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Romeo y Juliet
A bilingual adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most cherished works, Romeo y Juliet recounts the tale of two star-crossed lovers, daughters from the feuding houses of Capulet and Montague, reimagined in Alta, California in the 1840’s prior to the annexation of California to the United States.Apr. 10-21UT Theatre and Dance -
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Gabriele Galimberti - The Ameriguns & Toy Stories: Artist Talk & Reception
Internationally acclaimed Gabriele Galimberti’s first US exhibition of “Ameriguns” & “Toy Stories” comes to Austin! The people in these images are from all walks of life, with no particular political party, race, culture, or gender in favor. Ameriguns and Toy Stories deliver striking images exploring the timely issues of gun culture and the impact of modern inequalities on children.Fri. Apr. 12, 6pm-9pmLydia Street Gallery
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Big Medium: Tito's Prize Exhibition
A compelling exhibition of new work by Betelhem Makonnen is this year's Tito's Prize show at Big Medium Gallery. (Note: To allow for social distancing, appointments will be scheduled every 30 minutes, with a maximum of 10 guests at a time. Schedule an appointment with at least 24 hours advance notice. Masks are required at all times.)Through Sept. 5. Thu.-Sat., noon-5pm -
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Black & Latino Playwrights Celebration
This 18th annual event, now virtual, from Texas State University in San Marcos features a tribute to legendary playwright Gus Edwards, a playwriting workshop, new play readings, and more over the Labor Day weekend.Fri.-Sun., Sept. 4-6 -
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes and Ellie Marny
BookPeople is Zooming into your favorite screen with a livestreamed discussion between these two authors of YA thrillers The Inheritance Games and None Shall Sleep. Eventually, we reckon, these page-turning narratives will be feature-length movies or series on Netflix or Hulu or whatever (if Netflix or Hulu or whatever have any business sense at all), so here's a chance to get ahead of the fan-frenzy crowd and catch what the creators have to say about 'em here.Fri., Sept. 4, 6pm. Free. -
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Letters from Camp Shrewd: An Episodic Play by Mail
Listen: "The kids of Camp Shrewd are in lockdown. With the Coronavirus preventing them from returning home, and an internet outage cutting them off from the online world, they resort to writing letters to their friends and loved ones. As the situation outside deteriorates, the kids find themselves haunted by the ghosts of campers past. With no means of escape, the campers must research and neutralize this supernatural threat themselves – and find their own place in history." Patrons who sign up to be a part of Letters from Camp Shrewd will receive six weekly letters via USPS from a camper – along with artifacts, souvenirs from camp, and maybe even some clues. This Shrewd Productions project features writing by Trey Deason, Reina Hardy, Krysta Gonzales, and Brian Daniel Oglesby, so we reckon you'll have a very happy (although possibly somewhat frightened) mailbox indeed.Sign up now. $35-60. -
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Northern-Southern: Baton
This is a group show by relay, begun in July of 2020 as a method of socially distancing a community in the height of the pandemic: Artists took turns alone in the space, each adding to the exhibition. Now, as it nears its close, the exhibition resembles a community in which work converses and overlaps. With Adreon Henry, Vy Ngo, Dawn Okoro, Leon Alesi, Matt Steinke, Sev Coursen, Stella Alesi, and more.Closing reception: Sat., July 24, 3-9pm -
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Ute Carson: Gypsy Spirit
Join this literary crowd via Zoom to celebrate the launch of Ute Carson’s lifelong collection of published short stories, essays, commentaries, and memoir.Fri., Sept. 4, 7pm. Free.
