Cost: Free
Friday, 6 p.m.
Texas Capitol grounds<\/p>\n
Catch Casssandra, a 26-foot-long lantern serpent, flying around the Capitol grounds as the sun sets. The outdoor performance includes other lantern puppets designed by elementary school students. The show is intended to embody “both climate anxieties and communal resilience.”<\/p>\n
Dolly\u2019s 80th Birthday Tribute Show, Sagebrush<\/a> Celebrate the queen of country with live music and a look-alike contest. Brigitte Bandit, Paige Plaisance, Valley Flower, DJ Ed West and others take the stage. The party benefits the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians. <\/p>\n the wolf you feed, The VORTEX<\/a> Catch a new play inspired by Where The Wild Things Are about a recently separated woman’s encounter with a pack of wolves outside a motel on the edge of a forest. <\/p>\n Recycled Reads farewell celebration<\/a> The Austin Public Library’s used bookstore is closing permanently, a victim of the city’s budget deficit<\/a>. The store is planning a daylong celebration featuring music, poetry and an opportunity to make a book out of cardboard and repurposed materials. Deals are promised. <\/p>\n Age of Audio, Austin Film Society <\/a> Watch a documentary exploring the rise of podcasting followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Shaun Michael Col\u00f3n, moderated by KUT’s Jerry Quijano. Co-presented by KUTX, Sound Unseen<\/a>, Austin Film Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This weekend you can celebrate a country music icon, reflect on climate resilience through art, bid farewell to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[53788,53789,132,17644,134,133,5563,53790,53791,31010,53792,53794,53793],"class_list":["post-124198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-afs-cinema","tag-age-of-audio","tag-austin","tag-austin-film-society","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-public-library","tag-dolly-parton-birthday","tag-glass-half-full-theatre","tag-recycled-reads","tag-sagebrush","tag-the-wolf-you-feed","tag-vortex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Cost: $20, benefiting HAAM
Saturday, 7 p.m.\u2013midnight
Sagebrush, 5500 S. Congress Ave.<\/p>\n
Cost: $15-39
Thursday\u2013Feb. 7; 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 6 p.m. Sundays
The VORTEX, 2307 Manor Road<\/p>\n
Cost: Free
Saturday, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
5335 Burnet Road<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768477232_562_.jpeg\"\/)
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Cost: $14
Sunday, 4:15\u20136:15 p.m.
AFS Cinema, 6259 Middle Fiskville Road<\/p>\n