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ABC Kite Fest
ABC Kite Fest, the largest and longest-running festival of its kind, is returning to Zilker Park! Now in its 95th year, the festival upholds an annual tradition of gathering the Austin community in celebration of spring. While kite flying remains the event’s main attraction, attendees can also enjoy live music, food and activities.Sat. Apr. 1, 10am-5pmZilker Park -
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Roaring 20s: Immersive Circus Theater
Cirque Vida is teaming up with Fierce Whiskers Distillery to bring you a debaucherous night of cocktails, circus performances, vendors, costume contests and a ragtime swing band! Join us for this fully immersive experience. Dress up in the most glamorous of costumes and join our cast as we take you through a night of love, laughter and fun!Fri. Mar. 31, 8:30pm-12amFierce Whiskers Distillery
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Sports
PBR Gambler Days
All the excitement of the PBR Team Series returns to Austin this summer. Join the Austin Gamblers as they host this professional bull-riding competition with the most exciting eight seconds in sports along with great food, music, and nonstop entertainment. See the world’s best bull riders, including your very own Austin Gamblers and two-time PBR World Champion Jose Vitor Leme, battle it out against the toughest bulls in this three-day, action-packed team competition.Aug. 25-27. Fri., 7:45pm; Sat., 6:45pm; Sun., 1:45pm
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Atelier Dojo: Remote Studios
The local powerhouse of figurative painting, the art school that's the smart school for artists of all kinds, they've got a painting-along-at-home series going to help you keep your skills honed in these socially restrictive times, featuring live costumed models posing on camera and a thriving community of creatives rendering that lovely human biotecture from their separate studios. "Join us for a three-hour costumed-model drawing session. Use any supplies you wish, listen to music, share your work, chat with others. It’s a great way to stay connected with your art community!"Tuesdays, 1:30-4:30pm; Fridays, 6:30-9:30pm; Saturdays, 9:30-12:30pm. $5. -
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Ballet Austin: Classes
Learn your way to physical grace with a dance class at Ballet Austin. There are so many varieties to choose among – ballet, barre, contemporary dance, hip-hop, tap, cardio dance fitness, Pilates, and more – and all taught by professional instructors. See website for details.$3-7 per class. -
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Elisabet Ney Museum: The Mother the Witch the Hysteric
Printmaker Annie May Johnston often uses new technologies alongside traditional practices. Here, in collaboration with Elisabet Ney's sculpture of Lady Macbeth, Johnston is considering gendered traits, the supernatural, and pseudoscience, reflecting agency (or the lack thereof) in the processes that generate the works in this show. -
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Laguna Gloria
This local treasure of a venue, run by those Contemporary Austin folks who also bring us the Jones Center shows Downtown, is all about the outdoors – which is perfect for these trickily navigated times of ours, n'est-ce pas? Recommended: Stop by and breathe in the air, enjoy the lawns and gardens and the many examples of world-class sculpture arrayed across the property, and (as Frankie used to say) r-e-l-a-x.Thu.-Fri., 9am-noon; Sat.-Sun., 9am-3pm -
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Martha's Contemporary: Hokey Pokey + What You See Is What You Get
Here's a two-person exhibition that features painting, installation, videography, and sculpture by Moll Brau and Wes Thompson. It's a deep dive into a pool of loneliness, triumph, and rebirth. It's a forest of mazes where fireflies provide the light. It's a show of creations from a pair of terrific, hardworking local artists and you don't want to miss it. -
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Night Golf
A nighttime shotgun-style nine-hole round made more fun and challenging with glow-in-the-dark balls.Thu.-Sat., 6-9:30pm. $20. -
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The Little Gay Book Club
Crack open a new queer lit section every month with the Little Gay Book Club, a subscription-based "community of booklovers and bibliophiles that share in our passion for reading through conversations, monthly meetings, and events." Meetings are available virtually and in-person.$0-50 per month. -
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Umlauf Sculpture Garden
The Umlauf's famed Garden features expertly wrought sculptures, the bronze or stone cynosures from Charles Umlauf and others anchoring sight among the bright foliage and tree-towered paths.Tue.-Fri., 10am-4pm; Sat.-Sun., 11am-4pm -
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Yard Dog: New Baseball Paintings
Austin artist Will Johnson explores the history of baseball in a series of portraits of players. An avid baseball fan since childhood, he began creating these paintings in 2007 or 2008, wanting to pay tribute to some of his favorite players and stories — especially unheralded players — through folk art paintings.
