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  • Meet Co-ops Transforming Austin's Food System

    The co-op model offers an alternative to low wages and high turnover. Taste food from new local co-ops free from 2-4 p.m. Learn what it means to be a values-focused restaurant, farm, bakery, or grocery store. Hear about cooperation across the food system, worker-consumer collaboration, and success stories.
    Sat. June 21, 2pm-4pm  
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    Dell Jewish Community Center

  • Fredericksburg Craft Beer Festival

    Grab your friends and come to the Fredericksburg Craft Beer Festival! Give your palate a treat, enjoy the tastes, textures and aromas- you will find a new favorite brewery! If you prefer a glass of wine or seltzer – they’ll have that too. Lively music, food, games, brewers panel and more. Come See What’s on Tap! Sponsored by the Fredericksburg Rotary Club.
    Sat. June 14, 11am-6pm  
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    Downtown Fredericksburg Market Square
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  • Film

    Special Screenings

    The Red Shoes + Black Swan

    Insanity and obsession en pointe as the Summer Classic Film Series brings together two of the greatest and most disturbing movies set in the body-breaking and mind-wrecking world of professional ballet. First, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger rewrite Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of a dancer who can never stop into a Technicolor horror, as Moira Shearer is driven to madness and death by her three passions: the love of a composer, the promise of stardom, and dance. Then Natalie Portman implodes in a dangerous pas de deux with Mila Kunis in Darren Aronofsky’s twist on Swan Lake. [Editor’s note: Special for this screening, local drag icon Louisianna Purchase delivers a dreamy performance before the double feature.] – Richard Whittaker
    Thu., June 12
    Paramount Theatre

    • Arts

      Books

      Carla Sosenko In Conversation With Jenni Kaye

      Carla Sosenko’s debut memoir, I’ll Look So Hot in a Coffin: And Other Thoughts I Used to Have About My Body, situates her life at a series of intersections. The book chronicles Sosenko’s life with Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome and reflects on the impacts her condition has had on her self-image and mental health. Sosenko draws out the contradictions of pretty privilege and fatphobia as she reflects critically on the social and internal forces that impacted her, her relationships, and her career as a journalist. Local filmmaker and creative programmer Jenni Kaye joins Sosenko for what is sure to be a thought-provoking conversation about identity and embodiment. – Caroline Drew
      Thu., June 12
      First Light Books

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      Visual Arts

      Craft at the Umlauf: Paper Filigree With Michael Velliquette

      Michael Velliquette’s intricate paper reliefs and sculptures manage to feel futuristic and deeply historical, the perfect mix of anthropological symbology with mechanical visuals. The delicate details seem far too complex to be merely paper, but that’s part of the beauty of Velliquette’s work. Celebrate the opening of his exhibit at the Umlauf with a lesson from the paper art master himself. Velliquette will guide participants through the process of paper manipulation, leaving them to take home a creative mandala of their very own. Get those creative juices flowing, fueled by craft cocktails, mocktails, and exploration through layers of paper filigree. – Cat McCarrey
      Thu., June 12
      Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum

    • Community

      Events

      Fraud Basics

      For me and most people with a phone, it’s commonplace to ignore texts about unpaid toll bills and emails announcing “You’ve just won a free laptop!” as scams. But with artificial intelligence changing the way scammers trick people, it’s important to get educated on fraud. At this free informational session, the AARP Fraud Watch Network explains common tactics used by scammers and how to keep your data and devices safe. As the older set are especially vulnerable to scams, learning what fraud looks like can help. – Julianna Plewes
      Thu., June 12
      Carver Branch Library

    • Film

      Special Screenings

      Killer of Sheep (1977)

      With the recent release of his missing romance, The Annihilation of Fish, and two films in pre-production, veteran filmmaker Charles Burnett is undergoing something of a revival. A major element of that newfound popularity is the recent restoration by Criterion of his debut, 1978’s Killer of Sheep. Restored, and finally with the tangle of music rights cleared, catch this masterpiece of 1970s Black cinema as it brings Italian Neorealist techniques to the streets of Burnett’s adopted home of Watts. – Richard Whittaker
      June 12, 14 & 16
      AFS Cinema

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      Visual Arts

      Lance Myers: “Frequencies in the Static Bloom”

      Lance Myers’ previous work as an animator (Space Jam, A Scanner Darkly) inherently involved movement. With this exhibition he slows things down to a complete stop. The still lifes and portraits are a study in stillness, but there’s life in every brushstroke with flowers bursting with color and figures with proportions that are almost imperceptibly exaggerated. Throw some insects into the mix and you have a gently surreal and passionate display. Just because there isn’t any action, doesn’t mean you can’t be moved. – James Renovitch
      Through July 6
      Wally Workman Gallery

    • Arts

      Theatre

      Lucky Stiff

      Resident theatre company of the Baker Center’s floral-named stage, Beyond August Productions goes zany this summer season with a rom-com musical. After Harry Witherspoon learns he’s getting big buckaroos – or pounds, as they say in the play’s setting of merry old London – following an estranged uncle’s demise, his life gets turned upside down thanks to a particularly “zany” clause requiring he escort said dead unc all the way to Monte Carlo. Failure means no money for ol’ Harry, but success involves a whole lotta hijinks including weirdos, schemes, and even true love! – James Scott
      Through June 29  
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      The Rosette

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Michael Velliquette: “The Distance Within Us”

      Slow down, stroll the gardens, enjoy a specialty cocktail, and see sculptures nestled in the green gardens at Umlauf this summer. Velliquette’s solo exhibition shows off his largest presentation of sculptures made of paper and powder-coated metal. These works invite visitors to take a moment to breathe and focus on the present moment, with an awareness of the shared human experience. “It’s about reaching inward and outward at once, and the ways that symbolic forms can guide us toward greater awareness and connection,” Velliquette said. – Sammie Seamon
      Through August 22
      Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum

    • Music

      Squirrel Flower, Free Range, Lefty Parker

      I once cried my eyes out to a Squirrel Flower record on the floor of my childhood bedroom. Planet (i), the LP responsible, combines heart-scarred folk lyrics with sticky guitar reverb, creating a noise present in a drive down the interstate with the volume all the way up. Without the proper word count to adequately describe it, the most I’ll spoil for potential concertgoers is that, whether it’s Ella Williams’ sweltering melodies or the lines of indie-folk opener Free Range, each song tugs at something primordial inside each of us. It’s best to let the overfeeling happen at Hole in the Wall rather than on your teenage-stained carpet, mascara running. – Levi Langley
      Thu., June 12, 9pm  
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      Hole in the Wall

    • Qmmunity

      Community

      Workshop + Social Hour

      Join American Institute of Architects Austin’s LGBTQIA Alliance and National Organization of Minority Architects of Central Texas (NOMA) in kicking off Pride with a lecture from mental health pro Dr. Marlon Johnson at this camping themed social.
      Thu., June 12, 7pm
      McFarland-McBee House, 3805 Red River St.
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