The musical Come From Away, described as “a celebration of the best of humankind,” is the centerpiece of an event to raise money for Pay It Forward 9/11, a nonprofit promoting kindness founded by Kevin Tuerff (“real Kevin T.”), who was part of the original true story.

The event on January 4^th in Austin has three parts—tickets to the touring production of Come From Away at Bass Concert Hall at the University of Texas at Austin, a pre-performance reception at the Texas Exes Alumni Center where Tuerff and the “real Nick and Diane” will be interviewed, and a private post-performance Q&A with the cast.

The Pay it Forward 9/11 kindness movement founded in 2002 is now a global charity with participants in all 50 states and a dozen countries. Money raised will help grow its 11 Days of Kindness for Kids program at schools across America.

More information and to purchase tickets: https://www.payitforward911.org/event-list

ThunderCloud Subs recently announced a new partnership with Creative Action, the local nonprofit that uses the arts to inspire creativity and equip students to make positive change in their communities.

The company donated $10,000 to Creative Action to facilitate the 2024  ThunderCloud Subs Turkey Trot Art Contest. Kids from selected schools in Creative Action’s after-school programs will benefit from a custom curriculum about helping their neighbors, and one winning student will see their art on thousands of T-shirts, posters, and promotions around the Trot this fall, AND receive a year’s worth of free ThunderCloud Subs!

We’re thrilled for the citizens of New Canaan, Connecticut, as the NEW New Canaan Library has its grand opening on Valentine’s Day! We worked with the library’s executive team and consultants as they were planning for the launch of this world-class new library campus, a decade in the making. The new library will connect people, perspectives, and information to help build a more engaged, inclusive, and empathetic world.

Our author client Brett Ashley Kaplan has been selected as a featured author for this year’s Texas Book Festival, a pretty big deal for a first-time novelist, for her book Rare Stuff.

We were the PR firm for the Festival for five years, one of many literary organizations we’ve worked with, including the Texas Library Association, the largest of its kind in the country. Brenda Thompson was named a city council appointee to the Library Commission in the years that Austin’s incredible new library was being planned.

We were engaged by the Westlake Hills library to manage the media around the opening of the first library in the nation to be named for First Lady Laura Bush. A few years later we got to have an event at the Bush’s home in Dallas to announce the roster for that year’s Texas Book Festival. The former First Lady was a founder of TBF and later of the National Book Festival, held in Washington D.C.

Kaplan’s debut novel, just published August 1, has been well-received by readers, reviewers, and book clubs across the nation. Rare Stuff takes readers on a mysterious journey through a series of interlocking clues, with an intriguing search for a missing person moving through real and magically real universes in New York, Chicago, and glass houses under the sea constructed by Yiddish-speaking whales desperate to save our endangered planet. You can find Rare Stuff wherever books are sold, or, if you can, come to the Texas Book Festival Nov. 4 and 5 and hear from Brett and nearly 300 other incredible authors in person!