Dan Whitaker

Marty Muse & Friends

The Swindlers

Two-Steppin' Tuesday w/ Weldon Henson

W.C. Clark

An LGBTQIA social climbing group focused on providing a supportive & joyful space for queer climbers to reach new heights.

Queer Cuties Climb

Having trouble managing difficulties in your life? This peer-led support group offers discussion on stress management, coping skills, and resilience all within a trauma-informed & community-centric space.

Resiliency Workshop

Fingerpistol, two-step dance lessons w/ Hill Country Two Step (7:00)

A sacred tobacco ceremony and sound healing opening with intention and calling in guides, angels, and master teachers, leading to a shamanic ceremony with hapé and meditation. Stay after for a vegan potluck.

Hapé Ceremony & Community Potluck

Jace Cadle & Kody Lee, the Troubadillos (5:00)

Queer Club throws their monthly drag brunch with host Miss Malibu Imported. Plus: a lip synch showdown and tune by DJ Aminal.

Queer Club: A Dose of Drag

A show by queers, for queers, featuring host Basura, cast members Miss Good and Yvonna F. Mei, and special guests.

Queer AF!

This two-part exhibition explores the history and contemporary urgency of climate-related issues. Curated by journalist Jeff Goodell, who has written extensively on the topic, it's the first exhibition at the Blanton to explore one topic across several of the museum’s temporary gallery spaces. See our review of the show right here.

If The Sky Were Orange: Art In the Time of Climate Change

Austin-based artist Pepe Coronado brings together two bodies of print, both of which explore the ever-evolving nature of journeys and exchanges. The “Apertura” series comprises large black-and-white monotypes that explore spaces both transitory and evolving; the "Mapping" series points to the history of relations between the United States and the Dominican Republic as long, complicated, and in constant flux.

Pepe Cornado: Traces

Strap on your skates and hit the ice at the rink in Hill Country Galleria's Central Plaza.

Bee Cave on Ice

This collection of paintings by Alexandra Abbott explores a secret, magic world existing within the ordinary. Observe the voluptuous curves of a flower, the movement of clouds across a desert landscape, insects steadily and silently working, rock walls stacked by hands hundreds of years ago, and things so quiet they are hardly noticed.

Butridge Gallery: Finding Wholeness

Jon Blondell, Mitch Watkins Trio (6:00)

Here's an art show tribute to everyone’s favorite pocket monsters, featuring all-new artwork from more than 20 local artists. If you’re a fan of the card game, the video games, the animated series, the films, the manga, or all of the above, this free, all-ages event is for you! With art by Vinnie Martinez, George Brenner, Tessa Morrison, Chet Phillips, Half-Human, Mia Burwitz, and more.

Guzu Gallery: Catch 'Em All!

Yuni Lee creates dimensional paintings richly imbued with nostalgia, blending references to her birthplace of Seoul, South Korea, and American culture. In this solo show, she constructs large, abstract paintings using layers of texture and pattern, collaging traditional Korean fabrics and other materials to create dynamic forms that reference and fuse nature and technology.

Women & Their Work: Techstalgia

Aali Moo, Alex Malave, Our Last Daze, Gemini

Essential Cinema: Godard in the Eighties: A new series opens with the director's "second first film," about a newly separated couple (Jacques Dutronc and Nathalie Baye) whose lives are affected by a sex worker (Isabelle Huppert).

Every Man for Himself (1980)

Soul Man Sam w/ Durawa

Beatle Bash w/ the Eggmen

Breck's Open Blues Jam

Ahhh, don't just fall, though – dive gloriously into the diverse paintings, mixed media, digital, and fiber artworks in this group exhibition of Austin artists, featuring creations by Bern Abplanalp, Hallie Rae Ward, Phillip Seymour (his Great Horned Owl is pictured right here), and more.

Art for the People Gallery: Falling into Winter

Classic L.A.-set cops & robbers drama pits a crime boss (DeNiro) against a detective (Pacino).

Heat (1995)

Grouchy Like Riley

Top off your TuezGayz with this Diamond Dior Davenport-hosted drag show featuring top-notch performances.

Drag Dive

Genderfluid lesbian comic Arielle Isaac Norman hosts all her gayest and gayest-looking friends for a night of fun flirty comedy.

Gay Enough

An open mic for musicians, poets, and comedians. Signup starts at 7:30pm.

