Ready for a party, Austin? Make plans to meet Honey Made at Radio East! Bring your friends to experience the diverse sounds of the band and get ready to jam the night away!
A-Trak and YehMe2 back-to-back DJ sets, the former a Canadian producer who became the youngest winner of the DMC World DJ Championship in 1997 and thus Kanye West’s personal DJ who started Fool’s Gold Records. The latter is a former Flosstradamus member and avid trap remixer. Southern hip-hop and electronic music fuse into a seamless mix.
One rainy summer day in 2015, Bill Callahan occupied a corner of the old Faulk Library, ushering serenity with his baritone verse and nylon string caress to overflowing throngs peering through bookshelves. Nearby, his 2-month-old son Bass slept in his mother’s arms. As the former Smog machine checks out the newfangled Central Library, fans cross fingers for a follow-up to 2013 masterpiece Dream River.
Hyperreal Film Club: Six men are aboard a luxury yacht for a spear-fishing vacation in the Aegean. Soon their mundane competition over who caught the largest fish devolves into a contest over which of them is the “best in everything.” It’s a game with arbitrary rules in which each man both judges and competes based on standards of his own choosing. Who has the best ringtone, best erection, and best cholesterol level? It's the latest playful foray from the Greek filmmaking avant-garde. Preceded by the short, "Cecilia" with director Liz Tabish in attendance.
Come mingle with the staff, board members, and fans of the Cine Las Americas International Film Festival (May 2-6). Free drinks, snacks, and giveaways should seal the deal.
What's on the schedule this final week? Brilliant monologues? Comedy improv? Cabaret singers? Avant-garde dance? Bizarre performance art? Multimedia? The 25th annual FronteraFest's "Best of the Fest" gathers the diverse goodness of this year's crop and forms it into the tastiest schedule of short theatre 2018 is likely to see. Check the website for details!
Day campers will learn basic relief printing techniques, painterly and spontaneous mono printing, color theory, and how printmaking relates to the community and environment. Ages 6-12.
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.
Essential Cinema: Agnes Varda: In what would become a methodology that the acclaimed director would become famous for, Varda's feature debut tells the story of a fishing village with images and astute ethnography. Highly recommended.
"CSI: Disease Detectives" is the talk by Spencer Fox this time around, speaking on how scientists are combating ever-emerging diseases like Zika, Ebola, and that pesky flu going around your workplace.
A chameleon-like eclecticism has characterized his work to various distinct periods of art-historical influences and beyond, but the common thread in Bucknall's imagery is an animal-human mix. It's a vivid personal mythology that we've reveled in before and are excited to see the newest manifestations of here.
The Generic Ensemble Company presents Daria Miyeko Marinelli's new drama, set over the course of a business lunch in a Japanese restaurant somewhere in the U.S., in which a young woman seeks to become the first female member of the infamous Japanese crime syndicate. Directed by kt shorb and Jesus I. Valles.
"Indian-Americans Shape the Nation," a traveling exhibition created by the Smithsonian Institution, makes an artifact-rich stop at the Asian American Resource Center – with a vibrant collection of photographs, art, and interactive learning stations.
The Austin Film Festival's summer camp season has classes for the aspiring screenwriter, filmmaker, or animator. Kids receive hands-on instruction from industry professionals. Ages 9-18.
The Austin Film Society sponsors these weeklong camps that give your kids the hands-on techniques to make short digital films and animation. Go from idea to final edit, and premiere the films for family and friends at the end of the week. Ages 9-18.
Half-day and full-day courses teach little builders how things work, and then they pit their robots against their classmates' creations. Teens dive a bit deeper into coding, hardware, motors, and more. Camps take place at various locations all over town. 10% discount with code AC9. Ages 6-13.
Choose a week of sleepover camp or a week of day camp to find out what makes Texas' water life tick. Campers participate in challenging labs and then apply their new smarts during fun, aquatic field trips: scuba diving, snorkeling, and more. Ages 9-15.
June 3-Aug. 3. $699, six-day overnight; $349, day camp.