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.
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!
Founder/frontman of Philly quartet Beach Slang, James Alex is a sentimentalist. Everything Matters but No One Is Listening, new from his Quiet Slang project, aggregates from his pop-punk day job’s first two albums while cranking down the volume with a hearty helping of twee. The boisterous, Replacements-inspired cacophony of Alex disappears, swapped out with piano, cello, and the whine-y affectation of the frontman’s vox. – Libby Webster:
Love good food and good people? Then gather yer crew for a fancy Monday dinner at Il Brutto, this month's New Waterloo restaurant – 10% of dinner sales gets donated to EQTX. Fighting the good fight never tasted so good.
This is a sequential series, meaning attendance is required at all three classes. It is open to those who identify as female or gender nonconforming: "basically anyone who isn't represented in the Tour de France."
The Austin Animal Center is still overcrowded. Dogs need homes. The shelter is waiving adoption fees through July 9, and reclaim fees will also be waived July 4-9.
You'll be working with all the tools for dance, led by the acclaimed Ellen Bartel. Note: This class won't end with a performance, but it will be a wealth of opportunity to practice dancemaking with guided information and other dancing bodies.
This show features Austin artists Carl Smith and Donna Starnes, and Starnes will be demonstrating her alcohol ink painting technique at the closing reception.
Do you know someone who is still rockin' it at or after 60? Connected Senior Care Advantage is searching for a dozen inspirational adults ages 60-69 that are "healthy in mind and body and are contributing to Austin in some way." The winners will be selected by a panel of celebrity judges and included in a calendar photo shoot.
Seventy years after the luxury liner sank in the Atlantic more than 150 items from the wreck were brought up from the ocean floor and brought together for this fascinating show. Timed tickets are required.
Social Cycling Austin presents Bikin' Betties, a weekly, beginner-friendly, all-ladies bike ride that ends with drink specials and fun activities (karaoke, minigolf, outdoor movies, etc.) Along the way, bond with other two-wheelin' ladies. Join the Facebook group for ride details.
This exhibition is enhanced with artifacts providing historical context for the paintings, rich with the unbroken connection the Comanche people have with their roots. Also, Rodeo: The Exhibition. Boy howdy, it's the history of the Texas rodeo – vibrant, interactive, and fully documented in this fine new show.
Better grab you a ticket while you still can, citizen, because this music-fueled celebration of wine, spirits, brewed fermentation, and much fresh, local fare – the 11th annual shindig out in Dripping Springs, coming up on September 8th – will sell out in a spiffy jiffy. Note: This year, the live grape-stomping returns!