Halloween Children’s Concert 2019

Halloween Children’s Concert 2019

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Date: 10/27 | Time: 3:00 PM | Location: Long Center Dell Hall 

It’s creepy, crawly and so much fun it’s spooky!

Your little ghost or goblin will help haunt the Long Center for the Performing Arts for the Austin Symphony’s annual Halloween Children’s Concert. This exciting concert features frightfully fun symphonic music that is stimulating for young eyes and ears (ages 2–10). The entire family is invited to dress up in their favorite costume . Let everyone enjoy “boo-tiful” music with their Austin Symphony Orchestra!

This season’s featured piece will be selections from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. Narration by Austin storyteller, Bernadette Nason. Other fun pieces will be performed that will keep you and your entire family entertained.

This concert is a wonderful chance for you to introduce your children to the wonders of live orchestral music. The hall will be decorated top to bottom to enhance your little one’s concert experience. WEAR YOUR COSTUMES!

Concert is at 3:00 p.m. and will last approximately one hour.

These concerts are made possible by the James C. Armstrong Youth Education Endowment.

For more information on the Halloween Children’s Concert 2019, click here.

Texas Book Festival 2019

Texas Book Festival 2019

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Date: 10/26 – 10/27 | Time: 5 PM | Location: Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas

Join the 24th annual Texas Book Festival—A weekend of book talks, signings, family activities, and more, held in and around the Texas State Capitol in downtown Austin.

The Festival Weekend is free and open to the public!

One of the largest and most prestigious literary festivals in the country. The annual Texas Book Festival features 250+ nationally and critically recognized authors, 20+ venues including the State Capitol, 100+ exhibitors, local food trucks, family activities, and countless opportunities to meet authors and fellow book lovers.

Founded in 1995 by First Lady Laura Bush, the Festival has hosted thousands of notable and award-winning authors over the years. Authors including Margaret Atwood, Robert Caro, Sandra Cisneros, Salman Rushdie, Cheryl Strayed, Walter Mosley, Molly Shannon, Frank McCourt, Ziggy Marley, Liz Carpenter, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and many, many others.

The 24th annual Texas Book Festival will be held October 26-27, 2019. The Festival runs from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Saturday. And 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Sunday. The Texas Book Festival Weekend is free and open to the public. This takes place in Austin, Texas, at the State Capitol and surrounding grounds.

The Texas Book Festival is a non-profit organization. They welcome your contributions to help produce this popular annual event and year-round literary events. Moreover, contributions support their literacy programs and grants to Texas public libraries. Donate to Texas Book Festival online at any time.  When you give $100 or more, they thank you with a Festival Friends Pass. The Festival Friend Pass provides priority seating and signing line access for you and one guest at select venues and signings during the Festival Weekend. They are grateful for your support of literature, libraries and literacy in Texas!

For more information, click here.

Adult Night Halloween Party!

Adult Night Halloween Party!

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Date: 10/25 | Time: 10 PM – 2 AM | Location: Adult Night at Mt. Playmore

This Halloween party is everyone’s favorite Adult Night of the year.!

Invite all your friends for Austin’s best BYOB party. They have a Live DJ, unlimited free arcade games, and our delicious scratch made food is available all night!!

And of course, what Halloween party wouldn’t be complete without a costume contest?

Adult night is from 10 pm to 2 am for those 21 & up only. AND it’s BYOB! Our DJ will be rocking the house and your admission ticket gets you an Unlimited Arcade Game Card and Unlimited play on our giant TEXAS SIZE playscape! Let your inner child free to slide, jump, crawl and have a blast!

Early bird tickets are $14.95 through 10/20/19, so buy early before the price increases to $19.95 starting 10/21/19! Your ticket includes admission, and include an unlimited game card for our arcade good for the duration of Adult Night. Tickets can be purchased online or at the door on the night of the event. Tickets are non-refundable after purchase.

They have Air Hockey, Corn Hole, Giant Jenga, and so much more! You and your friends won’t want to miss this night of fun and games! Tickets do sometimes sell out, so they highly recommend purchasing ahead of time.

For more information on the Adult Night Halloween Party, click here.

26th Annual Austin Film Festival

26th Annual Austin Film Festival

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Date: 10/24 – 10/31 | Location: Paramount Theatres & Stateside Theatre

Annual Austin Film Festival is recognized as one of the top film festivals in the country.

This cinematic event shines the spotlight on both top-billed films and indies alike.

Austin Film Festival furthers the art and craft of storytelling by inspiring and championing the work of writers, filmmakers, and all artists who use written and visual language to tell a story.

In addition to an 8 day film festival and 4 day Conference, we offer Year Round Events, a Young Filmmakers Program, a TV show, Radio show, Podcast and more!

Austin Film Festival furthers the art and craft of filmmaking by inspiring and championing the work of screenwriters, filmmakers and all artists who use the language of film to tell a story.

What AFF is probably best known for around the world is its annual October Austin Film Festival & Conference.

The Film Festival & Conference was the first event of its kind to take the lead in bringing professional and amateur screenwriters (and now filmmakers) together. For this reason, they celebrate the role of the screenplay in filmmaking, Addionally, they discuss the considerable creative possibilities of writing for film and television. Equally important, the Conference brought producers, agents and screenwriters together to foster the sale of screenplays and launch long-term successful careers.

Hundreds of writers’ groups, services and festivals have followed the Conference’s model over the past ten years. This is reinforcing the value of its continuing mission to recognize the art of screenwriting.

For more information on the 26th Annual Austin Film Festival, click here.

2019 Pro Bono Week Texas Legal Answers eClinic (Austin Area)

2019 Pro Bono Week Texas Legal Answers eClinic (Austin Area)

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Date: 10/23 | Time: 4 PM – 7 PM | Location: Pro Bono Texas

National Pro Bono Week eClinic

Please RSVP through Eventbrite link.

