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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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Laundry & Bourbon with Lonestar
Laundry and Bourbon with Lonestar, two companion one act plays set in backyards of a small Texas town. Three ladies come together to talk about their life's ups and downs. Lonestar follows the life of three small town boys and the events that have shaped them. Both shows give us highs & lows with humor spread around, for good measure.Apr. 19-May 5Navasota Theatre Alliance
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Big Medium: Contemplación 1
Mónica Vega works in installations that mix natural and artificial light, showing how light interacts with all materials and matter, how light travels through space and crashes with surfaces, and how these materials reflect, contain, and mold light.Thu.-Sat., April 14-16, noon-6pm -
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Casa de Luz: Tune In to Green
Diorama Room Arts presents a live screening of Tune in to Green, featuring 14 micro-short films and sound pieces by experimental documentary makers from around the globe. Spring themes are presented in 2D and 3D animation, 16mm film, video with effects, dance, and performance.Sat., April 16, 7:30pm. $10. -
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Community Easter Egg Hunt
Kids can hunt for the thousands of eggs hidden around the HTU campus, which include a $500 scholarship prize egg, prize eggs for school supplies and gift certificates, eggs with candy and coins, and filled baskets. The day starts in the Mary E. Branch Gymnasium for a brief storytime, then the hunt begins. Rain date: Mon., April 18, 4pm.Sat., April 16, 10am. Free. -
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DJ Questlove, DJ Kay Cali [garage]
On the back of his epic Academy Award and Grammy wins for Summer of Soul, a must-see documentary about the star-studded 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is back in Austin, whirling his eclectic tastes on the ones and twos. The Roots drummer has become an elite, highly sought-after live DJ, partly out of his encyclopedic knowledge of music from the Beatles to Parliament-Funkadelic to Def Jam releases between 1985 and 1990. Warming up for the Tonight Show bandleader, Austin’s own DJ Kay Cali will also be in the mix.Sat., April 16, 10:30pm -
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Ivester Contemporary: The Deconstructed Pulse
This is an exhibition of works by Sarah Sudhoff that explores the spectrum of female arousal through animations, images, and sound sculptures derived from data collected via the Lioness vibrator, a unique research-oriented medical device that digitally documents changes in female physiology, tracking vaginal and anal contractions through sexual stimulation – beginning with initial changes in the nervous system, then up to and including orgasm. Bonus: Sudhoff presents a live performance in which devices created by Dr. Nicole Prause will document the artist’s arousal as prompted by engagement with and stimulation by a live audience.Sat., April 16, 4:30-5:30pm -
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Life of Brian (1979)
The Monty Python crew takes on organized religion in this irreverent comedy.Sat., April 16, 2:05pm -
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Lifted
"In a dystopian near-future, birds have returned from their recent extinction to carry a teenage boy off into the sky, leaving his father, girlfriend and twin brother searching for answers." This Charlie Thurston play is directed by Elizabeth V. Newman and features James Lindsley, Madison Palomo, and J. Kevin Smith for Filigree Theatre.Through April 17. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $32.906 Koerner -
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LINEUP CHANGE: Matthew Logan Vasquez (Mikaela Davis & Southern Star, cancelled), A. Sinclair
Update: Mikaela Davis and her band had to cancel at the last minute. She'll be replaced by Matthew Logan Vasquez.: More than just southern South Austin or “the Cabela’s part” of I-35, Buda’s got a rustic little Main Street, anchored by an old limestone building built way back in 1898. That structure now houses Zoi Market, a healthy grocery and natural pharmacy with an adjoining performance space – both owned by UtopiaFest organizers Travis and Noa Sutherland. The listening room’s provided a new locale for Austin bands and touring artists outside Austin’s direct orbit. Saturday’s concert welcomes Rochester, N.Y., native Mikaela Davis – whose elegant indie rock songcraft and captivating harp playing have cemented her as a Utopia favorite. A. Sinclair, expanding the aperture of life through emotionally resonant songs, begins proceedings.Sat., April 16, 7pm -
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Moontower Comedy Festival
If the proverbial 800-pound gorilla were weaponized, this would be its manifestation as living embodiment of the nation's comedy-industrial complex – now smack in the center of your own Downtown. Reigning supreme in the scene with more laughter than the King in Yellow has lack of masks, this annual conflagration brings the biggest and best names from all over, adds a happy helping of equally wise locals, and sets 'em onstage all over town (with the venerable Paramount as the epicenter) for your giggling diversion from humanity's headlong plummet toward the grave. More than 150 comics in more than ten venues for more than ten days – and who the hell's gonna survive the afterparties with less than a Krakatoa in their morning-after skull? We've got a plethora of solid coverage for you right here, but – do check the festival website for details.April 13-24. $99 and up. -
