Lite + Brite: 25 Pickled Austin Events 3/14
Hello, what’s up, and welcome to the Lite + Brite newsletter.
We’re sending an abbreviated newsletter today as we’re still in the thick of SxSW. If you miss our rambling intros, don’t worry—they’ll be back next week.
If you, too, are trying to maximize your SxSW, you might benefit from Brian’s detailed spreadsheet of music showcases. And below we’ve listed a number of events of all types which are open to all, no badges required. Out of all the incredible art and music we’ve experienced this week, I (Leila) want to put in a particular plug for Satellite Art Ranch, a magical space that’s open through Saturday.
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Let’s do fun stuff!
—Leila + Brian
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OUR STUFF
Earlier this week we co-hosted an unofficial SxSW party with Art Island. Brian DJed If you missed it, you can check out pics and video over on our Instagram.
Our next event will be No Lights No Lycra at 3rd Eye Meditation Lounge on March 26. Stay tuned for more details on that.
DoMORE
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We’ve been finding events through Do512 and other DoStuff sites for years. We appreciate their work so much that we’ve officially joined their membership program, DoMORE. What this means is that every few weeks DoStuff sends us a curated list of upcoming local events, and we can claim a pair of free tickets to any one of them. We recently used our DoMORE membership to see Holy Wire at Chess Club. There was so much synthesizer! We didn’t pay for any of it!
If you, too, would like to regularly do fun stuff for free, you can also become a DoMORE member. It’s $7/month, and you can cancel anytime (like at whatever point you no longer like doing fun stuff for free, I guess). If you want to try it out, this link gives you a week-long free trial.
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EVENTS WE’RE EYEING
Friday 3/14
- Power Up at KMFA Studios
Celebrate video game music w/orchestral performances + composers - Future of Fashion at Mira Mira Venue
Fashion show, panels, demos, interactive activations, tech + fashion intersecting - All Things Food at Barr Mansion
Eat free food outdoors, + hear many talks about food + beyond - CASUALUNATIK at Red Salmon Arts
“interactive performances, a local vendor market, dancing, + puppet show” - Hex + Chill at City Alchemist Witch Shop
Don your best 90s witch attire while watching a witch movie in a witch shop - Satellite Ranch at 719 Shady Lane
“Ten acres of art, music, performance, installations, + clownery” - Privy Privy at RichesArt
Just your standard combination ice cream cone / glory hole - Unlived Lives at Trinity St. Playhouse
Explore nationalism etc. w/ “jokes, dance, food, music, and re-enactments” - Vernardos Circus at Buck’s Backyard
Travelling acrobatic-forward circus returns to Buck’s - The Creative Fest at Haus of Talents
Successive film screenings, art openings, live music, + fashion show - NOWISWHENWEARE at the McCullough Theatre
Immersive art installation full of thousands of points of light + sound
Saturday 3/15
- Sasha’s Birthday Bash at Jester King
Dog-themed fashion show, outdoor film, vendors, adoption, + more - Spring Festival at Third Eye Lounge
Live art + music, classes, crafts, cold plunge, vendors, + pet adoption - Arts + Parks Tour at Wooldridge Sq.
Bike from a drum circle to a live painter to a party - Bushwig South at Cheer Up Charlie’s
Massive NYC drag fest makes an Austin appearance - Pirate Night at Tiny Minotaur
Arr-rated party w/pirate costumes, live band (presumably sea shanties) - Volunteer Day at Central Texas Pig Rescue
Hang with rescue pigs, learn about their care + do light volunteering - In a Pickle Festival in New Braunfels
Pickle-infused foods, pet parade, contests, + live wood carving - Yeast by Sweet Beast at Carousel Lounge
Sorta the anti-SxSW, hours of live experimental music far from downtown - Satellite Ranch at 719 Shady Lane
“Ten acres of art, music, performance, installations, + clownery” - Privy Privy at RichesArt
Just your standard combination ice cream cone / glory hole - Unlived Lives at Trinity St. Playhouse
Explore nationalism etc. w/ “jokes, dance, food, music, and re-enactments” - Vernardos Circus at Buck’s Backyard
Travelling acrobatic-forward circus returns to Buck’s - The Creative Fest at Haus of Talents
Successive film screenings, art openings, live music, + fashion show - NOWISWHENWEARE at the McCullough Theatre
Immersive art installation full of thousands of points of light + sound - (weekly thru 3/29) Overheard on a Train on the Red Line
Participate in immersive theatre while enjoying public transit - (weekly thru 4/20) Sherwood Forest Faire
Central Texas’ renaissance faire w/medieval food, arts, fun, + dress - (weekly thru 5/31) Doom Metal Goat Yoga at Jester King
“We call out to the beasts of the land to come forth and JOIN US!”
