Here’s another guest blog post, this one from the Austin Creative Alliance.  Did you know that Austin-Artists.com videos get placed on their NowPlayingAustin site, and that site gets approximately 20,000 visitors/month?  Learn more by reading about all the Austin Creative Alliance has to offer!

NowPlayingAustin.com

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

Auditions:

G.A.C.A.’s Unified General Auditions serve professional, working actors in Texas. They are open to all actors, union and non-union, local and regional. The auditors in attendance are Central Texas’ top producers, directors, and casting agents. This year, we are pleased to have faculty and graduate students of the University of Texas at Austin Department of Radio-Television-Film participate in hosting our auditions. Auditions will be held on Saturday, September 28 at the Salvage Vanguard Theater.

Free Night of Theater:

Since its inception in 2005, Free Night of Theater has boosted awareness of the nations arts organizations, while building new audiences and driving single ticket sales.  Continuing in this tradition, Free Night 2010 will seek out new audiences, invite current theatergoers and arts patrons to try a new theater or arts venue, as well as ignite interest and create awareness about the variety of arts options in Austin and across the country. In 2009 Free Night of Theater celebrated its 5th anniversary in over 120 cities from coast to coast with 714 arts organizations offering over 65,000 tickets to more than 2,000 performances nationally! Free Night of Theater 2010 will kick-off nation wide on October 14th. Tickets will be offered between October 1 and October 31 at FreeNightOfTheater.net

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.

B Iden Payne Awards:

The “Austin Tony” Awards celebrate the best of the austin theatre community. More details will be released soon!

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