Activating Communities Through Creative Collaboration
Founded in 2001 by Artistic Director Allison Orr, Forklift Danceworks actively engages wide and diverse communities through the creation of unique dance projects featuring all kinds of people. Using the movement that comes from daily life as the choreographic starting point and casting community members as the primary performers in these projects, Forklift presents dances in intimate theaters to m
assive outdoor venues. With past projects in over 20 various communities, previous dances have included City of Austin sanitation workers, City of Austin firefighters, Venetian gondoliers, two steppers on the steps of the Texas Capitol, guide dogs and their owners, and most recently Austin Symphony Conductor Peter Bay. With a focus on relationship building, our community-engagement process aims to keep the community at the center of our art-making while creating innovative and award-winning art projects.
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You fuel our creative spark at Forklift Danceworks. 💥
Our spectacular dance performances not only elevate the art of the everyday, but they also provide paid opportunities for working artists.
Every year, we pay over 40 artists, musicians, producers, and team members to help us put on our one-of-a-kind shows.
As we aim to raise $20,000 by the end of 2022, your donation supports creative workers in our community.
Join our friends at Keep Austin Beautiful this Saturday, December 10, from 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. to help pick up litter in and around the Colorado River!
Choose from eleven sites at the lake for your ideal experience, whether paddling on a kayak in the water or walking along the trail. Don't forget to wear your favorite holiday outfit! 🎄
Sign up here! https://www.givepulse.com/event/334894-December-Clean-Lady-Bird-Lake?referring_group_id=51
We love bringing people together with art--and with food!
Thank you so much to our amazing in-kind food providers for The Way of Water: Waller Creek cast meals Mom and Pops and board member Manuel Flores, Southside Flying Pizza, 512 Cookies, Word of Mouth Catering, and Gumbeaux ToGeaux!
Want to work with this amazing team? We're hiring a development assistant, which will support our artistic and development teams.
This position ensures the timely completion of donation acknowledgments, maintains accurate donor records, and supports the successful implementation of fundraising events and activities.
Check it out here: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3373022061/?refId=yaf%2FPp62TfSg7IYC%2Fwgh4Q%3D%3D
Art is in the water in Austin. Forklift Danceworks could only spring from our creative city, with collaborative partners and generous supporters like you.
With 30 different performance projects and partnerships with eight Austin city departments Forklift is an innovator in community engagement and the arts.
This , support Forklift Danceworks as we keep the arts for everyone in Austin.
Your donation supports a national arts leader and unique Austin treasure.
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Austin Watershed Protection isn't afraid of the rain and neither is Forklift Danceworks! The Way of Water: Waller Creek is going on as scheduled tonight! 🌧️
It's going to be chilly and drizzly tonight, so bundle up! Feel free to bring a poncho, blankets, and a towel to put on the bleacher seating, so you can stay warm and dry.
⏰ Leave early so you have plenty of time to navigate downtown. Box offices open an hour before the shows.
🌉 Enter the park at the 14th Street and Red River bridge; you'll enter Creek Show and then head to the Forklift box office
🎟️ We'll have limited walk up tickets available at the box office, which opens at 6pm for the 7pm show and 8pm for the 9pm
💺 Bleacher seating is first come, first served
🚧 Enjoy seeing our finale performances in a working flood control facility!
We had a full house at the premiere of "The Way of Water: Waller Creek" last night, and we are expecting a packed audience tonight as well!
A few things to know as you get ready for tonight's show:
⏰ Leave early so you have plenty of time to navigate downtown. The Box Office opens 1 hour before each performance.
🚌 Consider taking the bus, ride-share, or biking
🌉 Enter the park at the 14th Street and Red River bridge; you'll enter Creek Show and then head to the Forklift box office
🎇 We are part of Creek Show presented by Waterloo Greenway, so you can enjoy public art along Waller Creek before or after the performance
🧣The audience sits entirely outside, so dress warm!
🚧 Enjoy seeing Austin Watershed's amazing team show of their skills
Lookin good Austin Watershed! 🕺👷🚧 🌊
Get a sneak peak of the show--premiering tomorrow night!
We have a few tickets left tomorrow at 7pm and Saturday night at 9pm and need a handful more volunteers.
https://www.forkliftdanceworks.org/projects/the-way-of-water/
Waller Creek Tunnel Inlet Facility helps protect Austin's downtown from flooding. In new show, folks who keep it running turn what they do into dance.
