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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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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 5Navasota Theatre Alliance
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Civil Rights ATX: Combating Hate Violence in the AAPI Community
The city’s Office of Civil Rights Office partners with the Austin Police Department for a virtual event series focusing on hate crimes and hate bias towards the Asian American Pacific Island community and the ways the city is seeking to combat discrimination in Austin.Thu., Sept. 16, 6-8pm. Free (registration required).Online -
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¡Viva México!
This annual event showcases visual art, dance, and musical performances that explore Mexico’s history through cultural art traditions, and this year starts early with a virtual event on Thursday before the weekend's sold-out live event.Thu., Sept. 16, 5pmfb.com/austinesbmacc -
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Food Events
Black Food Week
The Austin Justice Coalition continues the celebration of Austin's new and long-standing Black-owned restaurants, this week featuring a plethora of goodness from: Mr. Catfish on Mon., Sept. 13; both Gossip Shack locations on Tue., Sept. 14; Country Boyz Fixins on Wed., Sept. 15; Banana Island on Thu., Sept. 16; Y'alls and 11 Degree Daiquiris on Fri., Sept. 17; Kasian Boil on Sat., Sept. 18; and finishing gloriously with Hoover's Cooking and Down South Cajun Eats on Sun., Sept. 19.Through Sept. 19 -
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Boomtown
This musical comedy about the most dangerous town in Texas follows the true story of promoter Ace Borger’s “overnight city” in the Texas Panhandle. It's a show with a live band, featuring Heath Allyn, Dan Dalbout, Kelsey Kimble, Josh Meindertsma, Megan Moore Ortiz, Wil Pintauro-Taberes, Phil Rodriguez, and Mia Washington.Through Sept. 25. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $12-27. -
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Clear the Shelters
Now's a great time to add to your fur family! Local shelters are waiving adoption fees for a limited time as part of the "Clear the Shelters" initiative, and have several upcoming adoption events. Check out pet profiles and find your next buddy at austinpetsalive.org or austintexas.gov/department/adopt-pet.Through Sept. 19Austin Animal Center, 7201 Levander Loop; Austin Pets Alive!, 1156 W. Cesar Chavez -
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Dance
Corps Multiple: Seule(s) en Scène
Three women, but not together. Three women in isolation, witnessed by you, here, as they perform live. This is the new production of multidisciplinary company Corps Multiple, directed by Austin-based French choreographer Sandie Donzica. This original work explores the theme of isolation of the body – the female body – and how isolation is perceived and how it differs from body to body, country to country, culture to culture.Sept. 16-19. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 6pm. $20. -
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Dieciséis by Frida Friday ATX
Frida Friday’s Mexican Independence Day celebration features music from DJs KickIt and Helios, free food by Matador, Dulce Vida drink specials, and more.Thu., Sept. 16, 6:30-9:30pm. Free entry. -
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Negroni Week
Enjoy a classic cocktail for a cause during this week, when bartenders all over town whip up negronis and proceeds go to a variety of charity partners. Just to name a few participating venues: Irene's and Central Standard collect for the Restaurant Workers' Community Foundation, Little Nicky's and Il Brutto raise funds for the Southern Smoke Foundation ... there are too many to list! Get details on participating venues and charity partners online.Through Sept. 19Various locations -
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"Get Paid to Talk" Webinar
Looking for supplemental income, or maybe a whole new career in voice work? This live interactive web class will give you a realistic, behind-the-scenes introduction to today's voiceover field.Thu., Sept. 16, 6:30pm. $15-30.Online -
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Alan Haynes
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Anime Drawing Class
Got a youngster who loves anime? In this class, the instructor will prepare a drawing then break down the steps and techniques so students can learn to draw their own. Email info@indigoplay.com with your child's name and age to sign up; recommended for ages 7-10.Thursdays, 5:30pmIndigo Play, 13530 Research #102 -
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Visual Arts
Art for the People Gallery: Thrive!
