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Get Your Art On
Welcome to your guide to Austin’s Get Your Art On events and attractions. Just follow your armadillos to find your fun. All events listed below are also listed individually under their genre throughout this site. Be sure to visit our wonderful sponsors at the bottom of this page who helped bring this city-wide celebration to you.
FILM EVENTS
15th Annual Austin Film Festival (108 films + panels and conference)
Austin Film Festival
October 16-October 23, 2008Writing Behind Bars
Mexican American Cultural Center
Oct 16-7pmAutumn Spring
UT at Austin
Oct 27Dance Video Sampler Series
Austin Community College
October 23, 2008Movie Singalong Extravaganza: Thrill the World
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown
October 23, 2008Master Pancake Theatre
Alamo Drafthouse - Downtown
Oct 17, 2008
THEATRE EVENTS
Free Night of Theater 2008
Austin Circle of Theaters
Oct 16 - Nov 2Amadeus
Austin Playhouse
09/12/08 -10/19/08Caroline, or Change
ZACH Theatre
09/18/08 - 11/09/08Glengarry Glen Ross
The City Theatre Company
10/02/08 -10/26/08
Tales from the Nauseous Fair
Geppetto Dreams Puppet company 1
10/02/08 -10/31/08You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Second Youth Family Theatre
10/03/08 -10/19/08
The Laramie Project
Q- Boyz
10/09/08 -10/18/08410 [Gone]
UT at Austin - Department of Theatre and Dance
10/10/08 -10/16/08
The Shocker
Vortex Repertory Company
10/15/08 -11/01/08How to Murder a Millionaire
Capital City Mystery Players
08/02/08 -10/25/08
The Producers
Georgetown Palace Theatre, Inc.
09/26/08 -11/02/08Esther's Follies
Esther's Follies
Ongoing
The Taming of the Shrew
The Baron's Men
10/19/08 -10/25/08Night of the Living Dead
Weird City Theatre
10/22/08 -11/02/08Taming of the Shrew
Unity Theatre
10/23/08 -11/9/08Frankenstein: A Trouble Puppet Show
TroublePuppet Theater Company
10/30/08 -11/16/08
Stool Pigeon
Austin Improv Collective
OngoingMaestro Improv Comedy
Heroes of Comedy
OngoingColdTowne with Frank Mills
ColdTowne Theater
Ongoing
Saturday Night Special
Gnap! Theater Projects
OngoingProctor
ColdTowne Theater
OngoingColdTowne with Midnight Society
ColdTowne Theater
OngoingColdTowne with Look Cookie
ColdTowne Theater
OngoingColdTowne with Murphy
ColdTowne Theater
OngoingUnbeaten
Salvage Vanguard Theatre
Oct 24-Nov 8Proof
Austin Community College Drama Department
October 10-October 19, 2008Summer People
UT Dept of Theatre & Dance
Oct 12 – Oct 19, 2008Mo Rocca
Paramount Theatre
Oct 24, 2008Dug Up
Austin Playhouse
Oct 10 –Nov 02/08Sweeny Todd
Paramount Theatre
Oct 31-Nov 1, 2008Cinderella
Scottish Rite Children’s Theatre
Oct 11- Nob 9 2008Transgressing Form with Sharon Bridgforth
Austin Script Works
Oct 18, 2008Actual Lives: Back to the Basics
VSA Arts of Texas at Dougherty Arts Center
Oct 18 2008
LITERARY EVENTS
2008 Texas Book Festival
Texas State Capitol
Nov 1-2R.L. Stine's Halloween Party
Austin Children's Museum
October 31, 2008Maureen McCormick - Here's the Story
BookPeople
October 22, 2008Neal Pollack Reading
Austin Community College
October 16, 2008Student Literary Gathering
Austin Community College
October 20, 2008Bob Lilly - A Cowboy's Life
BookPeople
October 23, 2008Identity and Politics Panel Discussion
Austin Community College
October 23, 2008Sarah Vowell - The Wordy Shipmates
BookPeople
October 28, 2008
MUSIC EVENTS
Austin Symphony Orchestra, Anton Nel, piano
Dell Hall; Long Center
Oct 17-18Les Plaisirs de Versailles
Texas Early Music Project
11/01/08Annual Hispanic Heritage Month Concert: The Alturas Duo: No mas muertes
Austin Chamber Music Center at the Mexican American Cultural Center
Friday, October 17, 7:30 p.m.Vibrations
Salon Concerts
Sun October 19, 4:30 p.m. Monday, October 20, 7:30 p.m.Motets, Madrigals, and Make-Believe
Austin Singers
Friday, October 24, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, Oct 26, 3 pmTwos and Threes for Halloween
Chamber Soloists of Austin
Friday, October 31, 8:00 p.m.
First Presbyterian ChurchMmmmm... Creepalicious!
