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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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Visual Arts
Elisabet Ney Museum: Austin Women by Austin Women
That excellent Hyde Park bastion of artistry celebrates the wealth of energy and spirit Austin women bring to both sides of the camera, through works by Ave Bonar, Amalia Diaz, Christa Blackwood, Hannah Neal, and Erica Wilkins that illuminate another section of the city's FotoATX festival.Artist talk: Sat., Jan. 27, 2pm. Free. -
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Travis County Youth Show Livestock, Fair, and Auction
Come see the best market swine, lambs, goats, rabbits, poultry, and steer that area 4-H and FFA clubs have to offer, visit the Youth Fair Country Store, or check out Saturday's Livestock Auction.Wed.-Sat., Jan. 10-13. Suggested donation. -
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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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... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Buck Gooter, Morgan Garrett, Borzoi, Daniel Francis Doyle, Sexual Jeremy
Good news: Austin’s explosive post-hardcore kings are fully local again, with Conrad Keely rejoining fellow founding singer/guitarist/drummer Jason Reece here after an extended Asiatic exile. Honing new material, they pause to blow Beerland apart with “some music we’ve never performed live before (and most people aren’t aware exists),” alongside fellow cerebral noiseniks Buck Gooter, Morgan Garrett, Sexual Jeremy, and locals Borzoi and Daniel Francis Doyle.Sat., Jan. 13, 8pm -
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Alejandro Escovedo Band
Al’s annual birthday extravaganza assumes additional gravitas this year. Part of the Prevent Cancer Foundation’s 12-city “Think About the Link” Tour, the two sets are dedicated to longtime Escovedo guitarist Joe Eddy Hines, claimed by cancer last August. First set comprises superlative 2001 LP A Man Under the Influence under the musical direction of its producer, Chris Stamey, while the second guests the B-52s’ Cindy Wilson, the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn, and Jesse Malin.Sat., Jan. 13, 8pm -
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AmeriCorps MLK Day of Service
These folks need help making pathways, tending chicken coops, and all sorts of things that make society better. Lend a hand.Sat., Jan. 13, 9am -
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Austin Blacks Rugby
Vs. Houston United Rugby Team (the acronym is HURT if you didn't pick that up).Sat., Jan. 13, 2pm. Free. -
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Kids
Crafternoon at In.gredients
It's a hat-making party! Kids can let their imagination thrive as they craft and paint their unique hat from recycled materials.Sat., Jan. 13, noon-2pm. $10 per child. -
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Dimension Gallery: No
We're saying "yes" to this particular "No," 2018's first show at the acclaimed Dimension space, as it's new work by Dana Younger, Blue Genie co-founder and one of the city's finest figurative sculptors. Suggestion: Face the new year head-on with the man's most recent body of work.Through Feb. 17 -
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Dolly Parton Birthday Bash w/ Brennen Leigh, Teri Joyce, Roger Wallace, Caroline Casey, Susanna Van Tassel, Lindsay Beaver,Ted Roddy, Devin Jake, & more
Advancing the Backwoods Barbie’s 72nd birthday, two dozen local Dolly fanatics – including Brennen Leigh, Teri Joyce, and Ted Roddy – sing the country queen’s songs in a venue as down-home as the night’s tributee. Bust out your blond wig and stuffed bra for a look-alike contest extending to Porter Wagoner and Burt Reynolds for gentlemen. The annual event fundraises for the Imagination Library, Parton’s charity, which mails a new book monthly to kids up to 5.Sat., Jan. 13, 8pm -
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Gallery Shoal Creek: Strata
These prints – woodcut, intaglio – and drawings by New Mexico artist Karina Noel Hean explore her responses to the landscape, all containing "a layering of time, memory, and mark," and composing just one vivid part of this year's PrintAustin program.Through Feb. 17 -
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Glitz!
