This year’s Mozart's free World Coffee Festival will feature samples from the 30 countries that provide the beans for Mozart’s special blends. Guests can taste the sweetness of a Colombian coffee drink brewed with sugar water and served with a chaser of lemonade. And yes, “ Tinto con Aqua Panella” will be served free of charge to the attendees this year. Music and Fun!
Prost! To Gemütlichkeit and Cheer Since 1981
Oktoberfest Celebrates 45 Years in the Polka Capital of Texas! For 45 unforgettable years, Fredericksburg’s Oktoberfest has brought the spirit of Bavaria to the heart of Texas. This beloved family-friendly festival is packed with three days of lively music, joyful dancing, hearty toasting, and warm Gemütlichkeit.
On 2011’s Indestructible Machine, Lydia Loveless ripped a barroom stalker with mocking rebuff “Steve Earle,” which included the line: “I keep askin’, ‘Steve, would you please introduce me to your son?’” Her fierce talent made that introduction as the rocking roots siren now joins forces with Justin Townes Earle, who capped a decade’s rise with last year’s stylistic sweeping seventh LP, Kids in the Street.
Back for year three! ABP is an extended weekend created to celebrate the talents, culture, and interests of Austin's Black LGBTQ communities. From parties to art shows, brunch crawls and yoga, Austin Black Pride is not to be missed!
Running most Tuesdays (and a few Saturdays), this series aims to inspire kids to learn more and help them find ways to give back for animals in need. Rotating events include storytime, art workshops, wildlife rescue, teddy bear surgery, and outdoor movie nights.
Let's get this blue wave rolling! Show your support and hear from candidates Lupe Valdez, Mike Collier, Justin Nelson, Joi Chevalier, Miguel Suazo, Kim Olson, and Roman McAllen.
CM Greg Casar discusses the city's 2019 budget and wants to hear what you'd like to see prioritized in the coming year. Light refreshments and supervised children’s activities available. Spanish and Vietnamese interpretation services provided.
Unbounded is taking Tuesday to a whole new level with a glam celebration of the city's QPOC creatives. Mama Duke, Chorizo Funk, Adzua-Gette Cole, and Nevolution put ya on the dance floor while Tierra Denae Fisher creates live painting and a popup shop by Las Ofrendas. Get hunty bbs.
You know we love this place, right? Now we can't help but love it a little more, because, for every burger sold during June, the Jacoby’s team will donate a burger to the Central Texas Food Bank. Now that's some tasty community spirit!
The Texas Stars have advanced to the Calder Cup Finals (best of 7 games). They've got an even score against the Toronto Marlies and will be bringing the series home to Cedar Park tonight (June 5, 7pm). Two more games are scheduled for Thursday and Saturday.
Films of Moustapha Alassane: Pioneer filmmaker Moustapha Alassane made some of Niger's first short and feature films. His artistic approach combined painting, animation, ethnography, and the avant-garde, heavily influencing his West African contemporaries. This screening will be introduced by African cinema specialist, Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe, Ph.D.
Cynda Valle creates luminous portraits using an antiquated technique of oil glazing and tempera paints, building up the surface of the canvas with more than 30 translucent layers, working at it as if she were possessed by the ghost of Hannes Bok. And the results are often astonishingly beautiful.
Mia Parton of Aeparmia Engineering joins the chamber for a discussion on navigating the different types of minority business certifications and how to use them.
Seventy years after the luxury liner sank in the Atlantic more than 150 items from the wreck were brought up from the ocean floor and brought together for this fascinating show. Timed tickets are required.
Jieun Beth, represented here in a solo show curated by the Ney Museum's Oliver Franklin, examines the influence of the body, memory, and transience of life on the understanding of one’s identity.
Do you have dreams of drag? Think you have what it takes to be a king? Then getcher submission tape into Boiz of Austin ASAP! They're looking for a new dude to join em and maybe it's you! Submissions are due by midnight, June 11. Selected individuals will be invited to an in-person interview June 13, beginning at 6pm.
Newly Restored: Two troubled teens in 1970s France won't let the world keep them apart. Each screening will be followed by a video Q&A featuring Olivier Assayas and Richard Linklater previously recorded in March.
This exhibition is enhanced with artifacts providing historical context for the paintings, rich with the unbroken connection the Comanche people have with their roots. Also, Rodeo: The Exhibition. Boy howdy, it's the history of the Texas rodeo – vibrant, interactive, and fully documented in this fine new show.