Improv Comedy Weekend features the Austin Improv Collective that offers an unprecedented SEVEN SHOWS every weekend. See the best established and emerging improv talent from Austin and beyond, offering a wide variety of experiences.

FRI 8:00pm FRIDAY IMPROV THREEFER, 10:00pm AUSTIN STYLE IMPROV, 11:30pm AUSTIN CAGEMATCH
SAT, 8:00pm MAINSTAGE IMPROV, 10:00pm MAESTRO IMPROV,

Fredericksburg Trade Days Weekend features over 350 vendors. You will find 6 barns and acres of: antiques, collectibles, tools, crafts, shabby chic, primitives, candles, hunting accessories, ranch furniture, jewelry, unique clothing, food and so much more.

Relax in the biergarten, while listening to live music. Free WiFi. Monthly, the weekend of the third Saturday of every month. Friday-Saturday 9-6, Sundays 9-4

South Austin Farmers Market is a "growers only" farmers market held every Saturday morning featuring fresh/in-season fruit and vegetables, breads, canned goods and pesto. Held 51 weeks a year and serving south Austin since 1990 as the oldest and smallest farmers market in the area.

Marble Falls' Main Street Market Day features over 100 vendors with a variety of items.

Come out for the 8th Annual season of the Austin Farmers' Market every Saturday morning to buy fresh vegetables from more than a dozen farmers. Also enjoy meats, cheeses, ready-to-eat foods, sweets, flowers, plants, chef demos, garden workshops, children's activities, local bands, quality crafts, and a social gathering. The Austin Farmers' Market is a Project of Sustainable Food Center, a non-profit devoted to helping people gain access to healthy and local food via farmers' markets, farm stands, community gardens and grassroots cooking classes.

Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo's Rumble Run features the annual Kids 1K Fun Run, a day of racing fun for youngsters on the Fairgrounds. Runners in the Rodeo Rumble will follow the exciting track around the Fairgrounds, by the Youth Center filled with animals, through the Borden’s Kidstown and around the Rodeo Arena.

Sherwood Forest Faire features music, jousting, games, swings, pony rides, and vendors, as well as food from around the world. Real live fairies, goblins, knights, Robin Hood characters, minstrels, wizards, trolls, pirates, horses, centaurs. Interact with Robin Hood, Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, the dastardly Sherriff of Nottingham and many other notable historical and fictional characters wandering amongst the common folk and also performing on stage.

6th Annual Whole Bead Show Weekend features an international cash and carry trade show for beads. We are open to the public, and also sell wholesale to those who resell. Discover vintage through contemporary pieces made from glass, stone, metal, pearl, amber, and porcelain. We also offer antique beads, handmade beads, findings, buttons, charms, and beaded jewelry. Shoppers will be able to access merchants, bead makers, and importers from all over the world who are direct suppliers of many professional and novice jewelry makers.

Saturday 10am – 6pm, Sunday Noon – 5pm

Plucker's Fundraising for Keri's Fairy Godmother Foundation when you mention Keri's Fairy Godmother foundation so that 20% of your food and non-alcoholic purchases will be donated to support the Foundation. The main purpose of our Foundation is to be sure any and all junior and senior high school girls get the opportunity to attend any formal or semi-formal event without the burden of expense.

City-Wide Garage Sale Weekend features Austin's Famous Vintage Flea Market. Saturday 10-5 and Sunday 11-5.

South Austin Steel's USATF Developmental Track Meet features 3200 meters, 4 x 100 meter relay, 50 meters, 800 meters, 100 meters 1500 Race walk, 400 meters, 1600 meters, 200 meters, 4 x 400 meter relay, and long jump.

Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo's Chuck Wagon Cook-Off Weekend features trail wagons similar to those used years ago. Teams compete in two areas: best wagon rig and food for traditional cowboy cooking. Stop and check out the western relics and see what’s cooking!

Chuck Wagon Judging ………………..Friday, March 12th 1-4p.m.
Live Music …………………………………....Friday March 12th 5 p.m.
Kid’s Cook-Off …………...............Saturday, March 13th, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Contest Cooking ………............… Saturday, March 13th, 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Austin Museum of Art's Second Saturdays for Families to play with printmaking. Experiment creating one-of-a-kind prints with everyday materials. Paint your way to prints using bubble wrap, buttons, yarn, and vinyl records -- all inspired by the art on view in American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print.

