Events - Creative Action

Creative Action hosts free community events throughout the year. These fun, interactive programs take place at Creative Action and Central Market on North Lamar.

Please check our events calendar below for updates.

Our annual community events include:

Kids Ball (October 28, 2017)

Each October we partner with Central Market and the White Ghost Shivers to offer a free, interactive event with treats, kid- and family-friendly activities, costume-making, and dancing as we celebrate kindness, and creativity!

Friend Fest (February 2018)

This free family event held near Valentine’s Day includes our signature Friendship Parade, crafting activities, live music and cookie decorating at Central Market.

Big Hair Country Fair (February 24, 2018)

Our signature fundraising event, which is unlike any event in Austin! Dine on all you can eat comfort food and carnival treats from local vendors and enjoy signature drinks from our sponsors Deep Eddy Vodka, Mighty Swell, High Brew Coffee, Waterloo Sparking Water, and Austin Eastciders!

Youth Arts Fest (May 12, 2018)

This one-day festival celebrates the art created by middle school and high school students in Creative Action’s programs. Exhibitions include theater, paintings, photography, music, and film.

Sponsored by H-E-B these free events at the Center for Creative Action celebrate community through dance, music, creativity, food, and the arts!

Community Art Sundays

Each month we celebrate community through free arts workshops, performances, live-music and active learning experiences for all ages at Creative Action. With support from sponsors like H-E-B, Oskar Blues Brewery, Bennu Coffee, and KIND and our Community Partners such as Sustainable Food Center, ThinkBilingual, and Texans for the Arts, we connect community and art to create a joyful and meaningful experience for all.

