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Greeting Creators!September is underway, Fall is soon upon us and hopefully cooler weather will soon find us, too! 🍂 🍂 🍂 🍂 🍂 🍂 🍂 🍂 🍂 🍂 |
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It’s our 5 Year Anniversary!!!!
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Come to our Yard and Seedling Sale!
Sept. 26 & 27
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We’re very excited to announce we’ll be having a September Community-Wide Yard and Seedling Sale! We’d love for you to come out and see what we will have to offer and support our mission. The location of the Yard and Seedling Sale is our 10th Street Garden, 701 N 10th Street, Killeen. We have GREAT gently used furniture, professional clothing, home decor, kitchen items, seedlings, and MUCH MORE so come and check it out! You can drop off items at Killeen Creators’ at 701 10th Street in Killeen between September 17th and 20th. If you have items you don’t need anymore, there is still time to donate, but the firm deadline for donations is September 20th. |
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Every September, we come together for National Recovery Month. This is a time to honor the courage it takes to face addiction, celebrate the strength of the recovery community, and lift up the people and providers who make healing possible. Most of all, it’s a time to celebrate you and the progress you’re making. |
Recovery is not easy. It takes courage to face this disease and strength to choose a new life, day after day. As one reminder says:
“Recovery is something you have to work on every single day—it doesn’t get a day off.”
When the road feels long or the challenges heavy, remember this:
- You are stronger than you know. Just like the body heals, your mind can build new pathways to support your recovery.
- You are never alone. Millions of people are living in long-term recovery. Lean on peer groups, family, friends, and your community when you need support.
- Healing is possible. “Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice. It takes love.” Give yourself patience and grace.
- Every step forward counts. No matter how small, each victory is proof of your progress.
- You are worthy of a life filled with love and purpose. As the saying goes: “The goal isn’t to be sober. The goal is to love yourself so much that you don’t need to drink.”
Your recovery is proof of your strength, your resilience, and your
hope.
Every milestone—big or small—deserves to be celebrated.
COMMUNITY GARDENS
All are welcome to come and get your hands dirty with us!
We have THREE days each week dedicated to all three of our gardens and the Teen Garden partnered with ImPossible. Work Days are for volunteers to come and help us fight against food insecurity.
Garden Work Days:
Tuesday’s - ALVAREZ Garden
Thursdays - 10TH ST Garden
Saturdays - BUNDRANT Garden & Teen Garden
TEEN GARDEN is from 2pm-4pm.
All other Work Days are from 9am-11am.
Please refer to our KC Events Calendar for details and addresses to the gardens. This calendar can be found on Killeen Creators website, Facebook, or you can pick-up a physical copy in our Killeen Creators Studio!
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CREATOR STUDIO / RECOVERY CLUBHOUSE
Here are our September & October Calendars! While we honor drop-ins if there are open seats, we encourage you to sign up on Eventbrite to make SURE there's room.
or the calendar below to reserve your seat!
POWER SURGE BLOCK PARTY!!
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This past Saturday, September 20th, we hosted the Power Surge Block Party in our Bundrant Garden. We partnered with another local non-profit, Free My City, for this exciting event. Attendees enjoyed live entertainment, a cookout, and various vendors. It was a fun block party where people got out and met new individuals who share a passion for empowerment and unity! |
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Free My City is a local non-profit organization whose mission is to help minimize crime in our cities by inspiring, cultivating, and challenging independent artists to commit to the betterment of their communities.
The event was a great success, bringing together community members and supporters of both organizations. We're grateful to everyone who participated and helped make the Power Surge Block Party a memorable experience.
CALL FOR ARTISTS
2026 Hearts of Killeen Call for Artists
Are you an artist in the greater Killeen metro area? Do you have a story of Overcoming to express and share? Would you like bragging rights AND a $3,000 cash award for painting YOUR winning "OVERCOMING" themed painting onto the 4x4ft heart sculpture (which WE'LL provide and later install) in Downtown Killeen for generations to enjoy??? If YES, then this CALL FOR ARTISTS is for YOU!!
The Hearts of Killeen Sculpture Series is an annual juried contest created and coordinated by our Community Art Initiative (CAI) to support local artists and celebrate the hearts and cultures of Killeen. Each year we will select a theme and promote a Call for Submissions for art reflecting that theme to adorn a heart sculpture created locally by CAI member, artist and veteran Perry Draper (owner of the Art and More Store). Each year, the winning art and sculpture will be unveiled at the annual Celebrate Killeen festival in April.
Please contact Outreach@killeencreators.org with any questions or to submit the below form.
Our Community Art Initiative and the Hearts of Killeen Sculpture Series are made possible through funding from the City of Killeen.
Fall OAR (Operation Art of Recovery) Classes
Operation Art Of Recovery (OAR) held by Richard “Shake the Poet” White and Killeen Creators’ founder and Executive Director Kristin Wright, is a lab session with the goal of increasing internal peace and resiliency through therapeutic art and community connections. Each lab session contains but is not limited to:
- Reviewing our Safe Space Guidelines
- Icebreakers
- Reviewing the Writing Prompt of the Session
- Writing Time
- OPTIONAL Share with OPTIONAL Feedback
- Open Mic
- Wrap-Up
OAR will be held 1st and 3rd FRIDAYS of each month. Our next upcoming sessions are October 3rd and 17th from 4pm-6pm at our Studio on 10th Street.
Please refer to Eventbrite to hold a spot as seats are limited.
We would love to see you, NEW or RETURNING!
Stay-Tuned NEXT MONTH for following Updates:
- National Voter Registration Week (Oct 6-10)
- October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month
- Highlighting our new AmeriCorps Members
- Urban Ag Mobile Update!
- Fall & Winter Garden Crops
For the rest of SEPTEMBER - All donations of $25
or more receive a
SPECIAL EDITION TEE SHIRT
to celebrate our 5 year Anniversary AND support our Community
Gardens!
Killeen Creators
701 N 10th St, Killeen|TX 76541|254-213-2210
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