At 1pm, the Austin Public Library Literature LIVE! Puppet Troupe presents "The Vain Cuckoo Bird," inspired by a Mexican folk tale. Please RSVP to akichorowsky@amoa.org to give an idea of materials needed.

Come on out for some giant chess-playing every Saturday. Learn how to play, test your skill against others, or just enjoy the spectacle of knee-high chess. All ages & skill levels are welcome. Sponsored by the Austin Parks Foundation, with support from the Downtown Austin Neighborhood Association and the Downtown Austin Alliance.

4th Annual ScreenBurn at SXSW: FREE Video Game Arcade features the latest video game industry announcements, product demos and exciting video game tournaments happen. The three-day ScreenBurn Arcade is the space where companies showcase their latest developments to independent developers, publishers, consumers, digital media industry professionals, and internet trend-setters and taste-makers from all around the world who attend SXSW. Anyone can experience the FREE and open-to-the-public ScreenBurn Arcade, where industry and enthusiasts engage.

Blanton Museum of Art's Book Club features Artist Anna Craycroft who leads a special book club discussion for children and adults on texts by Gregory Bateson, Paul Chan, R. Buckminster Fuller, and Bruno Munari. (Paul Chan text is available at the Museum Shop, other texts are available as a course packet at Speedway Copy in the Dobie Mall).

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin is one of the foremost university art museums in the country, and has the largest and most comprehensive collection of art in Central Texas.

2nd Annual Austin Brides of March where a wedding dress gets a second chance at life at different bars downtown. Or this is your chance to wear white when your mom wouldn't let you wear it the first, second or third time. Looking for a few good men and women to join the other crazy Austinites in celebrating brides and all their craziness. Let's keep Austin weird during SXSW.

Xephyra- alternative world music and video features award-winning artists Chad Salvata and Jo Beth Henderson who have created the newest ethos adventure. This non-traditional performance features extraordinary vocals that are performed in an imaginary language of a mythic tribal island world.

Theater- Walk Like A Man is told in two-acts by a culturally-diverse cast as the first African-American lesbian play to be performed Off-Broadway. Boasting the slogan, “It’s about life...not lifestyles”, this edge of your seat dramedy incorporates dramatic and comedic performances to educate through entertainment as twelve visually enticing actresses portray and address labels, issues, and stereotypes universal to most relationships.

Human Potential Center's Video and Discussion features tonight's video: “How About You” with Hayley Atwell [NR].] Most Saturday nights, you’ll find us watching a popular movie here at the Center in a fun, informal atmosphere. Then we have a discussion. We don’t discuss the movie, though; we discuss personal growth issues and themes that came up in the movie. So we’re not doing a “Siskel and Ebert” type of review, but rather an in-depth personal growth process that helps us get to know ourselves and each other better.

Theater- “Lady Bird, Pat & Betty: Tea for Three” features Emmy Award-winning actress Elaine Bromka who reveals a gallery of intimate portraits of three remarkable, radically different First Ladies—Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, and Betty Ford. We discover each at a threshold moment in her life, and learn the personal cost of what Pat Nixon called “the hardest unpaid job in the world.”

March 9-14, 2010, 7:30 pm plus 3 pm matinee on Sunday the 14th

Austin International Folk Dancers' Party features line and partner dances from around the world. We will teach a number of easy dances for both novices and experienced dancers. No partner required. 7:30-8:15 pm Teaching and walk throughs. 8:15-9:30 pm Request dancing. 9:30-9:45 pm Contra / announcements. 9:45-10:45 pm Request dancing., 10:45-11 pm Clean up.

The Round Rock Ghost Tour will commence each Saturday night with a 90-minute tour through the streets of downtown Round Rock, exploring the legends, folklore and ghost stories connected to this historic region.

