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With tons of of venues and a thriving stay music scene identified worldwide, Austin boasts loads of alternatives to catch live shows from all sorts of artists. The Day by day Texan compiled a listing of July music occasions at totally different value factors throughout Austin.

FREE: Scorching Summer time Nights in The Pink River Cultural District

July 20 – 23

The Pink River Cultural District invitations Austinites to a free three-day music pageant from July 20 to 23, showcasing tons of of artists from throughout Texas. From rock and roll to folks music, bands of all genres will carry out at Scorching Summer time Nights at totally different venues round downtown Austin. The pageant goals to introduce up-and-coming performers to a bigger viewers whereas stimulating the native economic system — dozens of native distributors and companies will present meals and drinks for concertgoers. 

FREE: Nichole Wagner at The Cactus Cafe

July 28 

Since The Cactus Cafe’s opening in 1979, 1000’s of singers have taken the stage on the on-campus stay music venue in The Texas Union. This month, singer-songwriter Nichole Wagner will carry out her confessional Americana and folk-pop on the intimate venue. Singing about heavy matters starting from navigating trauma to dealing with heartbreak, Wagner’s present guarantees to tug at any listener’s heartstrings. 

$10: The Final Jimenez at The Continental Membership

July 25

Austin additionally boasts the title of “dwelling of the blues,” a feat cultivated by numerous blues musicians who’ve carried out within the metropolis all through the many years. On July 25, south Texas soul musician The Final Jimenez will carry out his debut album “Some Nights,” becoming a member of the lengthy listing of blues and soul legends who graced the stage on the historic Continental Membership in downtown Austin. 

$17: Wallice at Antone’s Nightclub

July 11

LA-based singer-songwriter Wallice will deliver indie pop to the enduring Antone’s Nightclub on July 11. After opening for Harry Types’ “Love On Tour” and The 1975’s “At Their Very Finest” excursions, the singer has cultivated a gentle and ever-growing following. Followers of pop and various artists may have a good time listening to Wallice’s dreamy alt-pop tunes. 

Beginning at $40: Ayushmann Khurrana and Neeti Mohan Reside at Bass Live performance Corridor

July 28 

Straight from Bollywood, Ayushmann Khurrana and Neeti Mohan are embarking on their first North American tour. Recognized for his or her highly effective voices and roles in numerous Bollywood films, each artists have obtained vital acclaim in India for his or her beautiful musical performances. The 2 will carry out songs from their film soundtracks on the Bass Live performance Corridor on campus. 

Beginning at $75: Don Toliver: Thee Love Sick Tour 2023 at The Moody Heart

July 11

Rapper and songwriter Don Toliver will head to The Moody Heart on July 11, performing songs from his latest album “Love Sick.” Making waves within the business with latest collaborations with Lil Uzi Vert and an upcoming pageant efficiency with H.E.R., Toliver’s efficiency will certainly impress rap followers. 

Beginning at $195: Paramore at The Moody Heart

July 9

Since 2004, Paramore’s rock and roll has captured the hearts of thousands and thousands of followers, with lead singer Hayley Williams’ phenomenal stage presence, bounce-off-the-walls vitality and killer vocals highlighting her within the pop-punk scene. Williams, who lately opened for longtime pal and soon-to-be collaborator Taylor Swift on her large “The Eras Tour,” shall be a must-watch at The Moody Heart on July 9.

Final month, Austin broke its heat-index document after 118-degree temperatures have been recorded at Camp Mabry on June 21, in keeping with the Nationwide Climate Service. 

Texas, amongst different states in the USA, will stay extraordinarily scorching throughout the remainder of the summer time with excessive temperatures ranging between 90 and 100 levels Fahrenheit. Based on the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, excessive warmth waves have develop into extra frequent over the previous few many years.

Warmth domes are a phenomenon that typically exacerbate summertime warmth. They happen when high-pressure circulation within the ambiance acts cap-like and traps warmth on the floor. 

Judson Partin, a analysis scientist on the Jackson College of Geosciences’ Institute for Geophysics, stated Austin’s warmth index or “looks like temperature” could be partially blamed on excessive humidity, sufficient to make temperatures really feel greater than they really are.

“Whenever you evaporate water out of your physique, you’re really cooled off, which is why the physique sweats,” Partin stated. “When it will get extra humid, you’re nonetheless sweating however your sweat isn’t evaporating and also you’re not cooling off due to that.”

Partin stated the warmth in Texas “self-reinforces,” which means the state’s ambiance, with loads of daylight and few clouds, dries soils out quicker, and dry soil makes for warmer situations.  

