Lite + Brite: 30 Austin Events 2/6

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

Let’s get ready to rumbleeeeee! This week is full of Olympics and football, but if you want to take a break from being glued to the tube, outside it’s a blur of knights, public transportation concerts, printmakers, soundpainters, art buses, country roller boogies, all-you-can-bead bracelet buffets, hot hockey player lookalike competitions, and theatrical performances inside someone’s actual house. Or if you want some proper in-person sports in Austin, we hear there’s some roller derby occurring. Basically your typical Lite + Brite fever dream. Maybe top it off by listening to our own version of Jock Jams while you root for your favorite linebacker, skier, or deep-pocketed advertiser, and you’ve got the perfect week.

Speaking of weeks! Next week is our rescheduled Lite + Brite subscriber meetup. We will meet! We will up! We will probably discuss the merits of wiener dog races! It’s going to be 1pm at Tweedy’s, fingers crossed for no more ice storms. There is more info on Partiful should you want it. Maybe we’ll see you there.

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Let’s do fun stuff!

—Leila + Brian
liteandbriteatx.com

EVENTS WE’RE EYEING

Friday 2/6

  • Knight Night at Tiny Minotaur
    Armor up in your best knightware + bust out some Monty Python quotes
  • All Your Friends at 29th St. Ballroom
    Touring dance party w/DJs spinning 00s indie dance favorites
  • Heated Rivalry Rave at Cheer Up Charlies
    Join hot hockey lookalike competition or enjoy the show
  • Napoleon Dynamite Live at the Paramount
    Watch the 00s cult comedic fave w/live cast Q+A
  • Stampede at the Highball
    “Saddle up + join the herd” w/DJ, lessons, line dancing all night
  • Austin Unconducted at KMFA Studios
    Classical musicians improvise live using “soundpainting”
  • The Wolf You Feed at the Vortex
    Watch a Wild Things-inspired play about punk wolves
  • PrintEXPO at Blue Genie
    Buy + view art by a wide array of printmakers from Austin + afar

Saturday 2/7

  • Mi Casa Es Su Teatro at Mishpocha Woods
    Theatrical performances in people’s homes + “other surprising locales”
  • Carnaval Brasileiro at Speakeasy
    Celebrate Carnaval+Mardi Gras w/traditional music, costumes, dancers
  • Solar Saturday at the Carver Museum
    Celebrate Black History Month w/workshops, DJ, live music, dancers, + more
  • Black Queer Renaissance at the Carver Museum
    “Kiki ball + drag show celebrating Black queer history”
  • 18th Annual Chili Cold Blood Chili Cook-Off at Sagebrush
    Raise money for local musicians w/live music + chili contest
  • Music on the Metro at Plaza Saltillo Station
    Hear live Arabic music while traversing the city via public transportation
  • Texas Roller Derby at the Buda Thunderdome
    Roller derbyists murderously smash their way through a banked track
  • Karaoke Underground at Knomad
    Sing karaoke to your favorite punk, indie + alt classics
  • Open Studios at Canopy
    Artists at Canopy open up their studios to the public w/DJ + pop-ups
  • Frontera Fest Best of the Week at Hyde Park Theater
    “Alternative, offbeat, new, and just plain off-the-wall fringe theatre”
  • Austin Unconducted at KMFA Studios
    Classical musicians improvise live using “soundpainting”
  • The Wolf You Feed at the Vortex
    Watch a Wild Things-inspired play about punk wolves
  • PrintEXPO at Blue Genie
    Buy + view art by a wide array of printmakers from Austin + afar

Sunday 2/8

  • 100 Years of Dyke at Ani’s Day + Night
    Panels, raffles, + “lesbian variety show”
  • PrintEXPO at Blue Genie
    Buy + view art by a wide array of printmakers from Austin + afar

Monday 2/9

Tuesday 2/10

  • Ha! Ha! Storytime! at Radio South
    Comedic storytellers “compete for Sonic the Hedgehog’s heart”
  • Silent Book Club at Vintage Books + Wine
    Silently read books together + optional sharing
  • FronteraFest Best of Fest at Hyde Park Theatre
    “Alternative, offbeat, new, and just plain off-the-wall fringe theatre”

Wednesday 2/11

Thursday 2/12

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Big Blue Disk

Inspired by the late 80s software magazine “The Big Blue Disk,” which was full of software to try, we’ve concocted an imaginary diskette of tunes we’d love to promote, circa 1985/86 when the Big Blue Disk began its journey. Press play for an hour of italo, boogie, balearic, + garage house tunes.

Stream Big Blue Disk

Tracklist
Dance Department – Paradise
Gina & the Flexix – I Wanna Believe
Executive – Executive Dance (Cap’ Edit)
Giovanotti Mondani Maccanini – Ultimo Tango a Parigi (Last Tango)
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Koharu Kisaragi – Neo-Plant
Fragile – We’ve Got Tonight, Boy
Goblin – Jennifer’s Friend
Harold Faltermeyer – Leg Work
Chris Blackwell – Hour Glass
Cuélebre – Costa Verde
Paradise Girls – Holding Back (KZA Edit)
Cyber People – Doctor Faustu’s
K Joy – My Phone
Johnny Dynell – Rhythm of Love (Simon Tappenden Edit)

No Humans Allowed is Brian Blackout’s award-winning, 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.

PATREON THANKS

A huge thank-you to our Patreon subscribers Liz, Melissa Dunn, Kat, James Gray, Emily Heddleson, Andrew Creswell, Robert B., Roman Gonzalez, Nick Ivons, Molly Fonseca, Lilly Ettinger, Michael Sales, Zach, Gino Scaramuzza, Erica Speegle, Thomas Refferson, Bones Malones, Katie Green, Christina Jue, Colleen MB, Alexander Freed, Kristen Backor, and Timon A. We’re deeply grateful for your support, which allows us to do things like “pay our Mailchimp fee” and “spend hours researching Austin events when technically we should be working.”

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SOCIALS

Recent weeks found us attending a dance party in a storage unit, marching in a Greek mythology-themed Halloween parade thrown by a bat crew and a rat crew, and watching a troupe of gigantic leftist puppets from New England. 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, ATX Theatre for plays, 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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