Join the annual Park(ing) Day celebration – where folks transform parkings space into temporary "parklets" to promotes public conversation on the need for public, open spaces in urban areas. Applications to make your own mini park are due Sept. 17. Email for additional information.
Patterns and textures, textures and patterns, and depth beyond the static image: This new show at Atelier 1205 features work by Austin artists Rebecca Bennett, Lucy MacQueen, and Travis Seeger.
Boat dock owners are now required to properly address and register their dock with the city. Now through Sept. 30, owners can take advantage of the current grace period as there's no cost to register at this time.
The Japanese artist makes her Texas debut with a large-scale multimedia exhibition that evokes a pool with flowers falling into it that complements the center’s water garden.
Seventy years after the luxury liner sank in the Atlantic more than 150 items from the wreck were brought up from the ocean floor and brought together for this fascinating show. Timed tickets are required.
Back to School Nites: This beloved Eighties film deals entertainingly with children's eternal question: If my parents had never met, where would that leave me?
Salvage Vanguard Theatre presents this workshop production of the new Adrienne Dawes play inspired by a series of casta paintings depicting different racial mixtures and arranged according to a hierarchy defined by Spanish elites. Directed by Jenny Larson, starring KhattieQ, and featuring puppets by Julia Smith and music by Graham Reynolds.
Aug. 24-25. Fri., 7:30pm; Sat., 4 & 7:30pm. $5-15.
Here's the inaugural show for this new gallery within the Flatbed complex, a group exhibition featuring original art from friends who met on social media or now mainly communicate through the digital world instead of IRL. Featured artists: Rohitash Rao, Elizabeth Decker, Anthony Hurd, Whitney Tureztzky, Martin Lewis, and Chad Rea.
This exhibition is enhanced with artifacts providing historical context for the paintings, rich with the unbroken connection the Comanche people have with their roots. Also, Rodeo: The Exhibition. Boy howdy, it's the history of the Texas rodeo – vibrant, interactive, and fully documented in this fine new show.
Learn how the new composting carts work, what can be composted, and best practices for food scrap collection. Free kitchen collectors and compostable bags, while supplies last.
What is this? This is "a gathering place. An imagined living room – at the bottom of the ocean – a home, where all there is is Love." This is a new performance and installation from Sharon Bridgforth, featuring Sonja Perryman, Walter Kitundu, and Florinda Bryant, with songs in the tradition of Black spirituals, with oracle readings, with "everyday objects that shapeshift … as we call the ancestors forward, and celebrate." And Robert Faires has a review of the show right here.
Through Aug. 25. Wed.-Sat., 7pm; Sun., 2pm. Free, but RSVP.
Rolling Roadshow: Party at the Moon Tower: Linklater's 1976-set movie is one of the smartest and funniest coming-of-age films ever. This special event, featuring the director as well as some cast members, benefits Austin Film Society and Austin Parks Foundation.
The city's Development Services Department wants your input on proposed changes to the demolition permit process. Want to add your thoughts, but can't attend? Submit them online from Aug. 18 to Sept. 2.
Sat., Aug. 18, 1-3pm; submit online feedback by Sept. 2