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The 30th annual Hot Sauce Festival is going virtual this year! Donate to the Central Texas Food Bank to count yourself in on the spicy festivities. The live event will feature winner announcements, hot sauce judging highlights, surprises from Camila McConaughey and Eldorado Cafe, plus music from Go Fever, Como Las Movies, Mike Melinoe, and Nemegata. Your donation helps Central Texas families in need and comes with special perks from local sponsors like Joy Organics, Tiff's Treats, Grassroots Harvest, and dozens more. Tasting kits are sold out, but all-new Hot Sauce merch is still available. Get more info and make your donation at austinchronicle.com/hot-sauce.

Salvage Vanguard Theater presents a new solo work by Taji Senior that examines America’s failed vision of a more perfect union. See it livestreamed via Howlround, or – drive in to Rogge Ranch (3506 Rogge Lane) and see it performed live, from the comfort of your car.

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, Austin School of Fashion Design is selling face masks, and your contribution is very much appreciated. They're 100% cotton, handmade, reversible, washable, and reusable, and include a filter pocket. Special orders are accepted, and they'll ship everywhere. Get fun designs including Pride, Marvel, Spider-Man, sugar skulls, and more.

Louisianna and her hell hounds are back with an evening of macabre drag, featuring performances by Evah Destruction, Bulimianne Rhapsody, Hermajestie, and more spine-tingling talent.

The good folks of Dimension Gallery – you know, right across Springdale from that naturally social-distanced and so-calming-to-visit Sculpture Park – have begun new artist-led partnerships with Austin's social justice advocates, and they're heralding that collaboration with a series of window displays by local artists. First up is Reflection Time by Ender Martos, a colorful installation designed to spark dialog around inclusion, collectivism, and our present time of reflection. Note: 50% of all sales from this exhibition will go to support JUST and their programs for low-income female entrepreneurs.

Shop Frida Friday's market full of independent BIPOC and WoC artists and community creatives all weekend long. Special programming includes a DJ session with DJ Kick It Friday and a Sunday conversation with Womxn of Color Collective.

This annual celebration of young composing talent, presented by acclaimed maestros Graham Reynolds and Peter Stopschinski, goes virtual, of course, and will turn your favorite computer's screen and speakers into a chamber of sonic glory.

There's not just one but two new exhibitions at this esteemed Eastside gallery: 1) This year's Eyes Got It winner David Alcantar presents "Continually, the Unnameable Moves On,"illustrations and musings about negotiation, the show itself perforce renegotiated due to Our Present Circumstances. 2) M.E. Laursen has curated "Occupied," a group show exploring the experience of occupying a body, featuring work by Christina Coleman, André Fuqua, Alex Kang, Ling-Lin Ku, Jay Jones, Diego Mireles Duran, Weylin Neyra, Rachael Starbuck, Tino Ward, and Ariel Wood.

Mexic-Arte presents the first retrospective exhibit of Bruno Andrade, the distinguished Texan whose work is "inspired by nature, which he paints from memory and from his own interior vision."

Mexic-Arte Museum is seeking community altar artists for their Día de los Muertos celebration this fall. Artists must be able to complete installation between Sept. 7 and Sept. 15. Email curator George Vargas for an application.

This month marks 30 years since Deee-Lite released their debut spinner World Clique and your hostesses Louisianna Purchase and Bulimianne Rhapsody are putting the groove in your heart with performances from Arcie Cola, Kitty Buick, CupCake, Sylvia Hatchet-Purchase, and many special guests.

Join Texas Campaign for the Environment for this 10th annual event, a contest for fashion designers, stylists, and models to create original high-fashion looks out of recycled and recovered materials. Enjoy a unique fashion show, participate in the People’s Choice awards, and learn more about TCE's work to fight pollution in Texas. There's also an online auction with unique items from some of Austin's favorite vendors, restaurants, and performers, going all week leading up to the event.

Here's a familiar but wholly revitalized play for young audiences, performed last summer by the talented ensemble of the Vortex's Summer Youth Theatre. Note: This special broadcast benefits both the Vortex and playwright Ingrid Oslund’s new Juniper Tree Ensemble company!

Following the Austin Justice Coalition's policy meeting they’ll discuss Running by Natalia Sylvester and how it relates to AJC’s police advocacy work.

AusPop presents a celebration of the legendary Armadillo World Headquarters, offering an impressive array of posters, photos, and newspaper clippings with which to immerse yourself in the venue's well-documented history. (No one may know exactly where we're going, these days, but this is – vividly – where we've been.) You can schedule a time in advance to visit the gallery (any Saturday or Sunday) and you've gotta wear a mask, citizen, because this long strange trip is something we're still in the confounding middle of, y'dig?

For its 27th annual iteration, AFF is virtual, and is packed with film screenings and events, including five days of panels and intimate roundtables with the world’s biggest names in film and eight days of film premieres, screenings, and Q&As.

Download an age-appropriate "Quest Log" (children, youth, teen, or adult), then submit a form whenever a challenge is completed and earn a digital badge. Use the Austin Public Library's curbside pickup or virtual catalog to check out materials to complete your quest.