Sept 11, 2025 | September Artist Salon

Venue: dadaLab

Date/Time: Sept 11, 2025 7:00pm

Our September Artist Salon features the fantastic curators of our upcoming Hundred Points exhibition, designer Lope Gutiérrez-Ruiz and director of the Visual Arts Center at UT Max Fields. Ahead of their creative residency and work-in-progress showing at Texas Performing Arts, Michael Sakamoto and DJ Spooky will take us through their collaboration of time/life/beauty, and will be joined by Rosemary Candelario, Associate Professor of Performance as Public Practice at the UT. Closing out the evening will be a special performance by multi-instrumentalist, synthesist, and VJ Hexpartner.

Sept 12, 2025 | Michael Sakomoto + DJ Spooky: Work in Progress

Venue: B. Iden Payne Theatre

Date/Time: Sept 12, 2025 7:30 pm

Dance and media artist Michael Sakamoto, composer-musician Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky and dancer-choreographer Mohamed “Barges” Smahneh introduce and perform excerpts from their current work-in-progress project, time/life/beauty. Fusing butoh, hip-hop, new music and multimedia, time/life/beauty is inspired by the intercultural and activist legacy of famed music and interdisciplinary artist Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Sept 26, 2025 – Jan 1, 2026 | Hundred Points

Venue: Visual Arts Center at UT

Date/Time: Sept 26, 2025 – Jan 1, 2026

Opening Reception: Sept 26, 2026 5:00-8:00pm

Contemporary Graphic Design from Austin, São Paulo, Cairo, and Helsinki, Hundred Points brings together 46 projects by sixteen international designers and studios from global design centers to explore how geography, history, and community inform visual and material culture production. The exhibition demonstrates how technological advancements and cultural exchange have shaped conceptual approaches to design, highlighting work that infuses or challenges universal design languages with culturally specific references and motifs.

Oct 16, 2025 | October Artist Salon

Venue: dadaLab

Date/Time: Oct 16, 2025 7:00pm

The October Artist Salon will be hosted by Austin’s legendary choreographer Deborah Hay!  More info coming soon.

November 15, 2025 | Manual Cinema: The 4th Witch

Venue: McCullough Theatre

Date/Time:

• November 15, 2025 2:00 pm
• November 15, 2025 7:30 pm

Emmy Award-winning Manual Cinema returns to Texas Performing Arts with another masterfully crafted, beautifully handmade production. This all-new performance blends shadow puppetry, live-action silhouettes, and original music to create a haunting reimagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

Feb 28, 2026 | FUSEBASH

Venue: Distribution Hall

Date/Time: Feb 28, 2026 6:00pm & 9:00pm

Join us for our biggest fundraising event the year! FUSEBASH is our annual gala unlike any other in Austin with wild live performances, immersive experiences, and an out-of-this-world menu from acclaimed local chefs. Early bird table reservations are open now! Jump ahead of the curve and gather your friends, families, and colleagues and reserve your tables today.

March 6-7, 2026 | Robin Frohardt: Shopping Center Parking Lot

Venue: McCullough Theatre

Date/Time:

• March 6, 2026 7:30 pm
• March 7, 2026 2:00 pm

Robin Frohardt—the visionary behind the critically acclaimed Plastic Bag Store (TPA ’22) and a 2024 Herb Alpert Award-winner—returns to Austin with a new, genre-defying live-cinema performance. Through a hand-built cardboard set, live puppetry, and cinematic projection, the work reimagines the parking lot as part of the ecosystem, blurring the line between the natural and the constructed.

April 13-19, 2026 | FUSEBOX FESTIVAL

Venue: Multiple all over Austin!

Date/Time: April 15-19, 2026

The next festival will take place April 13–19, 2026, activating sites and venues across Austin—from intimate galleries and clubs to large-scale projects in parks, under bridges, and throughout entire neighborhoods.

The festival brings together a wide range of live performances, installations, conversations, workshops, and gatherings. Artists from across disciplines—visual art, film, theater, dance, music, writing, design, and food—come together to share work and spark dialogue.

It’s a celebration of Austin’s creative community and a chance to welcome artists from around the world into conversation with this place. A space for connection, experimentation, and bold new ideas.

April 16-19, 2026 | Katie Bender: Instructions for a Séance

Venue: Bass Concert Hall Rehearsal Room

Date/Time:

• April 16, 2026 7:00 pm
• April 17, 2026 9:00 pm
• April 18, 2026 5:00 pm & 9:00pm
• April 19, 2026 3:00 pm

In this unique immersive theatre, DIY experience—created and performed by writer/artist Bender—the audience is invited to summon the spirit of escape artist Harry Houdini and maybe, in the process, break free from the traps in their own lives. Instructions for a Séance is a playful yet poignant exploration of motherhood, artistic ambition, and the urge to disappear. Inspired by the Houdini archives at the Ransom Center, Séance is a 70-minute theatrical gem: compact, gleaming, and utterly unforgettable.

April 17-19, 2026 | Rude Mechs: Not Every Mountain

Venue: B. Iden Payne Theatre

Date/Time:

• April 17, 2026 7:00 pm
• April 18, 2026 7:00 pm
• April 19, 2026 3:00 pm

Austin’s Rude Mechs return to one of their most beguiling works. Not Every Mountain is a mellow meditation on change, permanence and our place in the natural world. It tells the story of the life cycle of mountains and the processes by which they are born and eventually laid to rest, an invocation of tectonic force and geologic time.rnrnUsing string, cardboard and magnets, the Rudes invites us to watch the collective effort of making and unmaking a series of interlocking mountain ranges.