Lady Champagne: Red Carpet Opening Night Screening

Lady Champagne opens at Galaxy Highland 10 on Thursday, September 24, with a red-carpet screening that kicks off The Big Queer Weekend. The night is built around the film, but it starts well before the lights go down: a reception begins at 6 PM, and D'Arcy Drollinger will be there in person.

The screening is the opening act for The Big Queer Weekend, a four-day celebration of queer film, music, art and community presented by aGLIFF — Austin's LGBTQ+ Film Festival — and the Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce. The whole weekend is a joint effort between the two, and this is the night that gets it moving. The red-carpet setup means the reception brings together filmmakers and special guests, with photo ops and the kind of energy you'd expect from a festival kickoff. If you're coming for the film, arriving early gives you a chance to hang out with the people behind it before the screening starts.

Galaxy Highland 10 is a first-run movie theater in Midtown, located at 6700 Middle Fiskville. It's a standard cinema, and it doesn't serve alcohol, so the reception is about the people rather than the drinks. Tickets are $20, and the whole evening runs from 6 PM through the night, with the red-carpet reception starting right at the top of the hour.