Austin Ballroom Dancers' Saturday Ballroom Dance features DJ-ed music every Saturday night year-round. The sheer number of ballroom dances can be intimidating, so we are teaching "mini-lessons" from 7:30-8:00pm before each dance.

Theater- A Little Night Music deals with the universal subject of love – in all its many wondrous, humorous, and ironic permutations. The play is set in Sweden at the turn of the 20th century. Middle-aged Fredrik Egerman brings his young bride Anne to a play starring his former mistress, Desirée Armfeldt. Soon, Fredrik and Desirée resume their romance, incurring the wrath of her current lover, a pompous Count.

Theater- "Divas: A Special Night of Music" features popular songs from the 1920's to present, with show tunes included. These numbers will be performed by 12 of the most talented and trained female vocalists Central Texas has to offer. The night is filled with memorable performances by individual "divas", as well as duets and group numbers.

Theater- A RAISIN IN THE SUN is celebrating its 50th anniversary and is called “a milestone in the American theatre”. This intensely affecting drama chronicles how a financial windfall touches the lives of an African-American family living in Chicago in the late 50s. As the simple desire for a home of their own becomes the touchstone of heartbreak, sacrifice, trust and love, their story becomes a heroic struggle to hold a world together. Part of Black History Month.

Austin Symphony's A Night of Music Inspired by Literature will feature ASO Principal Cellist Douglas Harvey playing Richard Strauss' Don Quixote. Maestro Peter Bay opens the evening with "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Paul Dukas. By far the best known of Dukas' compositions, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" was later popularized by its inclusion in the Walt Disney animated film, Fantasia, with Mickey Mouse portraying the title character.

Ballet Afrique Contemporary Dance Company's Move! Come and watch four new works in Ballet Afrique's current repertory as well as "In/Out", "Through the Silence", and "Thoughts of You". Friday & Saturday, March 12-13, 2010 at 8 p.m.

Ballet Afrique is a contemporary dance company based in Austin, Texas. Our endeavor is to ignite the black professional dance movement in Austin. We are excited to begin our venture into Austin’s rich arts community as we convey expressions of the cultures and experiences of the African Diaspora through professional dance.

Tango Class and Dance features the wonderful tunes of Glover Gill & The Tosca String Quartet. 9:00pm mini lesson/ 9:30pm social dancing starts. This event repeats the 2nd Saturday of every month!

Just Between Friends Children's Consignment Sale features thousands of gently-used, brand name items including toys, furniture, books/dvds, clothes, electronics, accessories, etc. at a fraction of retail cost! SELL your children's gently-used items and make up 70%. SHOP and save money on brand-name items for a fraction of retail cost. We benefit local charities!! *SHOP.SELL.SAVE.SMART!*

Benefiting, in part, the following local Round Rock/Georgetown charities:
1. The Pregnancy Help Ctr of Williamson Co
2. The WBCO Head Start Program
3. The Round Rock ISD Teen Parent Program

Improv Comedy Weekend features the Austin Improv Collective that offers an unprecedented SEVEN SHOWS every weekend. See the best established and emerging improv talent from Austin and beyond, offering a wide variety of experiences.

FRI 8:00pm FRIDAY IMPROV THREEFER, 10:00pm AUSTIN STYLE IMPROV, 11:30pm AUSTIN CAGEMATCH
SAT, 8:00pm MAINSTAGE IMPROV, 10:00pm MAESTRO IMPROV,

South Austin Farmers Market is a "growers only" farmers market held every Saturday morning featuring fresh/in-season fruit and vegetables, breads, canned goods and pesto. Held 51 weeks a year and serving south Austin since 1990 as the oldest and smallest farmers market in the area.

Taylor Garden Expo features extensive plant, gardening, and craft sales by local vendors, guest speakers, crafts for kids, door prizes, and a catered lunch. Vendors will be displaying their wares inside the high school and outside on the parking lot. Vendors range from yard artists to John Deere retailers!

The proceeds from this event will benefit the Taylor High School Band program by helping fund music scholarships and purchase new instruments. Come be part of the fun for a good cause!

