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Beatles Full Moon Concert in the Dark
On the April Full Moon, come set intentions and indulge in the mesmerizing allure of live acoustic music performed by world-class musicians, surrounded by the warm glow of candlelight. Its a different kind of concert, that begins and ends in darkness, with music and a poem or two surrounding and soothing you. Audience members will be given the choice of bringing their own yoga mats and/or pillows to gaze at the shadows on the ceiling. A circle of chairs will be provided.Tues. Apr. 23, 8pm-9pmATX Unplugged -
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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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Rock the Park w/ Sir Woman, Joe McDermott (6:30)
As essential as spring showers, Austin jukebox KUTX 98.9 quenched our town’s thirst for communal commingling with free family concerts beginning in March. Fourth and final micro Woodstock nets the über headliner: Sir Woman. Garnering three local Grammys, aka Austin Music Awards, the local powerhouse took home Song of the Year for “Blame It On the Water,” Music Video in “Party City,” and Kelsey Wilson tied for Best Vocalist with roots channeler Ruthie Foster. Deeply emotive, earthy, Wilson’s intonation swells into a “Seventies-drenched soul sound” opined Doug Freeman here last month on Sir Woman’s expansive eponymous debut.Fri., June 3 -
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A War of the Worlds
In Jarrett King's comic and thrilling reimagining of a multimedia classic, Orson Welles and his radio troupe, the Mercury Theatre, are a group of Black artists fighting to hold their place at the CBS radio studio. "In the hope of securing a critical corporate sponsorship, Welles orchestrates a last-ditch ratings stunt that causes national panic and secures their undeniable – if infamous – place in media history." And, look, we have a full review right here.Through June 18. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 5pm. $16 and up. -
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Special Screenings
aGLIFF Pride Mini Film-a-Thon
To celebrate Pride Month, aGLIFF presents a weekend of films and programming including four feature films, a shorts program, a live comedy show with America's Got Talent finalist Julia Scotti with a screening of Susan Sandler's award-winning documentary portrait Julia Scotti: Funny That Way, and live Q&As with directors, along with parties and more over the weekend.June 3-5 -
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ASO: Swing Is the Thing
Join what'll likely be the whole Austin Swing Syndicate and their friends at the Palmer Events Center as Peter Bay and the Austin Symphony present a concert featuring the biggest dance hits from the 1930s and 1940s – with singers David Bennett and Miche Braden and four world-champion swing dancers strutting their stuff with irrepressible pizzazz.Fri.-Sat., June 3-4, 8pm. $35-55. -
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Dogs in Space (1986)
Lates: An Australian punk work of art that features a stellar soundtrack and stars INXS frontman Michael Hutchence.Fri., June 3, 9:45pm -
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Dwight Yoakam
Dwight Yoakam is no stranger to the Nutty Brown family: The country radio outlaw has ventured out to the Hill Country to play the now-shuttered Nutty Brown Amphitheatre several times, including just months before the venue closed to make way for an H-E-B last November. So when Round Rock Amp, the new Nutty venue opened this spring, announced its debut season billing, Yoakam made the list. Round Rock is the second stop on a summer tour for the Californian cowpunk, bringing over 35 years of genre bending hits to a stage just north of Austin.Fri., June 3, 6pm -
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Emily Wells
Regards to the End was stirred up by an existential prompt: What inspiration can we take from the AIDS activists at the end of the 20th Century to confront climate change? Dramatic, patient, and powerful, the resulting 45-minute contemplation by classically trained composer Emily Wells provokes feelings of love and pain, bravery and fear. Like much of the Amarillo-born singer and multi-instrumentalist’s varied discography, February’s LP is catchy, operatic, and atmospherically focused, but it finds Wells inhabiting a particularly dire essence. “Don’t go easy on me,” she sings with crumbling emotional resonance on “All Burn No Bridge,” a song that could slot on a modern Pure Moods comp if it weren’t ostensibly about self-immolation.Fri., June 3, 9pm -
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Grimnasty Memorial Fundraiser
A memorial fundraiser for local hip-hop musician and visual artist Solomon "Grimnasty" Perry, who suddenly passed away this month. A GoFundMe page has been set up in his honor.Fri., June 3, 9pm. $5. -
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Visual Arts
GROW: Celebrating All the Austinites
Fisterra's project, The XYZ Atlas, asks where we feel a sense of belonging. Denver Gonzalez is the Mexican American art activist who has curated this three-part party, "exploring our most vulnerable and resilient experiences. His transitory collaborators challenge stigmas and invite every guest to explore and express wholehearted stories of survival." With much art and music and dance and film and a dinner catered by Free Lunch.Fri.-Sun., June 3-5, 7pm. Donations accepted. -
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Comedy
Jay Larson
This Jay Larson is known for his storytelling and his co-hosting of the popular “Crabfeast" podcast. He's in town to record his second hour-long comedy special, live, at the Creek and the Cave – and you're invited.Fri.-Sat., June 3-4, 7 & 9pm. $20-30. -
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Dance
Metamorphosis Dance: Ballet Under the Stars
Metamorphosis Dance brings its Ballet Under the Stars back to live performance after two pandemic years when the performance was presented virtually. This new showcase features "Grand Pas D’action" from La Bayadere, an excerpt from Midsummer Night’s Dream, and "Dance of the Hours" from La Gioconda, along with original contemporary ballet works, tap, and jazz.Fri., June 3, 8pm. Free. -
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Sports
NCAA Baseball Regionals
UT-Austin hosts and kicks off the tournament with a game vs. Air Force at 1pm Friday. Games are played twice per day through Sunday, and if necessary, Game 7 will be Monday. All-session passes are now available, and individual tickets go on sale Friday morning if available.June 3-6 -
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Visual Arts
People's Gallery: Opening Reception
The City of Austin presents the 17th People’s Gallery exhibition at City Hall, featuring a wide array of painting, sculpture, drawing, and other media by artists from across the Austin area. Tonight, come meet the artists and catch some live music.Fri., June 3, 6-9pm. Free. -
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Puttin' on the Ritz
Dust off your formalwear for an adult prom supporting Summer Break Theatre, which gives teachers a creative outlet after they give so much of themselves all year.Fri., June 3, 6-10pmBaker School, 3908 Avenue B -
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Special Screenings
Satanageddon!
