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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 16-19Palmer Events Center -
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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 5Navasota Theatre Alliance
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Comedy
All Together ATX Festival
Swing Left Austin presents this livestreamed extravaganza of comedy, music, and art, featuring music by Eimaral Sol and Mama Duke, with stand-up sets by Symply Courtney, Ky Krebs, and Clara Blackstone. Bonus and a half: New illustrations by Ami Plasse.Fri., May 15, 8pm. Donations accepted. -
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Food Events
Asian Flights Fest: Friday Happy Hour
The Greater Austin Asian Chamber of Commerce presents this livestreamed celebration of the diverse Asian community, with each event featuring a local musician, a talk on some form of alcohol, and how to pair that potent potable with an Asian cuisine. This week: The beverage is sake and the food is Japanese. Coming up next: beer and Vietnamese, May 29.Fri., May 22, 4-5pm. $17. -
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Austin Latinx New Play Festival
Virtual staged readings of new Latinx plays invigorate your favorite screen, presented by Teatro Vivo in collaboration with ScriptWorks. Note: Each dramaturg will host an IG Live Chat with the playwright at each of the showtimes, and Zoom recordings of each show will be available on the Teatro website prior to the live event.Through May 16. Donations accepted. -
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Big Medium: Artist Features
This new series from the community-strong magisters of Big Medium aims to amplify the voice of artists and keep art a regular part of daily life in these socially distanced times. Through a combination of short interviews, artwork images, and video, these features serve to inspire and create a deeper connection between artists and the public. New installments weekly, every Tuesday and Friday. Upcoming: Erin Cunningham (May 26), J Muzacz (May 29). -
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Gilbert & Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore
Austin's Gilbert & Sullivan society streams video of their 2014 grand summer production of this rousing classic and features a watch party with commentary from directors, original cast members, and GSA board members.Through May 29. Free. -
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Grageriart Online
Austin's frosty-coiffed and glamolicious wondertwins of robo-friendly sh-sh-shopping, Lana Lesley and Peter Stopschinski, keep the postmodern retail luv a-coming with a brand new video, at least long enough to take a voice-modulated sip of coffee to, each Friday morning. Don't just say hello, citizen consumer, say buy-buy!Trending and free. -
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May Is Bike Month
Bike Austin, Austin’s largest bicycling advocacy and education organization, is encouraging residents to take to the bike lane throughout May for Bike Month 2020. With thousands of Austinites working from home, social distancing, and spending less time in their vehicles, streets all over town are quieter and safer, so now the community has a unique opportunity to encourage neighbors to get outside and ride together, apart. Share photos of solo or family rides on social media using #BikeMonthATX and #IBikeTo____ (fill in your own reason for biking) and enjoy these healthy streets.May 11-31Citywide -
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Visual Arts
Northern-Southern: Baton
This is a group show by relay, begun in July of 2020 as a method of socially distancing a community in the height of the pandemic: Artists took turns alone in the space, each adding to the exhibition. Now, as it nears its close, the exhibition resembles a community in which work converses and overlaps. With Adreon Henry, Vy Ngo, Dawn Okoro, Leon Alesi, Matt Steinke, Sev Coursen, Stella Alesi, and more.Closing reception: Sat., July 24, 3-9pm -
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Northern-Southern: Left In Leaves
This is a group show of artistic interventions across the city of Austin, freely left in outdoor public spaces throughout May. (Note: Email the gallery for a map to the sites.) Who's involved in this fine endeavor? Sterling Allen, Ted Carey, Adreon Denson Henry, Sarah Fagan, Rachel Freeman & Korey Weiss, Emily Lee, Sean Ripple, Amy Scofield, Meghan Shogan, Amanda Julia Steinback & Staci Maloney, Alyssa Taylor Wendt, and Suzanne Wyss. Documentation will be shared on the Northern-Southern website and social media; at the conclusion of the month, the maps will be collected in a print zine, in which each artist will be interviewed. Northern-Southern will mail it to you upon request. And, look: The Chronicle's Robert Faires shares his own experience of the project.Through May 31 -
