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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-8:30pm
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Vuka 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 16-19
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Palmer Events Center

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Music

Shabazz Palaces, Porter Ray

Seattle abstractionist rap duo Shabazz Palaces – former Digable Planets rapper Ishmael Butler and multi-instrumentalist Tendai Maraire – earned critical approval with 2011’s progressive Black Up. The group simultaneously released its third and fourth albums in July, Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star and Quazarz vs. the Jealous Machines. The compelling set underscores human reliance on machines through the view of an outsider or alien, providing expressive solutions via artistic deprogramming.

Wed., Aug. 23, 6:30pm

Mohawk
Film

Special Screenings

El Techo (2016)

Cine Noche: Winner of the Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 20th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, this film centers on three friends trying to make it in Havana.

Wed., Aug. 23, 7pm
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Violet Crown Cinema
Music

Fuzön

Launched in 2001, Karachi’s Fuzön achieved subcontinental renown on both sides of the Indo-Pakistani divide. The band’s moniker is an Urdu derivation of “fusion” and they live up to it by blending Hindustani classical music with modern pop, rock, and jazz tropes. Rameez Mukhtar’s soaring vocals channel the late Mehdi Hassan, while guitarist Shallum Asher Xavier takes cues from Steve Vai and Joe Satriani.

Wed., Aug. 23, 7pm

The North Door
Music

Roel Funcken, Know Matter, InertG, SoundShaman

Dutch EDM.

Wed., Aug. 23, 9pm

Empire Control Room & Garage
Film

Special Screenings

Room (2015)

Read-Watch-Talk: The screen adaption of Emma Donoghue's bestseller is a knockout. A discussion follows the film.

Wed., Aug. 23, 6:30pm
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Yarborough Branch Library
Film

Special Screenings

Zardoz (1974)

Weird Wednesday: In this provocative fantasy film, the world is divided into Brutals (who worship a floating head called Zardoz that instructs that the gun is good and the penis is evil) and Immortals (who are pure consciousness and have become completely effete). Sean Connery is the Brutal who penetrates an Immortal community.

Wed., Aug. 23, 10pm
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Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz