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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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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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Live at Raul's 40th anniversary bash w/ the Skunks, the Next, the Explosives, Larry Seaman
“It all runs together for me,” says master singer-songwriter Jon Dee Graham of being the teenage guitarist who replaced Eddie Muñoz in early Austin punk unit the Skunks. “The Raul’s period was so wild and vital to me.”: Graham revisits it Saturday, reuniting with fellow Skunks Jesse Sublett and Billy Blackmon onstage at Sam’s Town Point, marking the 40th anniversary of vintage local punk survey Live at Raul’s, reissued earlier this year. To celebrate, the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture has reassembled much of the LP’s cast besides the Skunks: the Next, Explosives, Standing Waves. After a cardiac incident in Chicago earlier this summer, Graham will be hitting his power chords from a chair.: “I’ve already been through it with Jesse,” affirms Graham. “He said, ‘If we have to roll you in on a gurney, we’ll do it that way!’”: After a 90-minute set at Fitzgerald’s Music Festival, which ended a seven-show run, the guitarist walked offstage to find his car.: “And next thing I knew, I was having my clothes cut off me inside an ambulance,” he says. “Let’s just say I was not well-hydrated. They think possibly my electrolytes might have been out of balance.”: Being out almost five minutes, Graham escaped brain damage but not nerve damage to his legs, hence being chairbound at recent shows.: “I walk with difficulty and with a cane,” he notes, “but every day is incrementally better. I can see a time in one month or six weeks where I’ll be standing up.”: This won’t stop him celebrating the personal watershed that was Live at Raul’s:: “I was 18, and it was the first time I’d ever been on a record. I remember finishing the show and thinking, ‘Well, that was pretty goddamn good!’”Sat., Sept. 21, 7pm -
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Blue Lapis Light: In Light
This latest Downtown spectacle of beauty and power from the acclaimed company features aerialists performing off the side of IBC Bank, dancers on Chinese poles, and an ensemble of ground-based performers. This event is not the sort of infrastructural phantasmagoria an arts-lover wants to miss, we reckon – so, yes, you'd best reserve tickets while you can.Through Sept. 29. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $25-65. -
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Special Screenings
Fast Color (2019)
Family Style: In Fast Color, Mbatha-Raw stars as Ruth, a young woman who is on the run, leaving a trail of seizure-induced earthquakes behind her. Local comic artist Cait Zellers will be in attendance at the Sat., Sept. 21, screening. Plus, $5 tickets for guests ages 17 & under (available at the box office only).Sat., Sept. 21, 2:30pm -
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Pecan Street Festival
This biannual street festival of arts & crafts vendors and live music knows how to party. Try an art class, or just park yourself in front of one of the stages with some handheld food and enjoy a performance. Don't worry about bringing the kids; they'll be busy getting their faces painted, staring rapt at one of the traveling street magicians, or petting zoo animals.Sat.-Sun., Sept. 21-22. Free.Sixth Street, from Brazos to I-35 -
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2019 Unite the Fight Gala
The Equality Alliance – that queer org that raises cash for other (small) queer orgs so they can focus on their mission, while the Alliance helps fund it. So getcher glitzy on for a night of drag, dinner, and divas!Sat., Sept. 21, 6:30pm -
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Just in time for the start of the school year, Joshua Harmon's ripped-from-the-headlines show, presented here under the direction of David Jarrott, takes a satirical look at the things some people will do to get their child into the right university. Starring Tim Blackwood, Beth Burroughs, Rebecca Robinson, Tucker Shepherd, Jennie Underwood, and the spectre of white liberal privilege.Through Oct. 6. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2:30pm. $23-25. -
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AIDS Walk Austin
Got those boots made for walking? Slip 'em on and head Downtown to raise money for 10 local and statewide AIDS service organizations in Central Texas and to ultimately reduce the number of new HIV infections in Travis County by 50% in the next year. As the walk's first-ever headlining performer, Big Freedia will get walkers bouncing with not one but two performances.Sat., Sept. 21, 9am-1pm. Free. -
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Amy Long: Codependence
Long's memoir of pain and its paradoxes documents her coming of age as an ambitious young writer plagued by chronic headache and entangled with a boyfriend’s opioid addiction. She presents the book in conversation with another Amy – Austin's own Amy Gentry, no less! – here this night.Sat., Sept. 21, 2pm -
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Anjunadeep Open Air w/ 16BL, Ben Böhmer, Luttrell, Marsh, Öona Dahl, Yotto
Electro rave: 16BL, Ben Böhmer, Luttrell, Marsh, Öona Dahl, Yotto.Sat., Sept. 21, 4pm -
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Ballet Austin: Carmina Burana
Carl Orff's soul-stirring composition built from ancient tales of drunken debauchery among a brotherhood of monks, presented as a full-length ballet? Indeed, squire – with choreography by Stephen Mills, accompaniment by the Austin Symphony Orchestra, and vocals (oh! those familiar yet still spine-tingling vocals!) by none other than the Conspirare Symphonic Choir. Recommended!Sept. 20-22. Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm; Sun., 3pm. $39-59. -
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Special Screenings
Bleak Street (La Calle de la Amargura) (2015)
Ripstein and his screenwriter wife Paz Alicia Garciadiego craft a carnivalesque, true-crime tale out of a cast of eccentric characters living in Mexico City. One of Mexico's filmmaking legends, Ripstein began his career as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel in The Exterminating Angel (1962). Ripstein will be in attendance at the screening.Sat., Sept. 21, 4pm -
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Butch Queen
Are y'all ready for this epic return? You know the drill, eight new-to-drag performers partner with a well-versed queen for a gorgeous battle of fresh meat. The winning mother-daughter pair receive $500 cash. And, as always, this dragtastic event is brought to you by Mother Mouthfeel and Louisianna Purchase of Dragula season 3. Sounds from DJ Chorizo Funk.Sat., Sept. 21, 10pm-2am. $15. -
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Camiba Art: The Story of the Deer in the Road
Bring a bright tangle of the wild outside deep into your soul by viewing this new exhibition of paintings from florapsychedelic artist Valerie Fowler, the woman who bends pigments to brilliantly warped realist effect and conjures forests that speak parseltongue to all that's serpentine in human memory. Also, Fowler will be performing three separate "crankie" shows, wherein she scrolls through a 30-foot-long narrative drawing accompanied by live music written and performed by Brian Beattie and preceded by writer Robin Chotzinoff's response to the artwork. Note that you've got to RSVP for those crankie performances, as the joint will likely be packed, OK? See website for details.Crankie show: Thu., Sept. 26, 6pm -
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Food Events
Central District Brewing: Hurricane Dorian Relief Benefit
That small-batch brewery located in the central business district of Austin will showcase an array of collaborative beers to benefit Mercy Chefs, a nonprofit that serves professionally prepared meals for victims, volunteers, and first responders in national emergencies and natural disasters. That benefit part is why this event is good for humanity. Why it's good for you, specifically, Austinite, is that CDB's two-day event features innovative takes from Emmer & Rye, Suerte, and the Brewer’s Table. We know, right – nothing but this city's finest.Sept 21-22. Sat., 11am-11pm; Sun., noon-8pm -
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Comedy
Chris Cubas
This city's favorite lover of cute animal pictures returns to the Velv for a weekend of big laughs. Surely you've seen Cubas on Comedy Central and @Midnight, right? Surely you've heard people telling you he's like Austin's not-so-secret comedy weapon that'll eventually conquer the entire world of observational stand-up? Listen to those people: They're telling the truth. Give yourself a treat and catch this funny guy, with Roxy Castillo opening, right in the somewhat sclerotic heart of Downtown this weekend.Sept. 20-21. Fri., 9 & 11pm; Sat., 9pm. $10. -
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Emancipet 20th Anniversary Gala
Celebrate 20 years of healthy pets with Emancipet! The evening will kick off with cocktails and a silent auction, followed by dinner and an awards ceremony hosted by Jim Spencer, Edward Flores, and Kaxan aka CityDog Austin.Sat., Sept. 21, 5:30-8:30pm. $350. -
