DIY Dance Venue Club Eternal Announces “Indefinite Hiatus”

Fourth Street after-hours dance venue Club Eternal will take an “indefinite hiatus” after wrapping events Aug. 2, organizers announced on Instagram Wednesday.

Tonight, producer/DJ Matthew Shogi will host Club Eternal’s weekly Wednesday open decks night, or the DJ equivalent of an open mic. Running from 10pm to 3am, the $10 event welcomes a new attendee to the decks every 30 minutes to spin music with “no limits on genres, BPM, or mood.”

On Thursday, the underground venue teams with Street Future Records to host ambient/experimental night Ethereal Sessions, which bolsters music from JT Whitfield, Patina Lush, XXXXXL, D.Sierto, 73ON, and Dream Days with art and lighting installations by Drip Cuts, Amanda Koontz, Shak-Elia, and Street Future.

Club Eternal says goodbye Friday with a performance by DJ Spray, traveling all the way from Berlin alongside Provider and Shogi. The gig runs from 11pm to “late,” according to the post, and like this week’s other events, is 21+ and BYOB.

Organizers didn’t give a reason for Club Eternal’s hiatus in the announcement. Instead, the post reads, “Thank you to everyone who supported our mission of providing Austin with a DIY space for underground dance music over the past two years <3 Without y’all we are nothing more than an empty room with some nice speakers…”