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  • Sangeeta Kaur in Concert

    Austin's own Grammy Award-winning singer, producer, and multimedia artist Sangeeta Kaur is partnering with Wonderspaces to bring an interactive music and art experience. The art installation "SWING," created by Brazilian artist Rejane Cantoni, will be featured and transformed into Sangeeta's stage. Details and tickets online.
    Tues. Sept. 26, 8pm-11pm  
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    Wonderspaces Austin

  • Get Ready Central Texas Emergency Preparedness Fair

    The City of Austin Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEM) is hosting the second annual Get Ready Central Texas Emergency Preparedness Fair. The event is free, family-friendly and open to the public. Spanish and ASL interpreters will be available. Full info online.
    Fri. Sept. 22, 3pm-7pm  
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    ACC Eastview Campus
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    Austin City Limits Music Festival

    Three days of live music on several stages, all of Austin's fave foods, and lots of fun activities around the park make for an exhausting but exhilarating and unforgettable experience. Single-day and full-weekend passes are available, now with a layaway option. Read more as the fest approaches at austinchronicle.com/music.
    Fri.-Sun., Oct. 6-8 & 13-15. $170 and up.  
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    Zilker Park

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    Theatre

    Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

    Step into the world of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as the iconic duo solve the case of the Baskerville family curse.
    Sept. 29-Oct. 15. Fri.-Sat., 7pm; Sun., 2pm. $45 and up.  
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    TexARTS

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    Halloween and Dia de los Muertos

    Bat City Scaregrounds

    A fully immersive, multi-acre entertainment complex dedicated to all things Halloween, with three highly detailed haunted houses, live music, Vegas-style performances, seasonal food, and a dark market with 10 vendors.
    Sept. 29-Oct. 31. Open select Thu.-Sun. evenings and Halloween  
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    Bat City Scaregrounds, 14101 South Turnersville Rd., Buda

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    Visual Arts

    Butridge Gallery: Access

    Witness, for your delight, Neal Flynn’s exhibition of mostly new assemblage, collage, and site-specific intervention exploring ideas relating to nostalgia, loss, violence, ownership, and modern Western culture.
    Sept. 30.-Nov. 25  
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    Dougherty Arts Center

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    Butridge Gallery: Boxed In

    Jacob Guzman depicts people of color and aspects of daily inner-city working class struggles, inspired by his personal experiences and resistance to stereotypes and comparisons,
    Oct. 6-Nov. 4  
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    Dougherty Arts Center

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    Theatre

    Cabarex: Origenes

    ProyectoTEATRO, in collaboration with the Vortex, ¡Escándalo! and other Latinx artists, invite you to jump back in time with this comedic and risqué time-traveling journey to discover the origins of the Latino world (well, at least their version of how it all began).
    Sept. 23-Oct. 8. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 6pm. $15-37.  
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    The Vortex

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    Davis Gallery: Darden Smith

    Darden Smith is a songwriter, poet, photographer, and visual artist who embraces the abstractions of Texas’ wide-open spaces in all their intimate detail. Through his latest work he takes you into his travelog sketchbook and minimalist creations.
    Opening reception: Sat., Sept. 23, 4-7pm
    Davis Gallery

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    Hard Served Soft: Queer and Trans Textiles

    From woven tapestries of ocean garbage to quilted scenes of trans injustice, this group show brings together 10 artists who explore hard stuff in soft ways. Featuring works by Ben Aqua, Kendra Bergman, Beth Schindler, Michelle Devereux, Grayson Hunt, Jessica Gritton, Carly Ostler, Jasmine Amazing, Bella Maria Varela, and Ian Gerson.
    Through Oct. 14
    MASS Gallery

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    ICOSA: Darkages

    Leon Alesi and John Mulvany aim to unearth, uncover, and breathe new life into images and artifacts that may have seemed invisible, hidden and unknowable. Alesi’s photographs, collages, assemblages and found objects embody a sophisticated folk-art sensibility suggestive of an imagined past that echoes into the present. Mulvany’s paintings originate in extensive photographic research from Victorian-era natural history museums and West Texas taxidermy shops.
    Opening reception: Fri., Sept. 29, 7-10pm
    ICOSA

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    Link & Pin Gallery: Chroma + Lux

