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2026 Austin Roundup Conference
📅When: Fri-Sun July 17-19
📍Where: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Austin
6505 N Interstate 35 Austin, Texas 78752
Reduced Room rate: $121 per night
Enjoy a 3-day weekend with speakers from different recovery fellowships sharing a common solution. Promoting unity for our 🌈LGBTQ+ community and allies in recovery from addiction.
🌞Attend Workshops
🌞Community fellowship. Meet old friends and make new ones.
🌞Speaker Meetings (Open to all , not exclusive to conference ticket holders)
🌞Fostering acceptance. Supporting individual sobriety / recovery.
This year's theme is:
The Road of Happy Destiny
From the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous:
"We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny." Among different 12-step recovery groups, it suggests that while the path may be difficult and require hard work, the destination is a happy, fulfilling, and spiritually connected life, with support from the fellowships.
Austin Roundup Conference (ARU) is right around the corner and we need YOU!
Whether you’re LGBTQIA+ or a proud ally, this Conference is your chance to be of service, connect with folx in recovery from addictions, discovering a new way to live and creating community spaces where everyone feels seen, safe, and celebrated.
We’re looking for fabulous humans to take part and volunteer :
💁♀️ ARU Conference July 17-19th
🙌 We are looking for fabulous Volunteers 🙌
Spots available in the Conference ticket link! ***Scroll down past tickets***
Help with:
💁♀️Setup & run Registration
🍇🍒🍌 ☕Conference Hospitality Room 🍉🥝🍓☕🍵🫗
🙌Finding groups to donate to hospitality room, providing food, hydration and crafts to hospitality room.
✊ Group Organization to setup information booths at conference
🕺💃Conference Entertainment Events: meals, bingo, drag shows etc.
Speaker Meetings
Workshops Support
Distribution of Flyers literature in Community
Austin Roundup is powered by service, and we're looking for volunteers to help make this year's conference a success.
💛 Scholarship Opportunities
A limited number of scholarships are available for those who may need financial assistance attending the conference.(In exchange for a scholarship, we ask that you volunteer for 2 or more spots for the weekend of July 17-19, 2026.) Scholarship application link
🌈 Come reconnect, recharge, be of service, and join us on The Road of Happy Destiny. We can't wait to see you
for: Workshops, Meetings, Activities & extra options for Hotel Served Meals
FREE Conference Entertainment Events:
Friday 9:15 PM - FREE Watch Party : ARU's Iconic Drag: ACT UP | A Queer🌈 History Lesson 🎥 🍿🎞️🎬
That’s right, the FULL NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE FOOTAGE of the entire theater play! This is a RARE opportunity to watch something magical that was created by 60+ beautiful creative volunteers. And that is not all! You will get to watch it WITH the Cast and the Crew! FREE & open to the public! So bring your friends to join in this community event.
Saturday 12:30 PM FREE Drag Bingo featuring Selma Bawdy
Saturday 9:00 PM - Texas Drag Wars 2026 - Free & Open to public
Competition for Drag Pageant Titleholders across Texas🕺💃👠👑
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