The Georgetown Public Library, 402 W. 8th Street, has four musical events scheduled in December. All are free,  open to the public, and most are come-and-go affairs if you don’t have time to sit down and enjoy the entire performances.

The Elbera String Trio plays music of the season on Sunday, December 13, from 2-4 p.m., [...]

The City of Georgetown is developing a Citizen Participation Plan to encourage more public participation in the governing and planning process. The purpose of this plan is to improve education, communication and participation between the citizens of Georgetown and the City Government. City staff has begun work with a citizen advisory group and hopes [...]

Paulette Jiles will be the next speaker in the Hill Country Author Series on Thursday, November 12th at 2 PM at the Georgetown Public Library. Ms. Jiles is a poet, a memoirist, and a novelist. Her most recent novel, The Color of Lightning, has received critical praise from Texas Monthly magazine, the San Antonio [...]

The City of Georgetown Arts and Culture Board is aware of the funding shortages that are facing many nonprofits at this time and has decided to use its appropriation from City Council to assist with funding arts-related events taking place in Georgetown between February 1, 2010 and October 31, 2010. The Board members invite all [...]

The Georgetown Public Library’s increasingly popular live music series continues on Sunday, November 15, with the Cactus Groove Jazz Ensemble, a Georgetown group, appearing from 2 – 4 p.m. The four-member ensemble plays jazz and blues from the 1930s through the 1960s. Melissa Shiramizu does vocals, Bryan Moore plays keyboard, Erich Prinz plays sax, and [...]

The second annual Hill Country Book Festival, which will be held at the Georgetown Public Library on Saturday, November 14, promises to be a fun-filled and educational day for kids of all ages. Last year, at their first event, the organizers tried to handle books and authors for children and adults on the same day. [...]

Sunny skies and temperatures in the 70s provided a perfect backdrop for the two-day Art in the Square festival this weekend. Artists from across the country displayed their work in the streets around the Courthouse Square in Georgetown. The event was co-sponsored by the City of Georgetown and the Georgetown Arts & Culture Board.
Paintings in [...]

Georgetown Parks & Recreation is looking for volunteers to help with the first public tree planting of the Fall season in the historic downtown area on Saturday, November 7, 2009. Organized by the City’s Urban Forester, Heather Brewer, the tree planting will start at 9 a.m. at Old Town Park. The park is located [...]

During the month of October, the arts take center stage in Georgetown. Arts Month events include an art festival, art exhibitions, an art auction, performances, and the finest culinary artistry in Georgetown. The events listed below are just a sampling. For more arts events, go to Georgetown’s Arts & Entertainment Events calendar.
Happy Trails Art Banners, [...]

Rey Arteaga and his group, Son y No Son, will bring Latin dance music to the library in October. If you’re conversant in Latin dance forms, you’ll hear the influence of Cuban son (the “Son” in the group’s name), Colombian cumbia, Mexican sones and boleros, and Brazilian chorinho, but the group is known to play [...]