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!
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!
First full-length since 2015 gem Broken Bones Ballads, this month’s Sad, Fat Luck finds rapper and folksinger Ceschi Ramos delivering a potent discourse on departed friends and America’s social climate. Squadding up with Canadian producer Factor Chandelier and frequent collaborator Sammus, the Connecticut-born artist utilizes increasingly modern production while retaining woke and wordy tenets of underground hip-hop.
Theatre en Bloc presents Austin-based playwright Elizabeth Doss' newest stagework, in which four lifelong friends on a weekend getaway deal with "a night of chaos inside and severe weather outside." Directed by Jenny Lavery, featuring Kacy Samiee, Leslie McDonel, Giselle Marie Munoz, and Charlotte Gulezian.
This show, curated by Coka Treviño, features artists Blasto and Ernesto Walker exploring nature and how humans decide to interact with it. "Inspired by alchemy, technology, and numbers, Blasto focuses on earth, the visible and tangible; Walker on the invisible, immaterial and divine."
"One of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today," they say, and tonight he's gonna address an adoring audience in the Bass Concert Hall – and you could be there, citizen, totally soaking up the man-of-letters' wit and wisdom.
This NYC power trio still carries an East Coast hardcore standard as the millennium enters its second decade. More products of Warped Tour than CBGB’s Sunday Matinees, Julian Cashwan Pratt, Harlan Steed, and Noah Cohen-Corbett draw on hip-hop, noise, and sludge rather than Bad Brains or Agnostic Front. They pass through Austin on the back of their newly dropped Dog Whistle.
An online campaign from 400+1 to support Black survivors of sexual harm. #WeMustHealOurselves also seeks to inform locals about holding elected officials responsible.
Austin’s Queer Women in Leadership hosts the fourth annual awards ceremony recognizing – you guessed it – Texas’ queer women leaders (and allies). Partygoers will be joined by City Council Member Jimmy Flannigan, comedian Jami Shofner, and DJ Kimmy K.
The Austin Creative Art Center presents this exhibition from Rejina Thomas – a show of paintings, architectural embellishments, and monumental glasswork "using geometric form and color to convey meaning and expression, reflecting the personal by removing the glamor to deconstruct racial history."
The Austin chapter of the American Institute of Architects recognizes the work completed by its members at this annual celebration. This year’s awards focus on the importance of sustainable design.
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.
Entertainment industry professionals, employers, and local businesses looking to connect with entertainment professionals are invited to an evening of networking and insight from guest speaker and Sister Aimee producer David Hartstein, who will discuss strategies for getting noticed at film festivals.
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