“These scorching droughts are actually powerful, and the way in which they actually break is when it begins raining sufficient to disrupt the ambiance, knock the excessive stress out, after which the soil will get moist once more,” Partin stated. “When the soil is moist, it takes extra warmth to lift the temperature.”

Partin stated another excuse for greater temperatures in the summertime is constantly hotter nights, attributable to local weather change. For the reason that land doesn’t cool in a single day, warmth can worsen the following day, Partin stated. 

“The human physique likes round 72, 73, 74 levels Fahrenheit, so if the in a single day low is like 77, you’re by no means going to cease operating your AC,” Partin stated.

To stop warmth exhaustion and warmth stroke, The Texas Division of State Well being Providers warns residents to take precautions like ingesting loads of water, by no means sitting in parked or turned-off autos and taking motion on the first indicators of warmth sickness. To remain cool, Austinites can go to numerous cooling facilities and swimming pools all through the town.

A UT examine printed on June 1 discovered that weak East Austin neighborhoods had been extra prone to be in danger for COVID-19 hospitalizations regardless of recording fewer formally reported circumstances. 

“Actually early on with COVID, it was obvious that the general public well being interventions we had been really setting up weren’t doing sufficient to forestall the inequality in infections and hospitalizations and mortality that we noticed,” lead researcher Spencer Fox mentioned.

Inspecting case and hospitalization numbers over the pandemic’s first 15 months, researchers referred to the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index to categorise neighborhoods as “weak.” The index considers components like median earnings, neighborhood members’ age and neighborhood housing sorts. It then weighs these components equally to find out how geared up a neighborhood is to deal with a pandemic, researcher Emily Javan mentioned.   

“It’s a rating of which neighborhood is probably the most and least possible to have the ability to take care of a disaster and rebound,” Ph.D. candidate Javan mentioned. “In Texas, and in Austin particularly on this examine, our increased social vulnerability zip codes had increased infections, and it wasn’t simply on account of being extra prone to get hospitalized, it’s really that extra folks had been contaminated, we estimate.”

Though nobody issue prompted the disparities, components corresponding to “mobility” — having to go away house to work in-person — and a scarcity of public well being information contributed greater than others, researcher José Herrera mentioned. 

“One essential challenge that we have to tackle is the communication of how essential it’s to know concerning the science of what’s occurring within the inhabitants,” mentioned Herrera, analysis affiliate at the Meyers Lab. “That unawareness that the final inhabitants had about how science works and the way the illness is unfold within the inhabitants was really one primary purpose we had a big impact of COVID.”

Javan mentioned a historic lack of funding from the town additionally negatively impacted East Austin neighborhoods.

“Many locations, like near Del Valle, have meals deserts … there’s a myriad of things that would have led to this, and it does align with our pre-existing information of Austin’s Jap Crescent,” Javan mentioned.

Fox, assistant professor within the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics on the College of Georgia, mentioned some measures the town took helped curb the unfold of COVID-19 throughout weak neighborhoods. 

“The issues that the town of Austin did effectively was making an attempt to get testing assets into areas that they thought had been most probably to have hassle accessing testing assets … then finally, making an attempt to position vaccines the place they’re wanted most,” Fox mentioned. “These communities have the best infectious burden, highest charges of mortality and making an attempt to vaccinate these communities to guard them actually was a precedence.”

Nonetheless, Herrera mentioned the researchers proceed to research how these neighborhoods may very well be higher shielded from future pandemics. 

“This isn’t the primary time that we have now had a pandemic, and this isn’t going to be the final one,” Herrera mentioned. “Crucial half that we have now to work on proper now could be to make use of the information that we have now obtainable to acknowledge the place probably the most weak populations are and the way we are able to really attain them by communications and thru many ways in which they might really belief.”

The UT Austin Subreddit went offline alongside hundreds of different Subreddits protesting Reddit’s resolution on June 12 to cost third-party customers. The Subreddit went public once more on June 20. 

“We (protestors) wish to set a precedent for issues that we’ll and received’t take from social media suppliers,” communications professor Madeline Holland stated. “We wish folks to know that this subsequent wave of Web customers, which is Gen Z, just isn’t going to be pushed round like this.”

Third-party apps format all Reddit posts with custom-made navigation or options for accessibility functions. However Reddit’s administration introduced they might cost third-party apps greater charges, making them unaffordable. In response, hundreds of Subreddits — subsections of Reddit the place members focus on a chosen topic — went darkish and had been inaccessible. 

