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  • Laundry & Bourbon with Lonestar

    Laundry and Bourbon with Lonestar, two companion one act plays set in backyards of a small Texas town. Three ladies come together to talk about their life's ups and downs. Lonestar follows the life of three small town boys and the events that have shaped them. Both shows give us highs & lows with humor spread around, for good measure.
    Apr. 19-May 5  
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    Navasota Theatre Alliance

  • 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 16-19  
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    Palmer Events Center
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  • Film

    Special Screenings

    A Fistful of Tango

    A comedic reimagining of 1920 silent Western "The Toll Gate" with live musical accompaniment, preceded by tango lessons and followed by a milonga, presented in English and Spanish.
    Thu., Sept. 22, 6pm  
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    Draylen Mason Studio

  • Arts

    Dance

    Blue Lapis Light: Belonging

    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.
    Through Sept. 24. Thu.-Sat., 8:15pm. $25-60.  
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    Seaholm Power Plant

  • Community

    Events

    Come Together for Texas

    Join Austin Motel for an evening of live music, voter registration, and fundraising with Austin-based social impact company Waking Giants. Along with registering to vote with the Texas Playboys Baseball Club, locals can purchase a “hands off our rights” tote, tee, or yard sign with all proceeds going to the Annie’s List Training & Engagement Fund.
    Thu., Sept. 22, 7-9pm. Free.  
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    Austin Motel

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    Games Y'all

    Meet in the cafetorium at the former Baker School to play games, hang out, and meet friends. Plus, Mighty Coconut team members will offer one-on-one mentoring, perfect for developers curious about AR/VR, animation, or self-distribution.
    Thu., Sept. 22, 7-10pm  
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    Baker Center

  • Food

    Food Events

    Hotel Granduca: Trinitas Cellars Long Table Dinner

    Mmmmm, those Granduca Long Table dinners! They happen about once a month; they're hosted in one of the hotel's elegant dining rooms; and this latest iteration features a multicourse meal of excellent fare from Ristorante Visconti's chef Tommy Suddeth, wine pairings from Trinitas Cellars, and live music. You don't always want to deal with Downtown traffic, right? This posh palace is right off the Capitol of Texas Highway.
    Thu., Sept. 22, 5:30pm. $95.  
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    Hotel Viata

  • Arts

    Books

    Jim Trainer: Not a Book Release

    That's right, citizen, Jim Trainer will not be releasing his eighth collection of poetry, Stride, at this performance-powered event. Copies of the book will be available, however, along with a letterpressed, limited-edition broadside of Trainer's poem “RECURRENT.” And the man's exhortations will be added to by such compelling worthies as Joe Brundidge, Spencer Mirabal, and Tiffany Dansby.
    Thu., Sept. 22, 7pm. $15-20.  
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    The Dead Confederate, 709 Rio Grande

  • Arts

    Visual Arts

    LBJ Library: Hope After Dark

    Revel in a night of art, music, and community as Mark Smith’s The Hope Suite, a series of 44 collages inspired by the theme of global unity, is projected in the LBJ Presidential Library's Great Hall.
    Thu., Sept. 22, 6pm. Free.  
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    LBJ Library & Museum

  • Arts

    Theatre

    Manifest Minifest Short Play Festival

    Strengthening their mission to showcase new and diverse works, New Manifest Theatre Company presents the fourth annual Manifest Minifest short play festival, featuring staged readings of originals plays by Raul Garza, Ava Love Hanna, Baylee Shlichtman, and Kris Thompson – and talkback discussions with the playwrights following each performance.
    Thu.-Sat., Sept. 22-24, 8pm. $5.
    Ground Floor Theatre

  • Film

    Special Screenings

    Selena (1997)

    Special Event: Presented with Gallos Unidos, the screening is preceded by a mixer with Chulita Vinyl Club and followed by a discussion with authors and professors Charles Ramírez Berg and Mary Beltrán.
    Thu., Sept. 22, 7pm  
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    AFS Cinema

  • Music

    Spray Paint, Screensaver (Austin), Michael C. Sharp

    Since drummer Chris Stephenson moved to Melbourne in 2017, Austin post-punks Spray Paint performed all of five shows, estimates lone local member George Dishner. “5ish,” texts the film production veteran. Co-frontman Cory Plump lives in NYC, where he runs venue/bar Tubby’s. The homegrown trio harks back to the progressive weirdness of Butthole Surfers with an abrasive unconventionality reminiscent of the Fall. How’s that look a decade later for Dishner? “It’s slowed quite a bit,” admits the singer-guitarist once locally infamous for performing in his briefs and a donkey mask. Boasting a dozen LPs, EPs, cassettes, live albums, Spray Paint worked on new material pandemically. Set list for these two shows? Dry as Texas summer, Dishner offers, “It’s gonna be all Spray Paint songs.”
    Thu., Sept. 22, 10pm. $10 cover.
    Chess Club

  • Community

    Events

    Texas Tribune Festival

    A multiday celebration of big, bold ideas about politics, public policy, and news – all taking place just steps away from the Texas Capitol. Speakers and panelists include political candidates and officeholders, journalists, and nonprofit leaders, from local officials to nationally known names.
    Sept. 22-24. $269.  
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    Downtown Austin

  • Arts

    Theatre

    The Jigglewatts: Metamorphosis

    Yes, it's those fabulous Jigglewatts and their bodacious burlesquery, back to brighten the Spider House Ballroom stage with a show that celebrates the autumnal equinox and the changing of the seasons. Ruby Lamb, Something Blue, Alexander the Great, Selma Bawdy, Anastasia Arsenic, Amelie Ahmose, Azucar, and Zsa Zsa Morte will bring the shimmer to the ceremony and, oooh, who knows which articles of clothing will fall like so many latter-day leaves from those lovely limbs?
    Thu., Sept. 22, 8pm. $20-140.  
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    Spider House Ballroom

  • Arts

    Theatre

    The Virgin Trial

    Playwright Kate Hennig explores the contemporary themes of victim shaming, sexual consent, and the extraordinary ability of girls becoming women as she reimagines the scandalous and little-known story of fifteen-year-old Elizabeth the First before she was Queen. Directed by Michael Cooper for the Alchemy Theatre.
    Through Sept. 24. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $25 and up.  
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    130 N. Pedernales St. #318

  • Food

    Food Events

    The WFF: Wine 101

    The Wine & Food Foundation has teamed up with three local chefs to offer a delicious five-course meal and class on food and wine pairing – with sommelier Jaime Chozet, chef Natalie Gazaui, and chef Alma Alcocer-Thomas from Austin favorite El Alma Cafe. You'll drink, you'll eat, you'll learn.
    Thu., Sept. 22, 6-9:30pm. $110.  
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  • Arts

    Dance

    Ventana Ballet: Night Birds

    The Cathedral and Ventana Ballet flock together again for the immersive presentation of this avian-themed program featuring six dancers, three cellists, and vibrant art from the atxGALS collective. Bonus: a complimentary bar experience that offers bird-themed cocktails.
    Thu.-Fri., Sept. 22-23, 6 & 9pm. $45-250.
    The Cathedral
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