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Founded by a group of artists in 2005, the festival features unique live performances from Austin and around the world at sites and venues across the city, ranging from intimate galleries, theaters, and clubs, to large scale projects springing to life in parks, under bridges, and across entire neighborhoods. We’ll be celebrating our 20th Anniversary […]
Wonderful India Festival showcases the beauty of India’s traditional arts, music, and dance through a month-long exhibition and series of cultural events featuring local artists, musicians, dancers, and performers. An art exhibition combined with music and dance performances and cultural celebrations… Experience the wonder of India’s artistic and cultural traditions through exhibition of artwork, music […]
Kala Darpan is proud to present Pt. Nishad Bakre in a Hindustani Classical/Semi-classical vocal concert accompanied by Shri. Abhay Datar on Tabla and Shri. Anant Joshi on harmonium. Pt. Bakre is a disciple of renowned Hindustani classical vocalists like Pt. Ulhas Kashalkar, Late Pt. Dinkar Kaikini, Dr. Ram Deshpande and Dr. Arun Dravid.
Freedom House is a multimedia installation that includes poems, film, furniture, and collages that simulate what freedom — embodied in everyone’s most delicate and personal place — looks and feels like. The poems in this exhibit are from KB Brookins’ book of the same name, Freedom House. Brookins states, "While writing the Freedom House book, […]
A performance featuring the Onion Creek watershed and the work of people who steward it. The Way of Water is a global arts-based project bringing people together around water challenges. […]
The VORTEX and Fusebox Festival proudly present the commissioned world premiere of The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body, a new choreopoem by award-winning playwright and Black cultural studies […]
An aging ruler, an oppressive police state, a restless polarized people seething with paranoia: it’s a dangerous time for poets. Two of them—the great Kit Marlowe and the up-and-comer Will […]
It’s a faraway age of hope and inclusivity; in other words, it’s 2015. When a tight-knit circle of married gays and lesbians – comfy in the new mainstream – sees themselves through the eyes of their rakish transgender pal, it’s clear that the march toward progress is anything but unified. With stinging satire and acute […]
