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Arts & Culture for Fri., May 2
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  • Film

    Special Screenings

    PJ Raval + UT Austin’s Queer Media Production Screening

    Queer culture is under attack, and many institutions seem to be folding rather than lending their support. Not so UT’s Radio-Television-Film program, as the film school continues to spotlight marginalized voices. Like the long-running East Austin Stories class, Call Her Ganda filmmaker PJ Raval’s Queer Media Production course empowers students to tell lesser-told stories, here by “embrac[ing] queerness as an artistic sensibility, mode of artmaking, and a form of creative boundary pushing.” Catch the work of Raval’s students at this special one-night showing of their original short films, and read more about it in this week’s Qmmunity coulmn. Oh, and make sure to bring a dish for the potluck. – Richard Whittaker
    Fri., May 2
    Hyperreal Film Club

  • Qmmunity

    Arts & Culture

    Willow Pill

    Drag Race season 14 winner Willow Pill picks this W-Austin adjacent venue for her first solo tour. Expect to be regaled by “the true (mostly) story of her religious childhood up to her modern day stardom as a D-list celebrity.”
    Fri., May 2, 8pm
    Austin City Limits
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  • Arts

    Visual Arts

    “Transcendence: A Century of Black Queer Ecstasy, 1924-2024”

    Across politics and pop culture, depictions of queer Black life most often emphasize pain, if not patronization. “Transcendence: A Century of Black Queer Ecstasy,” a multimedia exhibition presented by UT-Austin’s Art Galleries at Black Studies, flips the script, offering a century’s worth of works that focus instead on Black joy. Organized around seven themes – Portraiture, Beyond Figuration, Dance and Movement, Spirituality, Sex and Sensuality, Black Queer Futures, and Altered States – the works of over four dozen artists remind us that even in the face of adversity, we can achieve transcendence. – Carys Anderson
    Through May 9
    Christian-Green Gallery, 201 E. 21st St. & Idea Lab, 210 W. 24th St.

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    Arts & Culture

    The Little Gay Book Club

    Crack open a new queer lit section every month with the Little Gay Book Club, a subscription-based "community of booklovers and bibliophiles that share in our passion for reading through conversations, monthly meetings, and events." Meetings are available virtually and in-person.
    $0-50 per month.
    The Little Gay Shop
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