Late at the Lake

Michael Hale Trio feat. Mac Mcintosh

Musicians Jam hosted by Ernie Welter & Shoot From the Hip

Belt out your favorite jams with your host CupCake.

Queeraoke

Celia Light and Mars host a show filled with games like Couples Therapy, trivia, and Finish This Tune that are fun to watch but even more fun to play.

The Drag Queen Game Show

Put yer cards on the table for the Bear's poker night

Texas Hold 'Em Tournament

Organized types will have fun volunteering to help Austin Creative Reuse sort through donated items, roll fabric, and detangle yarn. Registration required.

Volunteer Days at ACR

See displays from landmark American and British theatre productions from the past century, bringing together the iconic work of writers Adrienne Kennedy, Arthur Miller, Robert Schenkkan, Tennessee Williams, and others – with award-winning designs from artists Boris Aronson, Beowulf Boritt, Jo Mielziner, and Norman Bel Geddes.

Words Into Worlds: Creating Place in the Theatre

Featuring collaborations between fine presses and artists, examples of typographic and concrete poetry, and experimentations in pop and surrealism, the exhibition puts prints by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ed Ruscha in conversation with works by Charles Henri Ford, Kristin Calhoun, David McGee, and others.

Harry Ransom Center: Art In Words

Thinkery provides admission by donation as part of its Open Door Initiative, created to give every child a chance to explore STEAM concepts and develop a lifelong love of learning, regardless of means.

Community Hours at Thinkery

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.

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

This memorial exhibition features work by Rene Anguiano, Sam Coronado, Ray Gaytan, Marsha Gomez, Nivia Gonzalez, Lupe Lopez, Adolfo Mexiac, Arturo Rivera, Farah Rivera, Susana Santos, Pablo Taboada, and José Francisco Treviño, with an altar by Carmen Alvarez.

Día De Los Muertos: Honoring Our Artists Who Have Already Departed

This is a whimsical collection of ceramic pieces by Tanya Zal, featuring works that have been baked, dressed up, decorated, frosted, and swirled into "an indulgent playful daydream."

Golden Mean: Candy Land

Bluesdays Tuesdays w/ Matthew Brodnax

Basüra hosts a watch party for The Boulet Brothers' Dragula fifth season, followed up drag show Queer AF.

Rain on 4th Dragula Season 5 Viewing Party

Skate beneath the stars and overlooking Lady Bird Lake at an outdoor ice rink with outdoor dining cabins, pop-up lounges, immersive holiday decor, extravagant art installations, and more.

Ice Rodeo

Savor some treats with hot cocoa or coffee and take in the gorgeous lakeside light show paired with music.

Mozart's Holiday Light Show

Do you own a small business or have entrepreneurial dreams? The city's Small Business Division is here to help! Find resources and a selection of instructional webinars on the city's site, with many free classes and some with a small fee.

Small Business Division Webinars

Experience this limited-edition, site-specific art piece of light and sound in the former underground water reservoir.

Cistern Illuminated

The famous River Walk is bathed in colorful lights from the top of the trees to shimmering waves left by the river barges.

Holiday Lights on the River Walk

The holiday lights around the old courthouse are truly spectacular, but don’t miss the forest of lights at the PEC headquarters at 201 S. Avenue F.

Lights Spectacular, Hill Country Style

Enter the fascinating world of illusions in this new venue that boasts a stunning array of intriguing visual, sensory, and educational experiences among new, unexplored optical wonderments.

Museum of Illusions

Crack open a new queer lit section every month with the Little Gay Book Club, a subscription-based "community of booklovers and bibliophiles that share in our passion for reading through conversations, monthly meetings, and events." Meetings are available virtually and in-person.

The Little Gay Book Club

No matter where you are, ITT has you covered with free virtual classes from cardio and kickboxing to yoga and Zumba. Check out the calendar online for the full range of options and make a date for fitness.

Virtual Fitness Classes With It's Time Texas

It's good music; it's queer vibes; you know what it is, babe: It's Tuezgayz!

TuezGayz

Join other LGBTQ runners for a 3-10 mile trek around Lady Bird Lake.

Austin Front Runners

Do you enjoy contemplating the deep questions that come with being human? Join conversations facilitated by Asenath Avinash based on Buddhist books from great teachers to explore these questions and meditate. Drop-ins welcome; no registration required.