As mentioned in last week's TWIT, the Black Arts Movement Festival, presented by ProArts Collective, is Austinist's Pick of the Week this week. The Chronicle and the Statesman have also made good mention of the fest, but to catch up the few of you who've yet to get the skinny on this event, here's what's going on. For the next two weeks, BAM brings to Austin an awesome smorgasbord of performance art by African... more ›

Every spring since 2004, a make believe funeral procession has meandered through Hyde Park, occassionally interupted by snippets of site-specific performance art. It was conceived in the aftermath of 9/11, is performed by 36 dedicated followers, and utilizes more than 3,300 styrofoam cups. Oh yeah, and only 18 people get to see it. What in the sam hell? The piece is called Floodlines, and it's being performed this Saturday as part of Refraction Arts'... more ›