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  Art & Parks Tour

  This sweet opportunity comes to us from the Downtown Austin Alliance, the Pease Park Conservancy, and Ride Bikes Austin – so we know it's a damned good thing indeed. Take the self-guided Art & Parks Tour to explore the best of what Downtown Austin art and parks have to offer through this selection of curated murals, artworks, and green spaces. You can sign up anytime, so click that URL and get ready to learn the most vibrantly visual parts of your city soon – live and in person.

   

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  “New Worlds” Opening

  Recspec Gallery is dedicated to new voices, and the latest exhibit presents an array of vivid “New Worlds” from over 20 artists. Prepare for bold color and even bolder statements: Ryan Sandison Montgomery has a Taylor Swift-inspired work that’s guaranteed to cause a stir. Peruse the possibilities with drinks from Central Machine Works. Creativity and craft beer – what could be better? – Cat McCarrey

  Opening reception: Fri. May 10; additional hours, Sat. May 11 & Sun. May 18

  Museum of Human Achievement

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  Arts & Culture

  Bronco

  This here event’s country-fried and ready to two-step: Learn to line dance from Country Fried Dance while DJ Boi Orbison spins vinyl. Now that’s fun, I tell you h-what!

  Mon., May 13

  Sagebrush

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  Comedy

  Clown Garden: An Avante-Garde Comedy Experience

  Sun’s out, so it’s time to cultivate your local garden of red noses, big shoes, and squirting flowers – you know, a clown garden. But this is no task for beginners: Better go to an expert in growing real freakass he-haws such as – oh, I don’t know – Marceline Amaris, who happens to host a comedy show called – oh wow! – Clown Garden. This here’s a “comedy experience you have never seen before” that is at once “[eccentric], daring, and off beat” and plans on “redefining what is possible on the Fallout stage!” My god, man: The aftereffects of seeing this show are sure to increase your crops tenfold. Or something like that. Metaphors are hard. – James Scott

  Wed., May 15

  Fallout Theater

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  Comedy

  ColdTowne Theater

  ColdTowne's new brick-and-mortar place is totally open, and who knows what they'll shake this city with next? But one truth remains: ColdTowne is a designated den of gold, baby, sweet comedy gold.

  ColdTowne Theater

• Film

  Special Screenings

  Hyperreal Hotel’s MerMay: Scales (2019)

  In bittersweet news, May is the second-to-last month of Hyperreal Film Club’s long-running film series at Hotel Vegas, wherein crackerjack film programmers have brought weird and wild cinematic treasures as well as local short films to the Eastside music venue for the last two and a half years. It’s bittersweet because it’s a metamorphosis, making May’s “mermaid” theme all the more apropos. This week’s feature is Scales (2019, Saudi Arabia), a folkloric feminist parable told in a dystopian black-and-white setting. (Check out “The Off Beat" to find out what’s next for Hyperreal.) – Kat McNevins

  Mon., May 13

  Hotel Vegas

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  Visual Arts

  Jeffrey Dell “Tidal Waive”

  Tusa, Sicily, in addition to being a beautiful seaside Italian village, was also birthplace to artist Jeffrey Dell’s newest monotypes. He created the works during an artist’s residency, utilizing traditional printmaking materials to capture the vertical nature of his surroundings. In his artist’s statement, Dell explains his goal with the monotypes as interrogating what happens between seeing and understanding images. “The mind wants and expects to see certain things and is capable of leaping ahead,” Dell writes. “Mostly those leaps are amazingly correct, but sometimes they’re wrong. I’m trying to make work that creates a moment when it’s possible to notice such dynamics while also avoiding the ‘punchline’ of an optical illusion – that is, to deny a moment of ‘getting it.’” – James Scott

  Thursdays-Sundays. Through June 8

  Flatbed Press

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  Karn Knutson: Inside the Moments