Our Calendar

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
					1	2 Movement Class (Ages 2-3) 9:30 am Movement Class (Ages 2-3) @ Creative Action Sep 2 @ 9:30 am – 10:15 am Tickets Dance, play, and sing with your child as they gain body awareness and explore ways to move through their growing world. This imaginative class includes parent/child games, stories and back-pocket exercises that can be used at home to continue the Read on! → Music Class (Ages 0-5) 9:30 am Music Class (Ages 0-5) @ Creative Action Sep 2 @ 9:30 am – 10:15 am Tickets Sing, play and make music in their multi-sensory music class. Watch and listen to your child’s music discovery and learn new songs to sing at home with your family. This class is brought to you by Armstrong Community Music School. Read on! → Movement Class (Ages 3-5) 10:30 am Movement Class (Ages 3-5) @ Creative Action Sep 2 @ 10:30 am – 11:15 am Tickets Dance, play, and sing with your child as they gain body awareness and explore ways to move through their growing world. This imaginative class includes parent/child games, stories and back-pocket exercises that can be used at home to continue the Read on! → Music Class (Ages 0-5) 10:30 am Music Class (Ages 0-5) @ Creative Action Sep 2 @ 10:30 am – 11:15 am Tickets Sing, play and make music in their multi-sensory music class. Watch and listen to your child’s music discovery and learn new songs to sing at home with your family. This class is brought to you by Armstrong Community Music School. Read on! →
3	4	5 Changing Lives Youth Theatre Ensemble Meetings 6:30 pm Changing Lives Youth Theatre Ensemble Meetings @ Creative Action Sep 5 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets In partnership with Expect Respect – A program of SAFE (formerly SAFE Place) since 2003, Changing Lives is an ensemble of artist-activists that create and tour youth-driven original performances focused on violence prevention, healthy relationships, and social justice. Every spring the ensemble Read on! → Color Squad Meetings 6:30 pm Color Squad Meetings @ Creative Action Sep 5 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The young civic-minded artists in Color Squad create public art in a variety of mediums with and for the Austin community. Students collaborate with professionals and builds artistic skills as they research and design projects that speak to the needs Read on! → Youth Cinema Collective Meetings 6:30 pm Youth Cinema Collective Meetings @ Creative Action Sep 5 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets In conjunction with the Alamo Drafthouse, Youth Cinema Collective provides a space for teens who are passionate about filmmaking and film’s ability to share stories that may otherwise go untold. YCC members delve into all areas of the filmmaking process Read on! →	6	7	8	9 Movement Class (Ages 2-3) 9:30 am Movement Class (Ages 2-3) @ Creative Action Sep 9 @ 9:30 am – 10:15 am Tickets Dance, play, and sing with your child as they gain body awareness and explore ways to move through their growing world. This imaginative class includes parent/child games, stories and back-pocket exercises that can be used at home to continue the Read on! → Music Class (Ages 0-5) 9:30 am Music Class (Ages 0-5) @ Creative Action Sep 9 @ 9:30 am – 10:15 am Tickets Sing, play and make music in their multi-sensory music class. Watch and listen to your child’s music discovery and learn new songs to sing at home with your family. This class is brought to you by Armstrong Community Music School. Read on! → Movement Class (Ages 3-5) 10:30 am Movement Class (Ages 3-5) @ Creative Action Sep 9 @ 10:30 am – 11:15 am Tickets Dance, play, and sing with your child as they gain body awareness and explore ways to move through their growing world. This imaginative class includes parent/child games, stories and back-pocket exercises that can be used at home to continue the Read on! → Music Class (Ages 0-5) 10:30 am Music Class (Ages 0-5) @ Creative Action Sep 9 @ 10:30 am – 11:15 am Tickets Sing, play and make music in their multi-sensory music class. Watch and listen to your child’s music discovery and learn new songs to sing at home with your family. This class is brought to you by Armstrong Community Music School. Read on! →
10 National Arts in Education Week National Arts in Education Week Sep 10 – Sep 16 all-day Tickets	11	12 Changing Lives Youth Theatre Ensemble Meetings 6:30 pm Changing Lives Youth Theatre Ensemble Meetings @ Creative Action Sep 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets In partnership with Expect Respect – A program of SAFE (formerly SAFE Place) since 2003, Changing Lives is an ensemble of artist-activists that create and tour youth-driven original performances focused on violence prevention, healthy relationships, and social justice. Every spring the ensemble Read on! → Color Squad Meetings 6:30 pm Color Squad Meetings @ Creative Action Sep 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The young civic-minded artists in Color Squad create public art in a variety of mediums with and for the Austin community. Students collaborate with professionals and builds artistic skills as they research and design projects that speak to the needs Read on! → Youth Cinema Collective Meetings 6:30 pm Youth Cinema Collective Meetings @ Creative Action Sep 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets In conjunction with the Alamo Drafthouse, Youth Cinema Collective provides a space for teens who are passionate about filmmaking and film’s ability to share stories that may otherwise go untold. YCC members delve into all areas of the filmmaking process Read on! →	13 Social Creativity Meeting 6:30 pm Social Creativity Meeting @ Creative Action Sep 13 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Social Creativity is a free, 9-month recreational arts class for transitioning youth (ages 17 – 25) with Asperger’s or mild to moderate autism. Adding a creative lens to a social and life-skills class, Social Creativity explores themes like perspective-taking, goal-setting, Read on! →	14	15	16 Movement Class (Ages 2-3) 9:30 am Movement Class (Ages 2-3) @ Creative Action Sep 16 @ 9:30 am – 10:15 am Tickets Dance, play, and sing with your child as they gain body awareness and explore ways to move through their growing world. This imaginative class includes parent/child games, stories and back-pocket exercises that can be used at home to continue the Read on! → Music Class (Ages 0-5) 9:30 am Music Class (Ages 0-5) @ Creative Action Sep 16 @ 9:30 am – 10:15 am Tickets Sing, play and make music in their multi-sensory music class. Watch and listen to your child’s music discovery and learn new songs to sing at home with your family. This class is brought to you by Armstrong Community Music School. Read on! → Movement Class (Ages 3-5) 10:30 am Movement Class (Ages 3-5) @ Creative Action Sep 16 @ 10:30 am – 11:15 am Tickets Dance, play, and sing with your child as they gain body awareness and explore ways to move through their growing world. This imaginative class includes parent/child games, stories and back-pocket exercises that can be used at home to continue the Read on! → Music Class (Ages 0-5) 10:30 am Music Class (Ages 0-5) @ Creative Action Sep 16 @ 10:30 am – 11:15 am Tickets Sing, play and make music in their multi-sensory music class. Watch and listen to your child’s music discovery and learn new songs to sing at home with your family. This class is brought to you by Armstrong Community Music School. Read on! →
