- Julia Dailey
It’s February in East Texas!
Nurturing CULTURAL DISTRICTS in East Texas! Does your community, town or city have an established cultural district? Many cultural districts across Texas’s metroplexes are thriving, so what can we do to ensure our small town art districts are booming? Here are some things to consider:
1. Arts and cultural initiatives can be easily added to or amplify a city’s developmental growth
and plans.
2. Cultural districts are proven to enhance and diversify communities.
3. Art and culture programs offer a wide variety of benefits for both public and private entities.
4. A complex and thriving district cannot be established nor successful without collective
support.
Please read #4 AGAIN! To make an independent and thriving arts and culture district it takes collective support and maintenance. How can we achieve this in East Texas? Nacogdoches, Longview and Edom are a few of several communities in our area fostering creativity on a city-wide scale through festivals, art walks and gallery spaces. Located in Tyler is the Arts & Humanities Council of East Texas, a public charity whose mission is to provide education through after school programs to East Texas’s underserved youth. Is the key to a thriving East Texas wide Cultural District building center similar to Youngstown Cultural Arts Center in Seattle or Gordon Square Arts District in Cleveland? If so, where do you think this center should be located? What services should it offer? What do you as an East Texas creative need from your community? What does your community offer that you are grateful for?
Please share a favorite organization, council or group of East Texas creatives that you are involved in on our website, Facebook or Instagram!
Together we can facilitate change, and together we can build a thriving arts and culture district for East Texas.
Please consider reaching our to us on our website: https://www.etxcreatives.com/, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/etxcreatives/, or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/etxcreatives/?hl=en!
Your etx creatives Monthly Planner: February
Literature:
PLAN AHEAD! May 2, 2020
3rd Annual Festival of Books
Winnsboro, Texas
winnsboro.bookfestival.network
PLAN AHEAD! Apr 25, 2020
Northeast Texas Writers’ Organization
2020 Time to Write Conference
The Jeffersonian Institute, Jefferson, Texas
Feb 8, 2020
Write it Out: Authorship 101
Gladewater, Texas
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/authorship-101-tickets-90464863843?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Feb 18, 2020
Between the Lines Journaling Club
Nacogdoches Public Library, Nacogdoches, Texas
https://www.theeasttexasweekend.com/event/?eID=9733938
Music:
Feb 7, 2020
Best of Broadway: Songs of Love
Grace Crossing United Methodist Church
Longview, Texas
https://www.facebook.com/events/572154893345075/
Feb 13, 2020
Jazz Jam
ETX Brewing Company, Tyler, Texas https://events.time.ly/l1natcv?event=31070689&instance=20200213190000
Feb 21, 2020
Rose City Arts and Music Festival
True Vine Brewing Company
https://www.facebook.com/events/560322654825330/
Dance:
Feb 11 or Feb 28, 2020
Longview Dance: Beginner Dance & Open Dancing
Stafford Wellness Center, Longview, Texas
Feb 29, 2020
East Texas PanHellenic Step Show
Louise Herrington Patriot Center
Tyler, Texas
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/east-texas-panhellenic-step-show-tickets-87974759875
Theater:
Feb 14, 2020
Dreamgirls
Tyler Civic Theater, Tyler, Texas
https://tylercivictheatre.com/
Feb 22, 2020
Playwrighting Workshop
MKW Theatrical Consulting
Tyler, Texas
https://www.facebook.com/events/534151880569497/
Fine Art:
Feb 8, 2020
Arcadia SHOW TRE
Martin Walker, P.C., Downtown Tyler, Texas
https://www.facebook.com/events/1766981960103778/
Feb 21, 2020
KilGogh Arts Festival
Kilgore, Texas
https://www.kilgoremainstreet.com/artist-information
Creative – Fun – Informative:
Feb 7-9, 2020
Rise of the Machines
Harvey Hall, Tyler, Texas
https://texasinked.com/events-calendar/riseofthemachine2020
Feb 22, 2020
Beginner Water Color – Florals
The Crafty Fox
Tyler, Texas
https://www.facebook.com/events/1090221811318896/
Feb 28, 2020
Melodies of a Golden Age
Liberty Hall, Tyler, Texas
https://www.facebook.com/events/2432489313677274/
Make sure to check out the Edom Art Emporium for fun 2020 events!
Continue to check back with us each month. As we grow so will the list of events we come in contact with. Together we can make East Texas a fine arts district to rival any metropolitan area.
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