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The big-screen festivities kick off with the Gael García Bernal-produced documentary “ASCO: Without Permission,” about the 1970s Chicano art collective.

Combined-cycle gas plants also played a significant part in repowering the grid, but four nuclear power reactors at Almaraz, Ascó and and Vandellós were automatically shut down by the outage, and three others were already offline anyway.

With their guerilla approach to performance art, Asco founders Harry Gamboa Jr., Glugio “Gronk” Nicandro, Willie Herrón and Patssi Valdez built a legacy around expanding the possibilities for Chicanos in the art world.

“We want to celebrate Asco, but also pass what Asco did on to the next generation and continue their legacy,” he told De Los.

Across Austin’s Lady Bird Lake, Asco fans and documentary enthusiasts alike gathered in the hotel ballroom-turned-movie theater.