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City Council Meeting
Council tackles a relatively short 43-Item agenda this week, including a resolution from Council directing the city manager to assess potential "resilience hub" locations to serve as emergency shelters with a redundant power supply and water supplies.Thu., April 8, 10amVideoconference -
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City of Austin "How to Help" Portal
Looking for the right way to help your community during the pandemic? Or do you have a volunteer opportunity that you want to list? Visit the city's "How to Help" portal to make a match. The portal includes ways to help from home, donation drives, and active community engagement opportunities.OngoingOnline -
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Club Latinitas
Enrollment is open and ongoing for this free bilingual afterschool club for all girls age 9-14, which includes fun, educational activities with technology and media.Through May 21, 4-6pm -
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Dallas Blooms
The largest floral festival in the Southwest celebrates “America the Beautiful” with an explosion of: color over 66 acres on the shores of White Rock Lake.Feb. 20-April 11. $12-17.Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, Dallas -
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Davis Gallery: Altered Allusions
When an image is stripped of its clarity, we are left with two things: an allusion to something familiar and the viewer's interpretation. These provocative new works by Nate Szarmach explore the space between image and interpretation, uncovering the ways that familiar religious imagery, cultural christianity, and personal history influence our spirituality. Our Robert Faires reviews the show right here.Through April 24 -
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Donate Blood, Get a Free Whataburger
We Are Blood is partnering again with Texas favorite Whataburger to give all blood donors a voucher for a free burger while supplies last. Appointments are mandatory; schedule online or call.Through April 18We Are Blood donor centers & mobile drives -
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Earth Month Youth Craft Kits
Celebrate Earth Day and Poetry Month by making seed starters and writing a spring acrostic poem. Pickup is available at all curbside branches, but supplies are limited. Intended for children ages 5-10.Wed.-Fri., April 7-9Austin Public Library curbside branches -
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Esquina Tango Outdoor Classes
Esquina Tango has a full calendar of socially distanced, donation-based outdoor classes like samba, salsa aerobics, and of course, tango. Check out the full calendar online.Ongoing -
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Flatbed Press: Transcending Language
This is a collection of works created by artists at Flatbed whose practice has focused entirely on non-objective abstraction, the exhibition curated out of the studio's deep archive of works from the 30 years they've operated as a collaborative print studio in Austin. "It might seem as if each artist has developed a new language that speaks perfectly to us without translation. As music can transcend words, so visual abstraction transcends audible language as well." Including works by Taiko Chandler (Denver, CO), Ann Conner (Wilmington, NC), John Robert Craft (Clarendon, TX,) Anna Craycroft (New York, NY), Anthony DiMichele (Friday Bay, WA), Winston Lee Mascarenhas (Dallas, TX), Denny McCoy (Wimberley, TX), Samson Mnisi (Johannesburg, South Africa), Greg Murr (Berlin, Germany), John OBuck (New York, NY), John Pavlicek (Houston, TX), Larry Scholder (Dallas, TX), Joe Segal (St. Augustine, FL), Bettie Ward (Santa Fe, NM), and Joan Winter (Dallas, TX).Through May 1. Wed.-Fri., 10am-5pm -
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Free Virtual Speed Networking
A free event to help sales professionals and business owners to rapidly and efficiently expand their referral networks in the Austin/New Braunfels area.Thu., April 8, 9-10:30am. Free.Virtual -
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Happy Hour Business Networking
Network in Action is expanding all across the Austin area and they'd like to show you what that means for your business. Join in for a free networking event, socially distanced of course, to meet with other amazing business owners.Thu., April 8, 3pm. Free.La Margarita Restaurante, 1530 N. I-35, Round Rock -
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I-35 Virtual Public Scoping Meeting
Review design materials for the Texas Department of Transportation's proposed I-35 Capital Express Central Project and provide feedback to TxDOT by April 9. The project proposes to add two non-tolled lanes in each direction along I-35 from U.S. 290 E. to Hwy. 71/Ben White Blvd.March-11-April 9Online -
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Indie Meme Film Festival
It's the second weekend of the fest, featuring a curated selection of features and shorts from across South Asia, filmmaker panels, and the closing night awards ceremony.April 23-25Online: www.indiememe.org -
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Inspired Minds Art Center: Digibilities
This is out in Buda, yes – but it's Leslie Kell. The digital artist presents her works from the Other Side collection and her mesmerizing video art. Bonus: Art in a diversity of mediums by Lisa Zinna, Chalda Maloff, Caroline Walker, Paul McGuire, and Ronald Gross.Through April 17Inspired Minds Art Center, 121 Main, Buda -
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Kill Tony: 500th Episode Live
Hosts Tony Hinchcliffe and Brian Redban present this live version of their popular podcast in which young up-and-coming comics or failing older comics get their name pulled out of a bucket, do one minute of material each, and then Tony and his guests give feedback, extra material, and ask questions, "always leading to a hilarious debacle." And we do love the occasional hilarious debacle, don't we? Sadly, tho, this show is ALREADY SOLD OUT.Thu., April 8, 7pm -
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Laguna Gloria
This local treasure of a venue, run by those Contemporary Austin folks who also bring us the Jones Center shows Downtown, is all about the outdoors – which is perfect for these trickily navigated times of ours, n'est-ce pas? Recommended: Stop by and breathe in the air, enjoy the lawns and gardens and the many examples of world-class sculpture arrayed across the property, and (as Frankie used to say) r-e-l-a-x.Thu.-Fri., 9am-noon; Sat.-Sun., 9am-3pm -
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Link & Pin Gallery: Dogs In Borderlandia
Through painting, drawing, video, and performance, Andrea Muñoz Martinez invites people to contemplate the beauty that exists in a land where people negotiate their place, where people thrive and struggle, and where people resist the idea of unjust borders: Borderlandia. Here's Robert Faires' review of the show.Through April 18. Thu.-Sat., 1-5pm -
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Lydia Street Gallery: Two
This exhibition will be the first time that artists Kathy McCarty and David Thornberry, married for 22 years now, have shown their work together. She's been painting grackles, grackles, and grackles; he's been doing portraits based on old photos and video stillshots; now here's the impossible aviary of their work on display at Lydia Street. Recommended!Through April 28