    The name of this show derives from chroma, from the Greek khrōma meaning color, and lux, from Latin, meaning light. Now artists Larry Akers and Janet Brooks bring the two together in an exciting intersection of styles, methods, and materials.
    Opening reception: Thu., Oct. 5, 6-8pm
    Link & Pin

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    Food Events

    Locktoberfest

    Here comes the first annual Locktoberfest, soon enough overflowing shops, bars, and restaurants in downtown Lockhart, Texas, bringing you the essence of world-famous Oktoberfest celebrations, combining traditional Bavarian culture with a local Texas twist. Savor the flavors of Germany with mouth-watering fest foods, from homemade bratwurst by the Sausage Kings of Lockhart, pretzels and beer cheese, to German-themed pizza, schnitzel, and sauerkraut. Test the strength of your powerful thews at Masskrugstemmen, the traditional steinholding competition.
    Fri.-Sun., Oct. 6-8. Free to attend.

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    Lydia Street Gallery: Harmonizing the Rapture of Color

    Although Madelon Umlauf's paintings are inspired by nature, she often chooses color palettes that are atypical of what's seen in nature, reflecting a belief that abstract art is the key to a full comprehension of reality.
    Opening reception: Sat., Sept. 23, 6-9pm
    Lydia Street Gallery

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    Visual Arts

    Mexic-Arte Museum: 40 years of Dia de los Muertos

    This exhibit presents an impressive collection of relevant artworks created by artists with an intimate connection to the Mexic-Arte Museum and the Austin community.
    Opening reception: Fri., Sept. 22, 6-9pm
    Mexic-Arte Museum

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    Mystic Mirrors: Transcending the Veil

    Here's a surreal exhibit that bends the rules of perception, a show of work by more than 40 artists, presenting a "poetic dance of the subconscious, where reality and fantasy waltz together, leaving you both entranced and questioning the boundaries of your own imagination."
    Opening reception: Fri., Sept. 29, 6-10pm
    ArtUs Co

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    Offering: A Balm in a World of Wounds

    Cloud Tree Gallery presents this solo exhibition by Valerie Fowler, displaying 17 new oil paintings, large and small, in the artist's brilliant florapsychedelic style. Bonus: The opening reception includes a performance featuring "Three Spells" by Robin Chotzinoff and Malena Pennycook.
    Opening Reception: Fri. Sept. 22, 7-10pm
    Cloud Tree

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    Out of Town

    Oktoberfest

    Just a short jaunt from the city, find the ultimate celebration of German heritage in the polka capital of Texas: live music on five stages, waltz and yodel contests, a Kinderpark for the kiddos, dozens of food and drink vendors, and lots more, including a chance to shake your tailfeather at the Chicken Dance.
    Fri.-Sun., Oct. 6-8  
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    Fredericksburg

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    Halloween and Dia de los Muertos

    Pumpkin Nights

    Venture along a half-mile walking path, where you’ll discover fantastical installations built using thousands of hand-carved real and artificial pumpkins. The celebration continues with entertainment and games in the Village festival area.
    Sept. 21-Oct. 30. $14-26; kids 3 and under, free.  
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    Pioneer Farms

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    Dance

    SoFly Social: Grand Opening Party

    The "largest pole dance studio in Texas," now in their new space at Springdale Station, has expanded their classes to include aerial silks, lyra, and aerial pole. Tonight's celebration includes performances by instructors and special guest stars, with an afterparty that'll have DJ Crescdendoll spinning Eighties and New Wave music upstairs.
    Fri., Oct. 6, 7pm-12mid. Free.
    SoFly Social

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    Theatre

    Sordid Lives

    Austin Rainbow Theatre presents their inaugural production: Del Shores’ raucous Texas comedy about "about accepting our loved ones for who they are," starring nationally acclaimed drag entertainer and local celebrity Nadine Hughes as Brother Boy. Directed by Christopher Preslar.
    Oct. 6-14. Thu.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm; Sun., 2pm. $20.  
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    Ground Floor Theatre

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    Theatre

    Twelfth Night

    The Baron’s Men present Shakespeare’s romantic comedy about grief, mistaken identity, and finding love, directed by Shannon Gibson.
    Sept. 29-Oct. 12. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $17-25.
    The Curtain Theatre
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