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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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Courthouse Nights in Lockhart, Texas!
Don't miss the return of Courthouse Nights in Lockhart! Centered around the beautiful Caldwell County Courthouse lawn, the FREE and family-friendly live music series features an all-star lineup with Dale Watson, EZ Band, Deadeye, Rattlesnake Milk, and Simons Says. Held every third Friday of the month from April to August!Fri. Apr. 19, 7pm-10pmLockhart, Texas
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Special Screenings
aGLIFF: PRISM 34
The 34th annual All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival (aGLIFF) takes a hybrid form this year, with dozens of selections from the best in LGBTQ+ film presented online and in person. Opening night happens at Galaxy. Closing night film Sh*t & Champagne will be shown drive-in style at Pioneer Farms, complete with a live talkback with D’Arcy Drollinger and a grand drag show finale hosted by Austin drag icon Nadine Hughes. Get badges and all the nitty-gritty at agliff.org.Aug. 26-Sept. 6Online and at various locations -
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aGLIFF PRISM 34: Closing Weekend Drive-in Screening & Drag Show
Close out Austin’s queer film fest with D’Arcy Drollinger’s high-camp sendup of Seventies sexploitation films, Shit & Champagne. Post-screening Q&A with Drollinger, plus a drag show curated by Austin’s Nadine Hughes.Sun., Sept. 5, 7pm. Included with badge; GA, $20-40. -
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Carpenter BBQ & Pool Party
Enjoy a plate of hearty barbecue, boozy snow cones, live music from Spliff Kazoo and Teenage Cavegirl, and even two-stepping lessons in the pool with Double or Nothing.Sun., Sept. 5, 3-8pmCarpenter Hotel, 400 Josephine -
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Clear the Shelters
Now's a great time to add to your fur family! Local shelters are waiving adoption fees for a limited time as part of the "Clear the Shelters" initiative, and have several upcoming adoption events. Check out pet profiles and find your next buddy at austinpetsalive.org or austintexas.gov/department/adopt-pet.Through Sept. 19Austin Animal Center, 7201 Levander Loop; Austin Pets Alive!, 1156 W. Cesar Chavez -
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Food Events
Easy Tiger: Labor Day Specials
Let that Tiger labor, so you can take it easy this day, is the idea. Celebrate the last long weekend of summer, with the perfect setup for a backyard party (or tailgate gathering) from Easy Tiger's Labor Day Shop. Start with one of their tasty charcuterie boards, and then – oh, they've got fresh buns for burgers and sausages, and fresh housemade sausages, and, when you want to finish with something sweet, there's that Easy apple pie, with a delicious heap of crumbles sprinkled over the tender, lightly spiced apple filling in a flakey, all-butter crust. John Chapman, we reckon, would've wept with joy.Sept. 3-6 -
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Out of Town
Ford Parade of Lanterns
Typically held in February to kick off the Chinese New Year celebration, this year’s parade was postponed due to the pandemic. Ten illuminated boats will make two laps around the downtown section of the River Walk.Fri.-Sun., Aug. 27-29 & Sept. 3-5, 8-10pm. Free.San Antonio -
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Special Screenings
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
World Cinema Classics: This beautiful depiction of the last screening at a Taiwan theatre set to close forever is a love letter to cinema.Sun., Sept. 5, 6:15pm -
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Labor Day Karaoke With Katelynn & Jim
If you've got Labor Day off work, go sing your heart out into the wee hours the night before with KJs K&J!Sun., Sept. 5, 9pm-1am. free. -
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Queerbomb General Meeting
Catch up with the organizers behind Austin’s DIY, alt-Pride celebration at their first meeting since this summer’s hiatus.Sun., Sept. 5, 7-9pm. Free.Online -
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Round-Up
Let the cowboy in you out for two days of ranch rodeos, a longhorn parade, music, and arts & crafts.Sat.-Sun., Sept. 4-5Bandera -
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Shoal Creek Social
Celebrate the beauty of Shoal Creek with two weeks of fun and education, including a fundraiser, hangouts, and a scavenger hunt. Hangouts are scheduled for Saturdays, 9am-1pm, at Duncan Park and Northwest District Park, and will include lots of family fun like games and tours. Throughout the social, contribute to help reach the $25k fundraising goal, and learn about the area by finding items on the scavenger hunt like flora & fauna, structures, and natural features.Sept. 1-15Shoal Creek Trail -
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Nightlife & Parties
Sir Rat Kink Bingo
Don your gear for a night of kink(y) prizes and drink specials with your hosts Randy Surratt, Simone Riviera, and Hexa Dulce.Sun., Sept. 5, 4-7pm. No cover. -
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Straitjacket: Variations On a Theme of Horror
This one-man show is written, directed, and performed by Charles P. Stites, as freely adapted from Jack London's novel, The Star-Rover. Behold: "A prisoner in solitary confinement, spending days at a time in a straitjacket by command of his sadistic warden. In order to escape the hell of his existence, he astral projects out of his body to visit his past lives." Yeah, we've seen this Stites and his one-man shows before – we're still a little rattled by his amazing performance of H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau – and we're looking forward to this new exploration of madness and violence and the terror of eternity. Look: Robert Faires interviewed the talented actor right here. Recommended? Ah, highly.Through Sept. 11. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $15-35 (in-person); $10 (virtually). -
