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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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Beatles Full Moon Concert in the Dark
On the April Full Moon, come set intentions and indulge in the mesmerizing allure of live acoustic music performed by world-class musicians, surrounded by the warm glow of candlelight. Its a different kind of concert, that begins and ends in darkness, with music and a poem or two surrounding and soothing you. Audience members will be given the choice of bringing their own yoga mats and/or pillows to gaze at the shadows on the ceiling. A circle of chairs will be provided.Tues. Apr. 23, 8pm-9pmATX Unplugged
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Food
Food Events
National Taco Championships
That’s right, pro taco teams will be competing in qualifiers all around the country, leading up to the big $100,000 showdown in Las Vegas. Also true: This whole battle royale à la tacos begins right here in the ATX – in the vast parking lot of what used to be the local daily paper – and features, in addition to the main competition, a tequila exposition, a beauty pageant, a hot pepper contest, lucha libre wrestling, local bands and DJs, and – yeah, it’s gonna be a big ol’ tortilla-wrapped, music-fueled spectacle of champions.Sat., March 30, 11am-6pm. $15-120. -
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Sports
Texas Relays
There will be students from across the country running around in circles and jumping long and high and often. At night people come out in droves and fill up Sixth Street enough to make SXSW crowds look like a stroll in the woods. (Not really, but kinda.)Wed.-Sat., March 27-30. $10-40. -
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Classical Music
A Symphony of Voices: Choral Masterworks of Tudor England
Many voices, both solo and choral, perform the sublime, moving, and exhilarating music of early Tudor England, with music compiled between c. 1490 and c. 1510, featuring guests Ryland Angel, Erin Calata, Temmo Korisheli, Joel Nesvadba, and Mary Springfels.March 30-31. Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. $25-30 ($5, students at the door). -
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Civic Events
Beto for America Launch
Now that he's announced his run, Beto O'Rourke will close out his presidential campaign kickoff tour right here in Austin, and you're invited to the rally.Sat., March 30, 9-11pmNinth & Congress -
Music
Blanton Block Party w/ Riders Against the Storm, Donovan Keith, Shy Beast, Good Field, Texas KGB, Money Chicha, Mariachi los Gallos, SaulPaul, Jeff Plankenhorn (11:00)
In 2014, Chaka & Qi Dada became the first hip-hop act to win Band of the Year at the Austin Music Awards. They took home those honors three years in a row. As Riders Against the Storm, they headline a free, 16-act day of musicians and storytellers, including Jeff Plankenhorn, SaulPaul, Mariachi Los Gallos, Money Chicha, Good Field, and Shy Beast.Sat., March 30 -
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Comedy
Carlos Mencia
Here's a chance to experience the mind of Mencia when it's embodied by that Mencia himself.March 28-30. Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 7:30 & 10pm. $25-30. -
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Nightlife & Parties
Carry Illinois and Ali Holder
Any night we can dance to Carry Illinois is a good night.Sat., March 30, 10pm-1am -
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Visual Arts
Co-Lab Projects Has Returned, Co-Lab Projects Has Fuckin' RETURNED!
But you knew that already, right? That Sean Gaulager's main curatorial project and long-missed gallery has finally made it through the grueling City of Austin permit process and all that rigmarole and is almost completely back to its former daunting schedule of exhibitions and community-based interactions and so on? In that Springdale General complex, no less. The current show, "Lines Composed During a Tour," featuring works by Sara Vanderbeek, Andy Coolquitt, Kristi Kongi, and Erin Curtis, and curated by Gaulager and Leslie Moody Castro, closes on Sat., March 30. Next up is Anika Cartterfield's "Grounded in Culver," which is opening on Sat., March 30, 5pm in the alternate Co-Lab venue at 5419 Glissman. And then, on April 6 – well, we'll be telling you about that soon enough. Shit is getting more real again; let's celebrate.Co-Lab, 1023 Springdale Ste. 1B -
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Visual Arts
Collection Rert: Street Seen
This group photography show is primed to answer the question: How many details can be captured inside a box within a fraction of a second? The good folks of Collection Rert offer an exhibition of indelible images captured on the streets by friends old and new.Reception: Sat., March 30, 7-10pm2608-B Rogers -
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Theatre
Crime and Punishment
