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Big Weekend Calendars Launch at the Vortex
How to keep track of Austin’s unending festivals, tours, rallies, concerts, markets and competitions? One popular tool is the Big Weekend Calendar, which for the past five years has guided Austinites around their town’s treasures. It’s a straightforward wall calendar, combining crisp photography with an easy-to-read grid and text tabs for more than 250 events and activities.
Anne L. Tiedt, Mike Stefanik and Laura B. Williams
Editor/publisher Mike Stefanik sold more than 12,000 copies of the calendar last year and hopes to expand to Portland, Ore. soon. Used in combination with AustinSocialPlanner.com, I Live Here I Give Here’s online calendar, plus the usual alerts from austin360.com, Tribeza, Rare, Launch787 and Do512, etc., one can practically schedule a year’s activities in one sitting.
Bryan Flores and Malkia Smith
Tuesday, Stefanik’s crew threw a launch party for the 2011 calendar at the Vortex, complemented by dancers, musicians and refreshments. It was a predictably youthful group and one that clearly likes going out. (Former Statesman columnist Lee Kelly’s phrase “cafe society” comes to mind.) A few of them even knew that 10 percent of the company’s after-tax profits goes to local nonprofits, especially the Austin Parks Foundation.
David Staab and Crystal Cao
Caught up with the Vortex Repertory Company’s Bonnie Cullum, who is working on programs that help creative artists — who write their own work — carve out careers. Cullum’s a rare Austin gem whose performance company is more than 20 years old. Quite impressive for an East Austin warehouse theater that has specialized in innovative efforts.
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