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The Marvelous Wonderettes
Up in Georgetown, the Palace Theatre presents this Off-Broadway musical hit that takes you to the 1958 Springfield High School prom and reveals the lives of four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts. It's an all-singing, all-dancing, and downright Wonderette-ful show.Through Sept. 12. Fri.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $17-36. -
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Sports
Urban Axes Marathon League
Compete for fun and prizes at UA's first Marathon League, with 28 axe-throwing matches followed by a double-elimination playoff using standard IATF rules. The league will be capped at 20 participants (everyone makes the playoffs!), and they need at least 12 signed up to run the league. Practice begins a half-hour before start time.Sun., Sept. 5, 11am-9pm -
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Vintage Village
A variety of pop-up vendors will offer vintage and retro threads, jewels from times past, and adornments for your abode, and stellar vinyl DJs take it old school, bringing the good vibrations. Get spiffed up in your favorite vintage garb from the era you should have been born in. Get some funky photos or enter the "best dressed" contest for a chance to win gift cards, and shop hand-selected vinyl from Waterloo Records’ discerning staff.First Sundays, 4-10pm -
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Yoga in the Yard
Black Swan Yoga presents an outdoor class and collects donations youth STEM education nonprofit Girlstart. Plus, enjoy JuneShine hard kombucha, Fowl Mouth brunch, and live music afterward.Sundays, 10am. $10 suggested donation.
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Special Screenings
A Starry Sky Above the Roman Ghetto (2020)
In this Italian teen drama, a young girl unravels the mystery of an intriguing photograph of a child and stages a play honoring the history of its subject. Austin Jewish Film Festival presents access to the film and a director Q&A.Sept. 4-12; Q&A Sun., Sept. 12Online: austinjff.org -
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Visual Arts
Art for the People Gallery: Thrive!
Here's a showcase of work by more than 40 Austinites who’ve created art with an exuberance of color and energy over the past 15 pandemic months.Through Sept. 30 -
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Artworks Gallery: Touch the Seen
Provocative, monumental figurative paintings by Les Satinover, depicting the human form (mainly male figures) in vast, detailed landscapes that celebrate natural beauty.Through Sept. 25 -
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Austin FC Pub Club
If you can't be at the game, the next best thing is watching it at one of Austin FC's bar partners. Check out the list to find one near you.OngoingVarious locations -
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Austin Fire Youth Explorers
City of Austin Fire Department is recruiting youth ages 14-20 to join Exploring, Boy Scouts of America's character and career development program for youth. The AFD Explorer Post #370 teaches youth about careers in fire rescue and helps them sharpen leadership skills.Deadline: Oct. 1. Free.Apply online -
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Austin Flea
Browse for handmade and vintage wearables, housewares, bath and body products, and more. Find them on the Eastside at De Nada Saturday, noon-5pm, and to the west at Oakmont Sunday, 10am-3pm.Sat.-Sun., Sept. 4-5. Free.De Nada Cantina, 4715 E. Cesar Chavez; Oakmont Food Company, 1106 W. 38th -
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Special Screenings
Backdraft (1991)
Fathom Events: For the 30th anniversary of the exciting action-thriller about feuding sibling firefighters, screenings include a special featurette called "The Explosive Stunts."Sun., Sept. 5, 3pm, 7pm -
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Barton Creek Farmers Market
A great selection of local farmers bringing fabulous pastured meats, eggs, dairy, vegetables, and fruits, plus prepared-food vendors, artisans, bakers, and of course, live music.Sundays, 9am-1pm. Free.4805 Hwy. 290 W., Sunset Valley (Kohl's parking lot) -
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Nightlife & Parties
Bear Beer Bust
Iron Bear's beer bust brings all the boys to the bar. Specials on select pints and pitchers.Sundays, 2-9pm -
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Visual Arts
Beyond Van Gogh
This traveling spectacle of art, a multimedia exhibition currently ensconced at the COTA, uses cutting-edge projection technology to create an engaging journey into the world of Vincent Van Gogh. Repurposing the artist's dreams, his thoughts, and his words to drive the experience as a narrative, this huge installation will move you along projection-swathed walls wrapped in light, colour, and shapes that swirl, dance and refocus into flowers, cafes and landscapes. As a certain Dude might comment, "This is extremely fuckin' trippy, man." Make your reservations now, citizen, and if the price seems a bit steep, hell, you can probably tap your brother Theo for a loaner, amirite?Through Sept. 5. Daily, 11am-9pm. $37 ($24, children). -
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Beyond Van Gogh
Cutting-edge projection technology creates an engaging journey into the world of Van Gogh.June 25-Sept. 5
