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Kadampa Meditation Center Austin
This evening talk offers a special visit with renowned Buddhist teacher and NKT-IKBU Deputy Spiritual Director Gen-la Kelsang Jampa. Gen-la will share Buddhist advice on developing our love as a way to protect our self from suffering and learn to become truly happy. Our life then becomes immensely meaningful in benefiting others with our mind of unconditional love.Fri. May 3, 7pm-8:30pmVuka North -
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Affordable Art Fair Austin
Affordable Art Fair Austin will launch in May 2024, showcasing original contemporary artworks ranging between $100 to $10,000. Welcoming a whole host of local, national and international exhibitors, their spectacular first edition is set to be unmissable!May 16-19Palmer Events Center
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Amanda Bestor-Siegal: The Caretakers
The author, in conversation with Elizabeth McCracken, presents her new book – a dramatic exploration of identity, class, and caregiving.Wed., April 13, 7pm -
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Book Tips and Sips
Join Texas Book Festival and Austin authors Dalia Azim and Juli Berwald for the first free, public, in-person event of the year.Wed., April 13, 6pm. Free. -
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Charismatic gambler John McCabe (Beatty) opens a brothel in a mining community with the help of crafty prostitute Constance Miller (Christie). Presented as part of the Auteurs series spotlighting the work of Robert Altman.Wed., April 13, 7pm -
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Moontower Comedy Festival
If the proverbial 800-pound gorilla were weaponized, this would be its manifestation as living embodiment of the nation's comedy-industrial complex – now smack in the center of your own Downtown. Reigning supreme in the scene with more laughter than the King in Yellow has lack of masks, this annual conflagration brings the biggest and best names from all over, adds a happy helping of equally wise locals, and sets 'em onstage all over town (with the venerable Paramount as the epicenter) for your giggling diversion from humanity's headlong plummet toward the grave. More than 150 comics in more than ten venues for more than ten days – and who the hell's gonna survive the afterparties with less than a Krakatoa in their morning-after skull? We've got a plethora of solid coverage for you right here, but – do check the festival website for details.April 13-24. $99 and up. -
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Easter Dining
Swoop Garden: Easter Brunch
The Swoop Garden is that curated verdant paradise surrounding Swoop House, of course, and on Sunday it'll be host to an excellent service of brunch that features delights from the culinary crew of Sawyer & Co. Beginning with passed hors d'ouevres (while the kiddos enjoy an Easter egg hunt) and continuing with a buffet of garden salad, carved leg of lamb, smoked salmon, toasted focaccio, mini veggie and bacon-and-cheese quiches, hash brown casserole, and an amazing dessert trio to sweeten the finale among all that lovely spring foliage.Sun., April 17, 11am. $55 ($25, ages 10 and younger). -
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The Plastic Bag Store
Texas Performing Arts presents this local installation – at the Blue Genie space on Airport, no less – of Robin Frohardt's brilliant and immersive tribute to the vulgar overdoity of plastic waste that humans are subjecting themselves and the rest of our planet to. Listen: "Visit a grocery store where the shelves are stocked with thousands of original, hand-sculpted items — produce and meat, dry goods and toiletries, cakes and sushi rolls — all made from discarded, single-use plastics in an endless cacophony of packaging. When you visit, the store transforms into a cinema for a film in which inventive puppetry, shadow play, and intricate handmade sets tell the darkly comedic, sometimes tender story of how the overabundance of plastic waste we leave behind might be misinterpreted by future generations." Sensationally graphic yet more than just spectacle, this thing's got philosophical teeth as sharp as the fangs we're sinking deep into our own carotid. (Note: Some seatings will be free, via Fusebox Festival.)Through April 17. Sat., 11am, 1pm, 6pm, 8pm; Sun., 11am, 1pm, 4pm; Wed.-Fri., 4pm, 6pm, 8pm. $15-25.
