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Oktoberfest in Fredericksburg
Prost! To Gemütlichkeit and Cheer Since 1981 Oktoberfest Celebrates 45 Years in the Polka Capital of Texas! For 45 unforgettable years, Fredericksburg’s Oktoberfest has brought the spirit of Bavaria to the heart of Texas. This beloved family-friendly festival is packed with three days of lively music, joyful dancing, hearty toasting, and warm Gemütlichkeit.Oct. 3-5Downtown Fredericksburg | Marktplatz -
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Mozart's World Coffee Festival
This year’s Mozart's free World Coffee Festival will feature samples from the 30 countries that provide the beans for Mozart’s special blends. Guests can taste the sweetness of a Colombian coffee drink brewed with sugar water and served with a chaser of lemonade. And yes, “ Tinto con Aqua Panella” will be served free of charge to the attendees this year. Music and Fun!Sat. Oct 4-5Mozart's Coffee Roasters
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Alice Cooper & Judas Priest
The king of shock rock and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal pioneers come screaming for vengeance in this night of metal madness. Sludge-blues heavyweights Corrosion of Conformity kick things off.Sat., Oct. 25 -
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Austin Coffee Fest
Get your caffeine fix and then some at this immersive coffee convention featuring a curated coterie of local and national roasters, barista throwdowns, and live music. If you’re really jonesing for that sweet bean juice, snag a VIP ticket that’ll get you in an extra hour early.October 25-26 -
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Austin Film Festival
Anybody can host a film festival. AFF is unique for its focus on the art and craft of screenwriting in its film lineup, writers conference, and awardees, which this year include Rian Johnson (Knives Out), Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar (Sing Sing), and producing legend Christine Vachon (Kids, Past Lives).October 23-30Multiple locations -
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Austin Record Convention
This one is for the music junkies and physical media lovers, with over 300 international vendors in the largest sale of recorded music in the nation.October 25-26 -
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Halloween and Dia de los Muertos
Bat City Scaregrounds
“The best haunted house in Texas” returns for frightful performances and three horrifying haunted houses that are open to all ages. Beware of electrifying strums from live music performances by the Immortalz, Ghstflsh, and Tricie and the Phantom Punks.Sept. 27 - Nov. 1 -
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Bella Maria Varela: “Blanket Zone”
How the spaces marginalized communities live in are enclosed and erased makes for the bulk of artist Bella Maria Varela’s new exhibition at Eastside gallery MASS. Through the utilization of repurposed fleece cobijas and dye sublimation printing, Varela reinterprets the concept of “blanket zoning” into a blanket fort encompassing a re-creation of her childhood home. “Blanket Zone invites visitors to enter, inhabit, and reflect,” writes the artist in a statement collaborated on by Dr. Jonathan Cortez, “physically experiencing how softness and vulnerability can become tools of resistance.” Drop in this Friday for the opening reception. – James ScottFridays-Sundays. Through Oct. 25 -
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Halloween and Dia de los Muertos
Boo at the Zoo
On weekends in October, the Austin Zoo transforms into a fun Halloween haunt. The animal sanctuary offers a family-friendly “Spooky Train,” haunted house, and picnic grove, and costumes are encouraged.Oct. 3-25 -
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Comedy
Decease & Desist: A Sketch Comedy Revue
Money, money, money: It’s sooooo funny in a rich man’s world. At least that’s what I’ve been told by a certain Swedish pop group and that’s what’ll hopefully hold true for this sketch show. Directed by Anthony Ellison with cast members Abby Lincoln, Garrett Rojas, Lauryn Ingram, Mallory Hynes, Matthew Stoner, and Zac Carr, this fast-paced funny time features capitalism critique along with coffin talk as the performers dig into “death, money, and the strange ways they keep showing up in our lives.” – James ScottSaturdays -
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Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Light Trail
Texas Performing Arts brings Halloween Town to Austin via this walkable rendition of the classic animated film. Visitors are invited to throw on a costume and spend an hour walking the gardens.Sept. 25 - Nov. 30 -
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Hannah Spector: “if you stare at a cowboy’s face for long enough, it turns into a sunset”
