Experience the spirit of Greece with delectable Greek food and drink, dancing, live entertainment from Greece, shopping, and more at this fun, family-friendly event. Opa!
Texas Performing Arts presents its all-new 2024/25 Season showcasing pioneering performances across multiple genres. Highlights include new work by visionaries in their fields—Twyla Tharp, Branford Marsalis, Huang Yi, Andrew Schneider, Suzanne Bocanegra & Lili Taylor, and more. Save 20% when you buy three or more shows.
¡Órale! The Hideout Theatre – recent host to such Spanish-language shows as Escañdalo: The Improvised Telenovela and Maestro en Español – is offering a free intro-to-improv class completely in Spanish, led by Rosemarie Frezza.
Peep the Texas premiere about a "bewitching unsung Hollywood icon, also known as the pimp to the stars." Learn about the life, times, and orgies, planned and arranged by Scotty Bowers.
Here's an exhibition of new works by Austin ceramic artistsClaire Bresette and Jennifer Hill. Here's an exhibition of enigmatic narrative tiles and equally intriguing standalone objects. Here's an exhibition at Atelier 1205 that's well worth your hungry eyes' time.
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.
The painterly maestro Vincent Valdez is joined in conversation by NPR's Latino USA journalist Maria Hinojosa on the opening day for his large oil-on-canvas work The City.
Tue., July 17, 6:30-8:30pm. Free with museum admission.
The elegant carved wood sculptures of Caprice Pierucci. The photographs of delicate cheesecloth drapings by Charles Heppner. Together they make for a compelling dialog of harmony, form, and composition – complicating the walls of this excellent gallery. (See our full review right here.) Recommendation: See the art, then grab some great food at the Soup Peddler location just a few blocks away.
This is a free, 90-minute, on-demand class with Hal Croasmun, who will break down the components of what makes a good thriller and instruct you on how you can incorporate these elements into your own work.
Do you know someone who is still rockin' it at or after 60? Connected Senior Care Advantage is searching for a dozen inspirational adults ages 60-69 that are "healthy in mind and body and are contributing to Austin in some way." The winners will be selected by a panel of celebrity judges and included in a calendar photo shoot.
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.
Signature Program: This transgressive animated film from 1973 Japan has been recently restored. Blending gorgeous, watercolor-infused Japanese landscapes with Western influences like Art Nouveau and Expressionism, the film tells the sexually outré and hallucinogenic story of two lovers in a feudal village.
Essential Cinema: The Bitter Tears of Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The director's quintessential film is set in the lobby of a Spanish resort hotel as a bunch of actors and crew members wait for the director to show up.
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.
Share your feedback, concerns, and comments regarding the Dougherty Arts Center's redevelopment project with PARD via an online survey available in both English and Spanish.
Summer Classic Film Series: This martial arts film succeeds as a great pulp yarn, a historical drama, an epic love story, a humorous action tale, and a modern feminist fable. (Double feature: Dragon Inn.)