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Fusebox Festival: April 15-19, 2026

After two decades as an annual event, Fusebox now unfolds as a biennial festival—a concentrated burst of art, ideas, and connection across the city.

For five days, projects spring to life in unexpected places:
intimate galleries and theaters, parks and basketball courts, parking garages, sides of buildings, and strange empty lots.

What you’ll experience:
Live performances • Installations • Conversations • Workshops • Gatherings

Artists working across visual art, film, theater, dance, music, writing, design, and food come together to share work and spark dialogue.

Fusebox is a celebration of Austin’s creative community—and an invitation for artists from around the world to enter into conversation with this place.

Explore the Festival & Get Tickets

What is a typical Fusebox show like?

Every show is pretty different. We present artists working across film, theater, dance, visual art, literature, and music. Some projects are joyful and family-friendly. Some are provocative and challenging. Most live somewhere in between.

What connects them:
They crack open the ordinary.
They stretch what feels possible.

At the heart of Fusebox is a deep love of the live experience. We believe in gathering—in sitting next to strangers, in shared attention, in using our imaginations together.

Our artists span generations and genres.
MacArthur “Genius” Fellows. Grammy winners. Creators of hit HBO series.
And artists you may not know yet—but will be very glad you discovered here.

Festival Guest Curators:

Investing in the creation process

The festival also plays a direct role in the commissioning and creation of new work from select artists each year. We believe Austin should be a place where art is created (and supported), not just consumed.

As an organization founded by artists, we value paying artists. It’s our single biggest festival expense.