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Austin Saturday, November 25 Events
Chuy's Christmas Parade
A procession of giant balloons, marching bands, vintage cars, celebrities and
floats usher in the season of giving. Location: Congress Avenue.
Victorian Christmas on Sixth Street
Attendees find themselves surrounded by a recreation of the 19th Century
Victorian era. Vendors and street performers create and entertaining environment
by dressing up in Victorian costumes and arranging their booths in similar
fashion. Location: E. Sixth Street. Call 800-285-9859 for more info.
Rockin' Christmas Party
Zach's award-winning cast will shake, rattle and roll down Santa Claus Lane with
new songs guaranteed to lift your spirits. A glossy, glitzy sleigh ride through
MoTown in YoTown for the holidays! Location: Zachary Scott Theatre. Call
512-476-0541 for more info. Event ID: 1/27/07.
The Santaland Diaries
The comedy tells the real-life story of Sedaris' tour of duty as the elf
Crumpet, and what it takes to juggle tots and tottering Santas during a
painfully festive time of the year. A laugh 'til you cry evening of merrily
subversive entertainment to delight adult audiences. Location: Zachary Scott
Theatre. Call 512-476-0541 for more info. Event ID: 1/27/07.
Radical NY!
The Austin Museum of Art presents a landmark exhibition illuminating two
transformative periods in New York City. New York is more than just a location,
it’s an attitude—and, that attitude forever changed the face of American art and
culture. Radical NY! is a two-part exhibition presenting The Downtown Show: The
New York Art Scene, 1974-1984 and Abstract Expressionism: 1940s-1960s opening
November 18, 2006 with works by over 200 groundbreaking artists including
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Cindy Sherman, and
hundreds of paintings, sculptures, drawings, videos, and photographs. Location:
Austin Museum of Art- Downtown. Hours: Tues. - Sat. 10 - 6, Thurs. 10 - 8, Sun.
Noon - 5, Closed Mondays and Holidays. Admission: $1 - $5 (Free for Members).
Call 512-495-9224 for more info. Event ID: 1/28/07
Way of the World
In a fantastically complicated plot, UT's MFA Actors play a kooky cast of
intertwined characters competing for profit and love in 1700 London. This
Restoration comedy perplexes, shocks, and amuses as it takes us into a world we
may find all too familiar. Location: UT PAC's Oscar G. Brockett Theatre. Call
512-477-6060 for more info. Event ID: 12/3
Miss Ima's Quilts
Miss Ima Hogg was a visionary collector, preservationist, and philanthropist. To
highlight her vision as a collector, this special exhibition will for the first
time bring together an extraordinary selection of Miss Ima's quilts that range
in date from the late 1700s to the early 1900s. Location: Bob Bullock Texas
State History Museum. Call 512-936-8746 for more info. Event ID: 1/7/07
Requiem
This performance takes place on the concrete columns and over the edges of the
floors of the five-story structure. The dancers and climbers ascend and descend
through the use of ropes, cloth, bungee cords, and other aerial techniques to
reach heights of up to 80 feet. Location: Intel Building, 400 W. San Antonio.
Call 512-736-9700 for more info.
Animal Secrets
Where does a chipmunk sleep? What does an eagle feel its young? Kids can answer
these questions and more by exploring the hidden habitats and secret lives of
forest animals. Children and adults use imaginative role-play and hands-on
activities to explore in the five naturalistic environments. Location: Austin
Children's Museum. Call 512-472-2499 for more info. Event ID: 1/6/07
Luca Cambiaso
Luca Cambiaso is known as the first great "modern" artist in Genoa. His works
inspired innovation and influence throughout Italy in the early 18th century.
This is the first exhibition of Cambiaso's work in 50 years and the first
presentation ever outside of Italy’s coastal Liguria area. Location: Blanton
Museum of Art. Call 512-471-7324 for more details. Event ID: 1/14/07
Power to the People: The Electrification of Rural Texas
Walk into a world before television, computers, the i-pod, even refrigerators
and running water. The exhibit, Power to the People: The Electrification of
Rural Texas, is a unique story of one of the most dramatic events in Texas
history. Rural Texas in the 1930s was still in the dark as electric lines hadn’t
penetrated the beautiful, but rugged Texas Hill Country. Location: LBJ Library
and Museum. Open Daily 9-5 (except Christmas) Free Admission. id:5.2.07
Big Bugs
David Rogers’ Big Bugs exhibit includes eight enormous sculptures of insects—a
1,200-pound praying mantis, a 7-foot assassin bug and the biggest spider you
will ever see. Location: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Call 512-292-4200
for more info.
Bat Watching
The 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats that live beneath the Congress Avenue
Bridge take flight in a mass exodus each night at dusk. Located at Congress Ave.
& Cesar Chavez St. Austin, TX 78704.
Norman Mailer Takes On America
Drawing on the recently acquired Norman Mailer archive, the exhibition sets the
career of Norman Mailer in this cultural context and trace the central role he
has played in our awareness and understanding of what Morris Dickstein calls the
"shocks of history, politics, and contemporary life" that reshaped the last half
of the twentieth century and continue to unsettle the twenty-first. Location:
Harry Ransom Center. Call 512-471-8944 for more info. Event ID: 12/31.