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ChingonX Fire: Group Exhibit
Inspired by the Mexican American Cultural Center's annual La Mujer celebration – and by the first feminist of the New World, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz – this online group exhibit is curated by April Garcia and features womxn-identifying and nongender-specific artists whose artwork is tied to activism, feminism, cultural. and gender identity storytelling, environmental protection, and socioeconomic parity.Free. -
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City of Austin "How to Help" Portal
Looking for the right way to help your community during the pandemic? Or do you have a volunteer opportunity that you want to list? Visit the city's "How to Help" portal to make a match. The portal includes ways to help from home, donation drives, and active community engagement opportunities.OngoingOnline -
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Community Conversations: Mental Health in Austin
City Council candidate Pooja Sethi and local health professionals discuss accessing mental health services in Austin.Thu., Aug. 6, 8-9pmFacebook Live -
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Crux Climbing Center Online Classes
Austin’s local climbing gym and fitness center is now offering online classes including training for climbing, yoga, HIIT, and circuit training to keep Austinites mentally and physically healthy. Classes are free and open to the public, with Venmo tips encouraged for trainers. Check out Crux’s Instagram stories to see how members are actually climbing the walls while their favorite neighborhood gym is closed. Ever seen someone climb a door frame?March 25-Aug. 20Online -
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Curtis McMurtry
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Donate to PEAS Resiliency Gardens Program
Donations to PEAS (Partners for Education, Agriculture, and Sustainability) will go to support outdoor learning and edible education programming in the community. Choose your level of funding, from seeds to an entire garden for an Austin family.June 8-Oct. 1Online -
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First Thursdays Bossa Nova w/ Paula Maya
Venmo: @paulamaya; PayPal.me/paulamayamusicFirst Thursday of every month, 9pm -
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Flight of the Bats
The bats have returned to the 350-foot-deep cavern three hours from Austin. Evening tours of the bat emergence have begun with social distancing. Reservations required.Wed.-Sun., through Oct. 31, 7:30pm. $6-14.Devil’s Sinkhole State Natural Area, Rocksprings -
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Georgetown Art Center: Ingrained
Georgetown? Yeah, whatthehell, there's a pandemic on; so we're gonna list some things beyond Austin right now, capiche? And this is a show of five artists – Aimée M. Everett, Alicia Philley, Caroline Walker, Linda Wandt, and Thomas Cook – with differing styles and subjects who are united by their use of a common material: Wood.Through Aug. 23 -
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High 5 Kids Club
Kids bowl free all summer long with High 5 Kids' Club. Register online for your summer pass.Through Aug. 29High 5: 2700 W Anderson; 1502 RR 620 S., Lakeway -
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Hip Hop Film Festival
This festival celebrates and tells stories from filmmakers who grew up in the global tradition of hip hop, and its mission is to help filmmakers and content creators achieve economic sustainability. The annual festival features over 200 filmmakers from around the world competing across genres including drama, sci-fi, action, comedy, thriller, and more.Thu.-Sun., Aug. 6-9. $40.Online -
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ICOSA: In The Absence of Time
This exhibition of new works by Jana Swec and Jonas Criscoe explores the concept of entropy through movement, pattern, cycles, and decay. Appropriately enough, ICOSA was in movement toward an opening to the public; but the recently spiking pattern of Covid-19 has altered the cycles of renascence (thanks, we daresay, to the general decay of common sense, leading to masklessness and anti-vaxxers), and so this will be a by-appointment-only show. But, hold on: "Each week we will be rotating work from the exhibition into our front window space. This will allow those who feel more comfortable seeing the show from afar to view the exhibition over a four week span, in an outdoor setting." Hell of a great idea, especially because the art is so good that no one should miss it.By appointment only, through Aug. 8 -
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Lend a Hand ATX
Lend a Hand ATX, created by Austin Tech Alliance, is a platform to help skilled tech volunteers and those in need make critical community connections during the COVID-19 crisis. Create an account, make an offer or request, and find a match!April 24-Dec. 15Online -
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Media Chica
Do you have a young writer at home? Someone who loves to report on the stories around the world? Sign them up for Media Chica, Latinitas' free one-week journalism boot camp. Girls will have the opportunity to become digital producers, learn from professionals in the field, and enhance their writing skills.Mon.-Sat., Aug. 3-8, 1-3pmOnline -
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Memphis Kee
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Natural Fit Therapy Virtual Happy Hour
Dr. Ryan Seifert hosts biweekly lectures over Zoom with some of Austin's best health experts on how to remain healthy, active, and independent during and after the pandemic. This session features golf injury expert Dr. Paul Hendricks.Thu., July 9, 4pmOnline -
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Omni Online: Free Virtual Tour
Take a virtual tour of Stuck On On, an award-winning audio and visual finishing house that specializes in sound and color for film, TV, commercials, and internet. Tour is led by producer Allison Turrell, recently nominated for an Emmy for her sound work on Tower.Thu., Aug. 6, 12:30-1:30pm. Free.Online via Zoom -
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Paramount Theatre at Home
This series offers a selection of films curated by Paramount expert programmer Stephen Jannise as well as meal pairings so you can enjoy dinner and a movie. They've taken the guesswork out of movie night and arranged discounts with participating restaurants. Get all the details online.OngoingOnline via www.austintheatre.org -
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Project Connect Virtual Open House
The virtual open house is designed to welcome a new round of feedback on Austin's high-capacity transit plan.Ongoing. Free.Online -
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Public Safety Committee Special Called Meeting
See agenda for details.Thu., Aug. 6, 10amVideoconference -
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Queering Education: Harm Reduction for LGBTQ+ Youth
Join this panel of licensed medical and mental health providers for a conversation about compassion and harm reduction.Thu., Aug. 6, 6:30-8pm. Free.Online -
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Recspec Gallery: Talismans
This virtual exhibition of work by Gigi Grinstad – whose beautiful oil and encaustic creations, you'll recall, brightened several Recspec shows in the Before Times – is available throughout August on the Recspec website. Grinstad's approach to talismans as art "conjures spells for a particular time or place, allowing the viewer to bring these symbols of strength into their own life via intuition and magnetism. These talismans are impermanent, shifting, and they grow and fade like the changing seasons." Note: They'll also lodge quite firmly in your memory, offering Grinstad-wrought anchors of beauty in these uncertain times.Through Aug. 31 -
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Republicans Don't Care About You w/ Ten Ass City
Venmo: @Ashley-Miller-58; PayPal: bignosebaby@gmail.comThu., Aug. 6, 5:30pm -
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Restaurant Month
Due to the pandemic, the annual culinary celebration has been extended from two weeks to four with some of the top eateries in town offering prix fixe lunch or dinner meals with an emphasis on to-go dining. Funds raised go to support the organization’s fund to aid the hospitality industry.Aug. 1-31San Antonio -
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Sagebrush Song Swap w/ Sophia Johnson, David Touchton, Tyler Stuckey
Thu., Aug. 6, 8pm
