Lite + Brite: 39 Velvet Austin Events 10/10

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

Sure, it’s still hot out there and dry as a bone, but despite how it feels, Halloween is just around the bend. It’s still far enough away that we’ve got lots of non-Halloween events going on, but expect things to pick up to a fever pitch over the next couple weeks. You’d better make your plans and go and grab a secondhand costume while you can.

This week, we have Baldur’s Gate-inspired burlesque + drag, zines aplenty, multiple parties where DJs are spinning italo disco, art served with fluffy pancakes, books and books with special guest more books, a “perv parade” at a “kink karnival,” mushroom foraging on bicycles, a comedy storytelling game show where you have to impress Sonic the Hedgehog, or a play with an all-puppet cast in a fancy private residence.

In this newsletter, we’ve listed only SOME of the many spooky season events already happening across town. For the rest, check out our annual Austin Halloween spreadsheet. It has close to 200 seasonal events, and even if you looked at it last week, there’s now tons more in there. Look at it again! For yet more autumnal vibes, give a listen to our Halloween playlist, which contains all the songs you need about haunted discos with ghostly dancers.

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Let’s do fun stuff!

—Leila + Brian
liteandbriteatx.com

EVENTS WE’RE EYEING

Friday 10/10

  • Elfsong Tavern at Tiny Minotaur
    Burlesque, drag, + fantasy performers inspired by Baldur’s Gate
  • Masquerave at Neon Grotto
    All-female lineup of DJs spinning italo, darkwave, + indie dance
  • Sexe Burlesque Part Deux at the Vortex
    Latin- + French-inspired burlesque performers focus on sultry + sophisticated
  • Scream Queens Halloween Drag Show at St. Elmo South
    Louisiana Purchase-led spooky drag show w/spooky DJ
  • Witch Fest at Ani’s Day + Night
    Which fest? This one w/fire dancing, live music, + “magical vendors”
  • Future Traditions Fest at dadaLab
    Latinx experimental films, live music, live visuals, + DJ sets
  • Routing / My Body, Your Choice at Crashbox
    Two plays, one about the life of a migrant, the other a “femme-punk manifesto”

Saturday 10/11

  • Shorts XX at Hyperreal Film Club
    Curated show of short films made by local female filmmakers
  • The Pancakes + Booze Art Show at the Far Out Lounge
    Pair art show, live music, + body painting w/fluffy all-u-can-eat pancakes
  • Twilight in Concert at Bass Concert Hall
    Celebrate the Twilight anniversary with a 12-piece rock band performing the soundtrack
  • Fall Book Fair at Austin Beerworks
    Riffing on Scholastic Book Fairs of our childhood, get books, art, gifts, + beer
  • Austin Used Book Collective at the French Legation
    Check out books on the French Legation grounds w/special guests: more books
  • Grand Opening at Hive Mind Studios
    Curated art show, immersive art, vendors, + “healing experiences”
  • Night Cuts at the Electric Church
    Local + touring DJs spinning italo disco, non-italo disco, + house
  • Oktoberfest at the German-Texan Heritage Society
    Oktoberfest party focused on authentic German food, music, + beer
  • Karnal Kravings at Richesart
    “Kink Karnival themed Adult Experience” w/aerials, demos + “perv parade”
  • Travis County Limits at the Long Time
    Celebrate local nudie mag release w/live music, baseball, + glizzies
  • 333: Fantasy Drag at Tiny Minotaur
    “All trans cast” of drag performers inspired by fantasy + lore
  • My Chemical Romance Drag Tribute at Cheer Up Charlie’s
    Emo mainstays MCR inspire drag performers to get sensitive
  • PowerPints at the Highball
    “Drink + learn things” at comedic talks on a variety of esoteric topics
  • BOOty Bash at Capt. Quack’s
    “Petrifying party of pasties” w/burlesque, contests for best costume + best screaming
  • Future Traditions Fest at dadaLab
    Latinx experimental films, live music, live visuals, + DJ sets
  • Halloween Costume and Thrift Sale at Memorial United
    Buy a secondhand Halloween costume + save the planet, man
  • Lone Star Zine Fest at Blue Genie
    Zines + comics fest w/vendors, prizes, + all-ages “Zine Creation Station”
  • Routing / My Body, Your Choice at Crashbox
    Two plays, one about the life of a migrant, the other a “femme-punk manifesto”
  • (weekly thru 11/29) Goat Yoga at Jester King
    “We call out to the beasts of the land to come forth and JOIN US!”

Sunday 10/12

Monday 10/13

Tuesday 10/14

  • Ha! Ha! Storytime! At Radio South
    Comedic storytellers “compete for Sonic the Hedgehog’s heart”
  • The Mariposa Twist at a private Hyde Park residence
    Watch theatrical puppet vignettes in an historic house

Wednesday 10/15

  • Oktoberfest at Tiny Minotaur
    Celebrate fantasy-themed Oktoberfest w/orcs, ”accordion music and/or ultraviolence”

Thursday 10/16

  • The Bread + Puppet Circus at the Museum of Human Achievement
    Get empowered + politically motivated through the art of puppetry (+ bread)
  • Queer Film Theory: Scream Queens at the Highball
    “Basically, we ruin films for straight people + yell about the characters that made us feel gay”
  • Gothwave at Elysium
    Darkwave DJs declare: “Being sad is cool” (we agree)
  • Fusebox October Salon at dadaLab
    Modern dance performances paired with quiet reflection + drawing time
  • Velvet Shines Heavy at East Side Performing Arts
    Modern dancers examine the self through the metaphor of a speakeasy
  • aGLIFF’s PRISM 38 at Galaxy Theatres
    Fest devoted to films about + relevant to the LGTBQ community
  • Solarpunk Summit at Son’s Blue River Camp
    Sessions on working to live in harmony w/the planet w/live music + vendors

No Humans Allowed 253
Disco Monsters

With the onset of October, spooky season has begun! We take off the gloves and get our hands dirty with an hour of spooky, synthy tunes for Halloween + Italoween. We’ve got the better part of a month to get getting creepy, so we’ve just begun.

Stream Disco Monsters

Tracklist
Twilight – My Mind
Paul Zaza & Carl Zittrer – Love Me till I Die
Le Le – Disco Monster (Azari & III Remix)
Rock de Luxe – Jag Måste Vara Galen (Sergio Rizzolo edit)
Stevie Nicks – Smile at You (Young Edits Going Home Version)
Ran – Nightcrash (Adrian Marth Edit)
Body of Light – Time to Kill
Daniele Baldelli – Afelio (In Flagranti Remix)
The Village People – 5 o’clock in the Morning (C.O.M.B.I. Edit)
Jean Rich – I Don’t Know What Comes over Me (Captain’ Edit)
Gatekeeper – Chains

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 celebrating the fifth anniversary of No Humans Allowed, attending a Blue Lapis Light aerial dance performance on the side of a building, and readying our annual spreadsheet of Halloween events. 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.

SEE YOU NEXT WEEK, CHAMPIONS

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