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The author presents her epistolary (and then some) debut novel of romance-after-loss, in conversation with Austin's own Lucas Schaefer.

Yeah, well – so much for Spider House, right? But you know this new Speakeasy engagement is gonna fuel the seventh-anniversary comedy fires of Shit's Golden until they're burning like – oh, fuck a simile, just come and see Matt Bearden, Chris Cubas, Mike MacRae, Sahana Srinivasan, Lea’h Sampson, and the McCuewans rocking the rafters of laughter 'til the roof caves in on hosts Chris Tellez and Pat Dean.

This show unites the work of Austin art educators Kiley Grantges and Jennifer Schroeder. Grantges elevates drinking straws and office copy paper into bas-relief arrays; Schroeder reconstitutes the exuberant mess resulting from her young students’ art explorations into paper mosaics.

Salvage Vanguard Theater is holding auditions for this new play by Adrienne Dawes, inspired by a series of casta paintings by Miguel Cabrera, to be presented in November. They need actors to join the ensemble performances. Female: AfroLatina/x, mid20s-40s, bilingual or Spanish-speaking skills preferred. Male: Latino/x, AfroLatino/x, mixed-race, 20s+, bilingual or Spanish-speaking skills preferred. Note: Some roles require singing; all actors will be compensated. Email director Jenny Larson for appointments.

In this course, poet Sean Petrie of Austin’s Typewriter Rodeo leads you through the poetry creation process – covering how to start a poem, offering “tricks” for adding rhyme, rhythm, and metaphor, embracing the power of mistakes, and deciding where to end.

This is a national call for visual art by veterans and their family members, to be on exhibit during the Austin Veteran Arts Festival that will run from Oct. 18-Nov. 17.

Note the emphasis: not Princess Power, but Princess Power. Which is to say, here's a show with more than 20 artists paying tribute to a diverse selection of pop-culture princess characters, via limited-edition prints and original artwork.

Here's a new and detailed look at the history of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain and America, showing how it transformed the homes and lives of ordinary people and how it continues to influence modern design.

This class will involve generative writing prompts, short reading assignments, and the how-to’s of writing erotic literature, taught by Bridget Brewer – a writer who paid her electricity bill by ghostwriting paranormal and dystopian erotic fiction for a decade.

Here's an original exhibition featuring aerial images captured by photographer Jay B. Sauceda during a six-day flying journey around the state. This show highlights the beauty of Texas borderlands and explores the process of capturing the images.

This is both a dynamic retrospective spanning 30 years of photographs and sculptures by Janine Antoni and a solo dance performance by the artist developed collaboratively with pioneering dancer and choreographer Anna Halprin. Antoni performs 15 times throughout the exhibition for an intimate audience, exploring the materiality of brown paper and responding to her own artwork within the gallery. (Click here for schedule.) On view during museum hours, the artist and art handlers will pack, unpack, and reinstall the work, before and after performances.

Here's the 15th annual exhibition at Austin City Hall, presenting a wide array of painting, sculpture, drawing, and other media by 113 local artists. This year, the exhibition includes a special selection of photographs: The Bold Beauty Project of Texas, featuring images of Texas women with disabilities taken by photographers from across the state.