Don't miss the return of Courthouse Nights in Lockhart! Centered around the beautiful Caldwell County Courthouse lawn, the FREE and family-friendly live music series features an all-star lineup with Dale Watson, EZ Band, Deadeye, Rattlesnake Milk, and Simons Says. Held every third Friday of the month from April to August!
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!
Through interviews and judiciously edited film clips, this new documentary shows us how Austin became a destination for film production in the Seventies. Director Mike Blizzard and additional special guests will be in attendance. Hosted by Richard Linklater.
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club offshoot DBUK, helmed by Jay Munly as principal songwriter, presents a calmer and more literate side to the infamously raucous Denver alt.country outfit. The quartet spins intricately orchestrated and harmonized folk tales from fresh sophomore platter Songs Nine Through Sixteen. Swans guitarist Norman Westberg opens with the haunting ambiance of last year’s After Vacation.
England’s Delta Sleep swings wildly from dreamy pop textures to math rock rage via 2018’s Ghost City, with emo from Tennessee’s Bogues and Indiana’s Mylets setting the scene.
Helping Hand Home of Austin, the nonprofit that provides a residential treatment center for abused children, teams up with the newly revitalized (and even tastier) Scholz Biergarten to present this rockin' fundraising party with live music from the Rocketboys, Western Youth, Heart of the City, and more.
Evergreens: Yankee ingenue Harper arrives at an elite ballet academy just in time for all hell to break loose: mysterious deaths, maggots falling from the ceiling, and a grisly end for prolific oddball Kier. Does unspeakable evil lurk behind the walls? You betcha.
During 2018, Medearis – known to millions as The Kitchen Diva – donated several books, manuscripts, photographs, awards, and research papers to the Carver Museum. Now, they’ve been curated and presented as this new exhibition.
Enjoy drinks & snacks and an outdoor lecture on "Domestic & Foreign" with architect Hugh Jefferson Randolph. Your $3 donation this month goes to the Land Institute, whose mission is to advance agriculture practices that are good for the Earth and communities.
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.
Austin Bat Cave, a nonprofit organization that offers free creative writing programs to local youth ages 6 to 18, is holding a school supplies drive through April. If you would like to donate pencils, pens, paper, tape, composition notebooks, or any other classroom supplies, email heather@austinbatcave.org to learn how and where to drop off your items.
Please arrive to Uncle Billy's by 6:30 as the run will begin precisely at 6:45. The fall/winter route is a 5k figure eight around the Long Center. An organizer will go over the route prior to the start, and route details can be found on the website. All speeds are welcome. Stick around for a post-run beer.: Free validated parking is available in the Uncle Billy's garage. Additional parking can be found on Kinney Avenue and near the Butler Shores softball fields on Toomey Road.: For ABRC events, all beer runners run at their own risk. Please use caution and exercise good judgment as ABRC is not responsible for injury or accidents.
Signature Program: Franco Rosso’s incendiary film had its world premiere at Cannes in 1980 but went unreleased in the U.S. for “being too controversial, and likely to incite racial tension.” (It actually carries an X rating in the UK.) The narrative focuses on Blue, a young Jamaican living in Brixton.
Gray’s graphite drawings combine traditional Japanese calligraphy with Western drawing practices and aesthetic; Schmader’s abstract collages explore the connection between tactile traces of a physical environment and the historic system of landscape semiotics.