The UT Austin Subreddit, r/UTAustin, served as a discussion board for freshmen looking for recommendation, college students answering one another’s questions and bulletins starting from campus security to the eating halls’ grilled cheese.  

“The folks occurring Reddit know the kind of those that they’re going to be encountering on Reddit,” Holland stated. “I believe folks really feel that sense of kinship or neighborhood, like ‘These are the opposite those that form of like me, so I really feel secure asking a query right here.’”

Pc science senior Akram Bettayeb stated the blackout restricted college students from asking questions or accessing earlier posts, which means they might not make the most of the Subreddit’s data. Bettayeb understands the significance of the protest however stated it ought to be constrained to extra informal Subreddits.

“(UT becoming a member of the blackout) immediately maps onto an actual bodily neighborhood of individuals anticipating going to UT Austin, and people who find themselves residing on the 40 acres,” Bettayeb stated. 

A authorities sophomore and her UT alum dad stated r/UTAustin helped them navigate her switch course of final semester. When the Subreddit went darkish, they made a brand new Subreddit, r/UTAustinTX, to maintain offering college students with the identical useful resource. 

“I can perceive that they wished to help different Reddit communities that went darkish, however there have been many college Reddit boards that didn’t go darkish,” her dad stated. “It was proper in the midst of freshman orientation, so I believe it actually simply damage college students.”

In a Reddit submit, Apollo developer Christian Selig stated Apollo, a third-party app designed for smoother efficiency on iOS gadgets, will shut down on June 30.

“It’s been a horrible week, and the kindness Redditors and moderators and communities have proven Apollo and different third-party apps has genuinely made it far more bearable, and I’m genuinely so appreciative,” Selig stated within the submit. “I’m, admittedly, uncertain Reddit desires to take heed to of us anymore so I don’t see (the blackout) having an impact.”

Reddit didn’t change its resolution following the blackout. Beginning July 1, the corporate will cost third-party apps $0.24 for each 1,000 software programming interfaces, together with upvotes, downvotes and loaded posts. Holland stated this resolution hurts Redditors with disabilities who’re higher assisted on third-party apps. 

“(UT) stands behind this concept of ‘You belong right here,’” Holland stated. “We now have disabled college students in giant numbers at UT, so we wish them to be welcome to the UT subreddit. (Becoming a member of the blackout) is one factor we are able to do to place motion behind our phrases.”

Gov. Greg Abbott appointed John Michael Austin because the Pupil Regent for the College of Texas System Board of Regents earlier this month for a time period lasting from June 2023 to Might 2024. 

The Pupil Regent is a non-voting member of the Board of Regents who represents college students throughout all 13 establishments throughout the UT System. The governor appoints a pupil beneficial by the chancellor of the UT System. 

“The Pupil Regent serves as a voice for college kids by bringing a well-informed pupil perspective to the deliberations of the Board of Regents,” former Pupil Regent Neelesh Mutyala mentioned in a press release. “Having college students in thoughts on the forefront of each dialogue, the opposite regents listened attentively and significantly valued my enter.”

Austin is a third-year medical pupil on the College of Texas Well being Science Middle at San Antonio’s Lengthy College of Drugs. He beforehand served because the Legislative Director for the Chairman of Home Insurance coverage within the Texas Home of Representatives, the place he authored a invoice to enhance entry to insulin for uninsured Texans. Based on the UT System’s web site, Austin additionally served because the President of the Texas Medical Affiliation chapter at UT Well being Science Middle – San Antonio.

“My expertise as a legislative staffer taught me how digging into points and creating novel options might permit me to assist meaningfully enhance the lives of Texans,” Austin mentioned in a press release. “I view this regent position as one other alternative to each study and take what I’ve discovered to maximise the worth college students get from the UT system.”

As Pupil Regent, Austin mentioned he seems to be ahead to making sure college students get essentially the most worth out of their schooling at a UT establishment, whether or not by conserving tuition inexpensive or enhancing job prospects after commencement. 

“The mission I’m trying ahead to essentially the most entails studying extra about present efforts to facilitate pupil job placement after each graduate and undergraduate diploma completion and supporting elevated alternatives for co-ops and internships,” Austin mentioned. “I imagine the UT System is considered one of Texas’ greatest drivers of financial alternative, and serving to college students safe a job they’re pleased with after commencement is considered one of our most necessary markers of success.”

As a former Pupil Regent, Mutyala mentioned he recommends the Pupil Regent interact with college students all through the UT system and develop robust relationships with directors. 

