Lite + Brite: 34 Paradisiacal Austin Events 6/12
Hello, what’s up, and welcome to the Lite + Brite newsletter.
Uh-oh it’s 5pm and no one has written a newsletter intro? This is one of those weeks where one of us was fighting airport delays and the other was assisting what must be rural Pennsylvania’s only 24 hour tire mechanic while he did his best to get an ill-fitting tire on the NHA-mobile. So yeah, we had a lot going on, and not a lot of fun arty events like y’all have probably had, right? In the meantime we’re both excited to be back in Austin this week and hit up some of these rad events.
Somehow the phrase “Three Masters of Modernism in the Butt Collection” does not refer to drag or other Pride events this week, but you CAN partake in lube wrestling, Fall Out Boy-themed drag, drag “dinowhores,” sad boy drag, and “Day, Drag, Drunk” history lessons. The Butt-avoidant among you can find solace in Solstice parties, learn about Guatemala and fungi through the art of puppetry, swap VHS tapes, celebrate Juneteenth with a focus on makers, freedom, or history, or you can say goodbye to Hoover’s, the Paramount Theater (temporarily), and, somehow, to the dancefloor, which has been declared deceased. We’ll always have all those dancefloor memories, I guess?
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Let’s do fun stuff!
—Leila + Brian
liteandbriteatx.com
EVENTS WE’RE EYEING
Friday 6/12
- Five Year Anniversary at Richesart Gallery
Gallery anniversary w/live music, DJs, fashion show - Terry’s Kissa at Factory on 5th
Ephemeral + communal vinyl listening experience pop-up - Fall Out Boy Drag Show at Elysium
Drag artists perform to Folie à Deux start to finish - Frutos de la Muerte at Ground Floor Theater
Multilingual puppetry play about Guatemala, politics, fungi, + spirits - Insomnia Cafe at Stage Austin
Play that is “part psychological hostage story, part pop-culture fever dream” - (weekly thru 6/26) Storytelling Through Dance Making at Festival Beach
Learn to tell your own personal stories using choreography
Saturday 6/13
- Austin Monthly’s Burger Bash at Moody Amphitheater
Try burgers from 20 heavy-hitting spots across the city - Austin Yoga Festival at the Long Center
Sample yoga, mindfulness, bubble dancing, tarot, + live music - Legend of the Realms at Sky Candy
Competitive fantasy-themed aerialists, burlesque, storytelling + more - Hyde Park Storytelling at Batch Craft Beer
Storytellers ply their trade in a backyard w/ASL interpreter - Satyrday at Tiny Minotaur
Costumed “toga night, but with fewer (preferably: zero) fratboys” - Just My Luck at All Good Things Studio
DJs, live art, + Lucky Charms for lucky revelers - Art x Tacos at Vector Collective
Eat “tons of tacos,” see work from lots of artists, live music, + DJs - Juneteenth Celebration at the Carver Museum
Juneteenth party w/Black vendors, games, + DJs - R.I.P. to the Dance Floor at Elysium
Funeral-themed mag release w/live music, drag, + DJs - Paradise Road Show at Austin Motel
Check out some gems from touring classic car + motorcycle show - Mercadito + Loteria at the Natural Gardeners
Pet adoption + costume contest, vendors, + live music - Games Y’all at Hyperreal Film Club
Indie game devs + fans meet up to try out games in progress - VHS Swap at the Highball
VHS vendors, giveaways, + screening vintage vids - Blanton All Day at the Blanton
Live music, artmaking, storytime, + tango lessons - Opening Hours at the Sherwood Forest Zine Library
An extensive library of zines in someone’s house, friendly cat included - Frutos de la Muerte at Ground Floor Theater
Multilingual puppetry play about Guatemala, politics, fungi, + spirits - Insomnia Cafe at Stage Austin
Play that is “part psychological hostage story, part pop-culture fever dream”
Sunday 6/14
- Freedom Juneteenth at Moody Amphitheater
Free Juneteenth party w/DJs, vendors, sip + painting, + activations - Magical Mind Mysteries at the Vortex
Alliterative magic show for adults w/Magical Mystical Michael - (weekly thru 7/26) Splash Dance at the Austin Motel
Poolside aerobics with Austin’s most creative aerobics instructor
Monday 6/15
- Last Call at the Paramount
See the Paramount’s hidden parts once more before renovations - Hoova’ Palooza at Hoover’s Cooking
Say goodbye to Hoover’s’ + fete its namesake chef
Wednesday 6/17
- Cycles of Resistance at AFS
Premiere of a documentary about Black Austin history - Synth Soundbath Communal Drone Session at Tiny Minotaur
BYO synths to “harmonize with the infinite” or just take it in - Sad Boyz at Elysium
Check out a drag show in which it turns out “Boyz DO cry”
Thursday 6/18
- TreeFolks Summer Solstice Party at Better Half
Tree-themed walks, games, safari, vendors + maypole dance - Dragosaurs at Elysium
Drag “dinowhores” w/acts that would make David Attenborough blush - Sipping Sapphic at the Vortex
Join “all who identify as Sapphic” w/lube wrestling, tarot, vendors - Gay, Drag, Drunk History at Stargazer
Hilarious, queer (and tipsy) history lessons w/your favorite drag queens - Dear Dickies at Hyde Park Theater
“Love/business letter to Dickies workwear” in theatrical form
NHA283
Algorithmic Procedural
This episode of No Humans Allowed hangs loosely together around a half-imagined procedural involving Seamus O’Cyborg, something called “kpiss krystals” (they sound either valuable or painful), and a bunch of tense, action-packed electro, disco, + other synth sickos.
Tracklist
Trans Am – Cocaine Computer
Snapped Ankles – Dancing in Transit
Nuclear Daisies – Fangs
Theo Vaness – Bad Bad Boy (Bottin Edit)
Legowelt – Macho Gym
Perspects – They Keep Dancing (Nuvo mix)
Quinn Martin – One More Mission
RFX – The Hills’ Police
Jaisiel – The Inner Trip
Transparent Sound – Pocket Full of Mischief
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
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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 and Side by Sideshows 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 Superfantastica for weird Austin places + things. 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 2026). 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.