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Sofa Sessions Benefiting SIMS Foundation
In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Sofa Sessions brings local musicians to your living room to raise funds for nonprofit SIMS Foundation, which provides mental health care to musicians and has experienced a higher demand due to COVID-19. Follow SIMS on social media (@simsfoundation) for lineup announcements throughout the month. Donate online or by texting SIMS to 44321.Throughout MayOnline -
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Vault Stone Shop: Mask Collection
For this new group show curated by GD Wright, a coalition of artists – Ender Martos, Alexis Mabry, Jade Walker, Bale Creek Allen, B. Shawn Cox, Brian David Johnson, so many others – has produced and donated more than 100 fabric masks to be given away each day during the show’s duration. Also, each artist has created a unique commemorative artwork referencing their thoughts and experiences of the Coronavirus pandemic. These interpretations of a face mask will be on view in the gallery's window display for two weeks. Note: All the gallery’s proceeds from sales will be donated to purchase hand sanitizer for distribution throughout the homeless community in Austin.Through May 20 -
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Virtual Vortex: Risk
This is a livestreamed reading of Robi Polgar’s new play Risk (or, What Nature Doesn’t Do to Us), darkly comic vengeance drama, in which an upwardly mobile mayor, his fallen lobbyist brother, their endtimes-proclaiming father, and a mysterious woman who has charmed them all navigate the global tragedy that is climate change while coming to terms with the unfolding discoveries of how their romantic histories intertwine. Performed by Michelle Polgar, Ev Lunning Jr, Ben Wolfe, and Jeff Mills.Fri., May 15, 8pm
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"High Signs & Beacons" Open Call
The George Washington Carver Museum, Six Square, the African American Heritage Facility, and the city's Equity Office are calling on artists, poets, scholars, and writers of African descent to join a public art project that will be displayed throughout the African American Cultural Heritage District. 8-12 creative teams (one visual artists; one writer/poet/scholar) will be chosen to develop a large outdoor sign with text-based artwork.Deadline: Fri., May 22Online -
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"The Dating Show: Queerantine Edition" Open Call
Looking to meet some cuties for dates or maybe more? **link in bio**: We're recruiting for an online Dating Show game hosted by Kelly Kline! 💞 The dating show will be pre-filmed with us in the coming weeks before we get to share it with The Q's audience. Come have some fun with us and find yourself a virtual quarantine boo ✨: All LGBTQ+ people between the ages of 18-35 interested in participating are invited to fill out our Submission Form. Link in bio!OngoingOnline -
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3ten ACL Live presents Stream Come True w/ Jonathan Terrell
Benefiting HAAM. Tip the artist at Venmo: @JonathanTerrell or PayPal.me/JonathanTerrellATXFri., May 15, 8pm -
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Summer Camp
Theatre/Dance Camps
Aerial Creation Camp
Courses safely teach kids how to take to the air and dance using harnesses, silks, and more. Courses culminate with a show for parents and friends. They will be teaching small group classes to allow for social distancing and time to clean equipment between students. They will conduct temperature checks at the door, provide hand sanitizer stations around the studio, and encourage everyone to wear a face covering. Ages 8-14.June 3-14 & July 8-19. $250 per week.Blue Lapis Light, 10331 Old Manchaca Rd -
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Civic Events
AISD Family Conversation Circles
AISD families are invited to voice their opinions on the district's 2020-25 Strategic Plan, as well as family support during COVID-19.Fri., May 15, 10-11amOnline; dial-in (see online for registration) -
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Special Screenings
Alamo on Demand
