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Auditorium Shores

Auditorium Shores is an outdoor concert venue overlooking Town Lake Shores, also serving as a popular picnic area with hiking trails.

Austin City Hall

Government ; Meetings ; Special Events

The limestone, copper-clad Austin City Hall and plaza is a landmark just north of Town Lake designed to be a community gathering place for public discussion and civic discourse.

Austin Energy

Foundation ; Government ; Nonprofit

Austin Energy is the nation’s 8th largest community-owned electric utility. We serve more than 420,000 customers and a population of almost one million. We provide service within the City of Austin, Travis County, and a small portion of Williamson County. As a publicly-owned power company and a department of the City of Austin, the Austin City Council sets our policies and strategic direction. Austin Energy returns profits to the community annually — profits that help fund City services such as fire, police, EMS, parks, and libraries. Since 2010, Austin Energy’s contributions have totaled more than $100 million each year. Austin Energy provides exceptional electric system reliability and significant expertise in serving power-sensitive industries such as high tech manufacturing.

Austin Pune Sister City Initiative

Dance ; Educational ; Fashion ; Free Events ; Government ; Health & Fitness ; Kids & Families ; Music ; Nonprofit ; Poetry & Literature ; Special Events ; Visual Art

The Austin-Pune Sister City Initiative is dedicated to fostering relations and exchanges between the City of Austin, Texas and the City of Pune, Maharashtra, India with the ultimate goal of establishing an official sister city relationship between the two cities.

Dougherty Arts Center

The mission of the Dougherty Arts Center (DAC) is to support emerging through established artists who create, showcase, and experience the arts first hand. We envision the DAC as Austin’s cultural living room, where people of all ages, races, ethnicities, abilities, gender, sexual orientations, socio-economic statuses, nationalities, and religions gather to create community through the arts. Since 1978, the DAC has thrived as one of Austin’s most cherished and affordable community arts centers, featuring liver performances, gallery exhibits, and art classes. From our fine arts preschool to our popular summer camps, and after school arts programs, we’ve got your kids art cravings covered. Practice drawing, painting, darkroom photography, ceramics, and more in a supportive adult studio environment. Check out creative opportunities in our Artist Resource Center. Visit our 2,400 square foot gallery space, catch a live theatre or music performance in our 150 seat theater, and meet new friends at our monthly Date Night. With so much going on, there is always something for everyone at the DAC.

Dove Springs Recreation Center

Free Events ; Government ; Kids & Families ; Park

Closed until ~July 2019

Ramada Austin South

Southern charm awaits you at our Ramada Austin South hotel, right across the Colorado River from downtown Austin, including 6th Street entertainment and the Texas State Capitol building. Conveniently located off I-35 and Route 71, our traveler-friendly hotel is only minutes from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS)—making it easy to drive or fly in. We’re also close to the Circuit of the Americas racetrack, and you can visit students at St. Edwards University or the University of Texas at Austin, both minutes away.

The Texas Observer

Educational ; Government ; Poetry & Literature

The Texas Observer writes about issues ignored or underreported in the mainstream press. Our goal is to cover stories crucial to the public interest and to provoke dialogue that promotes democratic participation and open government, in pursuit of a vision of Texas where education, justice and material progress are available to all.

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