Thank you to our amazing sponsors of "The Way of Water: Waller Creek!"
The generous support of The Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Texas Commission on the Arts, Austin Community Foundation, H-E-B, The Watershed Association, Six Square Austin's Black Cultural District, and Red Bluff District, who are making this performance possible!
Thank you to our friends at Art Spark Texas, who are providing audio description for the 7pm performance of "The Way of Water: Waller Creek" this Friday!
Please contact [email protected] if you are interested in attending and would like to have AD provided.
Since we're only a few days away from our big premiere, we're releasing more tickets for The Way of Water: Waller Creek!
The performances are THIS Thursday at 7pm, Friday at 7pm and 9pm, and Saturday at 7pm and 9pm at Waterloo Greenway.
Make sure to reserve your tickets now! Only a limited quantity of tickets will be available at the door.
Grab 'em here: https://www.forkliftdanceworks.org/projects/the-way-of-water/
From swimming pools to creeks, Forklift choreographers have long been inspired to bring people together at the water.
Hear My Park, My Pool, My City participant Pearl Cox and The Way of Water collaborator Ramesh Swaminathan from Austin Watershed share what's so special about working with Forklift.
“We’re there to tell the story of their work,” she said, “and they’re co-creating it with us.”
Check out this Sightlines piece on our collaboration with Austin Watershed!
Forklift Danceworks will present its newest work ‘The Way of Water: Waller Creek’ Nov. 17 through Nov. 19 at Waterloo Greenway in downtown Austin. Five performances are planned as part of Creek Show 2022. The show is a collaboration between Forklift and the Austin Watershed Protection department...
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We need around 50 volunteers to help us pull off "The Way of Water: Waller Creek!"
We're expecting more than 3000 people to watch our Watershed Protection Department perform in the show, coming up November 17-19.
Volunteers will support the Forklift's small but mighty team with set up, parking, distributing surveys, ushering, and more! Sign up to get to see the show, get a guest ticket, and contribute to this performance like no other.
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Please review the available slots below and click on the button to sign up. Thank you!
📣 We still have seats available at the 9pm Way of Water shows--reserve your free tickets now! 🎟️
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We're looking for volunteers to support "The Way of Water: Waller Creek" coming up November 17-19 at Waterloo Greenway.
Volunteers get a seat to the performance, so if you can't find a ticket at your preferred time, consider volunteering!
Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c44a9ae2ba7ffc43-theway
What a fantastic press conference and preview of The Way of Water: Waller Creek yesterday!
Thanks Rep. Lloyd Doggett and Sheryl Cole for speaking.
And thanks to our amazing collaborators Austin Watershed and Waterloo Greenway and our friends Keep Austin Beautiful Colorado River Alliance Wimberley Valley Watershed Association and The Little Petal Alliance for coming out! 💙💙💙
“How does water move, and who is watching that movement? Who is managing and protecting that? It’s fascinating for me to look at this as a choreographer…Water is a great connector, and the watershed touches so much in our city."
Read more about "The Way of Water: Waller Creek" in this Arts and Culture Texas interview with Krissie Marty, Forklift's Associate Artistic & Community Collaborations Director, who is directing this fall's performance.
http://artsandculturetx.com/the-way-of-water-forklift-danceworks-to-premiere-new-production/
Rain at the Waller Creek Inlet Facility! 🌧️ The Inlet is part of a system that helps reduce the risk of flooding in downtown Austin, by capturing water and releasing it into Lady Bird Lake.
The tunnel between the Inlet and the lake is approximately 5,600 feet long. It lies 70 feet below the surface and ranges in size from 22 to 26 feet in diameter.
For our next performance "The Way of Water: Waller Creek" from November 17-19 Forklift will gather more than 2,000 people at the Waller Creek Inlet Facility to experience the work of Austin Watershed.
Make sure to reserve your tickets here: https://www.forkliftdanceworks.org/projects/the-way-of-water/
Get ready to meet us at the creek! Tickets are now available for The Way of Water: Waller Creek, November 17 at 7pm, November 18 & 19 at 7pm & 9pm at .
Forklift will gather over 2,000 people for a spectacular performance in collaboration with Austin Watershed at the massive Waller Creek Tunnel Inlet Facility.