  How do we experience each singular second of our lives? An enormous question for an event listing, sure, but that’s exactly what artist Karn Knutson tackles in her current exhibition. “Knutson attempts to show us ourselves in moments of reflection,” the show description reads, “contemplating the transitions through life, processing the struggles, finding ways forward with knowledge, sometimes hard lessons from our past, and learning from our choices good and bad. She aims to represent the things we all feel but can’t always express until we see something that lets us talk about it outside ourselves.” Maybe the something that unlocks your inner feelings is waiting just inside Link & Pin, ready to unleash all those singular seconds. – James Scott

  Thursdays-Sundays. Through May 12

  Link & Pin

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  Yoga

  Kula Yoga Center

  Calling itself "Austin's Family Yoga Center" isn't a misnomer, what with its infant/parent classes and other kid-friendly courses. Also check out the special classes for dancers, athletes, and even students (for PE credit, no less).

  Kula Yoga

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  Visual Arts

  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.

  Martha's

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  The Blanton: The Floating World

  The opportunity to witness, in person, the creative expression of different times and diverse cultures is one of the perks of city-dwellers everywhere – and exemplified by the collections and traveling exhibitions hosted by UT’s acclaimed Blanton Museum of Art. The Blanton’s newest show displays masterpieces from Edo-period Japan, on loan from the Worcester Art Museum through June 30. These “pictures of the floating world” depict the lifestyle, pleasures, and interests of the urban population – samurais, geishas, kabuki actors, boat parties, palaces, and lush landscapes. As then, so now: Much of who we are is what we do with our lives. – Wayne Alan Brenner

  Feb. 11-June 30

  The Blanton Museum of Art

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  Nightlife & Parties

  The Drag Queen Game Show

  Come on down, potential contestants, for the draggiest game show in all of Austin. Hosted by the terrific twosome of Celia Light and Mars, this interactive event pulls its audience into myriad mini-games based around a different theme every Tuesday. Enjoy games like trivia, speed dating, and Boobie Bingo. Whether you stumble in after a movie or go for the love of the game, this party will bring all the fabulous prizes your heart desires – like a drag queen ribbing you. Wait, is that not what everybody wants? – James Scott

  Tuesdays, 8-10pm

  The Highball

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  Comedy

  The Floor Is Lava

  Yowch! That’s what you’d be saying, you know, if you touched your tootsies to a lava-flooded floor. Thankfully, Austin is not located next to an active volcano … or is it? This scripted comedy sketch show is a fresh flow of bright burning comic talent sure to scorch expectations with “fun, loose, and experimental” material. Don’t believe me? Read this totally real quote from the comedy show’s Instagram bio: My ‘comedies’ are complete *poop emoji* compared to the greatest sketch group to ever sketch! –William Shakespeare. I can’t believe ol’ Willy really said that! But no one has ever lied on Instagram before, so best believe this show’s hot stuff. – James Scott

  Tuesdays

  Fallout Theater

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  Theatre

  The Prom

  OMG, it’s prom season, y’all! And what could make it better than four Broadway stars making it all about themselves? Zach presents the catchy tale of desperate thespians trying to gain relevance by “helping” a small town prom be less bigoted. Set to toe-tapping tunes, this musical entertains and educates. There will be laughs, love, and you know, someone might just learn something along the way. – Cat McCarrey

  Through May 12  

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  ZACH Theatre

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  Nightlife & Parties

  TuezGayz

  It's good music; it's queer vibes; you know what it is, babe: It's Tuezgayz!

  Tuesdays, 10pm. $5 after 10:30.

  Barbarella

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  Community

  Two-Spirit & LGBTQIA+ Networking Event

  Communication is key. How else can we know what folks need without talking to them? These conversations are all the more important when between minority populations such as LGBTQ and Two-Spirit adults. From Family Eldercare’s program Rainbow Connections, whose work supports Austin’s queer elders, this event will connect older Two-Spirit and LGBTQ folks to improve their future. – James Scott

  Thu., May 16

  Carver Branch Library