Lite + Brite: 29 Nocturnal Austin Events 8/15
Hello, what’s up, and welcome to the Lite + Brite newsletter.
Kind of a quiet week isn’t it? Lots of peeps are out of town and summer rolls on, no matter how ready we are for Autumn to begin. We’ve got a smattering of events to share though, there is still lots to do. One thing you can do is apply to take part in 2025’s Austin Studio Tour, which was brought back from the brink of collapse by the fine folks over at Almost Real Things. Oh, and one more thing is to listen to the playlist of hot new music we prepped for August’s Lite+Brite monthly.
Ok, so what about events? Win spore-tacular prizes at a fungi party, embrace all the red flags you see, embrace the Jolly Roger, embrace slop (not the AI kind, the kind that involves pigs and/or stickiness), engage in cat cosplay, hit up the oat milk round at a latte art competition (we assume it’s more or less lugubrious than cow milk? Fun fact: they used to use milk in the process of making paint. You learn a lot of useless fun facts when you work at an art supply store), cheer on undead warriors, er wrestlers, watch waifu burlesque, Dungeons + Dragons drag + aerialists, or clown drag. Or just watch someone very good at playing Mega Man quickly while a band creates a live soundtrack to the whole shebang. Rain or shine, day or night, too hot or slightly less hot, Austin does not disappoint.
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Let’s do fun stuff!
—Leila + Brian
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EVENTS WE’RE EYEING
Friday 8/15
- Dungeons and Drag Show at Sky Candy
“Naughty knights,” vendors, aerialists + drag performances inspired by D+D - Shock Therapy at Elysium
AI slop? No this is a drag party devoted to literal slop, as in piggies - Electric Feels at Mohawk
Traveling 00s-centric indie dance party - Suspensivo at the Vortex
A play performed in Spanish (w/subtitles) about loneliness in the digital age
Saturday 8/16
- Tones Fest at the Asian American Resource Center
“All-Azn music + maker celebration” w/live music, crafting stations, art, + community - Austin Shorts Fest at Hyperreal Film Club
“One-day celebration of independent short films” across genres w/Q+As - Realms of Fungi at ArtUs Co.
Fungus-inspired art, speakers, DJ, + costume contest w/”spore-tacular prizes” - Nocturne of the Slammed at Highland Lounge
All-inclusive gothic wrestling w/”undead warriors,” + horror-inspired wrestlers - Pirate Night at Tiny Minotaur
“No blaggards or bilge-rats allowed” at this pirate costume party - Swap, Not Shop at Art Hub ATX
DJs, crafts, size-inclusive clothes swap, vendor market, mending workshop - The Red Flag Party at Cabana Club
Embrace all those dating red flags w/DJs, free swag, “Red Flag Raffle” - Solar Saturday at the Carver Museum
Art + other workshops, documentary screening, book drive, + live music - Waifu Wonders at Showpony Lounge
Nerdlesque performers dress up as your favorite anime waifus - Bombshells through the Decades at Kick Butt Coffee
Burlesque performers tackle a wide range of historical periods - Opening Hours at Sherwood Forest Zine Library
An extensive library of zines in someone’s house, friendly cat included - 20th Century Goth Club at Elysium
Goth/EBM/Synthpop dance party for everything pre-2000 - Anthropocene at Austin Ventures Studio Theater
Modern dance performers explore humanity’s impact on the world - POP Cats at the Palmer Events Center
Celebrating cats w/adoptions, photo ops, workshops, cosplay, vendors - Suspensivo at the Vortex
A play performed in Spanish (w/subtitles) about loneliness in the digital age
Sunday 8/17
- Let’s Have a Kiki at Austin Motel
“Campy chaos” w/poolside tropical-themed clown drag, DJ, + games - Rock n Roll Flea at Aristocrat Lounge
“Get yourself some new crap” from local vintage vendors - Anthropocene at Austin Ventures Studio Theater
Modern dance performers explore humanity’s impact on the world - POP Cats at the Palmer Events Center
Celebrating cats w/adoptions, photo ops, workshops, cosplay, vendors - Suspensivo at the Vortex
A play performed in Spanish (w/subtitles) about loneliness in the digital age - (weekly thru 9/21) Splashdance at the Austin Motel
Poolside aerobics with Austin’s most creative aerobics instructor
Monday 8/18
- Bit Brigade at Come and Take It Live
Video game speedrunners perform w/live responsive chiptune band - Sad Girls Only at Swan Dive
“Evening of sadness by some of the saddest queens in Austin” + cake
Tuesday 8/19
- Silent Book Club at Cosmic Saltillo
Silently read books together + optional sharing
Wednesday 8/20
- Fine Art Film Experience at EVO Theater Kyle
Local art collective curates “fine art video” in a cinema
Thursday 8/21
- Thursday Throwdown at Strangelove
Spectate a 32 latte art bracket, includes an oat milk round - Creative Devotion at Propaganda HQ
Creativity-focused “gathering of poets, musicians, and burlesque performers” - Queer Film Theory 101 at the Highball
“Basically, we ruin films for straight people + yell about the characters that made us feel gay” - (weekly thru 8/28) Float-In Theater at Mozart’s
Watch movies deck-side or while floating on the lake
No Humans Allowed 245
Upgrade 3.0.4
It’s time for an upgrade! We’re upgrading No Humans Allowed with all new-to-us tunes. Some of what we’ll be playing tonight is brand spanking new and some is new discoveries, but it’ll all be fresh and sparkling.
Tracklist
The Charlatans – Opportunity Three
Soulwax – Run Free
Trans Am – Futureworld
Pacific Coliseum – Games
Bizarre Inc – Playing with Knives (Quadrant Mix)
Black II White – Dino’s Groove (EOE Edit)
GTO – Love Is Everywhere (Reach for the Sky Mix)
Make a Dance – Acid Cult
Django Django – Don’t Touch That Dial
Auragraph – 666 Ambience
Barrabas – Lovers in the Rain (RFX 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.
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SOCIALS
Recent weeks found us getting ready for Prick Up Your Ears, watching the Buda Wiener Dog Races, and experiencing a toy art exhibit at Collection Rert. 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 (where we sometimes post stuff early too).
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 2025). 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.