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Support the final season of programming at Kenny Dorham's Backyard, a pivotal new chapter for EACC, and a major step forward for East Austin!
Your contribution to EACC directly supports our mission to support and sustain cultural production in East Austin's African American Cultural Heritage District by creating paid opportunities for emerging arts and culture professionals. We greatly appreciate your support.
Why we’re here:
East Austin Creative Coalition (EACC) began in 2018 as an ad hoc ‘think tank’ composed of leadership from Austin’s nonprofit African American arts and cultural organizations and preservation, education, technology, and media professionals. The Coalition formally became a cultural arts service organization in 2021.
The purpose of the Coalition is to build a thriving, viable, and visible African American Cultural Heritage District in the area of town which was originally established by the Austin City Plan of 1928 as “Austin’s Negro District.”
By securing the necessary facilities and establishing a foundational organization, the East Austin Creative Coalition will work to strengthen the District as a hub of cultural preservation, with a special focus on economic and artistic development.
The end result will be that Austin’s African Cultural Heritage District becomes a global destination - a space for artists, tourists, and community to come together, recognizing and celebrating the deep, vibrant, and rich African American contribution to the city and beyond.
The purpose of the Coalition is to build a thriving, viable, and visible African American Cultural Heritage District in the area of town which was originally established by the Austin City Plan of 1928 as “Austin’s Negro District.”
By securing the necessary facilities and establishing a foundational organization, the East Austin Creative Coalition will work to strengthen the District as a hub of cultural preservation, with a special focus on economic and artistic development.
The end result will be that Austin’s African Cultural Heritage District becomes a global destination - a space for artists, tourists, and community to come together, recognizing and celebrating the deep, vibrant, and rich African American contribution to the city and beyond.
What we’re about:
Our Mission
Our mission is to support and sustain cultural production in East Austin for the long-term preservation of African American arts, music and the culture/creative professional community. We achieve this by producing weekly community events at Kenny Dorham's Backyard and New East Arts Gallery.
Our Vision
We envision a vibrant and inclusive East Austin cultural heritage district that is respectful of our African American cultural history, sustains current development and expansion efforts, and ensures our cultural and creative heritage for future generations.
Our Work:
The Kenny Dorham Center is a cultural center within the new mixed-use vision for Blocks 16 & 18 here in East Austin. The center will be a major cultural arts institution that specifically address historic inequity and serves the interests of the community in East Austin's African American Cultural Heritage District. The development will include an amphitheatre, recording studio, rehearsal space, art gallery, indoor venue/cafe, and museum, as well as affordable housing partially reserved for artist residencies for up to three years.
Read more here:
Our mission is to support and sustain cultural production in East Austin for the long-term preservation of African American arts, music and the culture/creative professional community. We achieve this by producing weekly community events at Kenny Dorham's Backyard and New East Arts Gallery.
Our Vision
We envision a vibrant and inclusive East Austin cultural heritage district that is respectful of our African American cultural history, sustains current development and expansion efforts, and ensures our cultural and creative heritage for future generations.
Our Work:
The Kenny Dorham Center is a cultural center within the new mixed-use vision for Blocks 16 & 18 here in East Austin. The center will be a major cultural arts institution that specifically address historic inequity and serves the interests of the community in East Austin's African American Cultural Heritage District. The development will include an amphitheatre, recording studio, rehearsal space, art gallery, indoor venue/cafe, and museum, as well as affordable housing partially reserved for artist residencies for up to three years.
Read more here:
- Rally Austin - Blocks 16 & 18 of East 11th Street
- Austin American-Statesman - The Last Stand: Inside the Black arts community's fight to restore East Austin's soul
- Austin Chronicle - Faster Than Sound: City Council Supports Music-Focused Arts Facility on East 11th Street
Where you can find us:
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Kenny Dorham’s Backyard
An outdoor music venue & event space with weekly live music, on-site food trailers, community gardens, and large-scale mural artwork that honors East Austin's rich African American cultural history and music community. Named after the East Austin jazz trumpet legend and located in the heart of the historic East End cultural district, just down the street from Kenny Dorham’s last home in Austin. View upcoming events here! Join us for our Weekly Blue Monday Blues Jam (relocated to King Bee for the winter - 1906 E. 12th St.) Doors at 7:30 PM Assorted Chocolates at 8-8:30 PM Open Jam at 8:30-11 PM 1106 E 11th St. Austin, TX, 78702 |
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New East Arts Gallery & Creative Center
A multimedia Fine Arts gallery and co-working space dedicated to preserving the Black cultural history of East Austin by providing exhibition opportunities and collaborative space for artists, historians, and creatives who represent the diverse cultural communities in our community! Open Hours (closed for installation): Monday and Tuesday by appointment Wednesday and Saturday: 1-6 FKA DiverseArts Little Gallery @ Heritage House, Guadalupe Arts Center & ArtPlex Saltillo Lofts (est. 1993) 1101 Navasota St. Suite 1 Austin, TX, 78702 |
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Love Runs This Place:The mission to develop the African American Cultural Heritage District is decades old. This new organization is dedicated to the task of working within the community to hold the City accountable for unfulfilled promises made 15 years ago.
Please help us support East Austin Black Arts NOW, and preserve African American Culture for future generations! Click here to donate today. #GivingTuesdayEastAustin #eastaustincreativecoalition #AfricanAmericanCulturalHeritageDistrict #EACC |
