Because of Austin's huge college population, Austin's natives sometimes get lost in the dust when it comes to the music scene. With most of the venues being 21+, some are forced to wait to see their favorite band until large all ages festivals like ACL. Fear no more, friends, because this week we at Sanctuary Printshop, along with Do512, are sponsoring a benefit for Groundwork Music Project that is sure to keep you dancing.

This Thursday, April 29, starting at 8:00PM, the Mohawk will open its doors to ALL AGES for the SHOW N' TELL Benefit! Sponsored by Sanctuary Printshop, Do512, Public School, The Austin Chronicle, Playing in Traffic, NadaMoo, Birds Barbershop, & Texas Performing Arts, there will be tons of free swag and a RAFFLE with awesome gifts from businesses all over town! Trevor Ray Thompson will also be on hand running a photobooth so you can forever be immortalized at the Mohawk. If that's not enough, our badass El Camino mobile printing press will be there to bring you awesome FREE shirts, care of the Sanctuary!

Most importantly, why we're all here, come out to see bands Sons of Sherri, The Redboys, DJ Hot Britches!, Crash Gallery, FM Campers, Castle Nova, and, Austin's new favorite band, SPEAK! If you haven't already, this Thursday is the perfect chance to hear all these bands for the first time - they will all remind you why Austin is the place to be.

So here's the deal, tickets are $10, BUT if you RSVP HERE on Do512, they're only $5 at the door! Also, if you're going to see Phoenix at Stubbs earlier in the night, you can bring in your ticket Stubb and get in for $5 as well. As usual, though, we here at the Sanctuary like to be nice, and we want to give you, local high schooler, a chance to WIN  TWO FREE TICKETS! Here's what we need from you:

Become our friend on Facebook and/or Twitter

Email us at Lauren@SouthSideSanctuary.com with EITHER your most embarrassing story from school OR something you'd bring to show and tell these days and why.

Optional (but it helps your chances!): Repost this blog post on your Facebook page, tag us at SouthSide Sanctuary, and get as many friends as you can to "Like" it!

It's as easy as that! Can you imagine rolling up and being on the list? So enter now!

Austin has many reputations. When it comes to music, we do it right. Great food? We have you covered. A unique style, fed by the thriving cultural and creative scene? Absolutely! So when we heard our friends over at Lone Star Ladies Present were hosting an event bringing together some of Austin's favorite local vendors, we knew it would be good. Shop Austin will be held this Saturday, April 17 at Saengerrunde Hall (1607 San Jacinto Blvd, in downtown Austin) from 10AM-6PM. Over 50 vendors will open up their collections with everything from pottery to handbags! Believe us, this is not to be missed. If you want to visit Shop Austin, it will run you $10 - What a great deal! You can purchase tickets HERE, buy them at the door, or, because we know you Austinites love everything free, enter our contest to win 2 tickets to Shop Austin and one of their incredible goodie bags! It's filled with all sorts of fun gifts from Shop Austin's awesome vendors. To enter, just send an email to Lauren@SouthSideSanctuary.com with your name. We'll pick a winner on Friday and notify them by 5PM. If you don't win, we still expect to see you there. Come shop and do your part to support local Austin brands!

The Sanctuary and Sneak Attack are teaming up to host South Side First Thursdays at Jo's Coffee. We'll have shirts, coffee, shoes, drink specials, live music and more on the first Thursday of every month. And no, this is not an April Fool's joke.

Jo's Coffee is located at 1300 S Congress Ave, 78704 next to the famous San Jose Hotel

We kick it off this Thursday, April 1st, but that's only the beginning. It's not just a pop-up tent with really cool apparel anymore. We're bringing in fashion friends and businesses to share their style knowledge with the great people of Austin. Every month will feature a different personality and theme, so make us a regular stop. This is really for you anyway. Sanctuary doesn't just want you wearing our shirts, we want to help you look good.

So come on out to Jo's Coffee for the first ever South Side First Thursday this week from 5-10 p.m. Leo Rondeau will hold down the live music stage from 7-9:45 p.m and $2 Shiner, Lone Star and Coors will be available for your enjoyment while supplies last. See you there!

We'll be right where that "A" is! Come see us!

Come visit us at the San Jose Hotel on South Congress. Free music from noon to 10pm daily.

Today marks the start of the 2010 South by Southwest Music Festival. We don't want you to miss out on the photography phanatics, local musicians, day-long parties, free drinks, incredible spring weather and of course...Southside Sanctuary. The Sanctuary will be all over Austin the next couple days and since "Where's Waldo" was so last century we're throwing the guessing game out the window. Here's a rundown of everywhere you can catch us this week!

South by San Jose: Come visit us Wednesday-Sunday and grab a shirt from our 2010 collection! Located at the San Jose Hotel on South Congress Avenue.

The Carrera Escape: The Tabernacle of Fun! is now mobile. That's right- we'll be at Cedar Door printing shirts from 11-5 p.m. Thursday- Saturday. Sorry folks, this one is invite only...

