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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 […]
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. In Austin, Forklift is partnering with the Watershed Protection Department and residents of the Onion Creek watershed to present The Way of Water: Onion Creek. […]
In desperate search of a new stage, four washed-up Broadway stars rally behind a small-town prom facing controversy. As they aim to shine a light on themselves, they encounter a brave girl fighting for her right to bring her girlfriend to the school prom. Nominated for 7 Tony Awards including BEST MUSICAL, The Prom expertly captures the […]
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 scholar Lisa B. Thompson. The show premieres 25 years after the debut of her classic comedy Single Black Female and is dedicated to Thompson’s mentor […]
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 Shakespeare—meet in the back room of a pub to collaborate on a history play cycle, navigate the perils of art under a totalitarian regime, and […]
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 […]
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 scholar Lisa B. Thompson. The show premieres 25 years after the debut of her classic comedy Single Black Female and is dedicated to Thompson’s mentor […]
Family friendly music, bubbles and fun, the second Sunday of every month. A great place to get the kids engaged in activity that's enriching as well as entertaining, while parents enjoy the food, beverage and social time, beneath beautiful pecan trees.
Saxophonist Gil Del Bosque hosts the AJW Youth Jam, offering the opportunity for middle and high school-age jazz students to sit in with some of Austin's finest jazz musicians! Preregistration not required. It's free and fun, so bring friends and family and come on down! This project has been financed in whole or in part […]
It's Frida Friday ATX's 7th Bidi Bidi bday and we're celebrating with an Anything for Selena's party featuring Selena Cover band, Drag performances, DJ's, photo opps, 75+ Latinx, BIPOC & […]