Getting the Austin Area pro bono community together to nosh and answer civil legal advice questions online. Participate in person and get a free dinner – or login from the comfort of your home or office. 🙂

We will begin with an informative CLE ACCREDITED presentation at 4:00pm, for those who have never volunteered with Texas Legal Answers. Then we will open it up for dinner and the eClinic will begin at 5:00pm.

For more information on 2019 Pro Bono Week Texas Legal Answers eClinic (Austin Area), click here.

Beginner Series at Tango Tribe

Beginner Series at Tango Tribe

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Date: 10/22 | Time: 7 PM – 8 PM | Location: Tango Tribe​

Passionate, sensual and instinctive, Argentine tango is the most captivating dance of modern times.

A new beginner series at Tango Tribe starts with the first Tuesday of each month, and they welcome drop-ins, too.

Each week they weave into the lesson some of the history of the dance, the natural movements basis of the dance, the codigos (codes) of the milonga (the social dance party), the styles of the famous orchestras. This series of classes will prepare you to begin attending the many milongas and practicas in Austin and elsewhere with confidence.

No experience, no partner, no dance shoes required.

Week One
Caminar Abrazados — to walk in an embrace
Famously, Argentine tango is a dance of the beautiful walk, where we move in an intimate embrace with our partner across the floor with elegance, grace, power, musicality, and creativity.

Week Two
Spirals — a universal force of beauty
Spirals of muscles in our body power our turning, pivoting movements, and spirals create beautiful patterns on the dance floor. Learn la media luna figuras.

Week Three
La Cruzada — the cross
One partner takes a “shortcut” so as to confront their partner. An iconic move and one of the unique elements of Argentine tango. Add interesting musical accents to the dance.

Week Four
Systems — beautifully simple principles that form the dance
Tying together all that they’ve learned this month,  see how a handful of simple ideas (two walking systems and three steps choices with respect to our partner) create all the rich improvisational possibilities of the dance.

For more information on the Beginner Series at Tango Tribe, click here.

Austin Arthouse Film Festival - Year 2

Austin Arthouse Film Festival – Year 2

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Date: 10/21 | Time: 5:30 PM – 11:30 PM | Location: AFS Cinema

2019 Austin Arthouse Film Festival

Back for its second year, Austin Arthouse Film Festival presents three blocks of the most astounding, visionary and utterly unique arthouse films from across the world. Each block is followed by a short Q&A with filmmakers and an awards presentation at the end of the night.

Block A – 5:30 PM / Block B – 7:00 PM / Block C- 9:30 PM

30% off for AFS Members – Must be signed in to receive the discount online.

For more information, click here.

Austin Food Truck Taste-Off

Austin Food Truck Taste-Off

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Date: 10/19 | Time: 12 PM – 6 PM | Location: Austin American Statesman

Austin’s Original $10,000 Food Truck Taste-Off is here, here in its 7th year, ready to give away its 70,000th dollar!

10% of each ticket goes to support Keep Austin Fed & translates to 25 tastings for you & 45 full meals to our neighbors in need!

Taste samples from 25 food trucks & trailers all competing for your $10,000 vote… And support local charity Keep Austin Fed while you’re at it!

Only the first 1,000 judges (first to purchase tix ahead of time) can taste and vote for $10K winner, so get em while you can! 💰

Also open for general feasting once judge’s passes sell out, OR if you just want to come for a “normal” amount of food + music.

🍔 Step #1 Get Your Wristband (only judge’s can taste + vote)

🍕 Step #2 Pick up wristbands at the Statesman after 11 on day of event

🌮 Step #3: Feed your face! (eat)

❤️ ❤️ Step #4: Spread the love (vote) ❤️❤️

There will be beer, wine, sodas, and water… Oh, and MUSIC (no outside food/beverage please)! 🍷 🍺

And well-behaved pups are welcome too 🐶

For more information on the Austin Food Truck Taste-Off​, click here.

Healthier Texas Summit

Healthier Texas Summit

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Date: 10/17- 10/18  | Time: 5 PM | Location: AT&T Hotel and Conference Center

The Healthier Texas Summit is a collaboration between IT’S TIME TEXAS and the University of Texas System.

The Healthier Texas Summit is a two-day event for Texas’ thought leaders and health champions from diverse sectors to make connections that will catalyze their work. This is only health event of its kind in the state. The Summit offers informative sessions, town hall conversations, and interactive workshops, with education credits available for numerous professions. If you work to improve the health of Texans, this event is for you.

We know that improving health in our communities requires collaborative work. We would work with partners outside of our organizations, disciplines, silos, sectors, and comfort zones. Cross-sector work is key to preventing chronic disease, addressing social determinants of health, improving health equity, and receiving the greatest value from our health dollars. We also know that cross-sector collaboration can be difficult. But we believe Texas is up to the challenge.

At this year’s Healthier Texas Summit, we will hear stories and enter into conversations not only about our collaboration successes, but also about where it gets hard. We will hear how challenges can be resolved, so we can more fully unite for a Healthier Texas.

For more information, click here.

Educators' Night 2019

Educators’ Night 2019

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Date: 10/17 | Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Location: Thinkery

Mix, mingle and kick off the 2019–20 school year at Thinkery Educators’ Night in collaboration with Austin Museum Partnership.

Educators’ Night features opportunities for educators to play in our galleries, connect with colleagues, discover other local museums, and learn more about our hands-on, STEAM-focused educational programs and resources.

Wear your school spirit and come ready to play! School teachers, administrative staff, and informal educators are all welcome to attend this FREE event. Ready for refreshments, door prizes, and tons of fun?

For more information on the Educators’ Night 2019, click here.