Currently, our guest speaker schedule includes:
10:00 a.m. - Care of Hybrid Roses - Ray Ponton

Fredericksburg Trade Days Weekend features over 350 vendors. You will find 6 barns and acres of: antiques, collectibles, tools, crafts, shabby chic, primitives, candles, hunting accessories, ranch furniture, jewelry, unique clothing, food and so much more.

Relax in the biergarten, while listening to live music. Free WiFi. Monthly, the weekend of the third Saturday of every month. Friday-Saturday 9-6, Sundays 9-4

The 3rd Annual LBJ 100 Bicycle Tour starts on the air strip of the historic LBJ Ranch and provides routes of 10, 30, 44, and 65 miles on scenic, traffic-free ranch roads in the Texas Hill Country. As an added feature, Luci Baines Johnson’s “Historical Tour of the LBJ Ranch” will depart at 2:00 PM. This narrated tour of the ranch landmarks is a not-to-be-missed event included in the registration price. Listen to Presidential history from someone who lived it!

Come out for the 8th Annual season of the Austin Farmers' Market every Saturday morning to buy fresh vegetables from more than a dozen farmers. Also enjoy meats, cheeses, ready-to-eat foods, sweets, flowers, plants, chef demos, garden workshops, children's activities, local bands, quality crafts, and a social gathering. The Austin Farmers' Market is a Project of Sustainable Food Center, a non-profit devoted to helping people gain access to healthy and local food via farmers' markets, farm stands, community gardens and grassroots cooking classes.

St. James Missions' 5K/1K Run and Walk features a challenging course in the heart of East Austin and the Hill Country. All 5K participants will be chip timed. There will even be a super-fun run for the kids!

We are a non-profit organization whose Missions Ministry is promoting Health and Fitness for the entire community. We are promoting healthier lifestyle choices to improve the quality of life within our community and are excitedly encouraging you to join us in pursuing excellence through physical activity.

Capital Area Games for Life features a series of athletic and cognitive competitions tailored for long-term care residents. More than 400 residents from over 20 nursing homes and assisted living facilities around Central Texas are expected to participate in this year’s games. The event will include a wheelchair race for residents over 100 years old, shot put, balloon volleyball, a spelling bee, among other activities. The public is invited to attend.

Sherwood Forest Faire features music, jousting, games, swings, pony rides, and vendors, as well as food from around the world. Real live fairies, goblins, knights, Robin Hood characters, minstrels, wizards, trolls, pirates, horses, centaurs. Interact with Robin Hood, Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, the dastardly Sherriff of Nottingham and many other notable historical and fictional characters wandering amongst the common folk and also performing on stage.

The Westgate Street Fest features a fun family friendly event showcasing local artists, food vendors, and LIVE MUSIC....

Easter Pfestival in Pflugerville features the Easter bunny and an obstacle course, childrens' train rides, pony rides and tons of eggs!

Come on out for some giant chess-playing every Saturday. Learn how to play, test your skill against others, or just enjoy the spectacle of knee-high chess. All ages & skill levels are welcome. Sponsored by the Austin Parks Foundation, with support from the Downtown Austin Neighborhood Association and the Downtown Austin Alliance.

VSA arts of Texas' "Artism" Exhibit features artwork by Elana Connor and Jo Slaight, two artists with autism in celebration of Autism Awareness Month in April. To many people with autism, art is all of those things and more, a way of communicating when the words aren’t there.

This two-woman exhibition will be on view from March 15 through April 30, 2010. Gallery hours are Mondays through Friday, 12 - 5 pm. Access Gallery promotes artists with disabilities from across the state of Texas.

Casino Royale Benefit Party features a Texas Hold'em Poker Tournament * Bingo * Blackjack & Craps * Let it Ride. Chips can be turned in for raffle tickets, tickets can be turned in for great raffle prizes. Prizes include: Dell Laptop, Ipod, Xbox 360, Aloft hotel, local area restaurant certificates. Southwest airline certificates, and other great raffle prizes.

Come shoot out cancer & raise money for The American Cancer Society.

Rockin' Roundup Benefit Party will feature entertainment by Marcia Ball! Guests will enjoy delicious down home cookin', wine toss, an incredible silent auction and a raffle ticket to win a fully loaded 2010 MINI Cooper.