With a live original score by Graham Reynolds and dramatic lighting, The Way of Water: Waller Creek will illuminate the perspectives of city employees who work to protect Austin from flooding, along with the environmental and engineering systems that enable this work.
Reserve your free tickets here! https://www.forkliftdanceworks.org/projects/the-way-of-water/
Our aquamarine dream came true last night at Forklift Fantasia. We raised over $140,000 to support our newest project, The Way of Water!
We are so grateful for our event committee, sponsors, collaborators, guests, and volunteers for contributing to this fantastic night. Thank you!!! 💙 💙 💙
We can’t wait to see everyone tonight at Forklift Fantasia!
You can buy tickets at the door and free parking is available at the The Capital Visitors Center Parking Garage.
Did y’all catch talking all things Forklift Fantasia on this morning? 🌅☕️We have tickets left so make sure to grab them in our bio to join us tomorrow night!
Have a funky fantastic time with Forklift this Thursday! Get tix for Forklift Fantasia NOW!
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Forklift Fantasia: The Shape of Water is THIS Thursday! 🌊 📹🧜♀️ 📸 🍹🌀 🪩 We're getting ready for the special night at Symphony Square and wanted to thank our sponsors whose generosity is powering the night!
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Don't waffle on this raffle for Forklift Fantasia: The Shape of Water, y'all!
You could get with Austin FC tickets, sip on $1,000 worth of JuiceLand, get lost in a sneak preview of Creek Show at Waterloo Greenway, lunch at Launderette and way more.
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Forklift Fantasia: The Shape of Water is only a few days away on September 29! 🌊 📹🧜♀️ 📸 🍹🌀 🪩 Support our most ambitious project yet and party with the Forklift crew!
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Power up, y'all! ⚡⚡⚡
In its first round of funding for fiscal year 2023, the Texas Commission on the Arts approved 943 grants totaling over $11.6 million to nonprofits and units of government in 120 Texas cities. Grants to Austin-based organizations totaled just over $1,057,700. Austin organizations receiving more than....
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🏖️ Vacation Home
Leave Austin behind for a quiet long weekend in Horseshoe Bay, right in the heart of the Texas Hill Country. Situated on Lake Lyndon B. Johnson and the southern branch of the Colorado River, this resort community is perfect for swimming, fishing, boating, and serene water views. Horseshoe Bay Lakehouse for three nights; sleeps eight people.
🎵 Live Music & Theater
Explore the Live Music Capital of the World, including shows at The Paramount Theatre, Parker Jazz Club, The Mohawk, The VORTEX, A Christmas Carol at ZACH Theatre, and The Black Keys at Moody Center.
💎Jewelry Lovers Package
14k yellow gold Luna Diamond Necklace from Eliza Page featuring an elegant laurel motif measuring 1.25" and set with .15 carats of white round brilliant cut diamonds, suspended from a delicate 18k gold cable chain.
🤘 Tourist In Your Own City
Austin isn’t just for tourists; explore our beautiful city with a two-day pass for two people to the Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL), featuring a diverse lineup of acts with nine stages and 100+ performances. Spend an evening at Q2 Stadium with Austin FC, Verde! Listos! And finish the week wearing your best burnt orange, cheering on the Longhorns! Hook ‘em!
✨Family Package
Enjoy a special sneak peek for four people during this one-night preview of Creek Show 2022 on Nov. 10th! Guests will have exclusive access and can beat the crowds before the official public launch of Creek Show unveils on Nov. 11-20. Creek Show 2022 will run along Waller Creek once again from 9th Street to Waterloo Park, with nine dazzling illuminated art installations presented by Waterloo Greenway.
🧖♀️ Treat Yourself!
Treat yourself to a weekend of beauty, start with a Cut & Color by Alex Smallwood, create cherished memories with a Portrait Session by Sarah Bork Photography. Finish the weekend enjoying a lake house vibe on South Congress with an evening stay at Hotel Magdalena.
🍝 Austin Restaurants & Experiences
The age old question, “What’s for dinner?” We have ALL the answers, with gifts from Gusto Italian Kitchen + Wine Bar, Fresa's Mattie's, Local Foods, Lenoir, Launderette, Justine's Brasserie and more there’s an option for every craving.
💐 Date Night
The perfect date night stay-cation begins with a gorgeous floral arrangement by House of Margot Blair, an assortment of beautiful treasures from Fail Jewelry, a Negroni & Italian Food Basket from Austin Wine Merchant gift basket and a One-Night Stay for Two and Breakfast for Two at Corner Restaurant.
