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Bullock Texas State History Museum: This Light of Ours
This show features images by activist photographers of the Civil Rights Movement, telling a visual story of the struggle against segregation, race-based disenfranchisement, and Jim Crow laws in the 1960s. These photos capture the day-to-day struggles of everyday citizens and their resolve in the face of violence and institutionalized discrimination – with more than a dozen additional images representing activism and protest in Austin's own history.Tuesdays-Sundays. Through Dec. 6 -
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Camiba Art: Embracing
Lorena Morales’ third solo exhibit with CAMIBAart Gallery arose out her experience living as an expat in Angola. These new works contemplate the relationship between color, lines, and shapes that appear and disappear, according to the changing light and depending on the position or angle of the viewer.Through Sept. 12. By appointment only -
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Carolyn Wonderland w/ A. Whitney Brown's Little Big Picture
Venmo: @Carolyn-Wonderland; PayPal.me/wonderchickenWednesdays, 8pm -
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CASA Volunteer Info Session
CASA of Travis County speaks up for children who’ve been abused or neglected by empowering the community to volunteer as advocates for them in the court system. When the state steps in to protect a child’s safety, a judge appoints a trained volunteer advocate to make independent and informed recommendations in the child’s best interest. Join the info session to learn more about becoming a volunteer advocate and how you can train online right now. There will be time for questions with staff and current volunteer advocates during the presentation.Thu., Aug. 27 & Sept. 3, 6:30-8pmOnline via Zoom -
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Child Care Provider Relief Grant Application Period Open
The Austin Child Care Provider Relief Grant provides immediate one-time financial assistance to eligible child care centers, including home providers. In partnership with the city of Austin, United Way for Greater Austin will accept applications and provide consultation and case management services to grant applicants. Join a webinar on Wed., July 22, at 9am to get more information.Open July 21 to Oct. 1 or when funding is expended, whichever is firstOnline -
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ChingonX Fire: Group Exhibit
Inspired by the Mexican American Cultural Center's annual La Mujer celebration – and by the first feminist of the New World, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz – this online group exhibit is curated by April Garcia and features womxn-identifying and nongender-specific artists whose artwork is tied to activism, feminism, cultural. and gender identity storytelling, environmental protection, and socioeconomic parity.Free. -
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Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival Online
CTDFF presents their online short film showcase and live Q&As with filmmakers available all month, and when you register you'll be among the first to get tickets for the festival in October.Through Sept. 15Online via www.txdisabilities.org -
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City of Austin "How to Help" Portal
Looking for the right way to help your community during the pandemic? Or do you have a volunteer opportunity that you want to list? Visit the city's "How to Help" portal to make a match. The portal includes ways to help from home, donation drives, and active community engagement opportunities.OngoingOnline -
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Create Away Afterschool Program
Dougherty Arts Center's afterschool program is held over Zoom so students ages 5-12 can connect with others, socialize with peers, and flex their creative skills under the guidance of arts instructors.Registration now open; spring session runs March 1-April 15 -
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Devised Shakespeare
An online production for teens created through team collaboration. Using a Shakespeare play as inspiration and the internet as backdrop, players will work together to develop and perform a new story. Exploring multiple production formats, from Zoom to podcasts to memes or Instagram stories, it will be such stuff as dreams are made on!Sept. 15-Dec. 17, Tue. & Thu., 3:30-5pm. $75/month or $15/semester.Online -
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Donate to PEAS Resiliency Gardens Program
Donations to PEAS (Partners for Education, Agriculture, and Sustainability) will go to support outdoor learning and edible education programming in the community. Choose your level of funding, from seeds to an entire garden for an Austin family.June 8-Oct. 1Online -