Multimodal artist Hannah Spector presents a reimagined West Texas in this immersive installation of sight and sound. By placing queer identity against the rugged desert landscape, Spector explores the American West mythos through video installation, photography, ceramic sculpture, and etchings – ultimately creating a new future “that disrupts gender norms, power systems within language, linear notions of time, and limiting means of self-expression.” Come to the opening reception on Sept. 27 and help bring even more life to the landscape. – Catharine LiThrough Nov. 16 -
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Hogeye Festival
We’ll spare you the pig puns, but rest assured they will be abundant at this swine soiree in the sausage capital of Texas. Thursday has a stroll and hog-calling contest, Friday brings the dance floor to the downtown streets, and Saturday features vendors, live music, and more.October 23-25Downtown Elgin -
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Hundred Points: Contemporary Graphic Design Exhibit
The posters on the telephone pole, the phone in your pocket, the shirt on your back: Design is in everything we touch. In our visually dominated, culturally mediated world, everything from our park benches to our pizza boxes is crafted to convey experience and identity. What design touches us has been shaped by decades of technological advancements and cultural exchange, all on display in the tactile output and behind-the-scenes stories on display in the Hundred Points exhibit. Signage and typography, film and photography, furniture and architectural installations, all come together to tell the story of contemporary graphic design. – Caroline DrewThrough January 1 -
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Intel Lastierre: “Infernal Rebirth Into Hell: Illusions and Realities”
Dreams get deconstructed in this exhibition created by DORF Gallery’s inaugural Fellowship in Professional Practice artist. Here, Intel Lastierre asks whether or not the American Dream lives in the journeys of Filipino immigrants, who often are faced with “persistent structures of poverty, labor exploitation, racial discrimination, and inequality” in the pursuit of opportunity. The show, which opens this Friday, centers around a reimagining of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. “Like prisoners chained in darkness,” writes artist Lastierre, “many immigrants face illusions that become their entire reality, only to discover that the ‘light’ outside is sometimes another form of confinement.” – James ScottThrough January 31 -
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Legacy Business Month
If you’ve lived in this city longer than a month, you know a Bat City business keeping the lights on for any period of time is a triumph. This October, Preservation Austin celebrates all those icons who’ve managed a cool 20 or more years slinging vintage trinkets, vegan food, and various other essentials to Austinites. Over the 31 days of the month, use PA’s passport (available at preservationaustin.org/programs/legacy-business-month) to pursue 10 longtime local spots: Antone’s, Mr. Natural, Sam’s Bar-B-Que, Mozart’s Coffee, Oilcan Harry’s, Shandeez Grill, Saxon Pub, Aussie’s Grill & Beach Bar, Terra Toys, and the recently renovated Room Service Vintage. Scoop up stamps from all locations and you just might win a fabulous prize – beyond just a sense of local pride. – James ScottThrough Oct. 31Multiple locations -
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Porsche Oktoberfest
Classic cars & fresh Bavarian pretzels! Mozart’s hosts a free classic car show mixed with iconic fall flavors and croissants.Sat., Oct. 25 -
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Reji Thomas: “Through the Looking Glass”
Multihyphenated artist Reji Thomas has been an influential fixture in Austin’s arts scene since opening her glass studio, Pine Street Station, in 1979. Though the Eastside gallery space and studio space closed nearly a decade ago, Thomas is ever active. A curated collection of her paintings, screenprintings, glass workings, and mixed-media pieces will be on display at the East Austin Cultural Center’s New East Arts Gallery this fall to give the public a glimpse into this storied arts leader’s varied work and singular aesthetic philosophy. – Caroline DrewThrough Oct. 31 -
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Theatre
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton’s landmark YA work and the Francis Ford Coppola film based on it get adapted in this new musical with book by Adam Rapp and Justin Levine. Follow Ponyboy, Johnny, and the rest of their greaser family through this story of self discovery directed by the Tony Award-winning Danya Taymor.October 21-26 -
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Viva La Vida
Austin’s largest and longest-running Día de los Muertos event, Mexic-Arte’s 42nd annual Viva La Vida festival and parade promises hands-on activities, live performances, a lowrider exhibit, and a healthy attitude about honoring our dead and living life to its fullest while we’ve still got the chance.Sat., Oct. 25Fourth & Congress
