Fresh Meat - A Student Showcase

Ginger Snaps Burlesque is bringing its student showcase, Fresh Meat, to Kick Butt Coffee Music & Booze on Saturday, September 5. The lineup pulls from the burlesque house's current and former students, with local guest stars mixed in. Ginger Snaps bills it as a "HOT summer picnic" of the freshest new burlesque talent in town, so it's a good spot to see some new faces taking the stage.

If you're going, the host has a specific request: bring dollars, both for tipping the performers and for fanning yourself. It's a burlesque show, and the tipping is part of the tradition.

The venue is Kick Butt Coffee Music & Booze, an unpretentious, un-corporate Austin coffeehouse created by Thomas Gohring, a local Tai Chi and Kung Fu master. The menu keeps that theme going, with original "samiches" named after legends like Jackie Chan and a "Ying Yang" white and black chocolate cake. It's the kind of room that draws a real Austin mix—artists, musicians, poets, entrepreneurs, and office workers all hanging out in the same space.

Doors open at 7:30 PM and the show starts at 8 PM. Tickets run from $15 to $80, and it's 18+.