Summary
In the first story in our Living Eulogies series, we take a look at the Austin Cultural Trust.
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Austin is losing its live music venues and cultural arts spaces. A new program, called the Austin Cultural Trust, is trying to save them.
In the first story for our Living Eulogies series (which investigates ways to help preserve our city’s small business and arts community), we take a deep dive into the Austin Cultural Trust. Keep scrolling to check out part one of this story (which focuses on how the program works and the impact it’s had so far) and then check back soon for part two, where we’ll cover discussions about what the future of the program should like.
The data on this slide comes from the 2022 Austin Music Census and the 2017 City of Austin Creative Space Survey.
You can learn more about Rally Austin here.
You can read The Austin Chronicle story here and the Austin Business Journal story here.
Check back here next week for part two of this story!
Illustrations by Alyssa Russell.
Quotes for this story come from several interviews with David Colligan, Chief Operating Officer of Rally Austin.