Lite + Brite: 37 Galactic Austin Events 9/28

Hello, what’s up, and welcome to the Lite + Brite newsletter.

At the start of every week I’m like, “Hmm, not sure I’ll have many events to list, looks like it’s gonna be a quiet one,” and then by the time the newsletter actually comes out I’ve somehow stumbled across three dozen events that we must include. Super unclear how this happens, or why I am surprised by it every single time.

Anyway, some things I wanted to call out this week: An all-day DIY mini-golf tournament is taking over more than a dozen east side bars on Saturday, and I dare you to tell me a better way to explore this neighborhood. Blue Lapis Light is staging a new aerial dance performance, and, while I haven’t seen this one, I’ve been awed by their previous work. It’s the opening weekend for a production of Twelfth Night, which we would not necessarily list; however, it’s in a historically accurate Elizabethan theatre modeled after the Globe, and if there’s one thing we love it is site-specific performances!

Almost Real Things, one of our favorite local arts organizations, is running a party bus to vintage shops, and the Museum of Human Achievement, another one of our favorite local arts organizations, is screening a video montage of people falling down paired with spaghetti dinner. (Unclear whether the spaghetti dinner is served to the viewers or if it is also on the screen?) Y’all love an animal event, so you probably would have noticed these even if we didn’t mention them in the intro, but this week brings opportunities to paint with goats and to watch dachshunds dash. Oh, and did you think that zines were a thing of the past? Well, they’re not! And it should go without saying that, somewhere, there will be lube wrestling. Also, tonight we’re hosting No Lights No Lycra! For details on all this and much more, scroll down.

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Let’s do fun stuff!

—Leila + Brian
liteandbriteatx.com

OUR STUFF

Guess what? No Lights No Lycra, our very own dance party in the dark, is happening tonight at 8pm at West China Tea! We had to skip the last NLNL due to travel snafus, so we are extra-excited to be back on the darkened dance floor with you. Wondering what sort of music you might hear? Listen to a playlist of music from our last edition here or scroll to the bottom of this newsletter for a track listing.

No Humans Allowed couldn’t happen this week because of internet connectivity probs (womp womp), but if you are in need of a fix, check out the archives. NHA will be back live every Wednesday (as long as the internet is working) at 6pm CT on kpiss.fm.

What is No Lights No Lycra?
Austin’s twice-monthly, judgment-free, substance-free, high-impact dance thing in the dark. It’s a DJ night that’s not at the club, a workout that’s not at the gym, a personal meditation that’s anything but silent. It’s produced by us, your kindly L+B overlords, and usually one or the other of us is on the hook for DJ duties. Read more about us in the Austin Chronicle. You can listen the kind of music we play over on Brian’s Mixcloud.

EVENTS WE’RE EYEING

Friday 9/29

Saturday 9/30

  • East Side Mini Open at various east side venues
    “Putt your way through a one-of-a-kind Austin-born adventure” for a good cause
  • Astra: Reality Collapse at the Palmer Events Center
    “Cutting-edge circus shows, world-renowned electronic music” + immersive art
  • Vintage Shopping Party Bus Tour at HEB Hancock Center
    Visit three of Austin’s many excellent vintage shops aboard a stocked party bus
  • Pancakes and Booze at the Far Out Lounge
    Free pancakes, live music, live body painting, + art
  • Interpreting Punctuation at Collection Rert
    Artists “explore interpretations of punctuation marks” in many media
  • Pumpkin Painting with Goats at Suds Monkey
    Pumpkin painting without goats is suddenly a less exciting prospect
  • Desperate Living Drive-In at the Museum of Human Achievement
    Take in a John Waters “lesbian melodrama about revolution” w/wrestling
  • Texas Craft Brewers Festival at Fiesta Gardens
    Imbibe from a vast variety of Texan craft beers
  • 2nd Birthday at Reverie
    Celebrate an indie bookstore w/discounts, face-painting + free booze
  • Boulderfest at the Austin Bouldering Project
    Get in some rock climbing plus live music, vendors, + food trucks
  • Block Party at Pershing East
    Local social club throws a block party w/DJ, vendors, food + drinks
  • Mezcal Fest at Seven Spirits
    Sample some agave spirits + cocktails made from them
  • Haven en Español at Elysium
    “Step into the Spanish side of Goth” w/Spanish-language goth/industrial/EBM dance party
  • Goth Oddities Bazaar at the Glass Coffin
    DJ, vendors, fire performers, themed drinks + oddities to see
  • The Austin Record Convention at the Palmer Events Center
    A riot of records, a cavalcade of vinyl, + even the odd CD, cassette etc
  • Coffee Festival at Fair Market
    Coffee brewers, roasters, + coffee-related tech fest + live music
  • Austin Mediterranean Festival at St. Elias
    Traditional food + dancing from all across the Mediterranean
  • Belonging II Universe at 5000 Plaza on the Lake
    Dancers + aerialists scaling buildings in celebration of our blue orb
  • Slow Fashion Festival at Factory on 5th
    Speakers, vendors, + slow fashion show up for considerate consumption
  • Texas Viking Festival at Valkyrie Ranch
    Celebrate viking times w/mead, blacksmiths, + “warrior skills”
  • Proyecto Teatro at the Vortex
    A playful retelling of Latinx history in Spanish, Spanglish, + English subtitles

