Lite + Brite: 39 Kinda Good Austin Events 11/3

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

Austin Studio Tour kicks off this weekend, and we’ve shared a guide to some of the stops that we’re most interested in checking out. Our second-to-last No Lights No Lycra of 2023 is coming up on Thursday, so if you want to dance in the dark, it is now or never. “Big Tits, Bigger Dreams” wins the award for Best Event Name of the Week, with “Steers and Queers” coming in a close second. Día de los Muertos events are ongoing, or you can appreciate your own mortality with a living funeral. Tiny Minotaur‘s permanent location is open at last, and we can all go see it in action at a Saturday market. And there are fully two separate events that include the word “salon” in their name. Scroll down for details on all this and more!

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Let’s do fun stuff!

—Leila + Brian
liteandbriteatx.com

OUR STUFF

Our dance party in the dark, No Lights No Lycra, will be occurring only twice more before the year is out: next Thursday (November 9) and December 14. So if dancing in the dark was one of your 2023 goals, you have two more opportunities to achieve it. And if it wasn’t one of your 2023 goals—well, why not? Listen to a live recording of our last regular edition here or scroll to the bottom of this newsletter for our Halloween playlist.

Regular readers may know that 1/2 of L+B does a radio show (No Humans Allowed) on Kpiss.fm, but did you know there are actually TWO Austin-based radio shows on Kpiss? Recently, Heavenwave, the other Austin-based program, moved to Wednesdays and now you can listen to both shows back to back. To commemorate the occasion, we recorded a radio show live in our living room with 3 DJs going back to back. We played lots of leftfield and cheesy synthpop and many other genres. Listen to NHAvenwave in the Kpiss archives. NHA broadcasts live every Wednesday 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 11/3

Saturday 11/4

  • It’s My Park Day at parks throughout Austin
    Support your neighborhood park by volunteering, humming Talk Talk songs while you help out
  • Living Funeral Ceremony at Casa de Luz
    Embrace your own mortality gently in this illuminating interactive event
  • Día de los Muertos and MexAmericon at Pan Am Rec Center
    Vendors, artists, dancers, live music + DJ in celebration of Día de los Muertos
  • CareFreeBlackGirl Cookout at Cheer Up Charlie’s
    Ballroom performers host a “miniball,” + vendors, photo opps, “hair + edge touchups”
  • Scavenger Hunt at Antonelli’s Cheese
    Perform a scavenger where the prize is free fancy cheese
  • First Saturday Market at Tiny Minotaur
    Fantasy / Dungeonsynth adjacent vendor market
  • Plant, Learn, Grow at Festival Beach Food Forest
    Kid- and pollinator-friendly activities involving seeds, teas, + more
  • Symbiosis at West China Tea
    “Tea, sound healing, live music, art, yoga + community”
  • Día de los Muertos at Hotel Vegas
    Live bands, DJs, Cumbia dance lessons, vendors, + free tacos
  • Karaoke Underground at Knomad
    Sing karaoke to your favorite punk, indie + alt classics
  • ART Bus Tour at Almost Real Things HQ
    Check out Austin Studio Tour art from the comfort of a party bus
  • Austin Celtic Festival at Pioneer Farms
    Celebrate Celtic traditions w/highland games, traditional arts and music, + mini-horses
  • A Kinda Good Tattoo Convention at Kinda Tropical
    A big ol bunch of tattoo artists descend on Kinda Tropical w/a pack of vendors in tow
  • Texas Monthly BBQ Festival in Lockhart
    The only magazine w/a BBQ editor celebrates all things slow and low at “BBQ World’s Fair” + picnic
  • Austin Studio Tour at locations throughout Austin
    Artists show off their works inside their open studios, + special artsy activities across town
  • Ofrenda: A Día de los Muertos Celebration at Fierce Whiskers Distillery
    Mariachi band, aerialists, contortionists, + dancers celebrate Día de los Muertos
  • The Front Market at Ani’s Day and Night
    DJs, art, food and regular + vendors
  • 3rd Birthday Party at Meanwhile Brewing
    Live bands, DJs, + special edition beers and food truck items
  • (weekly) Come @ Me at Fallout Theater
    Improv comedians tackle the intricacies of online life / social media

