Creative Space Assistance Program News Today

Stressing increased rents and insurance rates to the Music Commission

As grants from this year’s program roll out to 368 recipients

The Creative Space Assistance Program offers grants to creative organizations and independent artists facing displacement and rising costs.

Back in early March 2020, which feels like 100 years ago, the thriving Austin music industry felt the rumblings of a catastrophic event: the cancellation of South by Southwest (SXSW). It would be the first time in the 34-year history of the annual conference—once solely dedicated to music and now expanded to education, film, and interactive—that venues across the city would go dark. Faced with the implications of creating a superspreader event, as hundreds of thousands of people from dozens...