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The showcase for filmmaking from around the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world may host year-round screenings, but its heart is still the annual festival. Its 26th year brings dramas from Peru and comedies from Mexico, as well as a reminder that the Hispanic world includes the United States. The Strike looks at the prisoner protests in California’s notorious Pelican Bay State Prison, while opening night film (and South by Southwest 2023 selection) Going Varsity in Mariachi takes a musical trip to South Texas. Plus: Don’t miss a rare big-screen showing of La Frontera, Austin filmmaker Iliana Sosa’s episode for the HBO anthology documentary series God Save Texas. – Richard Whittaker

Sun’s out, so it’s time to cultivate your local garden of red noses, big shoes, and squirting flowers – you know, a clown garden. But this is no task for beginners: Better go to an expert in growing real freakass he-haws such as – oh, I don’t know – Marceline Amaris, who happens to host a comedy show called – oh wow! – Clown Garden. This here’s a “comedy experience you have never seen before” that is at once “[eccentric], daring, and off beat” and plans on “redefining what is possible on the Fallout stage!” My god, man: The aftereffects of seeing this show are sure to increase your crops tenfold. Or something like that. Metaphors are hard. – James Scott

Between gallery installations, ICOSA Collective utilizes their window space facing the Canopy thoroughfare to showcase short-running art shows. These artists often experiment with the limits of their window framings while their work remains displayed 24/7. ICOSA Collective is proud to present this week the latest multimedia work from visual artist/curator Rebecca Marino, “DOGSBODY IS DEAD.” The Austinite takes inspiration from author Kathrine Dunn’s semi-autobiographical work Attic, which delves into life as a young woman incarcerated in the 1960s Midwest. The displayed art, ICOSA Collective promises, will unpack “the emotional/ behavioral standards placed upon women and the often tragic results that ensue.” – James Scott

Where does the kitty keep all her zines? Her purrse. And where does she learn how to make her own zines? At the Austin Paw-blic Library. You can be just like her by attending this free and fun night where you’ll make zines – short for magazines, they’re handmade and highly visual – along with other creative folks. Purr-haps try one on the theme of Bike to Work Month or contribute to APL’s collaborative zine, CATegories PURRsonality, which focuses on beloved pets. Meet on the sixth floor for the workshop, and stop by the fifth floor to check out the library’s extensive collection of zines for inspo. – Kat McNevins

I’ll admit it: I don’t believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein, or Superman. All I wanna do is bicycle! Bike Month ATX promises two-wheeler fun for the whole month of May. Break out the 10-speed, the recumbent, the cruiser, and join your fellow cyclists in the last nice weather days in Austin. There’s bike polo on May 5, or an all-level ride around Walnut Creek on the 19th. Help with meal delivery on the 22nd or pedal under a full moon on the 24th. Find pretty much every kind of bike fun under the sun (and moon!) at bikemonthatx.com, because those bicycle races? They’re coming your way. – James Scott

Hosted by Carlton Wilcoxson and Angelina Martin, and featuring the best local and national comics every Wednesday.

At the start of her drag career, Divina host Tatiana Cholula told Qmmunity she’d be critiqued for not assimilating enough “American” culture into her acts. “Before I started Divina,” she said, “the scene was rich in amazing Latinx drag performers and artists, but there weren’t any spaces focused on them or they didn’t feel comfortable performing certain songs at certain spaces.” Thankfully, Tatiana did start Divina, and now every other Wednesday you’ll see Oilcan Harry’s stage taken over by the spirits of Latina legends like Gloria Estefan and Paulina Rubio – courtesy of local Latinx drag talent. – James Scott

Louisianna Purchase hosts this night of drag, bingo, beer and shopping in partnership with the Little Gay Shop.