Auction Items
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Round Top Country Farm
$600Spend 2 nights at a private Round Top Country farm just minutes away from the shops, sights and sounds of the most famous antique town in Texas! This farmhouse features 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, sleeps 4 comfortably, full kitchen, BBQ pit, Direct TV, large veranda with seating, and stone patio with fire pit on 13 partially wooded acres. Perfect for crisp fall evenings!
Booking dates subject to availability. To book, please contact David Haynes, david@davidhayneshomes.com
p: 512.844.0940
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Marfa, Texas
$300Explore Marfa, Texas on a two night stay at Hotel Paisano. Your trip includes a private artist studio visit with Ann Marie Nafziger and a gift card to Frama so you can pick up a sweet treat from this local coffee and ice cream shop.
Booking dates subject to availability. Certificates for Hotel Paisano and Frama will be mailed to the auction winner. To book your studio visit with Nafziger, please contact her at annmarie@annmarienafziger.com
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Thomas Echols Lawn Concert
$250Enjoy a socially distanced lawn concert by Thomas Echols.
Echols' work is an amalgam of classical, modernist, and pop music forays. As visiting artistic director for Austin Classical Guitar, he's curated programs including traditional instrumental recitalists, experimental electronics, newly commissioned works, and interactive visual projections. He has recorded and performed with the Grammy Nominated choral ensemble Conspirare and the Houston Symphony Orchestra (the recording of Wozzeck recently won a Grammy and the prestigious Echo Klassik award for best operatic recording), and has had major engagements at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Palazzo Chigi (Siena, Italy), The Whittier Bach Festival (LA), The Blanton Museum of Art (Austin), Jones Hall (Houston), and other venues around the world.
Learn more and listen to their music at the link below:
Booking dates subject to availability. To book, please contact Thomas Echols, tommyecho@gmail.com or text 323-898-7717
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Ley Line Private Concert
$400Score a private outdoor performance by Ley Line! The four women of Ley Line transcend genres and languages. Ley Line creates a global soundscape; blending influences from Brazil, Latin America and West Africa. With strong ties to world folklore traditions, Ley Line's multilingual compositions evoke the beauty of the human experience through our connection to nature and each other. Their eclectic music explores balance and harmony between the unique perspectives of the four songwriters and instrumentalists.
The band's debut album "Field Notes" released in 2016 is a compilation of original songs and world folk songs from Brazil. In the summer of 2017, the women of Ley Line returned to Brazil to further explore the roots of their musical inspiration.
Learn more and listen to their music at the link below:
Booking dates subject to availability. To book, please contact Ley Line, leylinesound@gmail.com
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Meditation with Flint Sparks
$350Book an hour private Zoom session for personal spiritual direction and a guided meditation with Flint Sparks.
Flint Sparks is a Zen teacher and former psychologist dedicated to assisting people in the unending path of growing up and waking up. He is an experienced therapist and a master teacher who assists people in the skillful removal of blocks to love, both inside and outside. He is a clear and caring resource on the path of freedom from unnecessary suffering. Flint has nearly four decades of experience in the practice and teaching of psychotherapy. As a Zen teacher he leads retreats throughout North America and Europe.
Booking dates subject to availability. To book, please contact Flint Sparks, flint@flintsparks.org
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Mindfulness for Creativity
$100Book a one hour private Zoom session
in Mindfulness for Creativity with artist Sarah Luna. Join Luna in self inquiry and mindfulness practice; it will assist you in releasing habitual ways of thinking, open you to curiosity and guide you to becoming more balanced, resilient, creative and courageous in life.
Along with being a contemplative artist, Luna is also a mindfulness teacher with
a background in spiritual psychology with two decades experience practicing and teaching yoga, mindfulness and meditation. She enlists inquiry based dialogue and mindfulness practices to help people reduce stress and anxiety and enhance creativity, innovative thinking and decision making. These skills are beneficial not only to creatives but to anyone who wants to optimize their life, work and overall well being.
Booking dates subject to availability. To book, please contact Sarah Luna, luna@sarah-luna.com
