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for Fri., Sept. 2

  • 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 16-19  
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    Palmer Events Center

  • 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 5  
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    Navasota Theatre Alliance
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  • Food

    Food Events

    Austin Restaurant Weeks

    Excellent food, mad bargains, and community enrichment are all on the menu – everybody's menu – during this annual ten-day flavor-forward fundraising event, a dining odyssey that features specially priced lunches, dinners, and cocktails at restaurants throughout Austin. Vixen's Wedding! Uncle Nicky's! épicerie! Distant Relatives! Intero! Banger's! Thai Fresh! Oseyo! Aba! Show Me Pizza! OMG, the list goes on. And, yes, part of the price of each meal goes directly to the Central Texas Food Bank.
    Sept. 1-11
    All over town

  • Food

    Food Events

    Black Food Week

    Austin Justice Coalition presents the sixth annual Black Food Week – a celebration of culture, heritage, and history (and of course the tastiest noms), featuring more than 70 restaurants and bars.
    Through Sept. 18  
    Full List of Participating Restaurants
    Various locations

  • Film

    Special Screenings

    Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

    Newly Restored: Don't miss this visually stunning and important masterwork from the director of Night and Fog.
    Fri., Sept. 2, 7pm  
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    AFS Cinema

  • Arts

    Classical Music

    LOLA: Lardo Weeping

    This is an original opera from award-winning composer Peter Stopschinski, based on an adaptation of Terry Galloway and Donna Nudd's one-woman play of the same name, centered on "reclusive genius Dinah LeFarge, a clever, agoraphobic, quite sexual woman of independent means who refuses to answer her door unarmed." Dinah is played by Liz Cass, with supporting performances by Nicole Taylor, Page Stevens, Holt Skinner, Alexa Capareda, and Daniela Bennetti; pianist Stopschinski is abetted by Phil Davidson (violin) and Barbara George (cello).
    Through Sept. 2. Thu.-Sat., 7pm; Sun., 3pm. $25.  
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    Crashbox

  • Community

    Kids

    Pre-K Rainbow Art Camp

    Kiddos ages 3-6 will begin with a color-themed storytime then paint pottery, make tie-tyed T-shirts, and create art inspired by Alma Thomas.
    Fri., Sept. 2, 10am-2pm. $105.  
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    Art Garage Oak Hill

  • Community

    Sports

    Round Rock Express

    Vs. Oklahoma City. Bring two canned goods to get in free Tuesday and benefit Round Rock Serving Center, bring a furry friend Thursday for Pints & Pups, see a pregame ceremony for Hall of Fame inductee Kirk Saarloos Friday, and more – get the full schedule of events online.
    Aug. 30-Sept. 4. Tue.-Sat., 6:35pm; Sun., 1:05pm  
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    Dell Diamond

  • Arts

    Visual Arts

    Sage Studio: Body Work

    Here's an exploration of all things anatomical and automotive, with two-dimensional art reflecting on human bodies and three-dimensional sculptures created around the theme of auto bodies. The show features pieces from 12 artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities – artists from Austin, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and California.
    Through Sept. 17
    SAGE Studio

  • Film

    Special Screenings

    The Dark Knight (2008)

    Ledger's masterful performance as the Joker earned him a posthumous Oscar.
    Sept. 2-7; find showtimes online  
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    Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane, Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline

  • Arts

    Theatre

    The Virgin Trial

    Playwright Kate Hennig explores the contemporary themes of victim shaming, sexual consent, and the extraordinary ability of girls becoming women as she reimagines the scandalous and little-known story of fifteen-year-old Elizabeth the First before she was Queen. Directed by Michael Cooper for the Alchemy Theatre.
    Through Sept. 24. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $25 and up.  
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    130 N. Pedernales St. #318
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