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Catalyst 8 Bash at the Long Center
Goals are good. Catalyst 8, the group of young leaders backing the Long Center for the Performing Arts, has made a goal: To raise $600,000 this year.
Sara Dunne and Pat Buchta
They intend to subsidize 60 nights of local arts in the center’s Rollins Theatre. If there’s a smarter, more focused goal for an arts guild, I don’t know about it.
Catalyst 8 energizer Carla Jackson says she’d like to help subsidized groups, such as Tongue and Groove Theatre, to learn marketing as well. (She adored that company’s clever staging of “The Red Balloon.”)
Wolfgang and Julie Niedert
For its annual Bash, the leaders decked out two levels of Long Center lobbies and gathering spots. Kevin Smothers concentrated on a downbeat lounge in the third floor. Technology provided the theme: Centerpieces were constructed of electronic innards.
Jake Stewart and Troupe Gammage of the band Speak
The synthpop band Speak got guests moving in the Kodosky Lounge. I first heard the foursome during the Austin Fashion Awards show at the Dell Hall, for which they were ideally suited. Here they played dance beats from the ’70s and ’80s, as well as their own adroitly layered compositions.
Laura Mitchell, Susan Nelms and Robert Taylor
I danced, thank in part to the companionship of Jackson and restaurant owner Cameron Lockley. Yes. So you know it was a good party. Any videos of my inevitable awkwardness should not make it onto the Internet. Seriously. No. Seriously.
Outgoing Catalyst 8 chairwoman Amy Holloway and her retirement gift, not a close likeness
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By Chris Saad
August 30, 2010 1:52 AM | Link to this
Speak is one of Austin's best up and coming group that will make it big from the Austin scene, go check em out when you get a chance!
Chris
By Alex Bruno
August 29, 2010 8:39 PM | Link to this
A friend of mine introduced me to SPEAK a couple weeks ago. I really enjoy their sound a lot. Sounds like a fun event!