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Easter Dining
Aba Mediterranean: Passover Feast
Special for Passover this year, Austinites can enjoy an Aba's dinner to-go, featuring traditional dishes with a Mediterranean twist – including classic hummus; parmesan, potato, and Brussels sprout latkes; matzoh ball soup; leafy green salad; slow-braised short rib; crispy chicken thigh, and an almond tart. ($54; orders must be placed by Wed., April 13, 9am for carryout and delivery on Fri. and Sat., 11am-4pm.) OTOH, if you want to dine in the restaurant, you can get many of those excellent noms (and pan-roasted halibut) during dinner service on April 15-16. See website for more. -
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Arena Weapon Arts
Learn the skills involved in weapons-based martial arts. Beginners welcome.Mondays & Wednesdays, 6:30pm. First lesson free. -
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Atelier Beauté Chanel Pop-Up
Stop in this fragrance and beauty workshop to try products and get skilled guidance.March 11-April 24. Free.1009 S. Congress -
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Audience Awards Series
Screening Austin Film Festival's Comedy Vanguard Feature Film winner, Holiday at All Costs, about a man determined to give his family a nice vacation in Paris.Wed., April 13, 7pm -
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Blanton Museum of Art: MemWars
Many artists work in multiple mediums, but for Lubbock-raised Terry Allen, music, performance, writing, and visual artwork are truly all part of the same practice. As a visual artist, he often creates immersive sculptural installations with an aspect of performance, incorporated through projections and video. For this ninth installment in the Blanton’s Contemporary Project series, Allen reveals a three-channel video installation and a related group of drawings.Through July 10 -
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Carver Museum: Peace to the Queen
The photographer, humanitarian, and educator Jamel Shabazz presents a career retrospective spanning four decades of work, featuring candid portraits of women of color – as curated by Ja’nell Ajani. "At a moment when Black and Brown women are more visibly leading the charge around movements for racial and economic justice, this exhibition has materialized and aligned at a critical moment in American history and Shabazz’s career."Through Sept. 17 -
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Easter Dining
Chocolate Zombie Easter Bunny
Yeah, this one ain't local, but, as the popular slogan used to say, "You've got a friend in Pennsylvania," right? This particular friend is called Sugar Plum, and they make chocolates of all kinds for all occasions, and right now they have chocolate zombie bunnies (and those zombies' decapitated victims) to give your Easter celebrations just the sort of grisly twist you've … always … wanted? Hella tasty and macabre, to be sure! Limited edition and going fast, so check 'em out ASAP.$20 and up. -
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Civic Events
Civil Rights ATX
The Office of Civil Rights is sponsoring several listening sessions that will inform the community about wage theft, tenants’ rights, hate crimes, and the CROWN Act, a law that prohibits race-based hair discrimination. Join online to be part of the community conversation.Thu., May 12, 6pmVirtual -
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Easter Dining
Dai Due: Easter Bunny Specials
Bunnies? No, yeah, we do mean rabbits – whole rabbits, boned and stuffed with cream, sweetbreads, bacon, mushrooms, brandy, thyme, and breadcrumbs, presented as only this acclaimed butcher shop can do 'em. And freshly made lamb-and-artichoke sausages, as well, and a plethora of rolls and buns to accompany. All properly prepared, tasty af, and ready to reserve for your holiday feasting.Pre-order now for pickup on Sat., April 16. -
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Dance Fitness Workout
Drop in anytime to get your heart rate up at a fun workout set to upbeat music.Wednesdays, 11am. $5-26. -
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Davis Gallery: In the Wake of the Exodus
A new show of major works that legendary sculptor Steve Brudniak has completed over the past decade or so? Eerily gorgeous pieces of Industrial Age machinery and furniture and objects that are like something out of a Guillermo Del Toro fever dream, creations that "aim to share glimpses of experiences we aren't aware of through ordinary channels – into realms influenced by science, dreams, meditation, hypnosis, therapy, psychedelics, music, the subconscious, and spirituality," as the gallery says? Good thing this exhibition is up during SXSW. Because, when you want to impress any in-from-out-of-town friends with the level of talent in Austin, Brudniak's stuff is at least some of what you want them to see. Which also means, we're sure you've inferred, it's what you shouldn't miss, either.Through April 16 -
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