Sunday 11/5

  • Hysteria at Coldtowne
    An irreverent comedy show about abortion + benefit for repro rights
  • ART Bus Tour at ArtUs Co.
    Check out Austin Studio Tour art from the comfort of a party bus
  • Record Play at Pershing
    In honor of 50 years of hip hop, trivia where every round is music round
  • Home Tour at Casa Neverlandia
    Tour a low-carbon “delightful eco-friendly art house”
  • Hyperreal Film Club Presents: Tokyo Fist at Violet Crown Cinema
    Trade posters + watch a Japanese film about jealousy and brotherly violence
  • Austin Celtic Festival at Pioneer Farms
    Celebrate Celtic traditions w/highland games, traditional arts and music, + mini-horses
  • A Kinda Good Tattoo Convention at Kinda Tropical
    A big ol bunch of tattoo artists descend on Kinda Tropical w/a pack of vendors in tow
  • Texas Monthly BBQ Festival in Lockhart
    The only magazine w/a BBQ editor celebrates all things slow and low at “BBQ World’s Fair” + picnic
  • Austin Studio Tour at locations throughout Austin
    Artists show off their works inside their open studios, + special artsy activities across town
  • The Front Market at Ani’s Day and Night
    DJs, art, food and regular + vendors
  • 3rd Birthday Party at Meanwhile Brewing
    Live bands, DJs, + special edition beers and food truck items

Monday 11/6

  • Manlesque Movember at Kick Butt Coffee
    Boylesque’s older brother, in honor of Movember
  • Austin Salon at 1109 Angelina St.
    Discuss our nearest animal relatives and what they tell us about ourselves

Tuesday 11/7

  • One Page Salon at Radio Coffee & Beer
    Hear local writers read their works in progress

Wednesday 11/8

Thursday 11/9

  • No Lights No Lycra at West China Tea
    Dance with us like no one’s watching in complete darkness
  • Mrs. Roper Party at Counter Culture
    Celebrate the 70s sitcom progressive style icon by dressing up + partying
  • BuzzFest at the Bee Cave Galleria
    Touring + local electronic musical, visual, + immersive artists collaborate in Bee Caves

No Humans Allowed 169
NHAvenwave

Brian Blackout from No Humans Allowed joins forces with Spiritlunge and Uncle Glitz from Heavenwave for two hours of B2B Austin-based synthesized goodness.

Stream NHAvenwave

Tracklist
Au Suisse – Control
Sofia Kourtesis – How Music Makes You Feel Better
Daniel Wang – Berlin Sunrise (die Nacht)
Bea1991 – Submit to Love
Cat Stevens – Was Dog a Donut (Pilooski Edit)
Celso Valli – Pasta & Fagioli
Stopp – I’m Hungry
The Masqs – Hermosa
Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Blenda
Felixita – Bureau/music.xls
Phonique – For the Time Being (ft. Erlend Øye)
Waterfront Home – Dancing in Heaven
Isamar & Compañía – No Estás
Blümchen – Boomerang
Yo Gabba Gabba – Party in My Tummy (Ursula 1000 Bmore Re-Think)
Nightlife Unlimited – Love Is in You
Hysteric – Hypnotheque
Whigfield – Another Day
San Serac – Tyrant
Lives of Angels – After Dark
Dislocation Dance – Show Me
The Cars – Why Can’t I Have You
Fatamorgana – El Amanecer
Otto – About You Now
Girl Ray – Hurt So Bad
Mike Runnels – Happy Ending
Azul y Negro – The Night
Letta – Baile Baneso (By-Lay Bah-Neh-Su)

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 157
w/Phil Does It + Brian Blackout

Recorded live in the dark at West China Tea House on October 26, 2023. No track listing for this one but there’s 45 minutes of dancey stuff and then 45 minutes of spookiness.

Listen to No Lights No Lycra 157

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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 do our own events, most prominently No Lights No Lycra (every second and fourth Thursday of the month). We once got called “local Austin couple” by KXAN. 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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