Cafe Mundi

UpLift Austin, Big Red Sun & LEAP (LifeWorks Executives & Professionals) invite you to Hello, Birdie, the sixth annual gala, birdhouse competition & silent art auction! Please join us this Saturday, October 17th for an amazing evening inspired by our feathered friends for a good cause.

This year will feature 32 birdhouses & bird-inspired art spun from the imagination of Austin’s most talented artists and architects! Solar-powered flats, green roofs, recycled materials… Austin birds will be living green!

The evening will also feature a bevy of live tropical birds, amazing foods & drinks brought to you by New Belgium Brewery, Savvy Vodka, Daily Juice and Sweet Leaf Tea. DJ Manolis will be spinning enchanting lounge, mambo, cha-cha and tropicalia tunes!

Proceeds will benefit Uplift Austin, a local nonprofit that offers an innovative high school program for at-risk youth. UpLift introduces students to “green” career fields while designing and implementing projects to promote an environmentally sustainable campus.

Niz was born in Lima, Peru. She came to the United States for the first time when she was 4 before finally moving to the San Francisco Bay Area when she was 12 years old. Niz’s career as an artist began with educating at-risk youth in California through murals, fliers and zines that were infused with street art and grit. . Her involvement and passion for graffiti, skateboard and other subcultures like hip hop, reggae and punk rock led her to creating art on skateboards and grip tape in 2003. Around the same time, she also began experimenting with stencil art.

Her most recent accomplishments include a gallery show at SOMarts Gallery in San Francisco and painting at the Graffitti hall of Fame in Puerto Rico. This year, her work has been published in 3 books: Stencil Nation (San Francisco), Heart and Soul (New York) and 400ml. Do It Yourself (France) and several magazines, including Concrete Wave and Lucy Magazine. Niz resides in Austin, TX