Sunbird Fest
Sunbird Fest is a four-day city-wide music, film, art, and education festival benefit for Palestine.
There will be live shows, art exhibitions, film screenings, workshops, speakers, and more happening at venues across Austin from 6/20-6/23.
All funds raised from Sunbird Fest will go to vetted humanitarian aid efforts and direct fundraisers for people living in Gaza with family and friends in Austin.
Schedule: (details on instagram @sunbirdfest or sunbirdfest.com)
DAY 1: Thursday, June 20
Live Music
@ Low Down Lounge
6pm – 10pm
Mylets, Good Lord, reina, Benton Kaufman
Sunbird Fest Cumbia Kickoff
@ Hotel Vegas
9pm – 2am
DJ Ruuex, Viva Palestina Orchestra, Cecilia and the Broken Hearts, Desechos, Nemegata, and DJ Suxxy Puxxy
+ art, vendors, and Bad Larry Burger pop up
DAY 2: Friday, June 21
Film Screening
@ East Austin Comedy Club
2pm – 5pm
Returning to Zarnouqa,
Daggit Gaza
Arts Market & Live Music
@ Springdale General
6pm – 10pm
Elena Diaz, Viva Palestina Orchestra, Kristen Taylor, Mister Sister, and DJ Ashraf
+ Incite Paliforce showcase & art build, vendors, food trucks, and more
Film Screening
@ Lynny’s/ Mass Gallery w/Hyperreal Film Club
8pm – 10pm
Don’t be Tired by Anahita Amirshahi
Omar by Hany Abu-Assad
Hip Hop Showcase
@ Kenny Dorham’s Backyard
9pm – 12am
Fak3 5miles, Khxnid!, Brotha B, Jersey J, West Berman, gin., Taii Wann, JERMSEGO and G R X Y
Comedy Show
@ East Austin Comedy Club
10pm
Abbas Wahab and Michael Moses
DJ Sets
@ Saturn Cocktail Club
10pm – 2am
Salon, DJ Single Lash, DJ Epz
DAY 3: Saturday, June 22
JVP & UWSA Teach-In
@ Wildflower Church
10am – noon
Antisemitism, Zionism, and Palestinian Solidarity
Yoga for All Humans
@ Online / Virtual Class
11am – noon
Register at sunbirdfest.com
NORTH LOOP ARTS AND MUSIC FAIR:
Educational Speakers & Workshops
@ Monkeywrench Books
1pm – 5pm
WDS: Militarized Policing from
Palestine to the US
PYM: History of Palestinian Resistance
Film Screening
@ We Luv Video
3pm – 5pm
Voice of a Generation: Student
Protests of 2024
Poetry Reading
@ Epoch Coffee
3pm – 6pm
+ Loteria para Palestina
Benefit Show
@ Double Trouble
3pm – 10pm
Queer Vinyl Collective, Ama, Alex Riegelman, Jeff Olson (Big Bill), Pony Soprano, Erika WC
Live Music
@ Tigress Pub
4pm – 10pm
Phia, Egee, Passiflora, Atlas Major,
Javier Jara, and Matt MacDonald
Honky Tonk for Palestine
@ Sagebrush
2pm – 6pm
Shinglers, Troy Stone, Candler Wilkinson, WK & The Working Class
Pride for Palestinian Liberation
Benefit Dance Party
@ Neon Grotto
4pm – 9pm
DJs, Drag Performers, and more
Record Release Party
@ Breakaway Records
5pm
The Point & lluvii
FREE PALESTINE: A Far Out Benefit Show
@ The Far Out Lounge
7pm – midnight
Slurp the World, Hanna Barakat, Farmer’s
Wife, Die Spitz
+ vendors, screen-printing, and more
Sunbird Guerilla Corps Benefit Show
@ Patton Haus
7pm – 10pm
Thirst for Love, Demigod, Coercion
DJ Sets
@ The Garden at Lit Lounge
10pm – 2am
mid^heaven, dreams, BILLBO, Club Agenda
DAY 4: Sunday, June 23
Educational Workshops & Readings
@ Alienated Majesty Books
1pm – 5pm
JVP: No Pride in Genocide: A Teach-in on Zionist Pinkwashing
Book Study with PSL
Q&A with Greg Stoker
Workshop: Countering Zionist Propaganda
Benefitness and Charity Drag
@ Cheer Up Charlies
3pm – 6pm
Divine Feminine Twerkshop, Dance Workouts, Charity Drag with Bobby Pudrido, Brigitte Bandit, Sinful Purchase, Puja Purchase, and Jonbenet C. Quin
DJS: Majesty, Olamide, Veneer, La Morena
Punk Show
@ Rio Market
4pm – 7pm
Provoked Emotions, Pink Sphinx, Good Pollution
Sunbird Fest Closing
@ The Ballroom
6pm – 10pm
Teaj, Viva Palestina Orchestra,
Lauren Lakis, TC Superstar
+ Raffle drawing, vendors, screen-
printing, flash tattoos, and more
Goth Dance DJs
@ Tweedy’s Bar
8pm
Kateorala & Vampira
Palestine Solidarity Open Jam
@ 21st Street Co-op
9pm – late
Open jam with genre changes by the hour
***Ongoing Events:
Raffle ticket sales @ all events;
Sunbird Altar @ Canopy by the Birdhouse of Kitchen Table Puppets & Press
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