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"Infernal Rebirth into Hell: Illusions and Realities": A Solo Presentation of New Work by Intel Lastierre
DORF Fellowship in Professional Practice artist Intel Lastierre presents this remimaging of Plato's Allegory of the Cave as a reflection of the difficult path of Filipino immigrants going after the American dream.Sept. 26-Jan. 31 -
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Alice Cooper, Judas Priest, Corrosion of Conformity
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“A Space in Which People Are Free to Move and Birds to Fly”
Birds know no borders. Co-Lab’s site-specific soundscape installation by artist Mark Menjívar uses the sounds of migratory birds to prompt questions about human migration and the political nature of drawing lines across the land. The exhibition coincides with the fall migration of neotropical birds, which soar out of the United States and back to the warmer climates of Central and South America this time of year. Eight sonic artworks find a temporary nest among the trees of Co-Lab’s grounds, inviting you to stroll through this migratory soundscape before it, too, takes flight. – Caroline DrewThrough Oct. 25 -
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“CONNECTION”
This group art show explores the idea of connection using various media: sculpture, watercolor, calligraphy, and more. The South First art gallery and vintage shop brings together five artists with unique takes on how and why one finds a link to other people, ideas, or even more abstract concepts like color and smells. Come by the opening party starting at noon on Saturday and see if you feel any connection. – Catharine LiThrough Nov. 3 -
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“Feedback Loop”
Since 2020, gallery Contracommon has hosted critique groups as a way for artists to foster feedback from their creative community via Zoom and in-person meetings. This form has persisted for five years, but the new year has brought a new evolution: artists starting and finishing new work from within the critique group. These projects get their debut this Thursday over in Bee Cave, with participants including Váz Andreina, MJ Hernandez, Garrett Skupinski, and others. Swing by for the opening reception on Saturday, or check in any Friday, Saturday, or Sunday through July 24. – James ScottThrough July 24 -
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“Spirit & Splendor: El Greco, Velázquez, and the Hispanic Baroque”
It’s not every day you get to see an El Greco painting up close. With this major exhibition of Baroque masterpieces from Spain and Latin America, you get to see a half-dozen. The last stop of a touring exhibition, the Blanton will present nearly 60 major works from Manhattan’s renowned Hispanic Society Museum & Library, with a special focus on paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries. Beyond El Greco, featured artists include, but aren’t limited to, Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and Nicolás Correa. This is the kind of meaty exhibition that benefits from historical context and art expertise, which you can get via public tours offered in English and Spanish while “Spirit & Splendor” is on view through February 1, 2026.: – Kimberley JonesThrough Feb. 1, 2026 -
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“The Lemon Project”
When life gives you lemons, create oil paintings of those lemons. That was the case for visual artist Linda Chido, who, after taking a paper-making class with her son, decided to paint one of those sour, yellow guys on the first piece. And so the aptly titled “Lemon Project” expanded into a book including cocktail recipes from local distilleries. Raise a glass at happy hour to celebrate the opening of the exhibition at The Ruby Hotel. – Felicity GuajardoThrough Oct. 29The Ruby Hotel, Round Rock -
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Kids
Baby Bloomers
A special program for visitors ages 0-3 and their families, providing caregivers and early learners the chance to experience the children's museum together. Thinkery will host two storytimes and free play that support the social, emotional, and cognitive development of the earliest learners.Saturdays, 8-10am -
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Comedy
Cap City Comedy Club
That's right: Cap City Comedy Club, the longtime cornerstone of Austin's comedy scene for nearly four decades is at a new venue in the Domain. And here's Valerie Lopez with a closer look at what's in store for the scene via the venue. Click for details! -
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ColdTowne Theater
ColdTowne's new brick-and-mortar place is totally open, and who knows what they'll shake this city with next? But one truth remains: ColdTowne is a designated den of gold, baby, sweet comedy gold.