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17th Anniversary Celebration & Annual Rosé Garden Party
Join the celebration & enjoy an afternoon of pink sips, floral vibes & sunshine in every glass. Crisp, dry, sparkling & everything in between. Tickets include tastings of a curated selection of 15 Rosé wines from around the globe, refreshing gourmet bites & lively entertainment amidst a stunning garden setting inside & out!Sat. May 31, 3pm-7pmHouse Wine -
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Maudie's Moonlight Run by The Trail Conservancy
Join The Trail Conservancy for Maudie's Moonlight 5K Run! The scenic route winds along Lady Bird Lake and the Butler Trail, leading to the ultimate post-run fiesta with legendary Tex-Mex, ice-cold margaritas, and live music! Complete details on the run route, registration, and volunteer info are available online.Thurs. June 5, 8pm-10pmAuditorium Shores
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BookWoman Virtual Reading: Jenny Qi
BookWoman hosts an evening with Jenny Qi, Susan Nguyen, and Annelyse Gelman in honor of the publication of Qi's debut collection of poetry, Focal Point.Thu., Feb. 3, 7pm. Free. -
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CANCELLED: Silvana Estrada
Silvana Estrada is the 24-year-old folk singer-songwriter from Veracruz being called the “millennial Chavela Vargas.” She can build her own stringed instruments by hand and has – at least as a kid – but she was also raised by luthiers and surrounded by music, eventually studying jazz at a Mexican conservatory and making a beautiful album with Charlie Hunter. Her debut solo full-length, Marchita, draws from Veracruz’s native style jarocho, a delicate, chiming music largely drawing percussion from the feet of dancers, but this is no dance LP. Marchita also pulls from biting rancheras for an intensely intimate story of post-breakup disillusionment played on a Venezuelan cuatro. Full of melismatic singing, Silvana work is all poignance, vulnerability, and drama, like a late-night fiesta that veers into drunken, tearful karaoke. “This whole thing of singing songs and drinking and crying at some point – even if we are partying, we get to do that and it’s not like a heavy thing to do,” Silvana tells the Chronicle. “I have this deep connection with ‘bad emotions’ and ‘bad feelings,’ and in Mexico, I feel like we have a deep connection with sadness and loss… but then we have this amazing cultural thing of finding beauty in everything … I have a lot of that in what I do. And even Marchita is a celebration of a breakup.”Thu., Feb. 3, 8pm -
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South Padre Island Kite Fest
Catch indoor and outdoor performances of amazing kites like a 150-foot octopus as well as food concessions and children’s areas.Thu.-Sat., Feb. 3-5. Outdoor displays free.South Padre Island -
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Texas Roller Derby Returns
After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, Texas Roller Derby finally returns in 2022! The schedule has been announced, and includes monthly bouts all year (except in July). The first will be streamed live, and future bouts will take place at the Thunderdome and Palmer Events Center.Sat., Feb. 19, 5:30pm. $7.99.Streaming on Facebook Live
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"Les Diners de Gala" by Salvador Dalí
The Spanish surrealist painter illustrated the cookbook Gala’s Dinners in 1973 that included 136 recipes by French chefs. This traveling exhibit features 12 lithographs that were released in conjunction with the book and are some of his most unique experimental prints.Jan. 15-March 27. Free.Noël Art Museum, San Angelo -
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"The Miners' Hymns" (2011)
Essential Cinema: Works by Bill Morrison: The artistic work combines early footage of English miners' galas and labor strikes with modern suburban landscapes. Screens with two short films by Morrison, "Who by Water" and "Light Is Calling," and introduced by Visual Arts Center curatorial fellow Donato Loia.Thu., Feb. 3, 7:30pm -
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Food Events
Aba Mediterranean: Valentine's Day
Feel like enjoying your Valentine's coupleness at home? Get Aba's Valentine’s Day Dinner for Two and you'll be feasting on lobster bisque, smoky garlic hummus with bread, Ahi tuna with apple & fennel, brussels sprouts, beef tenderloin with potato gratin, and Isot double chocolate cake – and a bottle of Giuliana Prosecco to top the meal off with a toast. (Or you could dine in – under the sparkling lights on Aba's outdoor patio – and enjoy similar gustatory pleasures.) Note: Order by Feb. 9, for delivery or pickup Feb. 11-14.$124.95 (for two). -
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All Star Jam w/ Natasha Hudson, Chad Hudson, Joey Resendis
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Artworks Gallery: Reflections on the Streets of Austin
Precision Camera and Tom Chambers have created this exhibit from a street photography workshop hosted by Artworks, the images here focusing on reflections throughout the city.Through Feb. 12 -
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ATX Vogue Nights
Mother Girl6 and BabiBoi Lepore present Austin’s very first vogue nights, every first Thursday of the month. Beats by Akasha Juicy.Thu., Feb. 3, 9pm. Free. -
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Austin ISD Budget Talks
Learn about AISD’s priorities and plans for staffing and programs in the 2022-23 budget and how you can get involved in the budgeting process on your AISD campus.Thu., Feb. 3, 6-7pmOnline -
