The tenth anniversary of OUTsider takes place at The VORTEX across four days of queer transmedia, with performance art, music, and more. Festival badges are on sale now!
This year’s theme, ‘The Swish Up,’ is a limp wrist reference to our 10 year anniversary as a welcomed opportunity to take some newfangled twists, risks some risks and otherwise glow it on up: as we move toward the next ten spins around that big bright ball.
The ‘swish’ of the the ‘swish up’ is an homage to all our unruly, and unduly demonized, 2SLGBTQIA+ ancestors–all the ‘swishy’ sissies and their queredo cuzins, from the baddass butches, to the fabulous femmes, and all the identifications betwixt and beyond–whose wayaward ways we intend to keep on carrying forward.
A cheeky–or should we say smiley?–nod to the past, this year’s design is a grin despite all the grim.
Phone: (512) 478-5282
2024/02/15 - 2024/02/18
Additional time info:
THURSDAY FEB 15th
7pm @ VORTEX
Entre Despierto Y Dormido
Rogelio López, Kevin Gaytan, Matthew Han
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9pm @ VORTEX
Good Pollution
Perpetual Oyster & Clara Jubilee
FRIDAY FEB 16th
11am @ OUThouse
Conference on the Couch
(contact OUTsider for address)
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7pm @ VORTEX
An Evening with Complicity Huffman
Fargo Nissim Tbakhi
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9pm @ Cheer Up Charlie’s (900 Red River St.)
Legacy Award: Austin Ancestral Spacemakers!
Honoring Priscilla Hale, Sandra Martinez, Chale Nafus and Susan Post
w/ Lavender Thug, Gothess Jasmine, Bobby Pudrido, Catalina La O (khattieQ), Nicotine, Gretchen Phillips, Kay Turner and more TBA
SATURDAY FEB 17th
11am @ OUThouse (contact OUTsider for address)
Conference on the Couch
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3pm @ VORTEX
Trouble
Ajani Brannum
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5pm @ VORTEX
We Are (nothing) Everything
Anya Cloud, Makisig Akin, Stevie Gunter
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7pm @ VORTEX
The Lone Flamingo
Aquarius Funkk
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8:30pm @ VORTEX
No Exit!: Early Career Retrospective
Xandra Ibarra
SUNDAY FEB 18th
2:30pm @ VORTEX
Mirror Voxx
Sofia Silueta, Isabella Vik
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4pm @ VORTEX
Laman Haywans
Artist-in-Residence: Mirrored Fatality
(mango gwen, samar saif)
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6pm @ VORTEX
Bionic Dicks and Hyper Real Niggas: A Post Human and Ancient Sci-fi Aching
M. Lamar
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8pm @ VORTEX
DJ Set with Mexican Jihad
Mexican Jihad
The VORTEX
2307 Manor Road, Austin, TX 78722