🧘The Health Nut
Spend 2023 focused on your health and well being with a year of Juiceland’s smoothies, juices, superfood bowls, lattes, and healthy meals to-go. Incorporate movement with a ten class pass from Paul Kevin Smith Yoga, increase your healing and range of motion with four sessions from The Stretch Zone, and recenter with a session from Light Family Acupuncture.
☁️A Much Needed Retreat
Create peace, tranquility, and rejuvenation in the space of a weekend with Lucent Wellness Experiences. The gorgeous Wimberly landscape is the perfect backdrop to devote time to your self-care, nourishing food, vinyasa yoga, hiking, journaling, and massage.
🎭 Broadway Brunch
Broadway Brunch is a fun-loving group of philanthropic music-lovers who gather one Saturday morning per month to enjoy live music, fellowship, and high-level fundraising for the arts.
Calling all Forklift Fans! 📣
We need your help to pull off Forklift Fantasia: The Shape of Water coming up on September 29.
Sign up to volunteer and get a free ticket to the event! 🪩
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I saw the sign 👁📸 Y’all are going to be at Forklift Fantasia: The Shape of Water. Get tix for the party, coming up September 29. 🌊🌀🧜♀️💙
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Rock the boat with DJ Mahealani at Forklift Fantasia: The Shape of Water.
Swimming through genres of dance floor records, our DJ will spin a wave of soul, funk, disco, 80s pop, house & hip hop wax.
Get your tickets now for a night of nep-tunes & mermaid jams conjuring the shape of water!
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Show us your blue colors at Forklift Fantasia: The Shape of Water like Nathan Idais Kathy Garza Smith and Kevin Witcher. 💙🧜♀️
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Tag a friend you're going to dance with at Forklift Fantasia: The Shape of Water! 🪩
Don't forget to get tix at bit.ly/fldwfantasia
Calling all Forklift Fans! 📣 We need your help to pull off Forklift Fantasia: The Shape of Water coming up on September 29.
Sign up to volunteer and get a free ticket to the event! 🪩
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A new report focused on Waller Creek shows that urban green spaces are providing a benefits for wildlife, supporting biodiversity, sequestering greenhouse gases, capturing air pollutants, and cooling air temperatures.
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/new-ut-research-shows-austins-creeks-do-more-than-just-control-floods/
New research from the University of Texas showed Austin’s creeks have more benefits for our area than just controlling floods.
Are y'all ready to boogie at Forklift Fantasia: The Shape of Water? 🪩
Lace up your dancing shoes and disco with Forklift--and know you're helping support our most ambitious project yet, "The Way of Water."
Reserve your spot on the dance floor by getting tickets now! 🕺
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Have a funky fantastic time with Forklift this Thursday! Get tix for Forklift Fantasia NOW! https://hellofund.io/tickets/purchase_tickets.php?slug=fldw&form_name=tickets
Forklift Fantasia: The Shape of Water is only a few days away on September 29! 🌊 📹🧜♀️ 📸 🍹🌀 🪩 Support our most ambitious project yet and party with the Forklift crew! Get your tickets now! https://hellofund.io/tickets/purchase_tickets.php?slug=fldw&form_name=tickets
I saw the sign 👁📸 Y’all are going to be at Forklift Fantasia: The Shape of Water. Get tix for the party, coming up September 29. 🌊🌀🧜♀️💙 https://hellofund.io/tickets/purchase_tickets.php?slug=fldw&form_name=tickets
Rock the boat with DJ Mahealani at Forklift Fantasia: The Shape of Water. Swimming through genres of dance floor records, our DJ will spin a wave of soul, funk, disco, 80s pop, house & hip hop wax. Get your tickets now for a night of nep-tunes & mermaid jams conjuring the shape of water! https://hellofund.io/tickets/purchase_tickets.php?slug=fldw&form_name=tickets
Show us your blue colors at Forklift Fantasia: The Shape of Water like Nathan Idais Kathy Garza Smith and Kevin Witcher. 💙🧜♀️ Get tickets here! https://hellofund.io/tickets/purchase_tickets.php?slug=fldw&form_name=tickets
Tag a friend you're going to dance with at Forklift Fantasia: The Shape of Water! 🪩 Don't forget to get tix at bit.ly/fldwfantasia
Happy #LaborDay! We at Forklift are honored to make dances that shine a light on the work and movement that keeps our cities and communities moving. 🚚⚡🏙️💦🌳
This #WasteAndRecyclingWorkersWeek we're thankful for everyone who works keeps our city clean! And we want to give a special shoutout to everyone who danced with us in the "Trash Project," our collaborative performance with Austin Recycles. Watch the trailer to learn more about the project. 🚛
Are y’all ready to Insta-Dog Dance tomorrow? Allison Orr will teach you how! Just make sure to grab your tickets for “Dances for Dogs” tomorrow at the Austin Animal Center! https://ci.ovationtix.com/34872/performance/11037373
The dancers and doggies are getting show ready! Don’t furr-get to reserve your free tickets 🐾😘 https://ci.ovationtix.com/34872/performance/11037373
“This is event is for pretty much all of Austin.” 🐕🦺🐾 Thanks to We Are Austin for giving “Dances for Dogs,” our collaborative event with Austin Animal Center a shout-out yesterday morning! 🌞 Stay tuned for free tickets coming out in the next few weeks.