Sunday 10/1

  • Lone Star Zine Fest at the Blue Genie Art Bazaar
    Celebrate zines + the people who love them plus + spookiness
  • Dachshund Dash at Suds Monkey
    If watching dogs with tiny legs race is wrong, we don’t want to be right
  • Grand Opening Tea Dance at Package Austin
    DJ, wellness pop up, tattoos, + “lube wrestling”
  • Poster Swap at Violet Crown
    Watch a classic horror film + swap some movie posters
  • The Austin Record Convention at the Palmer Events Center
    A riot of records, a cavalcade of vinyl, + even the odd CD, cassette etc
  • Coffee Festival at Fair Market
    Coffee brewers, roasters, + coffee-related tech fest + live music
  • Belonging II Universe at 5000 Plaza on the Lake
    Dancers + aerialists scaling buildings in celebration of our blue orb
  • Slow Fashion Festival at Factory on 5th
    Speakers, vendors, + yoga for considerate consumption
  • Texas Viking Festival at Valkyrie Ranch
    Celebrate viking times w/mead, blacksmiths, + “warrior skills”
  • Proyecto Teatro at the Vortex
    A playful retelling of Latinx history in Spanish, Spanglish, + English subtitles

Monday 10/2

Tuesday 10/3

  • One Page Salon at Radio Coffee and Beer
    Hear local writers read their works

Wednesday 10/4

Thursday 10/5

  • Galactic Salon at Kick Butt Coffee
    Burlesque, live music, readings by “dressed + somewhat undressed readers”
  • Fire Cider Workshop at Buzz Mill Coffee
    Learn how to brew fire cider to help with flu + cold season
  • Proyecto Teatro at the Vortex
    A playful retelling of Latinx history in Spanish, Spanglish, + English subtitles

No Humans Allowed 164
Upgrade 3.0

Has the disk-eatin’ beast got you down? It’s time to upgrade! New hard drive, new SSD, new RAM, new phone, new CPU, and most importantly, new jams. Tune in to No Humans Allowed tonight for sparkly newness to get you in that upgrader mindset. What do we mean by new? Well, some of this IS quite new, some is newly reissued, and some is just new to us, which is just as good right? Hopefully it will be new to you too. Direct your newly updated web browser to press the play button to upgrade.

Stream Upgrade 3.0

Tracklist
Jarle Brathen & Miss Plug Inn – Under Neon Lights
Disaster Fantasy – Point of No Return
Kompromat – Niemand
Nation of Language – Sole Obsession
Ksky – Matrix of Love
Transparent Sound – Pocket Full of Mischief
Black Light Smoke – Nighttime Honey
SSQ – Walkman On
Blue Mercedes – Love Is the Gun (RFX Edit)
Dérivative – Put Your Hand in Mine
Sally C – All Love
Boys’ Shorts – Crop Tops
Ronald Langestraat – In the Middle of the Night
Alan Palomo – Is There Nightlife After Death?

No Humans Allowed is Brian Blackout’s award-winning, dodgy European news coverage receiving, weekly robots-themed radio show on internet station KPISS.fm. Machine vibes 4 machines. Songs for robots, androids, mandroids, cyborgs, AIs, cylons, skinjobs, roombas, wifi routers, smart devices, anything colored Bondi blue, and virtual assistants. Humans not required. Broadcasts live every Wednesday at 6pm CT on kpiss.fm, with over 150 episodes now streamable in the archives on topics like and Beach Simulations, Roomba dance parties, undersea adventures + Cyber Texas.

No Lights No Lycra ATX 154
w/Brian Blackout

August 24th at West China Tea House

Listen to No Lights No Lycra 154

Tracklist
Kongas – Why Can’t We Live Together
Julien Love – Peace, Love, Technique
Claudia Telles – Foi como um Sonho (Patchouli Brothers Edit)
Khruangbin – Time (You and I)
Bee Gees – Night Fever
Happy Mondays – Step on
Flamingosis – Two Steppin’ into Fantasy
Talking Heads – Road to Nowhere
Pino D’Angio – Ma Quale Idea
Missy Elliot – She’s a Bitch (Big Ass Manatee Remix)
Louis La Roché – Do You Remember?
Daft Punk – Get Lucky
Waffles – 007A
LCD Soundsystem – Tonite
Cathy Dennis – Just Another Dream
Apparel Wax – 005A1
Captain Hollywood Project – More and More
Basement Jaxx – Romeo
Junior Senior – Shake Your Coconuts (DFA Remix)
I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness – According to Plan
Romeo Void – Never Say Never
Wet Leg – Chaise Longue
Blur – Song 2
The New Radicals – You Get What You Give
Home – All at Once
Justine & the Victorian Punks – Still You

PATREON THANKS

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SOCIALS

Recent weeks brought us to a Round Rock parking lot to observe a flock of Purple Martins; the Mesmerize workshop to help build out their Creek Show creation; and the Eureka Room for a closing party. Follow Lite + Brite on Instagram to keep up with our adventures. And come chat with us and the rest of the L+B community on our Discord server!

ABOUT US

How do we choose which events to feature?

Honestly, it’s pretty random. We might include anything in Austin that we, personally, would conceivably want to go to, generally excluding normal concerts, comedy shows, and movie showtimes because there are many other good resources for finding those. (We especially recommend Showlist for live music, The Darker Side of Austin for goth and metal stuff, and the 60+ Weirdest Things in Austin for exactly what it sounds like). This list is by no means exhaustive; it’s just stuff that caught our eye this week. If you have an event that you want us to consider including, send it over.

Who are we?

We make this newsletter. We put on No Lights No Lycra every second and fourth Thursday of the month. We do some other stuff here and there. We love going out to creative events in Austin, and we want you to join us. Visit us at liteandbriteatx.com, and support us on Patreon if you like what we do.

SEE YOU NEXT WEEK, CHAMPIONS

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