Culture Flash

• The Austin Museum Partnership hosts the 11th annual Austin Museum Day on Sunday, Sept. 14. Thirty-one institutions – including museums devoted to art, science, history, and Texas music; historic sites; nature preserves and botanical gardens; a children's museum; University of Texas libraries; the LBJ presidential library; and the Texas Capitol – will offer free admission and special activities throughout the day. For a list of participating institutions and activities, visit www.austinmuseums.org/museum_day_2008.html.

• Salon Concerts, the 18-year-old chamber-music organization, is under new management. Violinist Robert Rudié, who founded the group and long served as its artistic director, as well as director of its Chamber Music in Public Schools program (aka CHAMPS), is passing the artistic director's baton to pianist Kathryn Mishell and appointing violinist/violist Jephta Bernstein to lead CHAMPS. Rudié will continue to serve on the Salon Concerts board of directors and to perform on occasion. For more information, visit www.salonconcerts.org.

• Congratulations to Acia Gray, co-founder and artistic director of Tapestry Dance Company, on receiving the 2008 Texas Tap Legend award from the Dance Council of North Texas. She'll be honored with former Austinite Charles Santos, currently executive director of the presenting organization TITAS, who will receive the Mary McLarry Bywaters Award for Lifetime Achievement in Dance. The awards will be presented along with the Curtain Call Dance Festival, Saturday & Sunday, Sept. 27 & 28, at the Granville Arts Center in Garland. For more information, visit www.thedancecouncil.org.

• Applications are available for FronteraFest 2009, running Jan. 13-Feb. 14, 2009. Download applications from the FronteraFest website, www.fronterafest.org. (Deadline is Nov. 1, but discounts may be had if applications and fees are received by Oct. 1.) Also for first-timers, there's FronteraFest 101, a workshop on self-producing for the fest taught by Austin Script Works executive director and festival producer Christina J. Moore, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 7:30pm, at Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd. FronteraFest is also seeking festival staff and production team members (box office, house managers, board operators, stage managers, and assistant stage managers). E-mail résumé and letter of interest to: [email protected] or mail to Hyde Park Theatre, Attn.: FronteraFest, 511 W. 43rd, Austin, TX 78751.