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Ney Day
To commemorate Elisabet Ney and her legacy, the museum hosts an event celebrating women in the arts, sciences, and civic culture. There will be a ton of artist-led projects, demonstrations, booths, and music by Chulita Vinyl Club.Sat., April 16, noon-4pm. Free. -
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Pussy Control: The Resurrection
This past Valentine’s Day, Sky Candy painted their studio purple and celebrated His Royal Badness, Prince, with an erotic and entertaining aerial and burlesque show. And now they're doing it again, with an evening of some of the sexiest performers in Austin leaving it all on the stage for your viewing pleasure in "an orgasmic explosion of talent."Sat., April 16, 8pm. $20-120. -
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Saba, femdot., Amindi
West Side Chicago emcee/producer who ended a four-year solo break with February LP Few Good Things.Sat., April 16, 8pm -
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Selfie! The Musical
This new musical by Rembert Block is equally whimsical and profound as its iconic characters – Ugly Selfie Girl, Dude Face, Chasing Sunsets – grapple with identity, image, and narcissism in our hyped-up times. Directed by Bonnie Cullum for the Vortex and Ethos, the show features live music by Brooklyn-based band Rembert and the Basic Goodness.Through April 17. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 6pm. $15-35. -
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Out of Town
Sherwood Forest Faire
Come to the country and be prepared to be wowed by the shows, jousting, artisans, and music.Weekends, March 5-April 24McDade -
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Stash Bash
A groovy day with Texas Roller Derby, the infamous chronic of IPAs (Stash), delicious food, and live music, plus prize raffles benefiting Out Youth.Sat., April 16, 3-8pm -
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The Plastic Bag Store
Texas Performing Arts presents this local installation – at the Blue Genie space on Airport, no less – of Robin Frohardt's brilliant and immersive tribute to the vulgar overdoity of plastic waste that humans are subjecting themselves and the rest of our planet to. Listen: "Visit a grocery store where the shelves are stocked with thousands of original, hand-sculpted items — produce and meat, dry goods and toiletries, cakes and sushi rolls — all made from discarded, single-use plastics in an endless cacophony of packaging. When you visit, the store transforms into a cinema for a film in which inventive puppetry, shadow play, and intricate handmade sets tell the darkly comedic, sometimes tender story of how the overabundance of plastic waste we leave behind might be misinterpreted by future generations." Sensationally graphic yet more than just spectacle, this thing's got philosophical teeth as sharp as the fangs we're sinking deep into our own carotid. (Note: Some seatings will be free, via Fusebox Festival.)Through April 17. Sat., 11am, 1pm, 6pm, 8pm; Sun., 11am, 1pm, 4pm; Wed.-Fri., 4pm, 6pm, 8pm. $15-25. -
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Wayne Wonder, Famous Squad, Soulfiya
Jamaican reggae/hip-hop artist best known for 2003 smash “No Letting Go.”Sat., April 16, 9pm -
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee’s masterwork has been shocking audiences since it premiered on Broadway in 1962. Produced here by City Theatre, with direction by Karen Sneed and featuring Cal Kraines, Chiara McCarty, Meredith O’Brien, and Rick Smith.Through May 1. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 3pm. $15-25. -
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Words & Wine: Poetry, Music, and Fashion 4.16
Featuring Shawn Williams from Oakland, CA; J Martinez from Newark, NJ; and Lume from Austin. Music by DJ Melissa Bellz + Himshawty.Sat., April 16, 7:30pm. $27.50. -
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Easter Dining
Yard Bar: Easter Bassets
Yes, you read that right. Bring your furry friends up to Yard Bar for their Easter Bassets egg hunt and photo fun event. Let your dog sniff out their very own Easter egg filled with prizes – like treats, memberships, and more – from the folks at Happy Basset and Tomlinson's. Spring-themed photo props will be provided for peak bunny-ear cuteness. Basset Hounds encouraged but not required to join in on the fun (there will also be a Basset Hound meetup in the off-leash park).Sat., April 16, 2-5pm. $9.
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All-Ages Virtual Storytime
Featuring stories, songs, finger plays, rhymes, and other extension activities. Registration required.Saturdays, 10:30amVirtual -
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Atelier Beauté Chanel Pop-Up
Stop in this fragrance and beauty workshop to try products and get skilled guidance.March 11-April 24. Free.1009 S. Congress