“I’ve had an opportunity to speak to John Michael and know he’s a passionate chief who might be a powerful voice for all UT System college students,” Mutyala mentioned. “I look ahead to his upcoming service as our Pupil Regent.”

To forestall future overdoses and higher perceive these most affected by the disaster, Austin Public Well being created a brand new opioid overdose dashboard that provides the general public entry to information on opioid overdoses.

The dashboard gathers information throughout a number of sources, together with Austin/Travis County EMS, Travis County Well being and Human Companies and the Travis County Medical Examiner, and permits Austin Public Well being to speak the info to the general public in a single location, stated Janet Pichette, the chief epidemiologist at Austin Public Well being.

“Throughout our COVID response, we arrange an preliminary dashboard, and it grew to be two or three dashboards,” Pichette stated. “What is going to occur on this scenario as properly, as we get extra strong information and data, our dashboard will evolve to supply significantly better data.”

By together with statistics on deadly overdoses, non-fatal overdoses, overdose hospitalizations and Narcan distribution, the dashboard permits epidemiologists at Austin Public Well being to research which communities are extra weak to opioid overdoses. Pichette stated visualizing this information in a single place will assist goal prevention efforts and perceive the effectiveness of these efforts. 

“Once I say prevention, it could possibly be outreach efforts like ensuring that we get Narcan to sure populations or have it accessible so bystanders know methods to use it and administer it if want be,” Pichette stated. “It’s not solely the distribution piece, but additionally the outreach and coaching on methods to use Narcan appropriately for harmless bystanders, relations or first responders who would possibly use it as properly.”

Longhorn EMS, a scholar authorities company selling public well being, offers drug security workshops for scholar organizations by its hurt discount committee. Sachi Kulkarni, a public well being senior and the director of the hurt discount committee, stated that whereas the dashboard helps funnel sources the place vital, training needs to be the principle focus. 

“If I or any of us can do something to enhance training on methods to use Narcan to reverse an opioid overdose, methods to acknowledge overdose signs, methods to assist a buddy, and methods to save a life, I believe that’s actually vital going ahead,” Kulkarni stated. “I believe that bystanders and strangers and people varieties of individuals should be empowered with the sort of information as a result of that could be the factor that saves an individual’s life.”

Pichette stated the overdose dashboard would finally operate as only one piece of a collaborative information hub of many neighborhood sources. She stated the info hub would come with details about the place one can acquire Narcan, coaching sources on methods to use Narcan, restoration data and telephone numbers to request help anonymously.

“We’ve been working with hurt discount and a bunch of neighborhood organizations in addition to our first responders and different metropolis and county departments to get as a lot data for the neighborhood,” Pichette stated. “Hopefully, we’ll have the ability to collaborate and put that each one collectively in that information, which is able to present sources to the neighborhood.”

Austin boasts the title of the Stay Music Capital of the world, providing a whole lot of distinctive venues across the metropolis for music lovers to catch reveals from each native and world-class musicians alike. From indie rock to relax pop, Austin provides reveals for any sort of concertgoer. The Day by day Texan compiled a listing of music occasions taking place this month in venues all throughout Austin. 

June 15: El Combo Oscuro at ACL Radio & Lengthy Heart Current: The Drop-In 

Tickets: Free 

The Lengthy Heart invitations Austinites to take pleasure in artwork, lectures and Austin’s most well-known pastime — stay music. Celebrating its fifteenth 12 months, The Lengthy Heart’s summer time Drop-In returns with a free present that includes Austin-based band El Combo Oscuro. The psychedelic Latin Cumbia will pair nice with a Texas sundown and meals obtainable from native distributors. 

June 24: Month-to-month Music Market 

Tickets: $10 

The Month-to-month Music Market celebrates all issues home made, with stalls from native musicians, artisans and cooks. Selling the local people by the humanities, marketgoers can take pleasure in music from Austin-based musicians all day on the market.

June 21: Lamorn at 3TEN ACL Stay

Tickets: $13

Indie-electro fanatic, Lamorn, will carry his creative mixes and tunes to the traditional Austin venue, 3TEN ACL stay this month. With a burgeoning profession within the alternative-electronic area, followers of the style can anticipate a full of life present in an intimate venue within the coronary heart of downtown Austin. 

June 28: The Struts Tour w/ Mac Saturn at Emo’s Austin

Tickets begin at $29.50 

British rock quartet The Struts will contact down at Emo’s Austin later this month for the ninth cease on their “Bear in mind the Identify” tour. With a catalog of 2010s hits and cross-genre collaborations with artists like Kesha below their belt, the band of glam rockers could be anticipated to placed on an unforgettable present.

