The Austin Gamblers, who compete in the groundbreaking PBR (Professional Bull Riders) Teams’ league, and Young’s Motorsports have announced a partnership designating the Gamblers as the primary sponsor of Leland Honeyman Jr.’s No. 42 Chevrolet Camaro for the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Circuit of the Americas (COTA) when NASCAR rolls in for a thrilling weekend of racing.
Following a recent SXSW visit and NPR Tiny Desk debut, forceful Brooklyn rapper Hasben Jones tours charismatic 2018 album Acrylic. Always masked, the RCA-signed MC known as Leikeli47 opts for punchy empowerment takes like “Girl Blunt” in front of a group dressed as uniformed TSA agents providing live backing. Bouncy Atlanta voice Yung Baby Tate (née Farris) totes her first sassy full-length, Girls.
We can't recommended this thing highly enough, isn't that how the saying goes? It's true here: This Back Pack quartet of comic and live-narrative brilliance – that's Pete Betcher, Katie Kohler, Justin Morley, and Jeremiah Rosenberger – will, at the very least, put a big ol' grin on your entertainment-craving face with a "fast-paced movement-based comedy extravaganza creatively combining non-spoken performance, music, dance, and media, this time plopped in the round, for an all-sides-are-our-good-side viewing experience."
Through April 20. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2:30pm. $15.
That unstoppable Ready/Set/Go! company presents an evening of dance from Katherine Hodges, Rosalyn Nasky(!), Emily Rushing, and their cohort of kinetic conspirators.
Landmarks celebrates the opening of Beth Campbell's newest commission, Spontaneous future(s), Possible past, with an artist Q&A moderated by theorist Timothy Morton.
Evergreens: Yankee ingenue Harper arrives at an elite ballet academy just in time for all hell to break loose: mysterious deaths, maggots falling from the ceiling, and a grisly end for prolific oddball Kier. Does unspeakable evil lurk behind the walls? You betcha.
Witness the return of Atlanta’s Whores., who stop by on their way to Denton’s Thin Line Fest. The viciously noise-rocking trio gets support from Austin clamor punks Cross Builder, sludge metallers Forebode, and riffcore rockers Drip-Fed.
The Austin Creative Art Center presents this exhibition from Rejina Thomas – a show of paintings, architectural embellishments, and monumental glasswork "using geometric form and color to convey meaning and expression, reflecting the personal by removing the glamor to deconstruct racial history."
During 2018, Medearis – known to millions as The Kitchen Diva – donated several books, manuscripts, photographs, awards, and research papers to the Carver Museum. Now, they’ve been curated and presented as this new exhibition.
This show unites the work of Austin art educators Kiley Grantges and Jennifer Schroeder. Grantges elevates drinking straws and office copy paper into bas-relief arrays; Schroeder reconstitutes the exuberant mess resulting from her young students’ art explorations into paper mosaics.
Austin Bat Cave, a nonprofit organization that offers free creative writing programs to local youth ages 6 to 18, is holding a school supplies drive through April. If you would like to donate pencils, pens, paper, tape, composition notebooks, or any other classroom supplies, email heather@austinbatcave.org to learn how and where to drop off your items.
Signature Program: Franco Rosso’s incendiary film had its world premiere at Cannes in 1980 but went unreleased in the U.S. for “being too controversial, and likely to incite racial tension.” (It actually carries an X rating in the UK.) The narrative focuses on Blue, a young Jamaican living in Brixton.
Thursdays, 7pm, Fri., April 12, 8pm, Sat., April 20, 8pm, Fri., April 26, 8pm, Sat., May 4, 8pm, Fri., May 10, 8pm, Fri., May 24, 8pm, Fri., June 7, 8pm, Fri., June 21, 8pm, Fri., July 5, 8pm and Fri., July 19, 8pm