Enjoy free admission to dozens of Austin area museums during this celebration of art, culture, history, music, nature, science, and play. The annual community event includes special programs and activities at museums and cultural institutions throughout the city.
Ah, here's a kinetic spectacle that you'll never forget. This is Blue Lapis Light's site-specific dance that features aerialists dancing on the parking garage windows above True Food Kitchen and on the Seaholm Power Plant stacks, along with ground-based dancers performing on the Plaza. Digital media accompanies the performance, evoking the beauty of our planet and how our actions affect the environment.
The long-running arts & crafts and music festival hosts hundreds of local artisans and vendors and multiple stages hosting dozens of local musicians. Forty food vendors offer everything from smoothies to funnel cake, and kids will enjoy rides, a petting zoo, face-painting, and more.
Art4Water’s inaugural program (now on view at Downtown's gorgeous library) is a collaboration between the Watershed Association, Terry Zee Lee, and more than 30 national artists in the creation of dozens and dozens of water-inspired art kites.
Learn your way to physical grace with a dance class at Ballet Austin. There are so many varieties to choose among – ballet, barre, contemporary dance, hip-hop, tap, cardio dance fitness, Pilates, and more – and all taught by professional instructors. See website for details.
A great selection of local farmers bringing fabulous pastured meats, eggs, dairy, vegetables, and fruits, plus prepared-food vendors, artisans, bakers, and of course, live music.
"Set your dial to CTTV for at-home entertainment seven nights a week on ColdTowne’s Twitch channel, featuring experimental improv, live podcasts, scripted readings, guest characters, and more." And they've got in-person shows popping up around town, too – Violet Crown Clubhouse, anyone? – so see that website for details.
This is a new exhibition by documentarian photographer Cindy Elizabeth, featuring an outdoor installation that is immersed within the museum’s native landscape. There are large-scale photographs inside the building, too, interwoven amongst Elisabet Ney's own neoclassical sculptures.
Enjoy a royal drag brunch with the beautiful queens of Fourth & Co. like Leia Sakura Dior, Arinna Dior Heys, Amber Nicole Davenport, and host Diamond Dior Davenport. Reserve your table online or by text.
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.
Well, it's always an event, isn't it? When you can take your smartphone to access self-guided tours of the outdoor public art sited by UT's award-winning Landmarks program? The answer (as long as the streets and sidewalks aren't dangerous with all this newfangled ice and snow) is a hearty, full-throated YES.
Created to cultivate deeper connections between LGBTQIA and allies across generations, this event meets every third Sunday and focuses on spirituality rather than faith.
Hosts LV and Lena invite guests to join in to ask questions and learn more about the artistic and disabled community at this livestream of LVnTheLife's online interview show.