“This pool is legendary” – NOOK Turner Givens District Park was one of three Texas parks to be recently named Lone Star Legacy Park by the Texas Recreation and Parks Society, a designation for iconic gathering spaces that have historic, architectural, and natural significance. Of course, Givens has always been iconic in East Austin. In summer 2019, Forklift collaborated with the Givens community to present Givens Swims, a performance that told the story of this legendary space through the voices and movements that have long lived, worked, and played here.
As students head back to virtual and in-person classrooms this month, we're thinking of the work it takes to keep schools and campuses running--and who the people are who do that work. WesWorks, a performance with Wesleyan University Facilities, invited audiences to witness and celebrate the virtuosic and skilled work of Wesleyan’s campus staff as performed by the employees themselves, building connections across campus communities. Thanks to Wesleyan University College of the Environment, Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts and Wesleyan Physical Plant for supporting this project!
We're riding into this week like Francis Rodriguez, Forklift assistant choreographer on our project with Austin FC, trying her hand at some heavy machinery while job shadowing. In order to collaborate with workers on dance-making, our choreographers join the staff as they work, asking questions, imagining possibilities, and getting down to work. Here's what Francis took away from her experience, "Having the opportunity to shadow the stadium operations departments during Austin FC’s first season was extremely special." "The amount of care and pride everyone pours into their work is palpable and is the structure behind what makes match days so vibrant. I’m immensely grateful to everyone I had the pleasure of working alongside and want to thank them for welcoming me into their home at Q2."
Forklift Danceworks salutes the hardworking Austin FC stadium staff. 💚🌳
Prepared to be blown away by the talent of the staff that support Austin FC! Here's Forklifter Arturo Hernandez, an assistant choreographer on the project and huge FC fan, getting in the swing of clearing the grass as he job shadows the grounds staff. "I've been to every Austin FC home game this season and have had the pleasure to watch from both the perspective of a fan and also from the eyes of their employees," said Arturo. "Though the two are extremely different I now carry an immense gratitude for the work that goes into bringing this electric atmosphere to life." "From sun up to sun down this staff works endlessly all week till the final whistle is blown on match day. I don’t just cheer for the players on game day anymore but also the incredible staff that has turned this inaugural season into one of the most exciting atmospheres in Austin." We're excited for our choreographed video of the workers of the Q2 Stadium to premiere at tonight's game!
