Lite + Brite: 37 Buzzy Austin Events 11/10
Hello, what’s up, and welcome to the Lite + Brite newsletter.
This is a weekend of impossible choices. There’s the entire breadth of the Austin Studio Tour, which encompasses 500+ venues—it’s so massive that we wrote up a guide—we could spend every waking moment just visiting Studio Tour stops and barely make a dent. Then there’s BuzzFest, where our pals at Blend_Mode will be performing along with many other multimedia artists and musicians. There’s also the Texas Book Festival, which is basically a huge street fair full of books and authors and the folks who love them (including this year a panel where Leila will be talking about her new book!). There’s a live Final Fantasy concert, which appeals to Brian because he spends like 20 hours a week playing Final Fantasy mobile games, and there’s the Historic Hyde Park Homes Tour, which appeals to Leila because she loves old architecture and snooping inside strangers’ homes.
We cannot do it all and we hate that. Fortunately, Creek Show continues through next week, so we can visit that once the busy weekend is behind us. And no matter how we choose to spend the coming days, we know exactly where we’ll be tonight: hosting the November edition of No Lights No Lycra, our dance party in the dark.
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Let’s do fun stuff!
—Leila + Brian
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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.
No Humans Allowed, Brian’s robot-themed radio show on Kpiss.fm, got introspective this week with an episode full wistful synthpop about digitized memories. Listen to Extended Memory Manager 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 11/10
- Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy at Bass Concert Hall
Live symphonic performances of songs from the JRPG worlds of Final Fantasy - Neon Rodeo at Cheer Up Charlie’s
Neon Rainbows’ Queer country night brings dancing lessons + a mechanical bull - The Road to Emancipation at Austin Cinemaker Space
Private screening of a history doc about cycling from Austin to Galveston - Poo Poo Platter Presents: A Drag Tribute to the Cramps at Elysium
“Bad drag for bad people” featuring drag performers vamping to the Cramps - Beat Sessions at 2324 Studios
“Live art battle” w/music + an MC kicking off EAST times - Bulls in the Ballpark at Dell Diamond
Bull riding comes to the Round Rock Express’ baseball field - Creek Show at Waller Creek
Sprawling sculptures of light wend their way through downtown’s waterways - BuzzFest at the Bee Cave Galleria
Touring + local electronic musical, visual, + immersive artists collaborate in Bee Caves
Saturday 11/11
- Lit Crawl at various East Austin bars
Join authors for readings + book themed activities across town - PollinatorPalooza at Tree Garden
Live art + music, “pollinator creation station,” interactive pollinator-friendly activities - Fight Opera Presents: Bonecoming at Pink Flamingo Plant Co.
Pro wrestling, high school, + the undead make delightfully odd bedfellows - Tour das Hugel at every hill in Austin
Bike a course of some of Austin’s most intense hills + also eat biscuits - Grand Opening at Good Dad Studios
Celebrate the EAST opening of new “emerging art complex” - 1989 (TV) in Drag at Cheer Up Charlie’s
Drag performers celebrate Taylor Swift’s newest re-recording - Trans + Nonbinary Awareness and Visibility Market at Top Drawer Thrift
DJ + vendor market supporting Trans + NB artists + makers - Fleetmac Wood at Empire
A dance party featuring nothing but Fleetwood Mac remixes - Mutiny Market at Hotel Vegas
DJs, live art + music, aura photos, + “interactive collage making” - Landmarks at UT Austin’s Welch Hall
Get a free tour of some of UT’s digital art collection - Texas Book Festival in and around the State Capitol
Authors + book peeps from all over descend upon Austin for panels, readings, + more - Bulls in the Ballpark at Dell Diamond
Bull riding comes to the Round Rock Express’ baseball field - Planet EAST at Planet K Cesar Chavez
Four days of live music + art in honor of EAST plus food trucks and vendors - Creek Show at Waller Creek
Sprawling sculptures of light wend their way through downtown’s waterways - BuzzFest at the Bee Cave Galleria
Touring + local electronic musical, visual, + immersive artists collaborate in Bee Caves - ART Bus Tour at Almost Real Things HQ
Check out Austin Studio Tour art from the comfort of a party bus - 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 - To Get There… You Must Undergo… A Radical… Transformation… at Crashbox
A theatrical tale involving gender, self-identity, the Wizard of Oz, + transformation - (weekly) Come @ Me at Fallout Theater
Improv comedians tackle the intricacies of online life / social media
Sunday 11/12
- Quesoff at Mohawk
“THE celebration of all things melted cheese” for a good cause - Public Tour with Pumpkin Smashing at Central Texas Pig Rescue
Meet pigs, tour the enchanted pig forest + watch them smash pumpkins - Historic Hyde Park Homes Tour throughout Hyde Park
Visit Austin’s most storied house for a tour of homes + architecture - Tea and Chocolates at West China Tea
Local chocolatiers partner w/local tea house for delicious results - Abstract Art Adventure at UMLAUF
Sculpture scav hunt, “abstract art craft”-ing + interactive Shakespeare - The Shiny Market and Fire Jam at Shiny Things for Shiny People
Fire dancers, DJs, vendors, live painters, crystals + workshops - Texas Book Festival in and around the State Capitol
Authors + book peeps from all over descend upon Austin for panels, readings, + more - Planet EAST at Planet K Cesar Chavez
Four days of live music + art in honor of EAST plus food trucks and vendors - Creek Show at Waller Creek
Sprawling sculptures of light wend their way through downtown’s waterways - ART Bus Tour at ArtUs Co.
Check out Austin Studio Tour art from the comfort of a party bus - 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 - To Get There… You Must Undergo… A Radical… Transformation… at Crashbox
A theatrical tale involving gender, self-identity, the Wizard of Oz, + transformation
Monday 11/13
- Silent Book Club at Celis Brewery
Silently read books together + optional sharing - ATX Short Film Showcase at the Spider House Ballroom
The films are short, the filmmakers are Texan + of varying heights - Creek Show at Waller Creek
Sprawling sculptures of light wend their way through downtown’s waterways
Tuesday 11/14
- Creek Show at Waller Creek
Sprawling sculptures of light wend their way through downtown’s waterways
Wednesday 11/15
- Games of the Month Meetup at the Museum of Human Achievement
“It’s like a book club, but for games” - Collage and Connect at Riches Art
Learn collage making + practice mindfulness at the same time - Creek Show at Waller Creek
Sprawling sculptures of light wend their way through downtown’s waterways
Thursday 11/16
- Queer Film Theory 101 at Barrel O’ Fun
Film “professors” non-male heroes in film - Hyperreal Film Club Presents: In the Mood for Love at Pease Park
Watch an arty romance from cult Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai - Creek Show at Waller Creek
Sprawling sculptures of light wend their way through downtown’s waterways
No Humans Allowed 170
Extended Memory Manager
This week on No Humans Allowed, a wistful journey into digitized memories to match with the cozy weather as Autumn proceeds into Winter.
Stream Extended Memory Manager
Tracklist
Kate Bush – Blow Away (for Bill)
The Wake – O Pamela
Solvent – An Introduction to Ghosts
Yumi Zouma – A Memory
Daroc – Moogeux
Anything Box – A Moment’s Shifting
Loons – Passageways
Alan Braxe – Time Machine
Long Distance Analog – Plecked Medium
Kap10Kurt – Die Sleeping
Bullion – We Had a Good Time
Cherry Ghost – Finally (Time and Space Machine Re-Edit)
Prefab Sprout – I Remember That
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.