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Bakery Lorraine: Valentine's
This excellent bakery has exclusive Valentine's Day pastries at their Domain NORTHSIDE location, including red tarts, red velvet cake, heart moonpies, cherry tarts, and a mouthwatering variety of other sweet treats.Pre-orders available through Feb. 8 -
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Big Medium: The Contemporary Print
This gallery in the Canopy complex on Springdale has been the epicenter for PrintAustin from the get-go, and it remains a must-see foundational exhibition for each festival. Witness now a survey of traditional printmaking techniques and innovative approaches in contemporary printmaking, as curated by John Hitchcock, a professor (and 20-year printmaking teacher) at the University of Wisconsin-MadisonThrough Feb. 22 -
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Blanton Museum of Art: MemWars
Many artists work in multiple mediums, but for Lubbock-raised Terry Allen, music, performance, writing, and visual artwork are truly all part of the same practice. As a visual artist, he often creates immersive sculptural installations with an aspect of performance, incorporated through projections and video. For this ninth installment in the Blanton’s Contemporary Project series, Allen reveals a three-channel video installation and a related group of drawings.Through July 10 -
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Breath Work Sound Healing
A class exploring the depth of breath work followed by a sound healing meditation.Thursdays, 11am. $22. -
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Butridge Gallery: Anthroposcenery
The Dougherty Art Center's central gallery displays new paintings by the (rather brilliant) artist Emma Hadzi Antich, her mountainous landscapes serving as oblique yet highly evocative mirrors, illustrating parallels between seemingly disparate aspects of nature, revealing how the wild in the human and the human in the wild can affect each other.Through Feb. 19 -
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Call for Oakwood Cemetery Descendants
The Oakwood Cemetery Chapel staff seeks descendants of people of color buried in the Oakwood Cemetery to participate in a vision session with Oakwood’s Historic Preservation and Archaeology project specialists. If you are a descendant of someone buried at Oakwood Cemetery, or have information on those individuals, please call Jennifer Chenoweth, museum site coordinator for the Oakwood Cemetery Chapel, at 512/978-2310 or email [email protected].Ongoing -
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Camiba Gallery: Neuroplastic
Zoë Shulman’s 'Neuroplastic' is a series of visionary paintings, drawings, metal prints, and: animations by the Austin-based artist, wielding geometric abstraction to explore the intersections between psychotherapy, psychedelic medicine, and art therapy. Note one: Shulman created these while undergoing cognitive behavioral therapy and clinical ketamine treatments. Note two: These are amazing works of art – the sort of painstakingly wrought abstractions that rely as much on craft as on cognition – and they're well worth your stopping-by time.Through Feb. 26 -
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CANCELLED: Dave East, J Soulja
Harlem rapper pen who signed to Nas’ Mass Appeal Records label in 2014. J Soulja completes a busy six-day stretch with his scheduled undercard performance. Ben Buck’s Aux Cutter outfit begins proceedings.Thu., Feb. 3, 8pm -
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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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Daniel Johnston: I Live My Broken Dreams
The Contemporary Austin presents the first-ever museum survey of works by Daniel Johnston. "Step into the surreal universe of this visionary musician and artist, filled with love, loss, ghosts, aliens, superheroes, and the eternal battle between good and evil."Through March 20 -
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Davis Gallery: Paperback Rodeo
A new show by Austin's B. Shawn Cox is always reason to celebrate, we say, and this latest one at Davis Gallery is a perfect corroboration of that statement. This is what happens when the artist explores subtext with polka-dotted domesticated florals that hide deconstructed cowboys, lenticular eye-candy featuring blended dualities of Western icons, and folded paper quilts incorporating text to supra any subtext. Bonus: New works by Dana Younger will be on display, too? You Davis people are trying to spoil us, is that it?Through Feb. 26. Free. -
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Food Events
Desert Door: Wild Card Valentine's
Desert Door Texas Sotol continues its monthly WILD event series with a limited menu curated by Sarah Abernathy of Justine’s Secret House. [Note: You do remember the raves Desert Door recently received from our foodie correspondents, right?] Celebrate this Valentine’s Day out in the Hill Country, with Abernathy’s delectable pastries (including Blue Masa doughnuts filled with strawberry-and-sotol jam, and chorizo-rillette kolaches) and a holiday-inspired cocktail.Mon., Feb. 14, 5-8pm -
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Donate Blood, Get Free Cookies
It's Girl Scout cookie season again, so We Are Blood has formed a sweet partnership with Girl Scouts of Central Texas to reward blood and platelet donors with a free box. Schedule an appointment online or call 512/206-1266.Through Feb. 28We Are Blood donor centers and mobile drives -
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