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  • Thank You, Five! Mod ’60s Variety Show

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM Areaarts & cultureTickets

    Hosted by Kopidion, this mod '60s variety show plays in The Box's black-box format, which tends to collapse the distance between performers and audience in ways that bigger stages simply...

  • Tie-Dye Workshop on Route 66 at Gaia’s Kava Root

    Gaia's Kava Root
    UNM Areaarts & cultureDetails

    Tina, a local instructor, leads a two-hour tie-dye workshop at this kava bar and community hangout on the UNM stretch of Central. The $5 bring-your-own or $10 buy-there shirt pricing...

  • Clothing Swap at Gaia’s Kava Root

    Gaia's Kava Root
    UNM Areaarts & cultureFreeDetails

    Gaia's Kava Root is running a no-pressure clothing swap open to everyone, with sizes ranging from baby through adult, plus free hygiene products and gift cards for local restaurants, groceries,...

  • Tori Amos Live at Popejoy Hall

    Popejoy Hall
    UNM Areaarts & cultureTickets

    Tori Amos brings her piano-centered performance to Popejoy Hall, one of the few rooms in Albuquerque with acoustics that actually reward that kind of intimacy. Popejoy is a proper concert hall, assigned seating, no bar rail to lean on, which suits her catalog better than a club would anyway. Tickets through Ticketmaster, and this one...

  • Elote Bar & Clothing Swap at Gaia’s Kava Root

    Gaia's Kava Root
    UNM Areaarts & cultureDetails

    Gaia's Door Girls are turning the front of this Central Ave kava bar into a full elote operation for an afternoon, with Coco's Clothing Swap rolling in racks and Bruja Beauty LLC doing looks alongside. This kind of low-key popup lives and dies by turnout, and Gaia's has a genuinely loyal UNM-adjacent crowd that tends...

  • Clothing Swap at Gaia’s Kava Root

    Gaia's Kava Root
    UNM Areaarts & cultureFreeDetails

    Gaia's Kava Root is running a no-strings clothing swap the Sunday before the school year picks up, with drop-offs accepted at the shop all week prior so you don't have...

  • Open Source All-Ages Class at Outpost

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM Areaall agesTickets

    Kanoa Kaluhiwa leads this all-ages weekly class at Outpost Performance Space, running every Tuesday through August 26 under the title Open Source. Outpost is one of the more thoughtfully run rooms on Central, and classes here tend to draw people who are genuinely curious rather than just checking a box. If you're on the fence,...

  • Jazz Films at Guild Cinema

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM AreaArts & CultureTickets

    The 20th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival steps outside its usual performance format for a film day at the Guild, pairing the 1981 avant-garde document Imagine the Sound with the...

  • Cecil Taylor Listening Party & Jazz Art Show

    Outpost Performance Space
    UNM AreajazzTickets

    A full-album spin of Cecil Taylor's 1979 recordings anchors this evening at Outpost, paired with a reception for Greg Tucker's Inpost work as part of the 20th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival. Outpost is a genuine listening room, which means the crowd tends to actually listen, so if you show up expecting background-music cocktail energy,...