and workshops; jobs, auditions, and classified ads. Partners and sponsors make this a free listing service for the entire arts community. The site gets approximately 20,000 visitors/month. Anyone can submit Event Information or an Individual Artist Profile free of charge. Now Playing Austin: Submission Tips

The Austin Arts Minute

Through a partnership with News8 Austin, we produce a weekly Arts Minute every Wednesday featuring upcoming events from NowPlayingAustin.com. The show is hosted by Carla McDonald and reaches up to 250,000 households per week. The shows are taped well in advance, so events must be in the NowPlaying site at 4-5 weeks before opening to be considered for The Minute.

AusTIX and the NowPlayingAustin e-minder

AusTIX is our full and half-price box office serving the community online via NowPlayingAustin.com/Austix and operating daily out of our kiosk in the Austin Visitor’s Center on 6th Street. AusTIX is the region’s only nonprofit box office. Every Wednesday, we send our opt-in subscribers a weekly e-minder with news of current half price specials and other attractions for which we have tickets at AusTIX. AusTIX is also part of America Performs, a national network of half price and discount ticketing services operated by Theatre Development Fund, the people behind TKTS in New York.

Get Your Art On

Get Your Art On, a program of Greater Austin Cultural Alliance, is a city wide celebration of art, culture and creativity in honor of Americans for the Arts’ National Arts and Humanities Month and the the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division’s CreateAustin cultural planning initiative.

Professional Development and Capacity Building

Online Arts Management and Professional Development Courses

Through our partnership with Fractured Atlas Open Arts Network in NYC, the Creative Alliance is able to offer all active members online interactive arts management and professional development courses at FA’s online program, FRACTURED U.

You will need to use a Creative Alliance partner member log-in to take the course: contact the office for more details.

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Capacity Building Workshops and Convenings for Member Organizations

The Creative Alliance brings in consultants for both public and private sessions to share best practices with our organizational membership. Recent sessions have been led by Nello McDaniel and George Thorn of Arts Action Research, Louise Stevens of ArtsMarket in Bozeman, Montana, Kevin McCarthy of Rand, Steve Tepper of the Curb Center at Vanderbilt and more. Andrew Taylor of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, University of Wisconsin. Check back for who is coming this year.

Information & Referrals

Our staff is always on call to assist members seeking solutions to move their projects forward. We also have partner arrangements with other professionals who will work with our members at discount rates. Other relevant capacity building workshops and classes, many offered by the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division, and through the classes section of NowPlayingAustin

Technical Assistance and Support Services

Insurance for Artists and Arts Organizations

The partnership Creative Alliance has established with Fractured Atlas Open Arts Network of New York means our active members have many additional benefits at little or no additional cost. Organizations and/or individuals have the opportunity to purchase the following affordable insurance options: Health Insurance, Event Insurance, Film Liability and Equipment Insurance, D&O insurance, Teaching Artist Liability Insurance, Workers comp and more.

Sponsored Project Program for Emerging Artists & Art Groups

The Creative Alliance helps emerging artists and arts groups get off the ground through its Sponsored Project Program. We also provide an excellent “how to” book for our sponsored projects full of nuts and bolts resources, useful templates, and technical assistance for marketing and producing their events. To be considered for sponsorship, you must complete our Sponsored Project Questionnaire. Sponsored Project Questionnaire

“Grads” of our Sponsored Project program include Fusebox Festival, The Rude Mechanicals, Hyde Park Theatre, Frontera Fest, Salvage Vanguard Theater, VORTEX, Theatre Action Project, Teatro Humanidad, Texas Early Music Project, A. Mozart Fest, La Follia Austin Baroque, and many more.

Actor’s Equity Association Umbrella and AEA Paymaster Services

The Creative Alliance, working together with the New York and Los Angeles offices of Actors Equity Association, provides services for Texas producing organizations wishing to hire professional Equity actors for their productions. Contact our offices for more information.