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Kadampa Meditation Center Austin
This evening talk offers a special visit with renowned Buddhist teacher and NKT-IKBU Deputy Spiritual Director Gen-la Kelsang Jampa. Gen-la will share Buddhist advice on developing our love as a way to protect our self from suffering and learn to become truly happy. Our life then becomes immensely meaningful in benefiting others with our mind of unconditional love.Fri. May 3, 7pm-8:30pmVuka North -
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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 16-19Palmer Events Center
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Dance
Sacred Earth Stories
This original performance is choreographed by Austin Dance India's Anuradha Naimpally. It's a show that connects ancient Greek, Indian, and Peruvian mythologies to current issues of sustainability and global climate change and features Bharata Natyam, a traditional style of Indian dance, an original score of live music, and spoken word. See our feature article right here.June 29-30. Sat., 7pm; Sun., 2pm. $15-20. -
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Theatre
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen's classic drama about the unravelling of a family is directed by Norman Blumensaadt for Different Stages, featuring Catherine Williams as Nora and Nate Dunaway as her husband.Through July 13. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm. $15-30. -
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Visual Arts
Link & Pin Gallery: Creative Currents
Leslie Kell, Chalda Maloff, and Paul McGuire share a long friendship and partnership. With “Creative Currents,” these three artists apply contemporary media to the topic of water, rendering depictions of the life-giving substance in so many of its glorious forms and functions.Through July 18. free. -
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Nightlife & Parties
50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising
Honor several nights to remember in the fight for LGBTQ rights with a night you'll never forget. Dress to impress in yer fave queer lewks and then putcher hands together for the Austin Gears, Weird City Sisters, UCA, and your sweet performers Chique Fil-Atio, Bulimianne Rhapsody, Miss Kitty Litter ATX, Jenna Von Scrum, Empress XXV Hexa Dulce, and Emperor XXV Timothy Rollin Stone. They're all taking the stage to say a grand thank you to Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and all the other activists who got us to where we are!Sat., June 29, 9pm. Free. -
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Comedy
Aaron Brooks
This talented Midwesterner's been making our lucky town laugh for a while now, and this weekend he and his pals are totally taking over the Velv for two nights of the sort of yarnspinning humor that's slayed at festivals and nightclubs across the country.June 28-29. Fri., 9pm; Sat., 9 & 11pm. $10. -
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Bill Leissner: Austin Icons of the Eighties
Well, that Leissner, he's something of an icon himself, and his camera has captured so many of the great and gritty of this teeming city, and now here's his new book featuring photos of what was weird and wonderful in Austin when Les Amis was still around.Sat., June 29, 1:30-4pm -
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Billy Harvey (album release)
Released in 2004, Billy Harvey’s Pie now remasters onto vinyl. “Better than everybody else,” says Bob Schneider, and indeed, the Illinois native and longtime Austinite nabbed an International Songwriters Award for “Frozen Through” on said sophomore album. The track pointed the way for his mercurial indie rock on existential reckoner The Everlasting War (2009) and pop-leaned Elephants in the Room (2017).Sat., June 29, 9pm -
Film
Special Screenings
Bloodlust (1961)
Bat City Cinema: Bat City Cinema is back with a rare 16mm print of 1961's horror flick Bloodlust. Bring your own chair, and free beer while supplies last.Sat., June 29, 11:45pm. Free. -
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Chris Travis, Tripnotix, Lepht, RAM [control room]
Founded as funky Eighties pop, L.A.’s Harriett Brown bounces R&B anchored in dark, slinky electronics. The multi-instrumentalist’s precisely restrained production slicks up danceable sophomore Mall of Fortune, undeniable behind the trippy “Bag Away” and crooning “Man.” Classically-trained local Roddrinskee Johnson supports as hard-edged pop project Drint, preceded by Austin native Torre Blake’s gently unfolding R&B.Sat., June 29, 9pm -