Performed in 90 minutes with only three actors, this award-winning adaptation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece "compresses all the tension and pathos of the novel into a powerful evening of theatre." Ryan Crowder, Ben Wolfe, and Chelsea Manasseri are directed by Jeremy Lee Cudd for Penfold Theatre. And – hey!Raskolnikov! – here's our review of the show.Through April 6. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. $15-30. -
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Nightlife & Parties
Drip Drop IV: Official LGBTQ Texas Relay Turn Up
One of Austin’s best QPOC dance parties returns for the relays! Join Austin Black Pride and Pink Elephant Radio with DJs Nevolution and Nneka The Plug for hot queers, strong drinks, and a whole lotta hip-hop.Sat., March 30, 10pm. $10. -
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Epistrophy Arts presents Fire! (Gustafsson, Berthling, Werliin)
Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson’s Austin connection comes from his long partnership with local bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten in free jazz trio the Thing. Though not as chaotic, Gustafsson’s other power trio Fire! – making its Texas debut – slams saxophone and electronics against a rhythm section well-versed in both doom metal and avant-garde jazz. Last year’s The Hands rams a uniquely bludgeoning squall into the heart of improvised music.Sat., March 30, 8pm -
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Eyehategod, The Obsessed, Mothership, And Darkness & Decay
Smashing together doom metal and punk rock with a voice like a kid vomiting Easter Peeps, Mike Williams and his NOLA gang EHG still reason that you must take your lumps live. The Obsessed, meanwhile, remain sludge superheroes of their own behind Scott “Wino” Weinrich, whose Maryland-formed Seventies trio released its first studio album in 23 years, Sacred, in April 2017.Sat., March 30, 9pm -
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Books
F & SF Afternoon Threefer
What's new and exciting in the worlds of fantasy and science fiction? A lot, actually – and some of the better parts are being created right here in Austin. Proof? Observe: This afternoon of celebration with authors Amber Royer, Patrice Sarath, and Nicky Drayden – featuring readings from Pure Chocolate, Fog Season, and Temper. Quant suff!Sat., March 30, 5pm -
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Arts & Culture
Glam Fam Presents: Feeling Myself
Jesús I. Valles and Bonica Ayala have teamed up as director/producer duo to bring you a "powerhouse" comedy show: starring Linzy Beltran (of Jazz Kween and 2017 B. Iden Payne: award-winning Latinauts) and Kim Tran (of Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls and 2018 B. Iden Payne award-winning Y'all, We Asian). Expect a mix of multimedia and live performances digging into and digging on race, sexuality, body positivity, motherhood, and pop culture.Saturdays, 7pm, March 16-April 6th. $10. -
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Dance
Grimm Tales
In this new, full-length work, Ballet Austin's Stephen Mills explores the dark underpinnings of fairytales to bring you the odd and vivid beauty of the lessons they impart, the social contexts they inform. Inspired by the visual art of Natalie Frank, with music composed (and performed live!) by Graham Reynolds, the world premiere of Grimm Tales will leave you unsettled, unafraid, and undeniably hungry for more.March 29-31. Fri.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. $15-89. -
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HONK!TX day two
Dozens of local, regional, and even international brass bands marauding through some of Austin finest parks filled with families, students, and Austin musicians might as well be called Pied Piper Fest for its loyalty among homegrown music freaks. Totally free and unfailingly funky, it’s only weird in that it doesn’t occur in every city from here to Manitoba. Ascending ATX crew Big Wy’s Brass Band – led by Chronicle senior ad rep Jerald Corder’s son Wyatt – can already be considered HONK!TX veterans.: “Our first honk experience was in 2015, when we were still seniors in high school and played at the Snack Bar on South Congress and in Pan Am Park as well,” writes in Wyatt. “We didn’t know what we were getting into, since we had never played a festival before, let alone a hippie DIY brass band festival. It was a real culture shock to how quirky people can be.”: Brass bands, too, seeing as Big Wy’s horn blowers were soon covering Dr. Dre classic “The Next Episode” for a small throng at Saturday’s main attraction in Adams Park (out back of Spider House), where crews round robin all the grass corners.: “I love hip-hop and rap, and have always tried to integrate that influence into Big Wy’s,” explains the trumpet-bearing bandleader. “HONK!TX is really special because every band is comprised of people that are playing music just for the love of it, and all of the volunteers working it are really down-to-earth people that are happy to help. I’d say for the first-time attendee to keep an open mind and mix and mingle with some of the most wackiest and genuine people in the world.”Sat., March 30, 11:30amAdams Park, 201 W. 30th -
