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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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Children's Book Fair
You can meet Peter Rabbit, Froggy, and Ladybug Girl as well as some of your favorite children's authors. Enjoy some storytime and find a fun book to take home.Sat., Jan. 6, 9am-5pm. $10, adults; $4, kids. -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Juan Luis Jardi
Mark our words: You want to see what this talented man can do with oils on big swaths of canvas. Realism? Yes, but magical realism. Understated, quotidian, almost melancholy – except maybe there's been a quiet little rupture between this universe and another slightly different one, hasn't there?Through Jan. 27 -
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Beggars of Life (1928)
Newly Restored: After killing her stepfather, a young girl disguises herself as a boy and, along with a hobo, tries to flee to Canada.Sat., Jan. 6, 4pm -
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Cage-a-thon
Master Pancake: The Master Pancake gang promises to show and mock as many Nicolas Cage performances as they can squeeze into two hours.Sat., Jan. 6, 7pm, 10pm -
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Evan Narcisse: Rise of the Black Panther
Here's the author of the new Black Panther miniseries that gives much backstory to the hero of the forthcoming Marvel movie. Here's the man who, with Ta-Nehisi Coates, has built a thrilling narrative across six issues of Wakandan history. Get you a copy of issue #1, and Narcisse will sign it for you today.Sat., Jan. 6, 4pm -
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Find What Feels Good Yoga
Adriene Mishler of Yoga With Adriene fame leads this session, which benefits WeViva, a local nonprofit that provides accessible health and nutrition programs for low-income families.Sat., Jan. 6, 10-11am. $10. -
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Free Week: Annabelle Chairlegs, Deep Time, Caroline Says, Why Bonnie?, Robby
Glitzy ragers Annabelle Chairlegs come off a growth-spurt year of festival performances carried by songwriter Lindsey Mackin’s shattering refrains. Local post-punk fixture Deep Time have kept tight-lipped since its 2012 Hardly Art-handled debut, while Caroline Says’ first cassette experienced a 2017 resurgence via Western Vinyl re-release. Spacey rock newbies Why Bonnie and Robby start. No acts are boys-only.Sat., Jan. 6, 9pm -
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Free Week: Crypt Trip, Transit Method, Huffer, Glassing
The Seventies wafting strongly from its eponymous 2016 EP, San Marcos’ mighty Crypt Trip crowns a celebration of all things power trio. More Rush than Foghat, Austin’s Transit Method contrasts the headliners with last year’s masterful prog metal opus We Won’t Get out of Here Alive. Fort Worth’s Huffer gives hesher hard rock a grunge edge on its eponymous CD, while Glassing rips through post-punk screamcore for 2017’s Light and Death.Sat., Jan. 6, 8pm -
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Free Week: Knife in the Water, Croy & the Boys, Sun June
On the heels of Reproduction early last year, Knife in the Water’s first LP since a quiet hiatus unfolded in 2006, frontman/founder Aaron Blount hoped the local noir-country outfit’s return would occur thoughtfully and deliberately.: “Doing it a little more patiently and intelligently is a motivating thing to try to get it right, to try to not fuck it up and give in to some of the pitfalls of what being a band is,” mused Blount.: Reproduction simmers the same explicit unease and brooding intensity of the Austinites’ earlier catalog, dark and intellectual, built on country twang and muted rock, with eerie vocal harmonies and storytelling. It’s also imbued with a hopefulness, indebted to Blount’s love of gospel and a fixation on making music that moves through suffering.: “The terrain is kind of like, you’re gonna get it or you’re not,” explains Blount, summarizing the slow-burn tenacity of the revamped group. “It’s about words a little more. It’s not about guitars. As a male, it’s not my place to say, but it’s not about a lot of this more accepted male expression. I can’t say, [but] I think our new thing has a lot more to it than some of the old stuff.: “People could take a little more time with things, and I think that’s something hopefully, inadvertently, that our music says, that you kind of have to go into its world with some patience.”Sat., Jan. 6, 7pm -
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Free Week: Mélat, Shy Beast, Scorpio Rising, Noelle Tannen & the Filthy No-Nos
Recently awarded her own day (Dec. 14) by the city of Austin, R&B songstress Mélat closes a successful year by dropping a low-key, island banger, “Speed Racer.” Dream-pop band Shy Beast captures bits of the Cure on their infectious, self-titled debut, released in November. The turn represents a coming-out event for the powerful vocals of Mariclaire Glaeser.Sat., Jan. 6, 8pm -
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Free Week: Moving Panoramas, Löwin, Go Fever, Vonne