Austin Chamber Music Center
10/31/08 -11/01/08Save Austin Music Premiere Gala
Save Austin Music
10/17/08Gaither Homecoming
UTPAC - Performing Arts Center
10/17/083 Mo' Divas
The Long Center for the Performing Arts
10/19/08Weezer
w/ Angels & Airwaves | Tokyo Police Club
UTPAC - Performing Arts Center
10/20/08Bold, Batty & Beautiful
Austin Chamber Ensemble
10/21/08Guitars and Saxes 2008
One World Theatre
10/23/2008 -- 7 & 9:30pmCarrie Underwood Carnival Ride Tour
w/ Little Big Town
UTPAC - Performing Arts Center
10/31/08Australian Pink Floyd
Direct Events
October 31, 2008
CULTURE
Austin Powwow and Heritage Festival
Great Promise for American Indians
11/01/0825th Annual Dia de los Muertos Procession & Celebration
Mexic-Arte Museum
10/20/08 -11/09/08Maker Faire Austin
Maker Faire Austin
October 18-October 19, 2008Doggone it to Summer Festival
Sustainable Food Center
October 25, 2008Hindustani Vocal Concert by Sangeet Martand Pt. Jasraj
The Indian Classical Music Circle of Austin
Nov 1, 2008
MUSEUMS
Dinoland Exhibit
Zilker Botanical ParkLaguna Gloria Grounded
Austin Museum of Art
10/03/07 - 09/27/09Dia de los Muertos Altar Exhibition
Mexic-Arte Museum
10/20/08 -11/09/08The Mystique of the Archive
Harry Ransom Center
09/02/08 - 01/04/09The New York Graphic Workshop: 1964 – 1970
Blanton Museum of Art
September 28, 2008-January 18, 2009Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York
Blanton Museum of Art
September 28, 2008-January 18, 2009Cowboys and Presidents
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
October 18, 2008-January 6, 2009The Counterculture in the 1950s and 1960s:From the Beats to Bucky Fuller
Blanton Museum of Art
November 1, 2008Congress Avenue Art Stroll:
AMOA, ArtHouse and Mexic-Arte Museum
October 23, 2008
ART EVENTS
Art Austin: Museums, Galleries, Alternative Spaces
Ongoing
Austin Art Garage: Open House
OngoingThe Activist Impulse
Women and Their Work
October 10-November 15, 2008La Dolce Vita 2008
Austin Museum of Art
Oct 16, 2008Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now
Austin Museum of Art
08/30/08 -11/02/08A Cabinet of Drawings
Harry Ransom Center
09/02/08 - 01/04/09Reset/Play
Arthouse at the Jones Center
09/06/08 -11/02/0813th Annual Young Latino Artists: Everything's Going to be Okay
Mexic-Arte Museum
10/03/08 -11/09/08Honora Jacob Exhibit
Wally Workman Gallery
10/04/08 -10/29/08Vanessa Lively, Shelly K. Yates Art
Paciugo Gelato
10/05/08 - 10/31/08Susan Collis: Why did I think this was a good idea
Lora Reynolds Gallery
Oct 4- Nov 15Tony Saladino Exhibit
Gallery Shoal Creek
10/24/08 -11/22/08James Evans: Rock, Paper, Scissors
Stephen L. Clark Gallery
Oct 11 - Nov 12, 2008Vintage Poster Show
ART on 5th
October 24-26Sketching in the Galleries
Austin Museum of Art
Saturdays, 12-2 pm (ongoing)AMODA Performance, Ceremony Hall
RESET/PLAY
Arthouse at the Jones Center
Saturday, October 18, 8 pmDwain Kelley: Resurrection
Wally Workman Gallery
Saturday, November 1, 6-8pmAmy Ringholz: Mascots of Texas
Austin Galleries
Oct 20 Oct 31Jeffrey Dell: Big Pelt
D Berman Gallery
9/25-11/01/08Artworks Gallery
Artworks
October 17-November 28, 2008Who Are You: Hector Hernandez
Co-Lab
October 19, 2008
DANCE EVENTS
Friday Night Party
Dance International
October 24, 2008Starbucks Dance
Dance International
October 18, 2008The Souls of Our Feet II - A Celebration of American Tap Dance
Tapestry Dance Company
October 17-October 19, 2008Ballet Austin: Inaugural Season Opener
Ballet Austin
October 24-October 26, 2008Fly Me To The Moon
Ballet Austin
October 23, 2008Thrill the World Austin
Alamo Drafthouse, Rude Mechs and Flash Mob Austin
Long Center for the Performing Arts
October 25th, 2008 at 1:00 p.m.
Get Your Art On, a program of Austin Circle of Theaters, is a two week city wide celebration of art, culture and creativity in honor of Americans for the Arts’ National Arts and Humanities Month and CreateAustin, the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division cultural planning initiative.
Get Your Art On is proudly sponsored by:
National Arts and Humanities Month
City of Austin Cultural Arts Division
City of Austin Parks & Recreation Department
CreateAustin
Austin Circle of Theaters
Free Night of Theater
Armadillo Christmas Bazaar
Austin Community College
ArtAust!n
Austin American Statesman Inside Line
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