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Special Screenings
Community First, A Home for the Homeless (2019)
Community Cinema: Watch the doc about Mobile Loaves & Fishes' local supportive housing neighborhood at the Village itself and join Blaylock for a post-screening Q&A.Sat., June 29, 8pm. Free. -
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Dale Yeah! Dick Dale tribute w/ the Hungry Onions, Nematoads, Los SuperAvengers, the Boss Jaguars, the Baffles
Surf’s Up: Hungry Onions, Nematoads, Los SuperAvengers, Boss Jaguars, Baffles, etc.Sat., June 29, 6pm -
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Dance
Dancestry Anew
Shay Ishii Dance Company presents the fifth anniversary of this celebration of artistic heritage and historic dance, featuring an array of reconstructions, restagings, and reimaginings that elaborate on the masterworks of modern dance pioneers Loïe Fuller, Isadora Duncan, and Erick Hawkins with contemporary technology and media.June 28-29. Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm. $12-20. -
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Comedy
Daniel Sloss: Now
Aye, that Sloss is in town from Scotland to 1) blow you away with his celebrated comedy stylings and 2) tape a new special at the Paramount. We mean, he'll be doing both in that fancy theatre Downtown for two shows tonight, so grab those tickets while you can.Sat., June 29, 7 & 9:30pm. $27.50-37.50. -
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Theatre
Death Tax
Lucas Hnath's new and exceedingly dark comedy is directed by Ken Webster for Hyde Park Theatre and stars Chase Brewer, Lana Dieterich, Sarah Chong Harmer, and Web Jerome. (And the Chronicle's Elizabeth Cobbe reviewed the show right here.)Through July 27. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $24-28 (pay what you can, Thursdays). -
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Arts & Culture
Fat Bottom Cabaret & The Midnight Menagerie: YAAASS! A Pride Celebration
It's not Pride without a little shimmy shimmy. Nikki DaVaughn emcees the night with Aurora Hart, Chola Magnolia, Jasper St James, Lady Lola LeStrange, Maxxy Radd, and Zaftigg von BonBon on stage giving you everything that Pride month gave 'em. And a healthy dose of queerlesque and unapologetic curvrageousness.Sat., June 29, 8:30pm. $10-20. -
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Visual Arts
grayDUCK Gallery: Expanded Nomenclature
Mathieu Grenier's work focuses on the modes of capture and presentation of the image, his elegantly sparse aesthetic reflecting an understanding of the photographic medium and its relevance in contemporary culture.Through July 14 -
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Ike Stubblefield Trio feat. Bernard Purdie & Grant Green Jr., Bernard Purdie drum clinic (2:00)
One of the most prolific drummers the world has ever known, Bernard “Pretty” Purdie will share secrets of his signature shuffle in a daytime clinic, then join organist Ike Stubblefield and guitarist Grant Green Jr. – son of the Blue Note soul-jazz giant – in a trio later that evening.: “Trios with organ players, I was doing that by the time I was 12,” declares Purdie from his home in New Jersey. “There isn’t an organ player out there I haven’t played with, including Jimmy Smith and Jimmy McGriff. It’s one of the best formats because everyone has to be aware of each other. There’s no running away. It’s a combination that works because we’re all listening to one another, and everybody has a part.”: The human metronome, who celebrated his 80th birthday this month, served as music director for Aretha Franklin 1970-75, a period that includes her live gospel-soul masterpiece, Amazing Grace.: “It’s still one of the most wonderful performances by anybody because this lady … ooooooh, she sang. It’s spiritual, it’s gospel, it’s funk, it’s R&B, it’s pop. It’s got every ingredient. It’s got the spirit!: “She preached in rehearsal. Not just normal soul preaching, she preached! I’ll never forget it. I know her father was a preacher, but he did nothing compared to what she did in rehearsal. There wasn’t a dry eye in that church, and this was just at rehearsal!”: Purdie’s list of collaborators is endless and peerless: Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Louis Armstrong, James Brown, Bob Marley, Dizzy Gillespie, Donny Hathaway, Steely Dan, et al.: “I don’t try to force artists to be like other artists. That’s been the secret of my success all these years.”Sat., June 29 -
