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!
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.
Austin Chamber Music Center and Austin Shakespeare present a blend of music with prose in their third annual collaboration, setting live chamber music to a costumed reading of scenes from this Shakespeare favorite.
Mapping doom from Birmingham to Seattle, Indianapolis punishers Apostle of Solitude took four years between LPs and returned positively biblical. “Fourth book of the scripture, From Gold to Ash pounds out pure Old Testament – unrelenting, unforgiving, easily the heaviest element in their catalog – but buoyantly so. The lift is their gift,” opined Decibel. Riding shotgun are Pennsylvania equivalent Pale Divine.
Catch Carry Illinois for their tour homecoming show! It's a night of women-fronted bands and badass beats. Want more Carry Illinois? Check out our interview with Lizzy Lehman, lead singer of lo-fi, indie-pop band, here.
Airing out May EP Work in Progress, local indie-pop quintet Carry Illinois returns from a short romp around the Western states. The earnest, uplifting capture delves into mental health and self-acceptance via singer Lizzy Lehman’s poetic verse and synth-dipped instrumentals. DD Dagger, multifaceted project of artist Allyson Lipkin, adds to the all fem-fronted lineup, touting latest lounge-y collab “Slipped Into Sin.” Twee pop trio Stretch Panic and fuzzy grit-rockers Cat Jaguar close.
The Love Witch director hosts a special screening of the 1933 film Female by Casablanca director Michael Curtiz. She'll also show several of her own short films.
Sun., July 22, 5:30-7:30pm. $40 (badge), limited individual tickets available.
Send off Contrast with a bang and some bing bongs. Hyperreal Film Club will be in the house with their latest VHS zine release followed by "Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone," a film featuring some familiar faces from Glow and Broad City by Cocoon Central Dance Team and the director of Swiss Army Man. A technicolor roller coaster of emotions.
The critically acclaimed (we loved it, check out our review from SXSW 2018) documentary returns to Austin for Contrast to explore sexual fetishism and racial and gender stereotypes.
Sun., July 22, 3-5:15pm. $40 (badge), limited individual tickets available.
Founded by ATX arts collective Church of the Friendly Ghost in 2008, the New Media Art and Sound Summit connects boundary-pushing freaks, visual artists, and sound installations. Day three proffers local experimentalists Mister Smile and Prismatx Ensemble.
Newly Restored: Chronicle contributor Kahron Spearman hosts a rare screening of this two-part ensemble drama featuring an all African-American cast and crew.
The Austin Animal Center needs foster parents for its summer camp program to give dogs a break from the shelter life. You don't have to have foster experience, but they do ask that you sign on for two weeks.
Pickup is open Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, 11am-7pm. Free.
This Kenneth Jones play is based on true events: In 1959, a famed author and illustrator creates a children's book about a black rabbit and a white rabbit getting married. Citizens and a senator demand the state librarian ban the book. The librarian refuses. Now see what consequences ensue, as directed by Kat Sparks for Southwest Theatre Productions.
Through July 28. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 4pm. $15-22.
This is a free, 90-minute, on-demand class with Hal Croasmun, who will break down the components of what makes a good thriller and instruct you on how you can incorporate these elements into your own work.
Summer Classic Film Series: The comic strip spawned a Broadway musical, which spawned this movie directed by the obvious go-to guy for orphaned moppets – John Huston.
Do you know someone who is still rockin' it at or after 60? Connected Senior Care Advantage is searching for a dozen inspirational adults ages 60-69 that are "healthy in mind and body and are contributing to Austin in some way." The winners will be selected by a panel of celebrity judges and included in a calendar photo shoot.
Workshop pitches in the morning with an industry script consultant; break for drinks and mingling; then make your best pitch to a live audience and a panel of judges. The winner of the pitch contest gets a ticket to AFF and all the bragging rights.
Seventy years after the luxury liner sank in the Atlantic more than 150 items from the wreck were brought up from the ocean floor and brought together for this fascinating show. Timed tickets are required.
Jason & Deb from 101X and Bikes for Goodness Sake have partnered to build and donate bikes for underprivileged kids. They are taking cash donations as well as bikes, and you can also donate your time and help build them on Aug. 5. See the website for more.