Bring on the glitter, the glitz, the glam! A gay gala completed by a "Beards With Bling" contest at the stroke of midnight, sponsored by Tapelenders.Sat., Jan. 13, 9pm. Free. -
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Goat Yoga Class
A rooftop yoga session with the help of some baby goats walking all over you and fighting with each other as you contemplate your existence in this world. Ages 15 and up.Sat., Jan. 13, 8amLamar Union, 1100 S. Lamar -
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Hentaii Presents: //sub.rosa
A surreal drag show with a gaggle of dreamlike performers including Mandy Quinn, Rhonda Jewels, and Zane Zena. 18 and up welcome as are tips.Sat., Jan. 13, 11pm. $5. -
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Magnifico, Olé ELO, Lung Letters
Indie punk risers Lung Letters prep Queen and ELO tributes.Sat., Jan. 13, 9pm -
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Special Screenings
Memories of Murder (2003)
Essential Cinema: Tonal Shift - The Films of Bong Joon-Ho: This Korean cop film is based on the country's first real serial-killer case in 1986, a case that flummoxed the police along with everyone else.Sat., Jan. 13, 7pm -
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Orpheus Academy of Music Open House
Have a budding musician in your family? Come check out this open house with refreshments, mini-concerts, and trial classes.Sat., Jan. 13, 3pm. Free. -
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Peace Through Pie MLK Day of Service
Honoring the legacy of a giant requires sustenance, and pizza is the perfect food, so come out, grab a slice, and help clean up the neighborhood.Sat., Jan. 13, noon-3pm -
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Poi Dog Pondering, Abra Moore, Night Glitter
Across the street from where they packed Liberty Lunch in the late Eighties, once-local collective Poi Dog hops down from the Windy City behind bandleader Frank Orrall’s fearless fusion of folk, electro, funk, and psychedelia. Successful folk-pop alumnae Abra Moore: (re)joins her former Hawaiian busking buddies, while ATX-based Thievery Corporation vox Loulou Ghelichkhani leads atmospheric synth-pop combo Night Glitter.Jan. 12-13, 8:30pm -
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SIMS benefit w/ the Rotten Mangos, Pearl Earl, Model Zero, Pollen Rx
Answering Free Week, Electric Church continues putting its money where its mouth is with benefits for essential nonprofits. Garage pop lineup Rotten Mangos, Pearl Earl, Model Zero, and Pollen Rx play for Austin’s SIMS Foundation, which provides mental health services for local musicians.Sat., Jan. 13, 9pm -
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Theatre
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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Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band
Last January 14, Terry Allen staged a show as singular as the Band’s Last Waltz, performing his first two albums, Juarez and the breathtaking Lubbock (on Everything), in their entirety. Back by popular demand, his Panhandle Mystery Band – starring Lloyd Maines, Richard Bowden, Charlie Sexton, and more – this time samples the maestro’s entire catalog. As noted last year, Allen’s “timeless Texan monographs synthesize Southwestern folklore, casting a deep spell on one and all.”Sat., Jan. 13, 8pm -
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Kids
The Big Preschool Roundup
Not sure where to send your wee one for preschool? Head down for this one-stop shopping event that focuses on various educational institutions. Sponsored in part by the Moms Club of Cedar Park, there will also be plenty of activities for the kids, including face painting, a magic show, bingo, and more.Sat., Jan. 13, 10am-1pmHigh Hopes Sports and Afterschool, 1800 Clover Ln., Cedar ParK -
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Out of Town
The Dallas Vert Mile Stair Climb
Take the test of climbing the 50 floors of Dallas’ 15th tallest building in one of several levels of competitions, including the 600-story vertical mile challenge.Sat., Jan. 13Reunion Tower, Dallas -
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Trixi & Ruby's 90th: Let's Have a Black Mass Celebration
A joint birthday celebration for the darkest of hearts. Expect a macabre celebration with performances by Alexander the Great, Louisianna Purchase, the birthday priestesses, and more. Plus DJ Dren Pasht and "all-star goth cover band" Unhand the Dead.Sat., Jan. 13, 9pm. $10 in lieu of gifts.
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Food
Food Events
2018 Vintner Dinner Series: Texas Hills Vineyards
The 17th annual series of informative gustatory events, which runs from January 13 to February 24 this year, starts off with Blair House executive chef Chris Huffman preparing a five-course gourmet dinner for pairing with wines from this vineyard in Johnson City.Sat., Jan. 13. $70. -
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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.
