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  • Laundry & Bourbon with Lonestar

    Laundry and Bourbon with Lonestar, two companion one act plays set in backyards of a small Texas town. Three ladies come together to talk about their life's ups and downs. Lonestar follows the life of three small town boys and the events that have shaped them. Both shows give us highs & lows with humor spread around, for good measure.
    Apr. 19-May 5  
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    Navasota Theatre Alliance

  • 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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  • Film

    Special Screenings

    Belle de Jour (1967)

    Catherine Deneuve: One of master director Luis Buñuel's most wry and elegant films, the tale of the beautiful young bride of a prosperous doctor who spends her days working in a Parisian brothel. After 28 years, the film's wit still stings and Catherine Deneuve's cool beauty still astonishes and mystifies.
    Thu., Oct. 12, 7:30pm  
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    AFS Cinema

  • Arts

    Visual Arts

    Lora Reynolds gallery: Kay Rosen + Hubbard/Birchler

    Kay Rosen makes paintings, drawings, videos, prints, and collages of words. Small, monumental, whatever the scale, her compositions in Jumbo Mumbo can feature just a single word in unexpected ways. Video artists Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler's Night Shift comprises four one-sided conversations between Sam (an older police officer) and four rookie cops.
    Through Nov. 11
    Lora Reynolds Gallery

  • Music

    Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers

    It’s been quite a life for Wadada Leo Smith. Within the last few months alone, the 75-year-old trumpeter/composer and AACM veteran has garnered Best Jazz Artist, Best Trumpeter, and Best Jazz Album of the Year (for America’s National Parks) in Downbeat Magazine’s 65th annual Critics Poll. He was also voted 2017 Musician of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association.: In the wake of these accolades, the Mississippi native returns to Austin via Epistrophy Arts to play the first portion of his spectacular magnum opus, Ten Freedom Summers, a 2013 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Music. The multimedia project, a deeply moving Civil Rights tribute, comprises 24 compositions being divided among performances in Austin, Houston, New Orleans, and Tuscaloosa. The complete project performed in this manner also constitutes a first for Smith.: Inspired by playwright August Wilson’s 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle, Smith cites Duke Ellington as a musical influence.: “Most important for me was Black, Brown and Beige from the Forties and ‘Reminiscing in Tempo,’ a revolutionary piece from the Thirties,” states Smith. “It wasn’t just a protest, but a vision of how to employ an orchestra that rhythmically references a theme. Also important is Anthony Davis’ [opera] The Life and Times of Malcolm X and the extended works of Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor.”: Smith performs in his Golden Quartet configuration, with pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg, and drummer Pheeroan Aklaff, in addition to the chamber ensemble RedKoral Quartet and video artist Jesse Gilbert.: “I write for these groups like I always have, where the added creative elements actually expand the psychological and emotional reality of the piece,” he explains. “By expansion, it offers a true concept of how the musicians’ kinetic energy connects together onstage with the audience and the performance space to create something unique.”
    Thu., Oct. 12, 8pm  
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    Boyd Vance Theatre at the Carver Museum

  • Music

    Austin City Limits TV taping w/ Herbie Hancock

    Thu., Oct. 12
    ACL Live at the Moody Theater

  • Music

    Beat Juice feat. Low End Theory 11 Year Anniversary w/ Daddy Kev, Nobody, Gaslamp Killer, D-Styles, Eliot Lipp, soundfounder

    L.A.’s weekly experimental hip-hop event Low End Theory reigns institutional. Event promoter/Alpha Pup label head Daddy Kev joins California alternative hip-hop producer the Gaslamp Killer, resident Low End producer/DJs Nobody and D-Styles. Beat Juice resident Eliot Lipp dropped schizophrenic Skywave in June, and fellow Juicer/producer Soundfounder co-founded Exploded Drawing.
    Thu., Oct. 12, 8pm  
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    Empire Control Room & Garage

  • Music

    Manilla Road

    Brutal conundrum arose at Chaos in Tejas 2013 when Absu’s black metal maelstrom scorched Red 7 inside while Manilla Road’s classic U.S. NWOBHM killed outdoors. The late-Seventies-issue Wichita, Kan., burlies still led by Mark “The Shark” Shelton put on an epic set, their millennial reunion still yielding rejuvenation. September’s To Kill a King reanimates bellicose medieval drama with trademark bearishness.
    Thu., Oct. 12, 8pm  
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    Barracuda

  • Film

    Special Screenings

    RWBY Volume 5 Premiere (2017)

    Fathom Presents: Rooster Teeth's beloved saga continues.
    Thu., Oct. 12, 7:30pm  
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    Arbor Cinema @ Great Hills, Cinemark 20 and XD, Metropolitan, Southpark Meadows, Cinemark Hill Country Galleria 14
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