_OfColor’s 2022 Black Art WKND is All Kinds of Black!
byBlack Art WKND is back June 10-12, 2022, for its much anticipated second annual event! Attendants can expect to experience a 3 day celebration…
Fine Arts & Literature
RichesArt Gallery is Too Extra and is Showing American History Exhibit for BHM
byAustin’s only Black-owned art gallery, (it’s been nine years since Austin lost the community icon space Mitchie’s Gallery owner Joyce Hunt) RichesArt, has two…
Production of Duke Ellington’s The Nutcracker to Highlight Black Excellence, History and Triumph
byBallet Afrique, Austin’s first all-Black en pointe dance company, is excited to present Duke Ellington’s: The Nutcracker Suite in a 7 p.m. performance on Saturday, February 19 at The Paramount Theatre. The production, which is set in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance period of the 1920s and 30s, promises to be a grand spectacle of opulence and a positively joyous treat for the entire family.
100 Black Men Giving Away 700 Books with Black Pearl Books
byThe 100 Black Men of Austin have purchased 700 books to distribute to children in collaboration with Austin Public Library and are hosting a book signing, open to the public, at the new Black Pearl Books location at 7112 Burnet Road starting at 6:30pm on Thursday, February 17.
Austin Drummer Troy Nalls Joins Cast of Fox’s New Show, Alter Ego
byTwenty-two year-old drumming prodigy Troy James Nalls is debuting in his first major professional gig tonight — in front of a nationally televised audience….
Black Pearl Books is the Black-owned, Family-run Bookstore We’ve Been Waiting For
byThe strength that I’ve pulled from ancestors, from those before me, is the same strength I’m hoping to pass down to those coming up. Not just my children, but generations of kids,” she says.
Capital City Black Film Fest Returns for Year Nine
byCapital City Black Film Festival is coming back to the citi for its ninth year, this year with some in-person events. In 2020, the…
Former UT Basketball Standout Brings Her First Stage Production to the Citi
byFran Harris (2021 Best in the Citi Finalist) has always had a way with words. As a young girl growing up in Dallas, she…
Capital City Black Film Festival Tackles Mental Health Through Art
byFestival to feature 2020 Celebrity Ambassador Anthony Anderson.
#GivingTuesday: A Time to Reap the Harvest
byTis the season to help those at the crossroads.
East Austin’s Deborah Roberts Comes Home with Her First Solo Texas Exhibition
byDeborah Roberts got her start as an artist painting scenes from her life “in our own little bubble in East Austin.” Now, she is…
On Stage at Zach: The Ballad of Klook and Vinette
byThe Ballad of Klook and Vinette, a gritty story told in spoken word pattern and jazz-infused melodies is now playing on Zach Theater’s Kleberg…