June 18: Rubbish & Noel Gallagher’s Excessive Flying Birds at Germania Insurance coverage Amphitheater

Tickets begin at $19

Former Oasis guitarist and vocalist Noel Gallagher and Wisconsin-originating rock band Rubbish launched into a North American tour June 2. Making a cease in Austin subsequent weekend, the co-headliners assure to carry a high-octane present full of ‘90s nostalgia.

June 15-18: Oblivion Entry Pageant 

Tickets begin at $49.52

The self-proclaimed “celebration of underground music and tradition” begins Thursday with a four-day lineup of artists acting at numerous venues round Austin. Attending acts this 12 months embody Duster, Spirit of the Beehive, Faust and extra.

A petition to close down the Austin Aquarium began by a UT graduate garnered over 55,000 signatures, one in all a number of calls to take motion following studies of animals harming guests and employees.

Final October, the U.S. Division of Agriculture formally warned the Austin Aquarium for not facilitating satisfactory animal and customer security after a number of incidents the place guests have been bitten or scratched by animals resembling lemurs or kinkajous. Simply final month, a customer reported being attacked and bitten on the face by a lemur. 

Petition creator Madhavi Subramaniam stated that in an undercover PETA investigation of the Austin Aquarium carried out final yr, PETA found many bites, scratches and assaults go unreported. 

In line with the investigation, a number of of the employees bitten “reportedly lied to hospital employees about the kind of animal that bit them when searching for therapy” to keep away from formally reporting the assaults. The undercover investigator was instructed “by no means to doc an assault within the website’s animal care data,” following as much as 12 assaults that occurred whereas they have been investigating. 

The investigation additionally discovered the aquarium is legally owned by a girl named Crysty Covino however operated primarily by her husband, Ammon Covino. In 2013, Ammon Covino was convicted and sentenced in federal court docket for illegally trafficking wildlife, phrases he later violated. The investigation states Ammon Covino’s unofficial operation of the aquarium could also be an “try to bypass the regulation” as he can’t legally maintain a USDA license. 

Subramaniam stated she began the petition after witnessing the aquarium’s situations firsthand. She stated it was uncommon for an animal care facility to be in a strip mall, and he or she had a “unhealthy feeling” after seeing the mammals compelled to sit down on concrete 24/7.

“To me, it was clear that folks do need this aquarium to close down, not only for the truth that children who go there are commonly harmed, however for the truth that animals who’re compelled to remain there are being commonly abused,” Subramaniam stated. “After I began the petition, I actually didn’t count on to get this many signatures. I began it simply to get a gauge of what individuals thought, however while you begin it and get 50,000 plus signatures, you understand it is a hated aquarium.” 

After contemplating whether or not to suggest an ordinance to the Austin Metropolis Council that might ban for-profit amenities unaccredited by the Affiliation of Zoos and Aquariums, just like the Austin Aquarium, the Austin Animal Advisory Fee voted to kind a working group that might additional outline the ordinance’s language to extend its probability of passing. 

The Austin Aquarium declined to remark.

After evolving the stage persona of Y2K over eight years, Austin DJ Turito Moreno craved a rebrand. This March, the three-time Austin Music Awards nominee took to the stage as Turito — a lifelong nickname primarily based on their delivery title, Arturo — for the primary time as an official South by Southwest performer. 

With three upcoming EPs and a number of other anticipated collaborations with LGBTQ+ producers from Austin and past, the previous twenty first Road Co-op booker and founding father of Cyber Queen music showcase emerges into a brand new, extra susceptible period.

Q: You mentioned you felt caught in a field with the Y2K persona. Why did you’re feeling that method?

A: I began the venture in 2015. I beloved it, however I couldn’t get branding for it as a result of I can’t trademark it. Y2K is already pre-existing. I used to be additionally caught on this cyber, web beep-boop field. After I go by my title, it simply provides me extra freedom to do no matter I would like with my music. I don’t have to remain on this digital hyper-pop field.

Q: How has your sound as an artist modified together with your new stage persona?

A: Turito is extra rave music. The vocals are pop-punk vocals with Latin influences. I had my first efficiency of the brand new music throughout South-by, and it was obtained very properly, so I’m actually excited to really launch the venture. I simply must fine-tune it earlier than it comes out.

Q: Did the change from Y2K to Turito mirror any adjustments in your individual life, or was it extra of a artistic transition?