It's hard to believe we've been dancing at Austin's pools, baseball fields, and parks with community members for twenty years! Our Forklift Danceworks' Platinum Party: A 20th Anniversary Celebration is only a couple weeks away on October 28 at 7pm. With plenty of room to roam at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden, the Platinum Party will have interactive stations from a sprinkling of our iconic projects. 🚣🏻Embrace your inner Venetian at the gondola booth ⚾ Swing by the baseball booth to measure your pitching speed with the Texas Playboys 😎Be one of the cool kids at the Lifeguard Stand, with summertime vibes ⚡PowerUP with a gourmet slider and some electrifying stats 🚒Sidle up to a fire truck to toast some of Austin's bravest 🌳 And, we'll have a special performance moment from a mystery city department among the Umlauf's trees, with live music from Graham Reynolds. Get your tickets here! https://ci.ovationtix.com/34872/production/1078962
The ARR crew taught Ya Fav Trashman a little choreography yesterday, as he learns more about sanitation the Austin, Texas way. ♻️🗑🚛 There’s still a few more seats for our Trash Dance Screening and Talk about essential sanitation work and more with Austin Recycles TONIGHT! Doors open at 7pm, so don’t forget to grab free tickets at bit.ly/trashdancetix
If we do say so ourselves, "Trucks Don't Dance" by Graham Reynolds Music sounds a little better on vinyl. Take a trip through our musical history with songs composed for our dances with sanitation workers, electrical utility workers, university campus employees, and parks and recreation staff. And hear gorgeous performances by Josh Baca on accordion, Andre Hayward Music on trombone, Ephraim Owens Music on trumpet, Todd Reynolds on violin, Nora Karakousoglou on cello, and many more, plus Graham Reynolds on keys. Find it where you stream your music, or order one of the limited-run albums here: https://ci.ovationtix.com/34872/store/donations/39682
We've got a little choreography in store for y'all. ⚾👯♂️ Come on out to Texas Playboys Double Header Supporting Forklift to see some sandlot baseball with a side of dancing, and a special appearance on music from Graham Reynolds Music. Games are going all day, but Forklift fans are encouraged to come out starting at 2:30pm to catch the choreography.
"How are we going to make trucks dance?" Join us and Austin Recycles to learn how at our Trash Dance Screening and Talk on July 10 at Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farms. 🚛🕺🏽 Footage from Trash Dance, https://vimeo.com/agarrison/trashdance
"Just take me out to Downs Field honey, I'm ready to go!" #FBF to last year when we spent time on Downs Field both in person and virtually in our collaborative project with Six Square Austin's Black Cultural District and Huston-Tillotson Baseball celebrating the rich history and bright future of this meaningful field in East Austin. Watch to learn more about Downs from people with lived connections to the field and who use it today. ⚾🌟🐏 As we celebrate our 20th year, we’re reflecting on the people we’ve danced with and the performances we’ve created together. #Forklift20
When Mauricio Segura, urban forester with Austin Parks and Recreation Department, tends to the trees he sings them love songs that he learned on his father's ranch growing up in Mexico. Watch him climb through a grand heritage pecan tree in our dance "The Trees of Govalle" from 2015, accompanied by a Mexican love song performed by legendary Austinite and Tejano musician Manuel Cowboy Donley, who passed away in 2020, and his daughter Sylvia Donley. To hear more of Mauricio's music, check out our playlist on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4cyO66hfvlYXbsUacj64CM?si=S3BZ3NZlT2-OgK4eKTaRDg
Hear more about Hands Full of Cash Car Club, a family that loves cars and helping their community from Rogerick Davis, founder and president of the club. Davis performed in “Givens Swims” with Forklift and the East Austin community in 2019 and shared his thoughts about the rich traditions of car clubs, barbecues, and gatherings at Givens Park and in East Austin in the talk “We Are Here! Living the Legacy of Dr. Givens” in the summer of 2020. Make sure to check out Hands Full of Cash on Facebook to see their cars and learn about how they support the community!
"There is something so moving, literally and figuratively, when watching Anderson swing the arm of his yellow crane around like a long-lost love; a beauty in the mundanity of machinery, and the unanticipated grace in its masculinity," wrote Barbara Purcell in Sightlines. Watch this clip to see Don Anderson's moving performance with a crane from Andrew Garrison's documentary "Trash Dance." The music accompanying the movement "Dance for a Crane Solo" is the first track on our upcoming album with Reynolds "Trucks Don't Dance." We're excited to celebrate the album release with Laurie Gallardo, Graham Reynolds Music, and the Forklift crew this Thursday, March 11 at 7pm CST. If you're not already joining us, contribute $20 at bit.ly/trucksdontdance to attend!
"Whenever you see one of us, even though things may be powering down, know that we are there. We're Austin Energy, we'll leave the lights on for ya...We will keep power UP!" ⚡⬆️ We can't say thanks enough to the workers of Austin Energy for powering our city up amongst dangerous conditions last week. Hear more about how Austin Energy keeps the lights on from this slam poem by Allen Small, who worked at Austin Energy for more than 27 years. "I Sing the Utility Electric" was performed as part of our dance PowerUP with Austin Energy in 2013.
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