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Atelier Dojo: Remote Studios
The local powerhouse of figurative painting, the art school that's the smart school for artists of all kinds, they've got a painting-along-at-home series going to help you keep your skills honed in these socially restrictive times, featuring live costumed models posing on camera and a thriving community of creatives rendering that lovely human biotecture from their separate studios. "Join us for a three-hour costumed-model drawing session. Use any supplies you wish, listen to music, share your work, chat with others. It’s a great way to stay connected with your art community!"Tuesdays, 1:30-4:30pm; Fridays, 6:30-9:30pm; Saturdays, 9:30-12:30pm. $5. -
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Bullock Texas State History Museum: This Light of Ours
This show features images by activist photographers of the Civil Rights Movement, telling a visual story of the struggle against segregation, race-based disenfranchisement, and Jim Crow laws in the 1960s. These photos capture the day-to-day struggles of everyday citizens and their resolve in the face of violence and institutionalized discrimination – with more than a dozen additional images representing activism and protest in Austin's own history.Tuesdays-Sundays. Through Dec. 6 -
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Camiba Art: Embracing
Lorena Morales’ third solo exhibit with CAMIBAart Gallery arose out her experience living as an expat in Angola. These new works contemplate the relationship between color, lines, and shapes that appear and disappear, according to the changing light and depending on the position or angle of the viewer.Through Sept. 12. By appointment only -
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ChingonX Fire: Group Exhibit
Inspired by the Mexican American Cultural Center's annual La Mujer celebration – and by the first feminist of the New World, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz – this online group exhibit is curated by April Garcia and features womxn-identifying and nongender-specific artists whose artwork is tied to activism, feminism, cultural. and gender identity storytelling, environmental protection, and socioeconomic parity.Free. -
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ColdTowne Theater
ColdTowne's new brick-and-mortar place is totally open, and who knows what they'll shake this city with next? But one truth remains: ColdTowne is a designated den of gold, baby, sweet comedy gold. -
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Flatbed Press: Community Under Pressure
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the members of Flatbed: Community Press have been creating as safely as possible. Now those Press members and: Flatbed staff – including Katherine Brimberry, Belinda Casey, Alex Giffen, Caragh Givens, Nell Gottlieb, Mike Hart, Kyle Hawley, Alfonso Huerta, Judith Long, Matthew Magruder, Gabrielle Miceli, Peter Nickel, and Maryellen Quarles – display the visual wonders they've been bringing into the light of the world.Through Sept. 15 -
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Gender Unbound
Throughout September, Gender Unbound is hosting a virtual showcase of newly commissioned work by trans and intersex artists and weekly livestreams of trans and intersex musicians, poets, storytellers, and artist interviews. (The Chronicle's Lilli Hime reports on it here.)Through Sept. 30 -
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GrayDUCK Gallery: Everything In Tune
We're pretty much over-the-moon, tbh, about Amada Miller's series of works created from data collected by NASA’s Apollo Missions. Because we're the kind of concept-art-hatin' fiends who love concept art more than almost anything when it's done well and is redolent of research and effort and – oh, listen:"During the Apollo missions, astronauts placed seismometers on the moon and conducted experiments such as crashing spent modules onto the lunar surface. These experiments led to the discovery of moonquakes – vibrations that resonated within the moon’s core for so long that scientists described the sensation as the moon ringing like a bell."So, for this show, small fragments of real iron meteorites are suspended inside bells of handblown silicate glass, mimicking materials found on the lunar surface. "Everything In Tune" represents our moon’s natural orchestra – the handbells are instruments as much as they are objects, and each gallery visitor will be invited to activate the bells, giving sound to a moonquake. Bonus: graphite rubbings made to look like close-up images of the moon taken by astronauts in orbit, and gunpowder-scented vessels made from astronauts' descriptions after they smelled moon samples back inside the lunar lander.Through Sept. 20. Free. -
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House of Mesmerize: Enter the Multiverse
This interactive, gallery-style experience inside Austin's Native Hostel "follows the journey of Mesmer, an artist and amateur tinkerer who discovers a secret: we and our universe are not alone. Mesmer opens up a portal and is swallowed into the Multiverse and its infinite cosmic curiosities." The created environment features 15 unique art installations, with multiple paths and possibilities, and you know there'll be safety protocols to follow, too, to thwart those pesky 'ronas. Note: We'll be looking into this and getting back to you with a full report.Through Dec. 20. Thu.-Sun., 11am-11pm. $25. -
