What a journey . . . 44 years later!

From the emerging and promising young artists and scholars to the biggest American names in visual, literary, cinematic and performing arts, TBAAL has been a cultural and artistic incubator, laboratory and platform to launch, present and produce some of the country’s greatest programs, talents and entertainment from the halls of TBAAL to DC’s The Kennedy Center, Harlem New York’s Apollo Theater, LA’s Wilshire Ebell Theater, Dallas’ Meyerson Symphony Hall and the AT&T Performing Arts Center. It also has been a refreshing and uplifting gathering place for Dallas citizens, visitors and tourists to exchange thoughts and ideas on many levels. It has been a place of social comfort, a storehouse to preserve rare documents and an archival clearinghouse of sort to digitally enhance and disseminate TBAAL’s original archival history, via our new and long-term archival partnership with the University of North Texas.

What a journey . . . 44 years later!

From an annual attendance of 5,000, forty years ago, to almost a half-million patrons is a testament of need and desire for TBAAL to persist with its work and mission. Almost unanimous in its decision a year ago, the Dallas City Council extended a thirty-year commitment of approval for TBAAL to continue provide diversity of cultural arts entertainment in its downtown Convention Center location. This too is evidence that Dallas is the “can do” city “that works!”