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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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Funniest Person in Austin
Ah, here it comes again – the final weekend of the annual competition that brings all the ATX funny to one stage, at least sequentially, in order to determine who's gonna wear the cape and crown. Oh! Who's gonna be the winnah? Who's gonna be the champeen? This is the last weekend of semifinals, followed by Monday night's ultimate battle for stand-up supremacy. We've been ranting at you for the last several issues to make your reservations, citizen! WHERE ARE YOU NOW?Through May 13. $6 and up. -
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Once There Were Six Seasons
Glass Half Full Theatre's award-winning production returns as a three-part interactive experience that invites audiences to travel the globe and explore humankind’s impact on climate change: Step onstage with the puppeteers to observe ecosystems from the Americas, Africa, India, Asia, and the Arctic and watch as the tiny humans and animals struggle against drought, flood, heat, and violent storms. This complex spectacle is directed by Caroline Reck and Gricelda Silva, features original choreography by Kelly Hasandras, and – listen, it's a true marvel of narrative and object manipulation and will delight you endlessly, even as its global implications send a little chill down your spine. See our full review right here.Through May 4. Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 7pm; Mon., 7pm. $12-30. -
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Lizzy Caroloke
Forget singing in the shower and sing at Austin's queerest of karaoke instead!Mon., April 22, 9pm-1am -
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Queerbomb Planning Meeting
Help make Queerbomb 2019 a reality! Volunteer your time, your queerness, and your grand ideas, because they want you!Mondays through June 1 , 7-9pm -
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Savage Gold: The Last Supper
Signature Program: Renovations at Austin Studios have removed access to the small screening room that hosted the cult video series Savage Gold for the last few years so join programmers Lars Nilsen and Maximillian Meehan as they lead you down the rabbit hole of video collector culture and VHS oddities one last time.Mon., April 22, 7pm -
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What Do Thriving Queer Communities Look Like?
Peers for Pride hosts a workshop for all UT-Austin students, staff, faculty, and administrators.Mon., April 22, 4-5pm208 W. 21st, Parlin Hall 105 (UT campus)
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Action Design Meetup
These monthly sessions touch on many different subjects: persuasive technology, choice architecture, emotional design, cognitive design, positive psychology, marketing, and much more through the use of presentations, discussions, guest speakers, hackathons, and joint projects.Fourth Mondays, 6:30-8:30pm. Free. -
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Amazon Adventure (2017)
Laser IMAX 3D: Track the 11-year journey of 1850s explorer Henry Bates.Mon., April 22, 10am -
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America's Musical Journey (2018)
Laser IMAX 3D: Follow Aloe Blacc as he traces Louis Armstrong’s footsteps through the colorful locales and cultures where America’s music was born.Mon., April 22, 11am -
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Atelier 1205: Paper Fields
This show unites the work of Austin art educators Kiley Grantges and Jennifer Schroeder. Grantges elevates drinking straws and office copy paper into bas-relief arrays; Schroeder reconstitutes the exuberant mess resulting from her young students’ art explorations into paper mosaics.Closing reception: Sun., April 28, 2-5pm -
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Austin Bat Cave's School Supplies Drive
Austin Bat Cave, a nonprofit organization that offers free creative writing programs to local youth ages 6 to 18, is holding a school supplies drive through April. If you would like to donate pencils, pens, paper, tape, composition notebooks, or any other classroom supplies, email heather@austinbatcave.org to learn how and where to drop off your items.March 11-April 30. Free. -
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Austin Central Library
Susan Scafati's solo exhibition spans three floors and features work (photoprints, sculpture, hand-embellished documents) that expands on the artist's exploration of the ways in which individual identities and mythologies are constructed. And, ah, we love what that Calder Kamin does, and the library's also got a new showcase of her work, "What a Mess," featuring trash transformed into sculptures, animations, and installations, commenting on the mess humans have made for our natural neighbors throughout our existence.Through June 16 -
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Austin Creative Alliance: The Bread Clip Art Show
"The drawings on these bread clips only make sense on this medium and could not be drawn on paper." Wait, WTF? The answer: It's new work by that relentless pareidoliac, Ismael Cavazos.Through April 30 -
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Bikin' Betties Social Ride
Social Cycling Austin presents Bikin' Betties, a weekly, beginner-friendly, all-ladies bike ride that ends with drink specials and fun activities (karaoke, minigolf, outdoor movies, etc.) Along the way, bond with other two-wheelin' ladies. Join the Facebook group for ride details.Mondays, 8pm -
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Black Swan Yoga Giveback
Black Swan Yoga will be accepting $5 donations to Austin Parks Foundation all day on Earth Day. Just ask for the APF DipJar!Mon., April 22All local Black Swan Yoga locations -
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Bright Ones (2019)
A group of kids from a performing arts school are tasked with creating a showcase to premiere to an international audience.Mon., April 22, 6pm -
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Butridge Gallery: Mayuko Ono Gray and Katy Schmader
Gray’s graphite drawings combine traditional Japanese calligraphy with Western drawing practices and aesthetic; Schmader’s abstract collages explore the connection between tactile traces of a physical environment and the historic system of landscape semiotics.Through May 3 -
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Charles Thibodeaux & the Austin Cajun Aces
Mondays, 6:30pm, Mondays, 6:30pm, Mondays, 6:30pm, Mon., May 6, 6:30pm, Mon., May 13, 6:30pm, Mon., May 20, 6:30pm, Mondays, 6:30pm, Mondays, 6:30pm and Mondays, 6:30pm -
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Clue (1985)
Movie Party: Accompanying the film are fun props like a flashlight, cap revolver, and all sorts of blunt objects.Mon., April 22, 7pm -
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Clue (1985)
Movie Party: Accompanying the film are fun props like a flashlight, cap revolver, and all sorts of blunt objects.Mon., April 22, 7pm
