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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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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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Cenicienta: A Bilingual Cinderella Story
Austin's Glass Half Full Theatre presents its award-winning “story within a story” using puppetry, performed in Spanish and English. Featuring Madison Palomo as Belinda, who – when she confronts her stepmother and stepsisters – learns to embrace her love of poetry and stand up for herself. This captivating bilingual Cinderella story is recommended for ages five and older.Available online through June 30. $10. -
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Northern-Southern: Baton
This is a group show by relay, begun in July of 2020 as a method of socially distancing a community in the height of the pandemic: Artists took turns alone in the space, each adding to the exhibition. Now, as it nears its close, the exhibition resembles a community in which work converses and overlaps. With Adreon Henry, Vy Ngo, Dawn Okoro, Leon Alesi, Matt Steinke, Sev Coursen, Stella Alesi, and more.Closing reception: Sat., July 24, 3-9pm -
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Pgraph, Live at the Vortex
Yes, it's the first live in-person performance (since march of 2020) for Austin's internationally acclaimed Parallelogramophonograph, the quartet of improvisers who bring spontaneity to its highest, cleverest form onstage. Recommended: Grab you a drink from the Butterfly Bar and prepare for a night of extemporaneous delights.Wed., June 30, 8:30pm. $10 and up. -
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Pride in Local Music
Austin's and Nashville's queer business chambers are joining forces once again to you bring you the second annual livestream concert celebrating the cities' respective LGBTQIA music community. Free in-person watch parties will be held at Rain on Fourth and Oilcan’s, plus a ticketed watch party at the W Hotel includes hors d'oeuvres, drinks, and lots of drawings for special prizes – including a pair of Austin FC tickets!Wed., June 30, 6pm. Livestream, free; W Hotel watch party, $50.Online & in-person -
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West Chelsea Contemporary: Icons & Vandals
It's the swanky venue's "most monumental" show yet, featuring works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ai WeiWei, Roy Lichtenstein, and a slew of other creative provocateurs who have subverted the contemporary art world throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Bonus: The closing reception features an artist talk with "The First lady of Graffiti," Lady Pink.Closing reception: Sun., July 11, 3-5pm
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A Portrait of My Mother
An artist remembers their mother, spinning a modern Mexican Cinderella tale as we follow the trials and tribulations of one woman's journey into motherhood – from her humble beginnings in the town of Laredo, Texas, to her journey to Chicago, and everything between. Written and performed by Carlo Lorenzo Garcia, directed by David R. Jarrott. Note: Now available for viewing on Vimeo.Through July 31. $5. -
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Absolute Beginning Ballet Workshop for Adults
It’s never too late for adults to learn ballet. Learn how to plié and relevé and hang out at the best barre in town! Designed for those who have never had a ballet class, this workshop teaches ballet from the very beginning.Wednesdays, June 30-July 28, 10:30am. $110 for 5 weeks. -
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Absolute Beginning Tap Dance Workshop for Adults
It's never to late to learn tap, and it's a great workout for the body and the brain.Starts Wed., June 30, 11:45am-12:45pm. $110 for five weeks. -
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ArtUs Co. Gallery: Kent Burress
Kent Burress uses oils to capture the big skies and broad vistas of Texas in a style that often pushes the boundaries between representational and abstract art.Closing reception: Sat, July 24, 5:30-6:30pm10000 Research #118 -
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Austin Cinemaker Space Reopens
Nonprofit Austin School of Film's Cinemaker Space offers a co-working space designed to fit the needs of artists, filmmakers, and creatives. Schedule a tour to see how the space could help you with your next film project.Ongoing -
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Austin Humane Society's Summer Kids Series
For a paw-some summer, register your li'l animal lover for AHS's virtual, hands-on educational sessions, including live shelter tours, dog walks, storytime with shelter pets, crafts, and dance sessions. It's all free, and supplies are provided via pickup or you can get a supply list online. Graduation is Aug. 6-7 and comes with a certificate and swag bag.June 1-Aug.7. Free.Virtual -
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Autonomies (2021)
Austin Jewish Film Festival provides access to this limited dystopian thriller series.Through July 4Online: www.austinjff.org -
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Beyond Van Gogh
This traveling spectacle of art, a multimedia exhibition currently ensconced at the COTA, uses cutting-edge projection technology to create an engaging journey into the world of Vincent Van Gogh. Repurposing the artist's dreams, his thoughts, and his words to drive the experience as a narrative, this huge installation will move you along projection-swathed walls wrapped in light, colour, and shapes that swirl, dance and refocus into flowers, cafes and landscapes. As a certain Dude might comment, "This is extremely fuckin' trippy, man." Make your reservations now, citizen, and if the price seems a bit steep, hell, you can probably tap your brother Theo for a loaner, amirite?Through Sept. 5. Daily, 11am-9pm. $37 ($24, children). -
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Beyond Van Gogh
Cutting-edge projection technology creates an engaging journey into the world of Van Gogh.June 25-Sept. 5 -
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Big Medium: Austin Studio Tour
No, it's not happening right now, citizen, but it's preparing to return this November. Big Medium's humongous socioartistic success of an annual event – the free, self-guided art adventure through dozens upon dozens of local studios and galleries, enhanced by live demos and performances – will now combine the West Austin Studio Tour and East Austin Studio Tour to provide opportunities for artists all over Austin to connect and for the public to experience art safely both in person and virtually. Note: The tour boundaries have been extended to include all 10 districts of Austin for in-person participants, plus a 15-mile radius from the Capitol for virtual participants. And if you're an artist who wants to be part of this action: Applications are being accepted through July 19.Apply through July 19 -
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Cenote Open Mic
Got a song or two, a story to tell, or a joke you want to try on someone other than your S.O.? Cenote's Black Lodge is the perfect place to hop on the mic, and you might just discover the next big thing. Call ahead to confirm it's still on before heading out.Wednesdays, 6-8:45pm; sign up starts at 5:45 -
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Cloud Tree Gallery: Splitting an Order
Here's a new solo exhibition of paintings by Hannah Lee. "Lee's work is figurative with a limited pallet and may get in your head. She creates striking portraiture that conjures dream states, a fuzzy reality, and a familiar ambiguity."Through July 18 -
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Clue (1985)
The special menu for the Dinner Theatre screenings includes items inspired by quotes from the film, like the Col. Mustard: mac & cheese topped with chili, grilled onions, sausage, and melted cheddar ("That's what we call overkill").Wed., June 30, 9:15pm -
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Colony Park Pool Community Meeting
A design team showcases the top concept for the Colony Park aquatic facility.Wed., June 30, 5:30-7pmFacebook Live -
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Conspirare: (un)Hidden Music
Here's a curated program of heart-opening music, featuring a solo performance by Conspirare’s own Craig Hella Johnson, giving you the lowdown on the acclaimed company's musical mission.Streaming through July 15. Donations accepted. -
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DAC: Luminous Mo:ments and River Story
In these new exhibitions at the Dougherty Arts Center, Sarah Luna's "Luminous Mo:ments" explores the inner life of ordinary materials as revealed through the photographic process and Michelle Gardella's "River Story" is an ongoing portrait series of women that spans twelve years and multiple rivers across the United States.Through Aug. 28. Mon.-Fri., 11am-5pm; Sat., 11am-3pm -
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Davis Gallery: Introspection: Translating Beauty
Charles Heppner’s solo show here is the second congregation of the multiple expressions in his distinct visual canon. Beginning in 2015 at the Gowanus Loft Gallery in Brooklyn, this iteration of more than 50 works brings together a range of media in which he is fluent.Through July 10
