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!
On the April Full Moon, come set intentions and indulge in the mesmerizing allure of live acoustic music performed by world-class musicians, surrounded by the warm glow of candlelight. Its a different kind of concert, that begins and ends in darkness, with music and a poem or two surrounding and soothing you. Audience members will be given the choice of bringing their own yoga mats and/or pillows to gaze at the shadows on the ceiling. A circle of chairs will be provided.
Featuring selections from the Lisa Davis photograph archive, with images captured by Davis in the early 1990s, documenting the lesbian and queer music community of Austin.
Reception (with live music by Gretchen Phillips): Tue., April 24, 6:30pm
Up your queer street cred with this film that organizers call a "landmark of New Queer Cinema." Todd Haynes' first feature inspired by the work of Jean Genet.
Eating out has never been so beneficial to others. On April 24, gather the crew or call your boo and getcher dining out on. Participating restaurants (60+) are donating a portion of that day's proceeds to AIDS Services of Austin. Take it next-level with grammable meals and #DineOutATX and #DiningOutForLife.
Czech That Film: This historical drama is about the real-life politician and activist Milada Horáková, who survived the Nazis only to be falsely accused of political crimes in Communist Czechoslovakia. Screens as part of the annual Czech That Film touring series. Filmmaker David Mrnka in attendance for intro and Q&A.
Resplendent in silver, blue, and gold, Toni Price stole the charisma crown from Lucinda Williams in February at the Austin Music Awards. Inducted into the AMA Hall of Fame, the former queen of South Congress gave a 1,000-watt smile upon her exit. The same doesn’t hold true of the blues diva’s exit from a three-decade “hippie hour” residency at the Continental Club, but her first post-Congress Avenue Tuesday residency at this deep South Austin eatery will illustrate her overdue honors.
The photographer Raymond Meeks, often inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of image and text, presents a collection of works that play with memory and place and the ways in which a landscape can shape an individual.
Whimsy and wonder, indeed: If anyone can evoke those feelings in a show of new paintings, it's gonna be that Lauren Briere with her sci-fi-inflected "Robots & Rowboats" series.
A retrospective of Texas artist Catherine Lee's work in diverse media will be anchored by her monumental sculpture Hebrides #6: Clach An Trushal, on loan from the Contemporary Austin.
The bestselling author returns in fine madcap form with this novel set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco. Look, there's a black mamba in it, and the snake's got a name; that's already enough for us.