Special Event: American Genre Film Archive's head archivist is taking Bat City Cinema to the West Coast, kicking off the tour with an explosion of evil at AFS. Screening includes two Seventies rarities, Satan War and Spectre, plus a malevolent medley of trailers, cartoons, and shorts.Fri., June 3, 8pm -
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TC Superstar, LeTrainiump, DJ GC Kid
Since opening in March, Chess Club – with its nondescript exterior and bantam capacity – has already emerged as a proving ground for new bands (catch those masked punks Mugger?) and an “underplay” for established acts (...Trail of Dead blew the roof off). This weekend’s got some good action: Expect a dance party Friday as local synth pop empaths TC Superstar cram in with Lousianna’s LeTrainiump, possessing an inviting mixture of mainstream pop, indie, and Y2K R&B.Fri., June 3, 10pm -
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Texas 4000 Day Zero
Join in to send off a group of students who'll be cycling to Anchorage (4000 miles) to raise awareness, hope, and funds for cancer research.Fri., June 3, 8am. Free, but RSVP.UT-Austin EER building, 24th & San Jacinto -
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Theatre
The Austin Séance at the Glass Coffin
Albert Lucio and Jake Cordero will conduct séance sessions over two nights at Austin's Glass Coffin. Welcome them back, y'all – it's one of the first public sessions for the veteran séance facilitators since the pandemic began.Fri.-Sat., June 3-4, 7 & 9:30pm. $40. -
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Tony Kamel, Calder Allen, Pierson Saxon
Wood & Wire anchor Tony Kamel tossed a solo strike last year with Back Down Home. The LP, recorded with Bruce Robison at the Bunker and released via his Next Waltz label, stretches Kamel’s musical muscles beyond string band bends with dives into Gulf Coast cajun rhythms and East Texas blues, but the songwriter’s gift for deep storytelling and scene-setting narrative still leads. Up first, Calder Allen continues the immense Texas artistic legacy of the Allen family (Terry, Jo Harvey, Bale Creek, Bukka, et al) as the young local preps his Charlie Sexton-produced debut bow, and Pierson Saxon dishes fresh soulful country.Fri., June 3, 8pm -
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Events
Two-Step Night
Learn how to two-step for the first time or brush up on your skills with a lesson from Dancin' Austin (7pm), then show off your moves at the dance with live music (7:30-9:30pm).Fri., July 29 -
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Theatre
Undark: A Radioactive Puppet Play
Trouble Puppet, Austin's premiere troupe of object manipulators and societal provocateurs, returns with this tale of female workers manufacturing luminous timepieces and navigational instruments using the newly discovered natural wonder: radium. The case of the “Radium Girls” is a story of shocking criminal negligence and the perseverance of women against a misogynistic system, and you can be sure that Connor Hopkins and company, working under a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation, will bring this fraught atomic time to vivid half-life onstage. And, look: Here's our reviewer's reaction to this new Trouble Puppet production.Through June 12. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 6pm. $15-37. -
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Dance
Ventana Ballet: Beautiful World
Here's a celebration of music, dance, visual art, and earth-themed refreshments, where Ventana Ballet and Austin Camerata premiere "A Million Alien Gospels," as composed by Michael Alec Rose and choreographed by AJ Garcia-Rameau and Dorothy O’Shea Overbey. Bonus: Capital Area Master Naturalists present the winners of the nature photography contest and Tree Folks lead a Tree ID activity.June 2-4. Thu., 6:30pm; Fri.-Sat., 6:30 & 9:30pm. $30. -
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Nightlife & Parties
"Fond of Each Other"
Tip your cowboy hat to the babe you're "fond of" and sip some cider as DJ Boi Orbison spins rare queer country vinyl as well as some familiar ol' LPsFri., June 3, 8-11pm -
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Events
Alzheimer's & Brain Awareness Month
Join the Alzheimer's Association in going purple and raising awareness this June. Find out how to donate and get involved online.Through June 30 -
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Visual Arts
Ao5 Gallery: Burner
This new show features works from globally renowned street artists Banksy, Zero Gradient, Harry Bunce, KEF!, Dalek, Pure Evil, and other famous image-makers.Through June 10 -
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Special Screenings
ATX Television Festival
They call it "TV camp for grownups," and any fan of the boob tube will find plenty to see and do, with screenings, panels, social events, and more at various locations all weekend.June 2-5 -
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Theatre
Auditions: Summer Youth Theatre: Mr. Burns
The Vortex seeks students ages 13-17 to participate in Summer Youth Theatre 2022. Now in its 30th year, this award-winning, tuition-free program rehearses and performs evenings and weekends (June 8-August 6), culminating in a full production, this year, of Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns: a post-electric play, under the direction of Jennifer Jennings. See the website for details and appointments.Auditions: June 5-7 -
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Austin Connected Business Mastermind
Join speakers and business owners from around the country for connection, advice, leadership, and fun.June 2-3. $298.
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