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ICOSA: Navigational Instruments
Erin Cunningham and Sarah Hirneisen search for solutions in an environment at risk, replicating and recontextualizing everyday objects – respirators, traffic cones, safety fencing, and carbon monoxide detectors – used to alert and protect the public from unseen danger. In addition to items used to indicate hidden dangers, mystical tools such as divining rods tell stories of where water or other resources can be found beyond the human eye, while natural elements burst through these human-made constructions, optimistically reaching toward a better future.Through Sept. 19. Free. -
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JJ Williamson
B Smooth Entertainment presents JJ from the Sipp, live at the Victory Grill.Fri., Sept. 4, 8 & 10pm. $50. -
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Landmarks: Self-Guided Walking Tour
Use your smartphone to access self-guided tours of the outdoor public art sited by UT's award-winning Landmarks program any time you feel like it. BONUS: There's also a free, docent-led tour starting at Marc Quinn's "Spiral of the Galaxy" (1501 Red River) on Sun., Jan. 8, 11am. -
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Link & Pin: Christopher Hynes
Christopher Hynes exhibits his color field paintings that are created with multiple layers of pigmented plaster to form a unique surface and depth that is transformed with the changing light of day. Note: The gallery is now open by appointment on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.Through Sept. 27 -
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Northern-Southern: Fuzzy Forces
That meticulous creator Laura Lit is working now, producing fast and focused bursts of drawing with colored pencils, pieces that are reminiscent of her paintings for the "After Images" show at this excellent gallery. The new compositions "seem sentient, astral manifestations of spirit visitors," we're told. But we're too earthbound to cotton to such descriptors and are instead merely like, "Daaaaamn, these drawings are gorgeous!" Which is why this news is exciting: The Northern-Southern website and Instagram will feature one new drawing every Friday until Lit completes the series. -
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Northern-Southern: No Outlet
This is a group show of interventions and intentions at dead ends, sidewalk ends, cul-de-sacs, end-of-paths, and no-outlets, dispersed across Austin, with creations by Adreon Denson Henry, Amanda Julia Steinback, Amy Scofield, Emma Hadzi Antich, Laura Latimer, Leon Alesi, Mai Gutierrez, Ric Nelson, Sarah Fagan, Saul Jerome San Juan, Sean Ripple, Staci Maloney, and Tammy West.Free. -
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Prizer Arts & Letters: Rejina Thomas
This new exhibition of paintings by Austin artist and community advocate Rejina Thomas "radiates energy, holding both the past and the present within the container of their frames, blurring the line between then and now." Note: In addition to viewing-by-appointment, the Prizer's front room will be lit from 8pm-midnight each night to allow viewings from outside the gallery and the artist will be live-painting on site.Through Sept. 30 -
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SUFFRAGE NOW: A 19th Amendment Centennial Exhibition
On August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote. On August 6, 2020, the Elisabet Ney Museum debuted this new show for which women photographers nationwide were invited to share photos that comment on the Centennial of the Ratification of the 19th Amendment. The most eloquent images were chosen and are included in this online exhibition.Through Jan. 31. Free. -
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Vault Stone Shop: Good Goods
In which Chad Rea presents a social change souvenir shop that charitable consumers can peruse via the physical location's window or browse online. Choose from 28 single-edition art works by the activist artist, with a portion of the sales going to a nonprofit charity of your choice. Note: Donation amounts are assigned for each item and will be permanently printed on the signed artworks, so collectors can show off their good deeds.Through Sept. 17 -
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Wally Workman Gallery: 40th Anniversary Show
Of course it's a group show, and if you're familiar with who and what the Workman's shown over these past four decades, then you know you're in for a brilliant feast of visuals. Works by all 50 of the gallery's artists will be on display. Angie Renfro. John Peralta. The Scribners. Malcolm Bucknall. Tracey Harris. Elizabeth Chapin. Ian Shults. Oh, we can't list them all! But you can see them all online at any time – or make an appointment to safely view 'em in person.Through Sept. 6 -
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Women & Their Work: Likes Charge
The newest exhibition by that remarkable digital savant Melanie Clemmons transforms the gallery into a livestream temple dedicated to reimagining networked technology as a medium for spiritual rejuvenation and metaphysical manifestation. Why, your Austin Chronicle's Brenner reviewed the show right here.Through Oct. 8 -
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Wyld Gallery
This is Ray Donley's gallery of art by Native Americans, located in that company of artistic glory called Canopy and resplendent with creations from the original people of our struggling country.Call for appointment
