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Beatles Full Moon Concert in the Dark
On the April Full Moon, come set intentions and indulge in the mesmerizing allure of live acoustic music performed by world-class musicians, surrounded by the warm glow of candlelight. Its a different kind of concert, that begins and ends in darkness, with music and a poem or two surrounding and soothing you. Audience members will be given the choice of bringing their own yoga mats and/or pillows to gaze at the shadows on the ceiling. A circle of chairs will be provided.Tues. Apr. 23, 8pm-9pmATX Unplugged -
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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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Fun Stop 5K and Fest
It’s that time of year again, weirdos. Formerly known as the Keep Austin Weird Fest and 5K, this is a race we can get behind, because no one cares who wins and the focus is on drinking. Bands and businesses are littered throughout the three or so miles of costumed zaniness. The festival starts at 4pm with the 5K at 6pm, if you even make it to the starting line.Sat., June 23, 4pm. $30.Riverside Drive, in front of the Long Center -
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Dimension Gallery: Infinity X Loop
Damn it, Dimension Gallery, can't you just let yourself be pigeonholed? But, no – and we blame Colin McIntyre's Resonant Lung for encouraging this sort of thing – you've got to offer up an intriguing wonderment that's partly a visual arts event and partly an experimental musical gig, as Portland's Randall "Amulets" Taylor surgically modifies cassettes to craft self-contained repeating units with configurations for longer loops, literally running the tape out of the housing and through the gallery space. "The loops surround the viewer with the magnetic tape itself in a ceaseless circuit, creating a sonic tapestry that stretches and degrades toward infinity." Recommended.Through Aug. 14 -
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Locked-In
Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre presents this kinetic fusion of original live music, dance, and Soundpainting that explores the consequences and implications of all the devices in our increasingly digital lives. Bonus: Yuliya Lanina's Internal Emergency Broadcast System.June 21-24. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. $15-25. -
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Northern-Southern: Deliriums
Now here's a compelling thing: That maker of musical machinery, Matthew "Octant" Steinke, has a new solo exhibition in this intimate gallery (curated by the John-Pauls' own Phillip Niemeyer). We mean, who wouldn't want to experience the odd marvel of "three acoustic robots singing to each other, round-robin style, mimicking a group therapy session," right? And, oh, look – that Brenner fellow reviews the show right here.Through July 30. Saturdays, 3:30-6pm -
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This Is a Test of the Internal Emergency Broadcast System
This is also a multimedia art event and a one-woman show. That one woman is Yuliya Lanina, and so all we can tell you is that you'll be missing out like whoa if you don't see what the relentlessly inventive artist is up to this time. Painting, interactive sculpture, animation, and performance – and all of it exploring "the mechanized nature of human life and a state of perpetual unrest." Recommended.Closing reception: Fri., June 29, 7-9pm. Free. -
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African-American Book Festival
A community event which promotes creativity, collaboration, and activism between authors and readers. Includes booksignings, creative dialogues, and kids' activities.Sat., June 23 -
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Art Swap at the Ney Museum
This collaboration between the Ney Museum and Big Medium is an opportunity for artists to trade their work for another artist's work. It's especially worthwhile, since, economic insanity being what it is, artists are often those least able to afford to buy someone else's art, n'est-ce pas? (Is that, what? Is that irony, Alanis?) Bonus: This welcome exchange of goods and ideas starts off with a free breakfast.Sat., June 23, 10am-2pm. Free. -
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Astrolotease: Jigglewatts 12th Anniversary Show!
Celebrate a dozen years of heavenly burlesque by the Jigglewatts babes. Catch the full cast with special guest and co-founder Coco Lectric, plus your hostess Miss Fahrenheit.Sat., June 23, 9-12mid. $18.Spider House Ballroom, 2906 Fruth -
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Austin Belly Dance Convention
Here's the annual ATX gathering that celebrates the hip-twitching, ab-defining arts of time-honored Eastern dance styles, featuring three days and nights of intensive workshops and live music and acclaimed performers from all over, all the rocks getting sharky with a seductive beat and a shimmer of zills in a variety of venues.Fri.-Sun., June 22-24. $20-300.Various locations -
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Austin Ice Cream Festival
This 12th annual, H-E-B-sponsored event is divided into two parts, the first for the whole family, the second specifically for grownups. Because the day part boasts a pleasing plethora of frozen treats (from Amy's Ice Creams, and Thai Fresh, and Swoon, and Bahama Freeze, and Casey's New Orleans Snowballs, and so many others) and fun activities for all ages; and the night part, After Dark, brings to the array of chilled concoctions a heady infusion of booze amid a highly danceable live music vibe. Hot town, summer in the city? This ice cream heaven sure looks pretty.Sat., June 23. Daytime Fest: 10am-3pm. After Dark: 6-10pm. $15-50. -
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Austin Sol
Vs. Nashville Nightwatch.Sat., June 23, 7pm. $10 for adults, $5 for ages 12-17, free for under 12. -
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Butridge Gallery: Stained SLABs
What streetstyle wonders has J Muzacz wrought on the walls of the DAC's Butridge Gallery? See our review right here for a look before you go.Through July 14 -
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Davis Gallery: Of Warp and Weft
The elegant carved wood sculptures of Caprice Pierucci. The photographs of delicate cheesecloth drapings by Charles Heppner. Together they make for a compelling dialog of harmony, form, and composition – complicating the walls of this excellent gallery. (See our full review right here.) Recommendation: See the art, then grab some great food at the Soup Peddler location just a few blocks away.Through July 21 -
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Free Range Bastards, Pocket FishRmen, Obnosticon, All Monsters Attack
