No, wait: Today,
if you re reading this on Thursday, March 4, or Friday, March 5, is Amplify Austin Day.
The fundraising (and fund-
matching) program runs for 24 hours – from March 4, 6pm, to March 5, 6pm. Also, this is Amplify Austin Day
for 2021, so it s immediately following our first Year of COVID-19.
Do we have to tell you how devastating that s been for everyone? No, we don t: If you re reading this, at least you re still alive and well enough to read . and also therefore aware of the economic and societal and emotional tolls the pandemic (and the response to the pandemic) has exacted upon our beleaguered species. And that s why, though there are an increasing number of noteworthy events here in the Arts Listings section, this annual Amplify Austin Day wrangled by the I Live Here I Give Here organization is currently the most important thing happening in this context.
Sometimes a dancing mailbox doesn’t expect to attract much attention.
So it was with the one at the Texas State Capitol this past Sunday. She figured she’d show up, do her pre-Inauguration Day tribute to democracy – movin’ and groovin’ to Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours” – and be off with no notice. But that wasn’t how it turned out. Andrea Ariel dancing for democracy at the Texas State Capitol (Photo by Colin Lowry)
To clarify, the dancing mailbox was actually
Andrea Ariel, the award-winning modern dancer, choreographer, soundpainter, and artistic director of Ariel Dance Theatre, and she was just wearing a mailbox