About this Event
I Was a Museum
Join us at Kick Butt Coffee on June 6, 2026 at 9:00 PM (Austin, TX). I Was a Museum opens & you don’t want to miss the newest 1-800-Clown-Town production. Come explore the tent, enjoy delicious performance art & soak in the connective, collective atmosphere. It’s the perfect unhinged event to spend your Saturday evening with friends or meet new ones. Come honk it up with us!
June 6 | Kick Butt Coffee
Your either there or you'll hear about it after.
For ONE NIGHT, we erect the tent, and then it's gone!
No replicas.
WTF IS THIS?👁🎟👁
☆꧁I Was A Museum꧂☆ is a live CLOWN cabaret & social experiment! This choose your own adventure night explores connection, leaning into authenticity and celebrating that art is panacea.
We are inviting the Clowns, Cryptids & HUEmans to parade & play with us!
Step into the tent! Wander, watch, participate…get pulled into something unexpected.
Performance Art ☆Burlesque ☆Melty Gameshow Absurdist Infomercial Hybrid☆Comedy☆ Games that create immersive moments throughout, carefully curated to view, interact and be the art.
Installations you can Explore, Avoid, or Become Part of.
You can win a paid date (romantic, platonic, or otherworldly).
💥Much mischief. Much heart. Come honk it up with us! 💥
A collaboration with 1-800-Clown-Town & Fou Fou Ha! / Fou Fou Ha! Austin!
CHOOSE YOUR PATH
Pre-show: Clowns, Cryptids & HUEmans: Speed Connection 3000™️ Talk to strangers. No apps. No filters. An optional 45 minute experience.
Show: An unstable CLOWN variety show that alchemizes performance art and audience participation. Featuring powerhouse performances and spectacles.
Afters: Music. Drinks. Vendors. Interactive installations. People staying. Talking. Connecting.
What Happens Here?
People have left with hotdog in their hair.
There have been glory holes that dispensed prizes.
A ballpit filled with rubber chickens existed.
There have been entire stages tarped and front row wrapped in plastic.
There have been moments no one could explain after.
People leave..different.
Clown Town is a space for people who might not otherwise meet...to actually meet.
Clowns.
Cryptids.
Huemans.
All in the same room.
🟥⬛️🟨🟥🟪🟩🟦
We find JOY is RESISTANCE by creating space where something real might happen.
What if we came?
What if we stayed?
Experience
Clowns, Cryptids, & Huemans Speed Connection 3000™️
The preshow encounter where you meet strangers.
It's awkward.
It's unexpected.
It's fun.
It works?
🔃Connection.
↖️➡️Chance Encounters.
🔄Celebration.
This is not an app. You have to be there.
Inside each of us lives a museum...for one night...it opens.🎪🦋
This show is also a ✨️🤡✨️ FUNdraiser!
Fou Fou Ha! has been creating weird, immersive, boundless clownperformance art for 25 years!
This October we gather with clown family from across the country to celebrate the legacy!
Your ticket helps us get there!
This night helps fund artists, risk, and work that doesn’t conform. Front Row tickets directly support that future.
DETAILS
7:30 Speed Connection 3000™️
9 Main Show
Afters to follow
TICKETS
$25 GA
$30 Seated
$40 Front Row/benefactor
Preshow: $10 Clowns Cryptids & Huemans Speedconnection 3000™️ (or FREE with presale ticket purchase) 45 minute experience.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Kick Butt Coffee, 5775 Airport Boulevard, Austin, United States
USD 13.54 to USD 48.19