Eastbound & Found: Swing by the Sweet Leaf party on Thursday from 12-9 p.m. and get another look at the El Camino mobile printing press! Located on the corner of E. 6th Street and San Marcos Street on the East Side of IH-35.

Coast to Coast: This is a can't miss. Sneak Attack, Playing in Traffic Records and Sanctuary Printshop teamed up to plan an incredible party on Friday at Clive Bar. Enjoy non-stop music, drinks and El Camino from 11-6 p.m.

The party will showcase SPEAK in a two set performance: one of their upbeat original tunes and the other a cover set of your favorite love songs. The night will also feature drinks, beats spun by DJ Markus with a K, a photo booth by Annie Ray, chocolates by Miles of Chocolate and a large amount of confetti. The festivities kick off at 9 p.m. at The Independent. Be one of the first 50 people in the door and receive a handmade Digital Love silkscreen poster designed and printed by yours truly, Southside Sanctuary. These posters will come in an exclusive V-Day mason jar with coupons for Sweet Leaf Tea and a code to download exclusive content from SPEAK. Start the Valentine's Day weekend off                                                                             right, show your love to SPEAK and come join in on the Awesome. 

                                                                            $10, 21+ only

1.20.10: SPEAK shoots the music video for their single, "Carrie," right in the warehouse at Sanctuary Printshop. The video debuted at the band's listening party Tuesday night at Sneak Attack.

1.27.10: Troupe, Nick, Joey and Jake invade Sanctuary Printshop to personally print the album cover for "Hear Here," which released on Tuesday, February 9. Jon Pattillo and Reagan Ward of FC+ designed the limited run covers. Each of the 300 covers feature minor variations, making them instant collector's items.

2.9.10: On the day of SPEAK's EP release, Sanctuary Printshop is doing their part. Reagan Ward, of FC+, prints the event posters for the "Digital Love" release party in our shop. Brady Clark, with Sanctuary Printshop, created the hot pink and silver design.

After the work was done, we headed to the first event of SPEAK Week, a listening party hosted by Sneak Attack. The crowd enjoyed the sound of SPEAK all night and had the chance to witness the debut of the band's music video for "Carrie." The party was sponsored by Tito's Handmade Vodka, Sweet Leaf Tea, Apothecary Coffee House & Wine Bar and Whetstone Audio.

We're giving you a lot at once. Your plate is full, but we're not done. SPEAK Week is just beginning. You have two more chances to catch the sensational band this week:

• Tonight: In-store performance @ Waterloo Records, 5 p.m.
• 2.12.10: Digital Love Release Party @ The Independent, 10 p.m.

Come out and support the band who put their heart, soul, sweat and time into creating this album. It's a journey worth joining.

To see more of SPEAK and Sanctuary's teamwork, take a look at our gallery!

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Faithful Followers,

We're sure some of you have heard rumblings, but we're ready to confirm - this weekend we're having a massive party to premiere our 2010 line! Not only that, but the party is also hosted by Sneak Attack and will feature some of their badass goods as well! We know we have some pretty loyal blog followers, and we wanted to make sure you got the RSVP info so you can join us on Saturday. In addition to showing off some new designs, we'll have some delicious beverages from our friends at Jack Daniels, Dripping Springs Vodka, Maine Root, and Sweet Leaf Tea, and just generally having a good time. There will be beer too, and to keep those beers cold, Sanctuary Printshop & Sneak Attack tallboy koozies! These will be available to the first 100 guests. ALSO, drum roll please, you'll get to take a peek at our newest venture: the new Sanctuary Printshop El Camino mobile printing press! That's right, we can print shirts out of the back of an El Camino. Jealous? We thought so. Jams will be taken care of by The Get Right Kids, and Alison Narro will document the whole affair in truly awesome style. Basically, FUN.  Also, keep in mind that your RSVP it good for you AND ONE GUEST. So bring your friend, date, milkman, whatever. We can't wait to see you there and preemptively celebrate what an amazing year TWENTYTEN is going to be!

And just in case you can't read:

Location: Sanctuary Printshop - 4201 South Congress, Austin, Texas, 78745

Time: 9pm-2am

Dave Schwab (right) displays the fruits of his labor. Approved by Brady Clark (left) - Poster design by Jed Taylor"

We have been busy all day printing up special shirts and poster's for the big HOPE FOR HAITI show tonight at the Parish. All items will be sold to help raise money for the "Real Hope For Haiti" non-profit organization. Please come out and support this very worthy and urgent cause.
"HOPE FOR HAITI" Benefit Concert

Poster designed by Jed Taylor, Sanctuary Printshop

// THE PARISH // JANUARY 18 // 7 PM // $10 //

All proceeds benefit "REAL HOPE FOR HAITI"

AARON IVEY // MATT MCCLOSKEY // MIRANDA DODSON // KEVIN MCKINNEY //
COURRIER // STEVEN BUSH PHOTOGRAPHY //

From MusicForTheCity.org:
As many of you know, a devastating 7.0 earthquake hit the impoverished country of Haiti Tuesday near the capital city of Port-au-Prince. Casualties are estimated to exceed 100,000, and the need for medical supplies, food, and water are without measure.

After witnessing the mass devastation in Haiti this week and hearing of the incredible needs of the relief organizations already pressed for money and supplies, we knew we had to bring together artists, local businesses, and concerned Austinites to raise money for relief. We are doing this because it is the right thing to do. Be there!

"Real Hope For Haiti" is a nonprofit organization that provides medical relief and care for severely malnourished children in Haiti. The rescue center of RHFH is home to over seventy malnourished children, and their clinic has been running nonstop since the earthquake. Located only 20 miles from Port-Au-Prince, the nation's capital, the village and mission has been devastated by the recent tragic earthquake.

Both posters will be for sale at tonight's event. All proceeds go to the Real Hope For Haiti foundation

Immediate relief efforts are crucial. Casualties are numerous, and the need for medical supplies, food, and water are without measure. There is a Haitian proverb that reads, "With many hands, the load is not heavy." This is the heart of Real Hope For Haiti, as they continue to meet the needs of Haitians in the middle of this great catastrophe.
thank you to our sponsors

// AUSTINS PIZZA // AUSTIN CITY LIFE // SANCTUARY
PRINTSHOP // PELLIS DRUMS // BEN HANSEN DESIGN //

www.realhopeforhaiti.org
www.haitirescuecenter.wordpress.com

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

Today our nation honors the accomplishments and dreams of a man who literally changed the world.  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for every human being to be valued, respected and afforded the same rights as his fellow man despite race, creed or position in society. Instead of fighting against people (as is so often the case in our current, hyper-polarized political and social arguments) Dr. King fought FOR people - all people. He struggled not only against outright oppression but also the insidious nature of indifference.

The following is a excerpt from MLK's now famous "Letter From a Birmingham Jail":

I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

- Excerpt from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter From a Birmingham Jail"

The full-frontal truth is, we need haters. What? That’s right. As efficient as the gag reflex is when attempting to swallow that reality—without haters, we know not how to emerge. Back to Joseph—most of us know the ending—he emerged from the depths of that “pit” up to the heights of Pharaoh’s side. But, it wasn’t easy, and, it took a score of years and a heap of hate. Who would we be, without hate? Who would young Martin Luther King from Atlanta, Georgia be today—if ‘haters’ did not exist? I realize it’s an absurd question—I mean, who wants hate? Despite that, it’s clear, we’ll always struggle to understand not only it’s origin, but also, it’s hand in shaping us. The why will always haunt us? Why?

(Genesis 37: 2-4) Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. 4 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.

First things first—Joseph is young—let’s remember that. We all know the limitations of our youth—if we’ve lived it out. Fact is—we don’t know the details about why Joseph ‘brought a bad report’. All we know is that tattling, also, is as old as time. But, the crux is this: when we’re aware, I mean fully aware, that a desired love is not for us—hating is conceived and instantaneously born into the thralls of a violent revolution within the soul. Regardless of what we know—be sure of this: seated on the throne, lording over the lords of jealousy, rage, covetousness, and envy, is hate, the realization of love’s hand upon another.

Let’s be clear— it wasn’t Joseph’s dream—it wasn’t his “robe of many colors”—it’s what the coat represented: love withheld, freely given to another at our expense. I think Lil’ Wayne captured it, and nestled it into “She Wants Me”: “My reality is bigger than your dreams are. Got your dream girl, riding in your dream car. She wants me…Cause, I got it all…” Even further, I know another Atlanta born man, a “King” in his own right in 2007, who has captured it: T.I.’s “What Up, Whats Haapnin”. Funny, but not, it always seems to begin the same way—just as it did with Joseph and his brothers, as it did with young Martin, and with us: (haters) “Somehow he must be stopped. Something must be done… …(King) what up, what’s happening, all you haters can get at me, cause, I hear you, and I’m watching, but, I’m still here, I ain’t stopping…

I suppose the ‘moral’ is, beware of ‘dreaming’—it’s where haters are conceived. And, it’s this hilltop that we’ll all arduously ascend, if we aren’t already. Remember, the question isn’t why, but what and how. What will you do? How will you respond? For this coming Monday on MLK Day, in our ten and two thousand years, we remember a man, perhaps the most recognized proprietor and innovator of ‘having a dream’—a man, in some ways, made by haters—absorbing hate in order to absolve it of its power. Whatever King you worship, whomever that might be, be it King Jesus, Martin Luther Jr., T.I., Elvis—rest assured—whatever King you aspire to, and, at whose feet you sit—know this—his crown is embedded with the jewels of haters…

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The Raymond

Raymond is the cultural critic for the South Side Sanctuary, traveling to the outer-limits of the social realm to discover to unique facets of the human existence. Strike up a friendship if you like: ray [at] southsidesanctuary [dot] com