Dan Whitaker

The Weekday

Witness a stunning performance by one of the most acclaimed singers of our time.

Renée Fleming

The Swindlers

W.C. Clark

Two-Steppin' Tuesday w/ Weldon Henson

Casey Epps Band, the Troubadillos (5:00)

Jazz jam w/ Jacob Wise

Breck's Open Blues Jam

Austin Mayse & Friends, Julie Nolen, the Bleeding Heart Confessionals (6:00)

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

Queer AF!

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

Jeff Lofton Electric Thang, Mitch Watkins Trio (6:00)

8½ Souvenirs

Jamie Thomas

Grouchy Like Riley

Ephraim Owens Experience

Tuesday Trivia at St. Elmo Brewing

This multimedia exhibition is a comprehensive exploration of the beauty of botanical forms, expressed realistically and in the abstract, featuring the work of local artist Francine Funke.

Old Bakery Gallery: Fantastical Flora

Beatle bash w/ the Eggmen

Open mic

This is a solo exhibition – an extraordinary solo exhibition, we daresay – by Spanish artist Juan Luís Jardí, who uses a mix of magic realism with influences of Pop Art and surrealism to illustrate the contrast in our lives and the doubts we're faced with as humans.

Wally Workman Gallery: Tiempo Sostenido

This exhibition offers a unique perspective on how our relationships with the natural world can serve as a conduit to a deeper understanding of the ethereal, revealing the subtle magic when nature and spirit intertwine. Featuring works by Rebecca Bennett, Leslie Kell, and Elena Lipkowski.

Thin Spaces: Seeking Nature’s Ethereal Conduits

Opening this Friday, Feb. 2, is Mexican, Latino, and Latin American art & cultural center Mexic-Arte Museum’s annual mega exhibition/art sale. Mix ’n’ Mash will feature over 200 artists utilizing a 12-by-12-inch Gessobord to explore “the large and small of what makes Austin weird, interesting, timeless, and robust,” according to Mexic-Arte’s website. Each board goes for around $150 each, but buyers are encouraged to buy at least three to create an ATX triptych to impress all your gallery-going friends. – James Scott

Mix ‘n’ Mash: Celebrating Austin

Minneapolis-born and -raised, Elizabeth Olds lived to a sturdy 94 but didn’t get the attention she deserved in her lifetime. The Harry Ransom Center’s new exhibit, which opened Feb. 3 and runs through July 14, aims to rectify that with a first-of-its-kind look back at more than 100 of her prints, paintings, drawings, and illustrations from the 1920s to the 1960s. Of particular note: her depictions of social and political change from her time as a Works Progress Administration printmaker. Want to go deeper? Drop in for one of the daily docent tours. – Kimberley Jones

WPA: Elizabeth Olds

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

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

Texas Hold 'Em Tournament

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

Belt out your favorite jams with your host CupCake.

Queeraoke

Musicians Jam hosted by Ernie Welter & Shoot From the Hip

Michael Hale Trio feat. Mac Mcintosh

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

TuezGayz

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

Gay Enough

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

Drag Dive

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.

Buddhist Book Study

Here's a new body of work by Milwaukee-based artist Aimée M. Everett, exploring the profound transformations experienced during childbirth and the subsequent journey of self-discovery into motherhood. The artist delves into the realization that with every birth, there exists a simultaneous death – the departure of one's former identity to welcome a new, evolved self.

Carver Museum: Two Births and the Afterlife

Ousmane Sembène was 40 before he picked up a camera, and maybe that explains why his films were filled with a lifetime of wisdom, storytelling genius, and political anger. The son of a Senegalese fisherman who became a bestselling novelist in France, his films and books critiqued the colonial powers that had devastated Central Africa. Now AFS Cinema is showing four features by the father of African film: his 1965 debut Black Girl (La noire de…) Jan 30. &  Feb. 3, Emitai (1971) Feb. 6 & 10, Xala (1975) Feb. 13 & 17, and his internationally acclaimed feature Ceddo (1977) Feb. 20 & 24. – Richard Whittaker