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Books
Huda Fahmy: Yes, I'm Hot In This
Malvern Books, in association with CAIR Austin, celebrates Muslim Women’s Day with a reading from popular Instagram cartoonist and American-Muslim writer Huda Fahmy, author of Yes, I’m Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab.Sat., March 30, 7pm -
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Food Events
Johnson's Backyard Garden: Spring Potluck
The JBG team at the farm out in Garfield have just completed their spring planting and are ready to take a break and throw down for some fun before the warm weather and summer harvests begin – and you're invited! Enjoy steaming plates of chicken-and-gumbo, farm tours, a fresh-as-it-gets farmers market, and live music from Terry and the Zydeco Bad Boys.Sat., March 30, 4-7pm. $10. -
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Community
Out Youth’s Second Chance Prom
There’s never a better time to redo the past for the better, so getcher Eighties-inspired fancy on in support of queer youth! You get dancing, drinks, and drag queen performances.Sat., March 30, 8-11pm. $50.800 Congress -
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Visual Arts
Recspec Gallery: Exquisite Corpse
Here's one final exhibition for Recspec's current digs, before the whole Flatbed complex is shut down and everyone scatters to, like, the four winds. So they're having several of the best local artists who've shown at the gallery return to cover every wall in the place with their connecting artwork. Featuring work by Tim Kerr, Annie Alonzi, Thor Harris, Alanna Loosen, Lance McMahan, Lindsay Eyth, Mike Combs, Polly Morwood, Annalise Gratovich, Katie Cowden, and many more.Through March 30 -
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Dance
Samyoga: The Sublime Love
India Fine Arts presents a performance of ballet vignettes from Indian epics, featuring Shiijit Nambiar and Parvathy Menon.Sat., March 30, 6pm. $21-31. -
Film
Special Screenings
She's Gotta Have It (1986)
Burn Hollywood Burn: The Early Films of Spike Lee: Pursued by many, satisfied by none, Johns' Lola Darling is the center of attention in Lee's breakthrough feature. Filmed primarily in black-and-white, and presenting the first of Lee's many onscreen performances, She's Gotta Have It is a classic of the American independent cinema.Sat., March 30, 12:30pm -
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Books
Short-Short Fiction Festival
Local authors read their best short-short fictions aloud outside the lovely Ney Museum, with that Mary Helen Specht leading the ceremonies. Bonus: local publishers, food trucks, and face-painting.Sat., March 30, noon-3pm. Free. -
Arts
Dance
Tapestry: The Souls of Our Feet III
See the likes of Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, and Ginger Rogers return to life in a backdrop of tap-dancing Hollywood classics, as well as contemporary choreography set to the jazz standards of Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, and others.March 28-31. Thu.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm; Sun., 2pm. $35 and up. -
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Sports
Texas Rollergirls
Honky Tonk Heartbreakers vs. Hustlers.Sat., March 30, 6pm. $18, advance; $20, day of; $8, kids. -
Music
Urban Music Fest day two
Austin’s 14th annual Urban Music Fest stacks 17 acts. The Ohio Players – anchored by survivors James Williams, Billy Beck, Clarence Willis, and Robert Jones – perform Saturday with their first new music in three decades. New Jack Swing legacy act Blackstreet and Mint Condition singer Stokley Williams headline. www.urbanmusicfest.com.Sat., March 30, 2pm -
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Theatre
UTNT: Three Shitty Sons
Oh holy shit – stop the presses! This presentation of the 2019 UT New Theatre program is written by Hannah Kenah, which fact suggests that, if you were gonna see just one of these UTNT shows, then this new Kenah work is the one to attend. Oh, and the "disheveled comedy" is "an homage to Our Town's theatrical examinations of life and afterlife" and is directed by Mason Rosenthal.March 28-29, 31, 7:30pm; March 30, 2pm. $15-26. -
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Visual Arts
Wally Workman Gallery: Sara & Shane Scribner
The Scribners return – and we're almost ready for them. We mean, the eerie magical-realist beauty that this husband-and-wife team render by way of figurative art is so powerful it's difficult to prepare for, but, by the hoary mane of Sleipnir, we're gonna attempt it. Highly recommended.Through April 20 -
Film
Special Screenings
Alita: Battle Angel: Passport to Iron City
Explore the setting of Robert Rodriguez's new film, the post-apocalyptic, gritty, refuse-filled Iron City. You'll interact with city residents, earn credits for completing puzzles and challenges, experiment with the technology, and uncover hidden clues. The film opens Feb. 14.Jan. 29-March 31. Daily, 2-10pm. $25.1901 E. 51st
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