Make any Tuesday terror-iffic, any Wednesday weird, and the rest of the week fantastic with Alamo Drafthouse curated picks via Alamo on Demand. If a film is there, it's because an Alamo programmer loves it. It's kinda like going to your favorite video store when you could do that, mixed with going to your favorite theatre, when you could do that too. Staff picks, cult classics, Found Footage Fest and Master Pancake, Weird Wednesday and Terror Tuesday, Fantastic Fest faves, they're all there for rental or purchase.OngoingOnline via ondemand.drafthouse.com -
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All Together ATX Comedy + Music Fundraiser Extravaganza
Join Swing Left Austin for a livestream fundraiser supporting the All Together ATX fund for COVID-19 relief. Featuring performances by qmmunity members, rapper Mama Duke and comedian Ky Krebs, among others. Donate here.Fri., May 15, 8-9pm. $10 suggested donation.Online -
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Sports Camps
All-Star Sports Camp
Campers learn teamwork and sportsmanship through a variety of fun team-based games and activities including soccer, basketball, kickball, capture the flag, Ultimate Frisbee, and more. Additional safety and cleaning procedures will be implemented. Ages 5-12.June 1-Aug. 14. $199/week (half day); $299/week (full day).SoccerZone South, 9501 Menchaca Rd.; Lakeline, 920 Old Mill Rd. -
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Instructional Camps
American Robotics Academy
Online courses teach little builders how things work. They can help students continue learning at home by providing a safe, vetted, and fun classroom experience, led by highly qualified teachers. Let them help you to customize your child’s learning. Ages 6-13.June 1-July 24. $90.Various locations -
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Out of Town
April Dressed in All Its Trim: An Online Exhibition
The art project began before the current pandemic erupted, but feels even more appropriate now as a group of Texas-based artists contributed artwork that explores the hopefulness of spring.Through May 31Online from Studio Comfort in Comfort, Texas -
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Art & Music Camps
Art Garage
The Art Garage is passionate about providing a positive environment for kids to explore their creativity. They will be bringing that environment into your homes with their Online Summer Sessions! Supplies are picked up the week prior and items to be fired are dropped off back at the Art Garage the Friday or Saturday after camp is complete for that week. Your student will just need a solid internet connection, a spot where they can make art, and they will take care of the rest. Ages 5-14.Jun. 1- Aug. 14. $329.11190 Circle Dr. #202 -
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Art Heals Festival Submissions
WhatsintheMirror is seeking work by anyone dedicated in using art to end HIV & mental health stigma – visual artists, theatre artists, singers, dancers, workshop and panel ideas, and more – for its inaugural multimedia social justice arts fest (tentatively Aug. 27-31). See online for instructions.OngoingOnline -
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Art & Music Camps
Art+ Academy
Half-day camps balance fun and instruction for young artists seeking to improve their drawing and painting skills. Select from a variety of themed art camps for all ages and interests. They will also be offering virtual summer camps. Ages 5-17.June 10-July 31. $245.Three locations: NW Austin, Cedar Park, and SW Austin -
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Out of Town
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
The museum presents 31 Days of Asia virtually spotlighting online a multitude of Asian art, cultural programming, and Asian-focused experiences.Through Sun., May 31Crow Museum of Asian Art of the University of Texas at Dallas -
Summer Camp
Art & Music Camps
Atelier Dojo
The professional arts academy was founded by four female artists. These summer classes are online. They are running four remote open studios each week for young, aspiring artists to practice figure drawing, still life drawing, self-portraits, painting fundamentals, and more. Ages 13-18.June 3-7; July 15-19; July 29-Aug. 2. $5 registration fee. -
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General Camps
ATX Kids Club
With a focus on urban literacy and local culture, ATX Kids Club inspires campers to experience the rich diversity of Austin by taking daily adventures on Cap Metro. Contact them for more details as camp will be run a bit differently for 2020. Visit their website for their COVID-19 policies and procedures. Ages 4-12.May 26-Aug. 21. $325.Drop-off/pickup locations at Garrison Park, Rendon Park, Eastwoods Park, Brentwood Park, and Mueller Park