Here's a showcase of work by more than 40 Austinites who’ve created art with an exuberance of color and energy over the past 15 pandemic months.Through Sept. 30 -
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Artworks Gallery: Touch the Seen
Provocative, monumental figurative paintings by Les Satinover, depicting the human form (mainly male figures) in vast, detailed landscapes that celebrate natural beauty.Through Sept. 25 -
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Austin Bouldering Project: Nicholas Wheat
"As a member of local climbing crew Team Arete, Wheat refuses to hang his art on any walls he hasn't climbed." Well, he's climbed these ABP walls, and now you can see what his photography looks like when displayed on 'em.Through Sept. 28 -
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Austin FC Pub Club
If you can't be at the game, the next best thing is watching it at one of Austin FC's bar partners. Check out the list to find one near you.OngoingVarious locations -
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Austin Fire Youth Explorers
City of Austin Fire Department is recruiting youth ages 14-20 to join Exploring, Boy Scouts of America's character and career development program for youth. The AFD Explorer Post #370 teaches youth about careers in fire rescue and helps them sharpen leadership skills.Deadline: Oct. 1. Free.Apply online -
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Barfield the Tyrant
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Big Medium: Power, Traps, and Targets
The newest work of Christopher Blay, described as Police Brut, uses as a mode "the printed shooting target and the ready-made Black Power fist Afro Pick, utilizing codes and symbols as a way of illuminating the narratives of violence, victims of violence, and what it means to bring these stories to the fore." And, listen: The sound installation Feel Me employs a haptic vest and the sound of gunshots. Try it, as they say, try it on for size, citizen.Through Oct. 9. Thu.-Sat., noon-6pm -
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Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite
In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used photography to popularize the political slogan "Black Is Beautiful." This exhibition, the first ever dedicated to Brathwaite’s remarkable career, reveals the story of this key figure of the second Harlem Renaissance – and the Chronicle's Robert Faires has a review of the show right here.Through Sept. 19 -
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BSC Reopening Business Safely Global Forum
Business is not as usual. This is a safe place to talk about business concerns, share ideas, and hear from weekly business expert guests.Thursdays, 12-1pm. Through Dec. 16. Free.Online -
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Out of Town
Buda Plein Air Festival
Live music, art, and activities for kids abound at this three-day celebration.Sept. 16-18. Free.Downtown Buda -
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Visual Arts
Butridge Gallery: Keeping House
Veronica Ceci’s solo show is an inquiry into tactile beauty and societal ugliness in the life of a Queer femme working as a maid, and this is the first time the traveling (since 2017) exhibition will be displayed in Austin, where Ceci has lived since 2004. For this iteration, the artist presents a mix of new work along with early pieces, sharing the roots and current direction of her explorations.Through Oct. 30, by appointment -
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Camiba Gallery: Moment Between Stillness and Movement
This is the fourth solo show for glass artist Rachel Kalisky at Camiba Art, and, if you're already familiar with the frangible wonders she creates from silica and pigments, you won't be surprised. There are fused marvels on the walls here, bold and bright and almost kinetic in their visual impact. "I want to draw the viewer into the art," says Kalisky, "to tempt them not just to look, but to touch, to feel its energy and: emotions."Through Oct. 2 -
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Candler Wilkinson
A marvel of tattooed-knuckle country jazz, Wilkinson IV’s got guitar skills that make you wonder if he signed with the devil. The Thursday night staple at Long Play Lounge East – formerly Stay Gold – also boasts prodigious yodeling chops.Thursdays, 9pm, Thursdays, 9pm, Thu., Feb. 10, 9pm, Thu., Feb. 17, 9pm, Thursdays, 9pm, Thu., March 31, 9pm, Thu., April 7, 9pm, Thu., April 21, 9pm, Thu., May 5, 9pm, Thu., May 19, 9pm, Thu., June 2, 9pm, Thu., June 9, 9:30pm, Thu., June 16, 9:30pm, Thu., June 23, 9:30pm, Thu., July 7, 9pm, Thu., July 14, 9pm, Thu., July 21, 9pm, Thu., Aug. 4, 9pm, Thu., Aug. 11, 9pm, Thu., Aug. 18, 9pm and Thu., Sept. 1, 9pm -
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Casper Rawls
Thursdays, 6:30pm, Thursdays, 6:30pm, Thursdays, 6:30pm, Thu., Jan. 6, 6:30pm, Thursdays, 6:30pm, Thursdays, 6:30pm, Thu., July 28, 6:30pm and Thu., Aug. 4, 6:30pm -
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Cedar Park Scavenger Hunt
Cedar Park Parks & Rec presents a scavenger hunt you do at your own pace at each of its 10 lovely parks. Find the QR code, solve the clue, and take a photo to submit for a chance to win prizes.Through Sept. 30Various locations -
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Visual Arts
Christian-Green Gallery: The Black Index
The artists featured in this show — Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell, and Lava Thomas — build upon the tradition of Black self-representation as an antidote to colonialist images. Using drawing, performance, printmaking, sculpture, and digital technology to transform the recorded image, these artists question our reliance on photography as a privileged source for documentary objectivity and understanding.Through Dec. 11. Wed.-Fri., noon-5pm; Sat., 11am-2pm201 E. 21st
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