A: Every time I first began Y2K, I used to be carrying lots of pinks and dressed tremendous femme. I began making just a few extra songs throughout COVID, and I used to be nonetheless Y2K, however … I used to be carrying all black and all silver. Possibly it had one thing to do with COVID, however I advanced into this darker character. Turito is a fair darker model. On my closing EP as Y2K, I launched a tune that was by Y2K that includes Turito. It launched the brand new persona but in addition removed the previous venture. It’s type of like Turito is the human that was enjoying this AI digital actuality recreation this complete time and didn’t understand it till they awoke out of it. Y2K was that VR AI recreation.

Q: What does that really feel wish to be such a outstanding determine in Austin’s queer nightlife scene?

A: With me and p1nkstar, one in all my primary collaborators right here in Austin, every time we first had been put into the nightlife scene, we had been doing music, however everybody simply needed to e book us as drag or didn’t perceive what we had been doing. It wasn’t like conventional bands right here in Austin. We weren’t actually getting booked for music showcases. We didn’t really feel like there was anyplace we belonged, so we began producing our personal occasions and pulling in musicians and drag dancers, and we might throw all of it collectively on this one huge occasion. That’s how Cyber Queen and Cyber Babes had been born, after which they picked up. I like Austin’s queer group. It saved me.

Q: What are your plans for the close to future with Turito?

A: I’m engaged on three EPs proper now. The primary one shall be out very quickly. It’s the music I carried out throughout South-by, and I’m fine-tuning some final issues earlier than I put it out into the universe perpetually. Then, I can’t actually say rather a lot about it, however I’ve a fairly cool collab developing that I’m actually enthusiastic about. Hopefully, it’ll change my life perpetually.

With the arrival of LGBTQ+ Satisfaction Month, Austin’s full of life tradition supplies alternatives to have interaction with the native queer group in a plethora of the way this June. Because the summer time ramps up, The Each day Texan compiled an inventory of Satisfaction-related group occasions college students can try. 

June 10 —  Banned Guide Advocacy Membership for Younger Adults at Reverie Books

Devoted to uplifting marginalized communities year-round, native Austin bookshop Reverie Books hosts weekly guide golf equipment for younger adults. This month, Reverie Books’ Guide Membership will likely be studying and discussing “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson, a memoir about Johnson’s experiences rising up as a queer Black man from New Jersey. This membership affords readers an opportunity to help and study from queer voices within the literary subject. 

June 11 — Jane Austin Queer Satisfaction and Prejudice Improv

Placing the Satisfaction in “Satisfaction and Prejudice,” native Austin improv group, Jane Austin, will put a queer spin on Jane Austen’s beloved novels this month on the Hideout Theatre. Made for lovers of Austen’s works, viewers can have fun a comedic LGBTQ+ retelling of the beloved writer’s tales. 

June 16 — Austin Satisfaction Promenade

Though the varsity yr might have simply ended, college students can nonetheless have fun promenade on the Austin Public Library for this yr’s Satisfaction Promenade. That includes drag performers and DJs from the Queer Vinyl Collective, the Austin Public Library will open its doorways to an 18-and-older crowd for a ‘20s-themed dance. 

June 18 — Alexis Michelle at OilCan Harry’s

RuPaul’s Drag Race is coming to Austin, with two performances from season 9 contestant Alexis Michelle. Hosted by Oilcan Harry’s, Austin’s oldest homosexual bar, concertgoers can expertise a slice of Austin’s LGBTQ+ historical past whereas catching routines from Michelle and numerous native drag queens. 

June 23 — Satisfaction Path Run with Path Roots

Path Roots, an Austin working group, goals to construct group by means of hikes and runs by means of Austin’s well-known trails. This month, Path Roots presents an opportunity to attach with LGBTQ+ runners and hikers with a run hosted by Path Roots member, Lindsay Legé, a queer runner and therapist. 

June 24 — Satisfaction in Native Music

No Austin celebration is full with out reside music, and the Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce presents a enjoyable alternative to have interaction with native LGBTQ+ musicians on the fourth annual Satisfaction in Native Music pageant. Held on the Lengthy Heart, the pageant will function performances from a number of native LGBTQ+ artists, with a portion of each ticket sale going to the Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce Schooling Fund. 

June 24 — The Majestic Ball on the Paramount Theatre

Held on the historic Paramount Theatre, college students can shut out Satisfaction Month with some disco fever at The Majestic Ball, a ‘70s-themed set of drag performances hosted by drag legend Diamond Dior Davenport.