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Gender Unbound Art Fest 2019
Save that date! Austin's trans and intersex art festival returns for year four to showcase the best, brightest, and most awesome work from a bevy of talented creators. From visual art to makers, poets to musicians, and some stunning drag – there's something to wow everyone. (And don't miss their first ever Film Showcase on Wednesday, Sept. 18, at Ground Floor Theatre from 7-10pm!): We love this fest so much, we invite you to check out our coverage from previous years, including last year's photo gallery, a Q&A with mixed-media performance artist and writer Alok Vaid-Menon and filmmaker Lisa Donato; and some history of how Drew Riley started the fest.Sat.-Sun., Sept. 21-22 -
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Theatre
Instructions for a Seance
Part DIY seance, part historical cabaret, this is one woman's attempt to contact and resurrect the escape artist Harry Houdini. Inspired by the Houdini archives at the Harry Ransom Center, this show by Katie Bender is "a funny, haunting, and haunted exploration of ambition, legacy, and familial responsibility."Through Sept. 29. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $15-30. -
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Books
L.B. Deyo: The God-Damn Fool
He's told the world about urban exploration in NYC right before 9/11, in the book Invisible Frontier … he's been the president of the Dionysium's intellectual confab for decades … he works motion graphics like a superstar and he's made a feature-length film, FFS … and now this Deyo releases his first prose novel, the second publication from the Austin-based company Persistence of Vision.Sat., Sept. 21, 7pm -
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Liz Behan: One Woman at Dusk
Our queer’d country star returns to share her tall tales of country dyke living. Laura de la Fuente is Liz Behan, and we promise she’ll make ya laugh ’til it hurts so good.Saturdays Thru Sept. 21. Saturdays, 7-8pm. $10. -
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Classical Music
Texas Early Music Project: Oh, Henry!
It's "The World According to Henry Purcell" for this season opener, and we're just lucky to live in it. Daniel Johnson and his talented TEMP gang celebrate the legendary English composer with a variety of works for the church, the stage, and the court – with guests Peter Walker, baritone, and Ryland Angel, countertenor, and more.Sept. 21-22. Sat., 7:30pm (at Redeemer Presbyterian); Sun., 3pm (at St. Martin's Lutheran). $5-30. -
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Food Events
Whiskies of the World
This is one of the largest whiskey-tasting events in the U.S. of A., featuring more than 250 distilled spirits from around the globe, along with their makers and ambassadors, for a night of tastings, food pairings, cigar pairings, and a convivial atmosphere of whiskey-tinted camaraderie. It's also a night of upscale garment-flaunting, so plan to wear your best kilts, jackets, party dresses, and so on.Sat., Sept. 21, 5-9pm. $100-125.Distro Hall, 1500 E. Fourth -
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"To Believe" Opening Reception
"To Believe" visits many approaches to faith and belief in contemporary and historic East Austin through video, photography, digital maps, and performance. Opening reception features a performance by Austin musician W. C. Clark.Opening reception: Sat., Sept. 21, 2-5pm. Exhibit: Sept. 21-Dec. 20. Free.Oakwood Cemetery Chapel, 1601 Navasota -
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Theatre
:Humpty
The Vortex is gonna rock your brain's cradle with this "twisted nursery rhyme pantomime" conjured up by that irrepressible Melissa Vogt, featuring an all-star cast grooving to an original score by Chad Salvata, and the whole fractured fairy-tale spectacle of it directed by Bonnie Cullum. Note that this darkling narrative from Ethos – it's funny and disgusting, charming and startling – is alive with adult aesthetics and not appropriate for children. And here is Trey Gutierrez's review of the show.Through Sept. 28. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $15-35. -
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Special Screenings
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors (1987)
In the Drive-in Forest: A psychiatrist helps teens at a mental hospital battle the knife-wielding demon, Freddy Krueger, who is invading their dreams.Sat., Sept. 21, 10:30pm -
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