Any Baby Can's has a mission to ensure that all children reach their potential through education, therapy and family support services.

Austin Ballroom Dancers' Saturday Ballroom Dance features DJ-ed music every Saturday night year-round. The sheer number of ballroom dances can be intimidating, so we are teaching "mini-lessons" from 7:30-8:00pm before each dance.

Austin International Folk Dancers' Party features line and partner dances from around the world. We will teach a number of easy dances for both novices and experienced dancers. No partner required. 7:30-8:15 pm Teaching and walk throughs. 8:15-9:30 pm Request dancing. 9:30-9:45 pm Contra / announcements. 9:45-10:45 pm Request dancing., 10:45-11 pm Clean up.

The Round Rock Ghost Tour will commence each Saturday night with a 90-minute tour through the streets of downtown Round Rock, exploring the legends, folklore and ghost stories connected to this historic region.

Theater- Harvey features Elwood P. Dowd, whose eccentric behavior includes introducing his imaginary rabbit friend (Harvey) to guests at a society party. His sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrassment.

Theater- Zero Libertad, an inter-modal arts guerilla-pop spectacle that channels war-survivor Zero Libertad’s life, while entangled in the Contra Conflict of Nicaragua. Macias portrays Zero Libertad, performing betwixt and between the living and the dead, integrated with music, film, visual and live art, high and low culture, pain and pleasure, glam and slam. Audiences will be bombarded with velocity and stimuli in order to experience on a visceral level how the Contra War of Nicaragua was experienced by one broken spirit.

Theater- The Taming of the Shrew: Staged Reading with all Female cast features Shakespeare’s classic comedy. Enjoy Richard Garriott’s own Curtain Theater, a 200-seat scaled replica of an Elizabethan outdoor theater nestled along the banks of Lake Austin.

Theater- Zero Libertad features an inter-modal arts guerilla-pop spectacle that channels war-survivor Zero Libertad’s life, while entangled in the Contra Conflict of Nicaragua. Performed and written by Alana Macias and directed by Heather Barfield. Macias portrays Zero Libertad, performing betwixt and between the living and the dead, integrated with music, film, visual and live art, high and low culture, pain and pleasure, glam and slam.

Theater- How the Other Half Loves features a contemporary farce and boudoir free-for-alls. This dazzlingly funny stage hit about three married couples trying to cover-up their love affairs resulting in a hilarious comedy of errors as all get tangled up in lies, misunderstandings and cover-ups culminating in a dinner party where laughter is the main course.

Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera features some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage. The show traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux’s classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest-running show in Broadway history.

Long Center's 2nd Anniversary Party and Concert features five spectacular after parties with complimentary food and drinks and a concert featuring legendary rock duo Daryl Hall and John Oates. The after parties will be held throughout the Long Center with live entertainment and food catered by the Four Seasons and 34th Street Café.

West Lawn Tent- Music by Asleep at the Wheel & Rick Trevino, Catered by the Four Seasons Austin
West Pincer Lounge- Music by W.C. Clark Blues Revue, Catered by the Four Seasons Austin

Theater- Waiting For Godot features a modern classic almost from its first performance in 1953, this play has been required reading for most of two generations. Two men discuss everything and nothing as they wait for the elusive Godot. The Broadway revival of "Waiting for Godot" has recently closed, so we bring it to you.

Theater- "Divas: A Special Night of Music" features popular songs from the 1920's to present, with show tunes included. These numbers will be performed by 12 of the most talented and trained female vocalists Central Texas has to offer. The night is filled with memorable performances by individual "divas", as well as duets and group numbers.

Ballet Austin’s New American Talent/Dance features three early to mid career dance-makers from across the country as part of the choreographic competitive project in their downtown theater. World premiere work, live audience voting, nationally recognized jurors and up to $20,000 in prize money make this one of the hottest dance experiences in the country. Bring your phone and text your vote!

Mar 25 | 7pm
Mar 26, 27 | 8pm
Mar 28 | 3pm
Apr 1 | 7pm
Apr 2 | 8pm
Apr 3 | 3pm, 8pm
Apr 4 | 3pm