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Killer Queen
UK Queen tribute (b.1993) and local Queen tribute afterparty (b.2007).Sat., June 29, 8pm -
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Visual Arts
MACC: Resistance: Origin and Gender In the Zapatista Movement
This is an exhibition of images, never publicly displayed before, by photojournalist Paula Ramírez.Through July 27 -
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Mother Falcon Music Lab student concert
Session No. 2 of Create Your Own World stokes local indie classicism.Sat., June 29, noon -
Film
Special Screenings
Paris Is Burning (1991)
Newly Restored: Digitally remastered and re-released for Pride Month, Paris Is Burning paints a portrait of New York City's ballroom culture in the Eighties and the queer and transgender people of color communities at its core.Sat., June 29, 4pm -
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Pataphysics (album release)
Nearly two decades into Pat Healy’s output of breakneck, absurdist synth-punk, the third LP from his quartet Pataphysics drops Friday. The Future of Synth Rock yields 29 tracks of whirring, headbanging, Eighties nerviness, following the locals’ Computer Chair EP from earlier this year, which jolted 10 songs onto a 7-inch record. Free show and beer runs 5-6pm, no openers.Sat., June 29, 5pm -
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Visual Arts
Prizer Arts & Letters: Global Housewarming
The Homo Photo Club is a small collective of lesbians in Austin who take analogue photos. "Why film? Because we are lesbians and we love processing." (Note: Bwa!) This fourth annual exhibition features the photography of Gretchen Phillips, Deb Norris, and Beth Schindler.Closing reception: Sat., June 29, 6-8pm -
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Secrets of Earth Party
This is a one-night-only immersive art experience presented by Raw Paw's Chris Dock, featuring artwork from the man's first book, Secrets of Earth: Red Glass Sun. There will be secrets, mind games, free drinks, party surprises, and live music by Monté of Hikes, Eyelid Kid, SOBBRS, Corduroi, and Angie.Sat., June 29, 7pm-12mid -
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Dance
The Austin Belly Dance Convention
Shake your raqs sharqi shanks over to the Holiday Inn Midtown for this year's iteration of the annual three-day event of spectacular performances and live shows from world-renowned belly dance stars and musicians, master-class dance instruction, and unique vendors from the international and Texas Middle Eastern dance community.June 28-30. Fri., noon-11pm; Sat., 8am-10pm; Sun., 8am-3pm. $20-300. -
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Visual Arts
Wally Workman Gallery: Miscellanea
As good as this group show is – and it's damned good, to be sure, featuring gorgeous contemporary still lifes by MaryBeth Karaus, Scott Kiche, and James Andrew Smith – don't forget that there are two stories to this Westside gallery and you don't want to miss the treasures upstairs.Through July 27 -
Qmmunity
Nightlife & Parties
World Pride Party
One of our most beloved gay bars is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots with an epic party of gay anthems by DJ Dallas Downs. Can't make it to World Pride in NYC? Never you mind, it's right here in Austin too!Sat., June 29, 9pm -
Film
Special Screenings
1900 (1976)
Essential Cinema: Bertolucci's Novecento: Set on a vast farm owned by the landlord Berlinghieri family and tilled by the peasant Dalcò family, Bertolucci's epic spans the period between the death of Verdi in 1900 and the death of Mussolini in 1945, following the lives and rivalries of two men (De Niro and Depardieu)Sat., June 29, 1:30pm -
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Nightlife & Parties
50 Shades
Join the United Court of Austin and The Central Texas Empire for a nice, naughty show that raises cash to help the qmmunity. Grill food available for purchase.Sat., June 29, 6pm -
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Arts & Culture
90s Divas Drag Brunch
Join Vylette Ward and some hawt queens for a drag tribute to all things Nineties. Two shows: 11am inside, noon outside.Sat., June 29, 10:30am
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