Sunday 3/16
- 15th Annual Garden Party at the Vortex
Put the Butterfly in Butterfly Bar w/plants, live music, petting zoo - So Full of Love at St. Elmo’s Brewing
Workshops on rights + the TX Lege; also vendors + drag queen loteria - Unlived Lives at Trinity St. Playhouse
Explore nationalism etc. w/ “jokes, dance, food, music, and re-enactments” - Vernardos Circus at Buck’s Backyard
Travelling acrobatic-forward circus returns to Buck’s - The Creative Fest at Haus of Talents
Successive film screenings, art openings, live music, + fashion show - NOWISWHENWEARE at the McCullough Theatre
Immersive art installation full of thousands of points of light + sound - (weekly thru 4/20) Sherwood Forest Faire
Central Texas’ renaissance faire w/medieval food, arts, fun, + dress
Tuesday 3/18
- Odd World Presents: Thunderpants at We Luv Video
Screen a 2002 movie about farts + anosmia - NOWISWHENWEARE at the McCullough Theatre
Immersive art installation full of thousands of points of light + sound
Wednesday 3/19
- NOWISWHENWEARE at the McCullough Theatre
Immersive art installation full of thousands of points of light + sound
No Humans Allowed 226
Zero Insertion Force
Next week we’ll be taking a quick break from NHA to get into SxSW hijinx, so it’s your last chance for a minute to fire up that Pentium processor, load up your floppies, + get your fix of kitschy italo, disco, + library grooves from asundry bygone eras.
Tracklist
18 Carat Affair – Timeshares
James Asher – Braindrained
Ilija Rudman – Who’s Crying Now
Public Service Broadcasting – Go! (Kauf Remix)
Puccio Roelens – Northern Lights
Alessandro Alessandroni – Dialogues
Bufi & Juan Soto – Monrovia
The Webboes – Under the Wear (Chrissy Edit)
Kompleks – Scream (Edit)
Bernard Fevre – Polyster
Dig It Al(l) – Digi Nights (Basso Edit)
Juan Manuel Cidron – Vendré Aquí Cuantas Veces Lo Desée (WLDV Edit)
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 200 episodes now streamable in the archives on topics like and Beach Simulations, Roomba dance parties, undersea adventures + Cyber Texas.
No Lights No Lycra ATX 179
w/Brian Blackout
Recorded live in the dark in 3rd Eye Meditation Lounge on February 12th, 2025
Listen to NLNL ATX 179 on Mixcloud
Tracklist
Airbird – Trust
The Paradise – In Love with You
Midnight Star – Midas Touch (CFCF Remix)
Nude Disco – Remind Me of U
Diana Ross – Love Hangover (DJ Apt One Edit)
Charli xcx – Boom Clap (Aeroplane Remix)
Tamiko Jones – Can’t Live Without Your Love
Stevie Wonder – Do I Do (U-Tern Edit)
Conway & Temple – Love Lights (Young Pulse Rework)
Crystal Waters – 100% Pure Love
Whitney Houston – Love Will Save the Day
Aroop Roy – Save Our Love
The Source – You’ve Got the Love ft. Candi Staton
Heavy D & the Boyz – Now That We Found Love
Stardust – Music Sounds Better with You
Cut Copy – Saturdays
The Presets – This Boys in Love (Lifelike Remix)
Fleetwood Mac – You Make Loving Fun (Trailmix Remix)
The Outfield – Your Love (DiscoTech Remix)
The Monroes – What Do All the People Know?
The Cure – Just Like Heaven
Prince and the Revolution – I Would Die 4 U
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
Home – All at Once
Mayer Hawthorne – Green Eyed Love (Classixx Remix)
Electric Light Orchestra – Letter from Spain
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 it in the Austin Chronicle. You can listen to the kind of music we play over on Brian’s Mixcloud.
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SOCIALS
Recent weeks found us catching Faux Real’s show at Hotel Vegas, attending a book launch at Justine’s, and enjoying 1-800-CLOWN-TOWN at Kick Butt Coffee. Follow Lite + Brite on Instagram to keep up with our adventures. We’re now on Bluesky too. Yay federation! 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, Concept Animals’ ATX Art for You for gallery openings + artist talks, 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 are Leila + Brian. We make this newsletter. We do our own events, most often No Lights No Lycra, + also BYOT, a party where we share very good YouTubes (here’s a playlist from the last one). We go very hard seeing bands at SxSW (here are playlists of our favorites from 2024). 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.