17 Community Art Sunday 2:00 pm Community Art Sunday @ Center for Creative Action Sep 17 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tickets JOIN US AS WE KICK OFF A NEW SEASON OF COMMUNITY ART SUNDAYS! DATE: Sunday, September 17th, 2 – 5p LOCATION: Creative Action, 2921 E. 17th St., Austin, 78702 (Located at the MLK Jr. Light Rail Station in East Read on! →	18	19 Changing Lives Youth Theatre Ensemble Meetings 6:30 pm Changing Lives Youth Theatre Ensemble Meetings @ Creative Action Sep 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets In partnership with Expect Respect – A program of SAFE (formerly SAFE Place) since 2003, Changing Lives is an ensemble of artist-activists that create and tour youth-driven original performances focused on violence prevention, healthy relationships, and social justice. Every spring the ensemble Read on! → Color Squad Meetings 6:30 pm Color Squad Meetings @ Creative Action Sep 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The young civic-minded artists in Color Squad create public art in a variety of mediums with and for the Austin community. Students collaborate with professionals and builds artistic skills as they research and design projects that speak to the needs Read on! → Youth Cinema Collective Meetings 6:30 pm Youth Cinema Collective Meetings @ Creative Action Sep 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets In conjunction with the Alamo Drafthouse, Youth Cinema Collective provides a space for teens who are passionate about filmmaking and film’s ability to share stories that may otherwise go untold. YCC members delve into all areas of the filmmaking process Read on! →	20 Social Creativity Meeting 6:30 pm Social Creativity Meeting @ Creative Action Sep 20 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Social Creativity is a free, 9-month recreational arts class for transitioning youth (ages 17 – 25) with Asperger’s or mild to moderate autism. Adding a creative lens to a social and life-skills class, Social Creativity explores themes like perspective-taking, goal-setting, Read on! →	21	22	23 Movement Class (Ages 2-3) 9:30 am Movement Class (Ages 2-3) @ Creative Action Sep 23 @ 9:30 am – 10:15 am Tickets Dance, play, and sing with your child as they gain body awareness and explore ways to move through their growing world. This imaginative class includes parent/child games, stories and back-pocket exercises that can be used at home to continue the Read on! → Music Class (Ages 0-5) 9:30 am Music Class (Ages 0-5) @ Creative Action Sep 23 @ 9:30 am – 10:15 am Tickets Sing, play and make music in their multi-sensory music class. Watch and listen to your child’s music discovery and learn new songs to sing at home with your family. This class is brought to you by Armstrong Community Music School. Read on! → Movement Class (Ages 3-5) 10:30 am Movement Class (Ages 3-5) @ Creative Action Sep 23 @ 10:30 am – 11:15 am Tickets Dance, play, and sing with your child as they gain body awareness and explore ways to move through their growing world. This imaginative class includes parent/child games, stories and back-pocket exercises that can be used at home to continue the Read on! → Music Class (Ages 0-5) 10:30 am Music Class (Ages 0-5) @ Creative Action Sep 23 @ 10:30 am – 11:15 am Tickets Sing, play and make music in their multi-sensory music class. Watch and listen to your child’s music discovery and learn new songs to sing at home with your family. This class is brought to you by Armstrong Community Music School. Read on! →
24	25	26 Changing Lives Youth Theatre Ensemble Meetings 6:30 pm Changing Lives Youth Theatre Ensemble Meetings @ Creative Action Sep 26 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets In partnership with Expect Respect – A program of SAFE (formerly SAFE Place) since 2003, Changing Lives is an ensemble of artist-activists that create and tour youth-driven original performances focused on violence prevention, healthy relationships, and social justice. Every spring the ensemble Read on! → Color Squad Meetings 6:30 pm Color Squad Meetings @ Creative Action Sep 26 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets The young civic-minded artists in Color Squad create public art in a variety of mediums with and for the Austin community. Students collaborate with professionals and builds artistic skills as they research and design projects that speak to the needs Read on! → Youth Cinema Collective Meetings 6:30 pm Youth Cinema Collective Meetings @ Creative Action Sep 26 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets In conjunction with the Alamo Drafthouse, Youth Cinema Collective provides a space for teens who are passionate about filmmaking and film’s ability to share stories that may otherwise go untold. YCC members delve into all areas of the filmmaking process Read on! → Program Tour: Teen Programs at Creative Action 6:45 pm Program Tour: Teen Programs at Creative Action @ Creative Action Sep 26 @ 6:45 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets See first-hand how Creative Action’s Teen Programs tap into the power of students’ own creativity and explore issues of identity and self-worth through powerful works of original theatre, public art, and film! Our nationally and locally recognized Changing Lives Youth Read on! →	27 Social Creativity Meeting 6:30 pm Social Creativity Meeting @ Creative Action Sep 27 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Social Creativity is a free, 9-month recreational arts class for transitioning youth (ages 17 – 25) with Asperger’s or mild to moderate autism. Adding a creative lens to a social and life-skills class, Social Creativity explores themes like perspective-taking, goal-setting, Read on! →	28	29	30 Movement Class (Ages 2-3) 9:30 am Movement Class (Ages 2-3) @ Creative Action Sep 30 @ 9:30 am – 10:15 am Tickets Dance, play, and sing with your child as they gain body awareness and explore ways to move through their growing world. This imaginative class includes parent/child games, stories and back-pocket exercises that can be used at home to continue the Read on! → Music Class (Ages 0-5) 9:30 am Music Class (Ages 0-5) @ Creative Action Sep 30 @ 9:30 am – 10:15 am Tickets Sing, play and make music in their multi-sensory music class. Watch and listen to your child’s music discovery and learn new songs to sing at home with your family. This class is brought to you by Armstrong Community Music School. Read on! → Movement Class (Ages 3-5) 10:30 am Movement Class (Ages 3-5) @ Creative Action Sep 30 @ 10:30 am – 11:15 am Tickets Dance, play, and sing with your child as they gain body awareness and explore ways to move through their growing world. This imaginative class includes parent/child games, stories and back-pocket exercises that can be used at home to continue the Read on! → Music Class (Ages 0-5) 10:30 am Music Class (Ages 0-5) @ Creative Action Sep 30 @ 10:30 am – 11:15 am Tickets Sing, play and make music in their multi-sensory music class. Watch and listen to your child’s music discovery and learn new songs to sing at home with your family. This class is brought to you by Armstrong Community Music School. Read on! →

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Parent/Child Music & Movement Classes Encourage the creative development of your child through play, music, dancing and imagination. Celebrate your child’s inner artist and continue to strengthen your parent/child bond through discovery and growth through the arts. Classes are drop-in Read on! →

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