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Austin Sunday, September 30 Events
Family Fossil Fun Day and Explore Evolution opening
The interactive exhibit Explore Evolution gives visitors the opportunity to
experience how scientists conduct their research on evolution and shows how
evolution is fundamental to advances in science and medicine. Through
interactive displays, the exhibit focuses on seven research projects that have
made a major contribution to our understanding of evolution. Location: Texas
Memorial Museum. Call 512-471-1604 for more info.
Old Pecan Street Fall Festival
Musicians, food vendors, artists and craftspeople turn Sixth Street, originally
named Pecan Street, into a lively street fair. Location: East Sixth Street. Call
512-443-6179 for more info. Event ID: 9/30
International Gem & Jewlery Show, Inc.
Over 100 exhibitors featuring gold, silver, fine jewelry, loose gems, beads,
estate jewelry and more. Location: Palmer Event Center. Event ID:9/30
Ballet Austin Season Premiere: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Ballet Austin opens its 51st season with artistic director Stephen Mills’
rendition of the Shakespearian classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Location:
Paramount Theatre. Call 512-476-9151 for more info. Event ID:9/30
Live From the Plaza
Enjoy free live music from local musicians at noon each Friday. Concerts are
held outdoors at the steps of Austin City Hall. Event ID:12/14
Black Arts Movement! Festival
Austin's ProArts Collective presents the Black Arts Movement! Festival,
featuring artists from around the nation coming to Austin to perform and
celebrate African-American performing arts. Call 512-236-0644 for more info.
Event ID:10/6
Rehearsing the American Dream: Arthur Miller's Critical Theater
The American playwright Arthur Miller (1915-2005) articulated an unparalleled
engagement with his historical moment through such plays as Death of a Salesman
and The Crucible. The exhibition uses Miller's plays to explore conscience in
its theatrical expression: as an intertwined and interdependent political and
emotional life. Event ID:1/08
Every Day Objects: Extra-Ordinary Austin Designs
In the Austin Museum of Art's first design exhibition, art objects are
juxtaposed with design objects in every day life. Location: Austin Museum of Art
- Downtown. Call 512-495-9224 for more info. Event ID:11/3
Wimberley Market Day
On the first Saturday of the month from April through December, find the unusual
and unique at Wimberley Market Day. Over four hundred and fifty vendor booths
line tree-covered paths winding over sixteen acres, filled with everything from
crafts to furniture. Location: Lions Field, Wimberley, TX. Call 512-847-2201 for
more info. Event ID:12/1
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.