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Educators in Solidarity Fall UnConference
This year's theme is "Abolishing Racist Systems: Building Our Collective Capacity as Anti-Racist Educators," with keynotes from Council Member Natasha Harper-Madison; local student leader Grant E. Loveless; and Dr. Bettina Love, award-winning author of We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. Attendees will also be able to participate in learning tracks centered around restorative justice, intersectionality, Black Students Matter, allyship, policy engagement, and more.Sept. 4-12. Free.Online -
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Flamingo Cantina presents Mau Mau Chaplains
Donate to the Flamingo Cantina GoFundMe: bit.ly/2vsLmemWednesdays, 8:30pm -
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Flatbed Press: Community Under Pressure
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the members of Flatbed: Community Press have been creating as safely as possible. Now those Press members and: Flatbed staff – including Katherine Brimberry, Belinda Casey, Alex Giffen, Caragh Givens, Nell Gottlieb, Mike Hart, Kyle Hawley, Alfonso Huerta, Judith Long, Matthew Magruder, Gabrielle Miceli, Peter Nickel, and Maryellen Quarles – display the visual wonders they've been bringing into the light of the world.Through Sept. 15 -
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Flight of the Bats
The bats have returned to the 350-foot-deep cavern three hours from Austin. Evening tours of the bat emergence have begun with social distancing. Reservations required.Wed.-Sun., through Oct. 31, 7:30pm. $6-14.Devil’s Sinkhole State Natural Area, Rocksprings -
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Gender Unbound
Throughout September, Gender Unbound is hosting a virtual showcase of newly commissioned work by trans and intersex artists and weekly livestreams of trans and intersex musicians, poets, storytellers, and artist interviews. (The Chronicle's Lilli Hime reports on it here.)Through Sept. 30 -
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GOTV Phone Bank for Equality
Equality Texas will train you on phone banking, help you set up a virtual phone on your computer, and will give you a script to read – all in the name of achieving LGBTQIA equality at the polls this November.Through Sept. 30. Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30pm. Registration required.Remote -
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GrayDUCK Gallery: Everything In Tune
We're pretty much over-the-moon, tbh, about Amada Miller's series of works created from data collected by NASA’s Apollo Missions. Because we're the kind of concept-art-hatin' fiends who love concept art more than almost anything when it's done well and is redolent of research and effort and – oh, listen:"During the Apollo missions, astronauts placed seismometers on the moon and conducted experiments such as crashing spent modules onto the lunar surface. These experiments led to the discovery of moonquakes – vibrations that resonated within the moon’s core for so long that scientists described the sensation as the moon ringing like a bell."So, for this show, small fragments of real iron meteorites are suspended inside bells of handblown silicate glass, mimicking materials found on the lunar surface. "Everything In Tune" represents our moon’s natural orchestra – the handbells are instruments as much as they are objects, and each gallery visitor will be invited to activate the bells, giving sound to a moonquake. Bonus: graphite rubbings made to look like close-up images of the moon taken by astronauts in orbit, and gunpowder-scented vessels made from astronauts' descriptions after they smelled moon samples back inside the lunar lander.Through Sept. 20. Free. -
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Hanna Barakat
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
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ImprovEd Shakespeare Club
Kids age 8-12 will enjoy this playful approach to engaging with the Bard. Hourlong extremely interactive weekly virtual sessions are combined with at-home projects, such as sending sonnets to pen pals, recording selfie videos as Shakespeare characters, and performing spontaneous Shakespeare flash mob soliloquies for the trees in your backyard.Sept. 17-Dec. 17, Thursdays, 11am. $50/month or $140/semester.Online -
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Isolation Congregation w/ Dave Madden
Venmo: @dmadden82; CashApp: $DaveMadden; PayPal/Zelle: dmadden82@gmail.comWednesdays, 7pm and Sundays, 10:30am -
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Joterías Applications
Joterías is accepting application from Latinx and QPOC performers for their upcoming digital shows (peep the schedule here.)Sept. 7-17Online -
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Karen Mal & Will Taylor
Tuesdays, 7:30pm and Wednesdays, 1pm
