Events - 16 Apr 16

We offer aerial silk classes to our community and visiting artists. Throughout the year, our dance classes provide a unique challenge and offer a creative way for students to develop strength and grace while exploring aerial movement.

Blue Lapis Light also offers aerial workshops for colleges, high schools and community organizations. These workshops are uniquely designed for every project, providing an exceptional dance experience for all participants. We can host master classes at our studio or visit your location to conduct site-specific work.

Austin’s premier psychedelic folk band Calliope Musicals are overjoyed to announce the release of their highly anticipated debut album, Time Owes You Nothing on Friday, April 15, 2016. The release party will be at Central Presbyterian Church located at 200 E 8th St., Austin, Texas 78701. Doors are at 7:30 p.m. and the party starts at 8 p.m. In true Calliope Musicals fashion, the evening will be filled with music, confetti, costumes, dancing, hugging and much more. Tickets and more information will available soon at: http://www.calliopemusicals.com/.

In a recent review of their performance at Austin City Limits Music Festival this past year, Billboard said “The sextet’s bubbly brand of pop-rock (think a more authentically hippied-out Grouplove) holds up — the crowd swells significantly as passersby get sucked into the genuinely good vibes of songs…”

Calliope Musicals fill in their folksy roots with a mix of vibraphone, tribal drums, bass, lead guitar and explosive vocals. A preview track “What My Eyes Found” from the album can be streamed here. The track Listing for Time Owes You Nothing is as follows:

1. 1604
2. Echo of the Whoos
3. Sink or Swim
4. Happy, Sandy Baby
5. Potting Daisies
6. What My Eyes Found
7. Swim or Sink
8. Tiny White Moths
9. Velveteen
10. Letters
11. Morning Ground
12. Be (Morning Ground pt. 2)

Hailing from Austin, Texas, Calliope Musicals is a six-person musical tribe that includes Carrie Fussell (vocals), Matt Roth (guitar), Craig Finkelstein (vibraphone), Josh Bickley (drums), Andrew Vizzone (bass) and Chris Webb (lead guitar). Recorded at Fairfax Studios during a month-long stay in California, Time Owes You Nothing is the first LP from Calliope Musicals. The album was produced by Kevin Augunas (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Cold War Kids), mixed and engineered by Gavin Paddock and Andy Dalton and mastered by Pete Lyman (Pat Benatar, Jason Isbell, Banks, Ben Harper).

“The album is colored with excessive amounts of Jesus Christ Superstar,” said Carrie Fussell, lead singer. “What came out is an album that inspires us and one that we hope will inspire others to push boundaries and be their favorite version of themselves.” “Our music centers around a certain energy more than a certain style,” the perpetually barefoot Fussell says. “We’ll do rock, then dance-y disco, then some slow sit-down [songs]. At the end of the day, it feels like the music revolves around imagination and adventure more than it does a specific type of music.”

Pre-order Calliope Musical’s album here: www.pledgemusic.com/calliopemusicals

Discover the fun side of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) careers at the Girls in STEM Conference just for 4th-8th grade girls! The day is packed with three hands-on workshops led by women in STEM fields, lunch, and a t-shirt. Registration for the conference is open at www.girlstart.org until March 28, 2016. There is a fee of $35 that includes a lunch and a t-shirt. 

This year’s Benefit Bash theme, Rose is a Rose is a Rose, is a nod to two early twentieth century artists: writer and art patron Gertrude Stein, who memorialized the phrase in her poem “Sacred Emily,” and Rose Sélavy, artist Marcel Duchamp’s glorious alter ego whose name is a play on the French phrase “arroser la vie,” which translates to one of our favorite directives: Make a toast to life!

SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, April 16 from 7-10pm
Our annual Benefit Bash is a celebration of the art-filled life, and of the artists and patrons who have helped Women & Their Work introduce the joy of art to Austinites for nearly forty years. This night of high style and grand imaginations will take place Saturday, April 16th at the Westlake home of Emily and Danny Walker. There will be rose-infused cocktails, chance poetry, a Man-Ray-inspired photo booth, human chess pieces and a popup “flower market,” with florae by local artists for sale. The dress code: subversive floral, of course.

BUY INDIVIDUAL TICKETS: Rose is a Rose is a Rose
Tickets are limited, $200 each, click here to purchase yours today. Join us at Rose is a Rose is a Rose for what is sure to be a unique and memorable event.

In past years, our spring benefits have been noted as tour de force parties, deemed the “Best Art Fundraiser” by Stephen Moser of The Austin Chronicle and “Gatsbyesque” by Michael Barnes in the Austin American-Statesman. As a non-profit, Women & Their Work’s impact is extensive despite limited resources. We rely on our sponsors, volunteers and in kind donations to keep party costs to a minimum. This ensures that the majority of the funds raised at each Benefit Bash go towards exhibitions, community outreach and educational programming. Each year, we are committed to enhancing the creative lives of more than 650 students in underserved schools.

Through the years national funders including The National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Rauschenberg Foundation have generously supported Women & Their Work. We hope you will consider doing the same. Click here and you’ll find our event sponsor form that indicates sponsor levels and benefits, like a VIP sponsor party at Uchiko. Please become a sponsor no later than March 11 to be listed on our printed invitation.

Thanks to our fabulous Bash Committee, Co-Chairs: Tobin Levy and Liz Young and Anastasia Colombo, Quincy Adams Erickson, Rachelle Diaz, Virginia Fleck, Laura Garanzuay, Justine Gilcrease, Lindsey Hanna, Francés Jones, Yuliya Lanina, Mara Levy, Jardine Libaire, Cile Montgomery, Meeta Morrison, Denise Prince, Leya Simmons Samiloglu, Elisa Sumner, Jason Thompson, Betty Trent, Tommy Vascocu, Emily Walker and Alyssa Taylor Wendt.

Rude Mechs is proud to present the second draft of Field Guide, a new play that asks you to understand life the way a bird book tells you how to name the different species.