Native bar rockers Free Range Bastards turn 20 with veteran punks the Pocket Fishrmen.Sat., June 23, 9pm -
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FULL: Hutto Visitation Orientation
RSVP IS FULL FOR THIS EVENT.: For folks looking to support women detained at T. Don Hutto Residential Center. Volunteers must be conversationally proficient in a second language and must commit to visiting at least once a month.Sat., June 23, 1-3pm -
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Special Screenings
Grease 2 (1982)
Flashback Brunch: Underrated feminist sequel to one of the most popular musicals of all time. Uncool riders need not apply.Sat., June 23, 3:35pm -
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Hector Ward & the Big Time, Nolatet, Giulia Millanta (album release) (6:30)
Given our proximity, no surprise locals take for granted Bayou State virtuosos. Fronted by vibraphonist and honorary ATXan Mike Dillon (Critters Buggin) and pianist Brian Haas (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey), Nolatet travels on its backline of Astral Project rhythm duo James Singleton (Lionel Hampton, Chet Baker, John Abercrombie) and the band’s true star, veteran drummer Johnny Vidacovich (Professor Longhair, James Booker, Mose Allison). NOLA in da house. – Raoul HernandezSat., June 23 -
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Ice Cream Festival (after dark) w/ Lee Fields & the Expressions, Tameca Jones, DJ Mel
A gritty 1972 funk record, Lee Fields’ “We Fought for Survival” chronicles a hardscrabble North Carolina upbringing that included picking cotton with his family to keep food on the table. Now 67, the soul survivor began a long and winding career after cutting a cover of James Brown’s “Bewildered” as a teenager in 1969. By the mid-Nineties, the singer helped spur the Brooklyn soul revival that birthed Daptone Records and launched the late Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley to third-act stardom.: “Charles wound up being one of my best friends and Sharon was like a little sister to me,” Fields gushes. “Man, they were so genuine and so real. Just talking: about them is like being transported to a place with pure fresh air around me. I’m glad I had them in my life for the time that I did.”: Perfectly paired with the vintage sounds of the Expressions, the frontman brings a lifetime of experience to the stage, including a short stint fronting Kool & the Gang right before the band’s breakout.: “I’ve been in it with everybody from Solomon Burke to Wilson Pickett,” he affirms. “I met the game changers. I studied them, watched their actions, their manners, the way they did things. The day I met James Brown was the day I realized I had to be me. The world don’t need two Jameses.: “It was hard to be myself because of the uncanny resemblance that I have to James Brown, but that was the beginning of finding myself. And I found it because I’m surviving, working all the time. That’s a good thing.: “I’m running out of time, so I’m trying to touch as many people as I can and bring as much joy as I can to people.” – Thomas FawcettSat., June 23, 6pm -
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Food Events
Jacoby's Burger for Burger Campaign
You know we love this place, right? Now we can't help but love it a little more, because, for every burger sold during June, the Jacoby’s team will donate a burger to the Central Texas Food Bank. Now that's some tasty community spirit!Through June 30 -
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Josh Buckley (record release)
Las Cruces: Gram Parsons meets Crazy Horse, ATX-style. Four stars.Sat., June 23 -
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Los Skarnales, Kiko Villamizar, Hans Gruber & the Die Hards
Houston ska, Austin Colombian croon.Sat., June 23, 9pm -
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Theatre
Lucky Stiff
Here's that musical comedy by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, in which an unassuming English shoe salesman inherits $6 million from an American uncle. But there's a catch: He has to take a vacation to Monte Carlo with his uncle’s embalmed body and convince folks that the man’s still alive. Michael McKelvey directs, and the cast is scary good.Through June 24. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. $17-40. -
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Paradise Garage: An Ode To Funk, Disco, Dance, & Larry Levan
CUC plays host to a hot new queer party just in time for Pride Month. Charles Mxxn, Skrause, and Wet Male Deejay are your soundmakers for the evening and they promise to play tribute to Larry Levan’s icon New York club with classics the seventies and eighties. Feel the funk.Sat., June 23, 9pm -
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Pump Project: Farewell Fundraiser
They have to leave their longtime digs. (Yeah – you know how that kind of thing goes.) They're welcoming alumni, gallery attendees, the Austin arts community, donors, and all PP supporters one last time to come and visit the iconic warehouse to say farewell to friends, artists, the building, and the pump. They're also raising money for relocation costs for their new location.Sat., June 23, 7-11pm. Free, but donations accepted, and RSVP. -
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Quintron & Miss Pussycat, Sailor Poon, Trouble Boys, Teddy Glass (7:00)
Synth enthusiast Robert Rolston and his spouse, puppeteer/maracas-extraordinaire Panacea Theriac, have spent the better part of two decades crafting a fantastical alternate universe. The freak NOLA duo plies colorful narratives soundtracked by a sonic chaos of industrial dance party beats and bayou-infused spookiness. Austin party monsters round out the electri fied, experimental bill: the crass, fearless feminism of weirdo-punk quartet Sailor Poon, and gritty, classic rock & roll from trio Trouble Boys. – Libby WebsterSat., June 23 -
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RAASIN IN THE SUN HOSTS INAUGURAL COMMUNITY CLEAN UP IN EAST AUSTIN
A community-centric cleanup to unite residents and reduce neighborhood deterioration. Sponsored by Eureka Holdings, volunteers will get breakfast from Rockstar Bagels, free coffee from Primo Coffee, and free t-shirts designed by local artist Mila Sketch.Sat., June 23, 9am-noonCorner of 12th St. and Chicon St. -
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Still Austin: Texas Rye Gin Release Party
Those whiskey wizards at Still Austin have junipered up a fine batch of gin, and this here's the debut party – right in their HQ at the Yard, with DJs in the afternoon, and live music from Mayeux & Broussard at night, and all sorts of treats in addition to their most excellent tipple.Sat., June 23, noon-11pm -
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