Fresh off channeling Blondie for NYE, atmospheric pop acrobats Moving Panoramas enjoyed a busy 2017. Leslie Sisson’s songwriting and stage command continued to blossom, portending promise for the follow-up to 2015 breakout One. Löwin leader Sara Houser marshaled pop smarts on the quartet’s summer sizzler, “Sloop.” Australian transplant Acey Monaro delivers refurbed Brit-pop-punk with Go Fever, and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Vonne excavates remarkable subtlety with her singular indie pop.Sat., Jan. 6, 8:30pm -
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Free Week: Quiet Company, BLXPLTN, Super Thief, Dayshifters
Catharsis will forever be tied up in punk, anger, and injustice best projected through gravelly chants and simple instrumentation. “Tell me how it’s gonna be/ the future’s looking bleak to me,” decrees Quiet Company on “We Should Go to Counseling.” “I raise my hand and question what I’m seeing/ they say it’s not a lie if you believe it,” cries out Blxpltn on “Education Destruction.” Austin’s got a lot to say.Sat., Jan. 6, 8pm -
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Hot Chocolate Run
This month, jog, walk, run, or skip to the statue of Willie Nelson outside of the Moody Theater. Free red headbands while supplies last.Sat., Jan. 6, 8am. Free. -
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I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017)
Texas Filmmakers: When a woman's home is burglarized, she and her neighbor go after the thieves with hilarious and violent results. The film won the 2017 Austin Film Award, as voted by the Austin Film Critics Association. Writer/director Macon Blair will be in attendance, along with special guests.Sat., Jan. 6, 7pm -
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ICOSA: Tiger Strikes Austin
Here's a nation-spanning collaboration between artist-run spaces in Austin and Los Angeles, featuring a panoply of treasures created by L.A.-based artists from Tiger Strikes Asteroid and Monte Vista Projects. Creation and solidarity, beauty in making and strength in numbers: You'll find them here.Through Jan. 6702 Shady #190 -
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New Year, New Me FootGolf Tournament
Are golf balls too small? Why not try a soccer ball? Teams of four compete for various prizes as they kick it around the course. Beer and lunch included.Sat., Jan. 6, 1pm. $100. -
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Personal Shopper (2017)
A ghost story exploring the ineffable with a terrific performance by Stewart.Sat., Jan. 6, 1pm -
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Theatre
Shen Yun
Ancient legends, technological innovations, historically authentic costumes, and breathtaking animated backdrops: Shen Yun! Some people fly from other countries or drive hundreds of miles to see it. Others see the same show five or six times. Why? If you'll be experiencing it here for the first time – recommendation: DO IT – you won't understand until you're walking out after the finale, dazed by the kinetic and visual glory of it all.Jan, 5-7. Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 7pm; Sun., 1 &6 pm. $84 and up. -
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Speak No More
Hideout Studios inaugurates its new performance space with this immersive, wordless, improvised tale inspired by Shakespearean tragedies. Audiences will bear witness to the ghosts of a family of unfortunate souls and their doomed acquaintances as they play out their misfortunes over and over again. And was our reviewer impressed? Well, this is what he had to say about the show.Through Jan. 27. Fri.-Sat., 8pm. $13.Hideout Studios, 2505 E. Sixth Ste. 3-C -
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Talk About the Internet with Rachel Stuckey
Helluva fine idea, as Stuckey's exhibition "Good Days & Bad Days on the Internet" is still up at Women & Their Work, and she's including artists Melanie Clemmons, Rachel Weil, Bug Davidson, and Sean Ripple, and you in the conversation.Sat., Jan. 6, 11:30am -
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Dance
A'lante Flamenco: Juana: First (I) Dream
As six voices fill the air, a lone female dancer beats staccato rhythms with her feet. Brilliant, determined, defiant: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, 17th-century Mexican nun, scholar, writer, and advocate for women’s education. Bonus: the Texas Early Music Project performs Baroque choral works from the era.Through Jan 14. Fri.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. $21.75. -
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Austin Art Space: 12 Buy 12
The shape may be square, but the content isn't, we reckon, as the Austin Visual Arts Association gets its annual holiday show underway with a plethora of talented locals contributing to the bright array of works for sale.Through Jan. 13 -
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Austin Naked Yoga for Gay Men
A hatha meeting flow yoga class for all levels. Despite the name, all are welcome. For a longer reader see our coverage.Saturdays, 10:30-11:45am and Tuesdays, 8-9:15pm. Through Nov. 21. $10 and up.ToddPilates & Barre, 9029 Research #200 -
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