As part of MISD's Summer Shakeup program, Ballroom Marfa is hosting Music Moves U, a workshop led by Dr. Kahil El’Zabar and his band, the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble. The class is free to attend and open to all students 10 years and older.
DJ Camp is back! Ballroom Marfa present its popular week-long DJ Camp from June 30 – July 5, 2014 with instructors Faith Gay and Javier Arredondo.
DJ Camp is back! As part of Camp Summer Shakeup, Ballroom Marfa presents its popular week-long DJ Camp from June 29 – July 3 with instructor Javier Arredondo.
Lecture Ballroom Marfa hosted a lecture by artist Mary Weatherford, “Agnes Pelton and the American Transcendental” to complement After Effect, an exhibition in Ballroom’s galleries. The lecture took place at the Crowley Theater in Marfa, TX. A painter herself, Weatherford spoke on the work of Agnes Pelton, a member of the historical Transcendental Painting Group […]
DJ Camp is back! As part of Camp Summer Shakeup, Ballroom Marfa presents its popular week-long DJ Camp from June 27 – 30 with instructor DJ Bigface.
Ballroom has once again joined forces with Summer Shake Up, offered by Marfa ISD in collaboration with other community partner organizations. The summer camp is free with breakfast, lunch, and transportation provided. Students grades five through eight are invited to participate.
Discussion Ballroom Marfa, in collaboration with the Judd Foundation and Marfa Solar System, hosted Freedom Solar Power for a Marfa Solar Social in the Ballroom courtyard. Members of Sun Power and Freedom Solar spoke on the benefits of renewable energy, regional solar rebates, and solar power technology. Ballroom’s collaboration with Freedom Solar grew out of […]
Summer Shake Up DJ Bigface | Si Mon Cecilia Emmett Ballroom joined forces with Summer Shake Up, offered by Marfa ISD in collaboration with other community partner organizations for DJ Camp 2018. The summer camp was free with breakfast, lunch, and transportation to/from MISD provided. Students grades five through eight were invited to participate. For […]
Field Workshop Borderlands Research Institute | Dixon Water Foundation Ballroom collaborated with Sul Ross State University’s Borderlands Research Institute (BRI) to host a day of citizen science with a field workshop and discussion on threatened grassland birds at the Dixon Water Foundation’s Mimms Unit. The workshop included a hands-on catching and banding demonstration, followed by […]
Free Exposure Soil Tasting – that's right, soil tasting – with artist, activist, and ecologist Nance Klehm. The program will take place on Thursday, August 23 at the Capri in Marfa, Texas.
Also known as geophagia, the practice of eating earth or soil-like substrates such as clay or chalk has a deep anthropological history and is practiced by various cultures around the world. For this program Klehm will collect soil from various locations around Marfa and guide participants through a tasting, explaining what minerals and biological processes cause the different 'notes' and flavors.
A Walk Through the Ponderosa Pines Davis Mountain Preserve | Nature Conservancy Ballroom hosted a walk through the Davis Mountain Preserve with The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) lead state ecologist Charlotte Reemts. Ponderosa pine populations have drastically decreased in the Davis Mountains, so Reemts and TNC have partnered with Texas A&M University to carry out ‘Operation […]
Casa Perez Ranch Day Ballroom Marfa Botanical Collage Workshop This Botanical Collage Workshop was part of the Judd Foundation’s 2018 Ranch Day, an open house at Casa Perez with guided visits of the Ranch, live music & BBQ, and a talk by Aimee Roberson, Coordinator of the Rio Grande Joint Venture for the American Bird […]
Ballroom Marfa is proud to announce our Tierra. Sangre. Oro Adobe Workshop, an education program for Marfa Independent School District high school students. This adobe brick-building workshop will be led by artist Rafa Esparza, and will give students from our community the opportunity to engage in a creative process steeped in regional history. Esparza’s program will open new channels of expression, encourage understanding and pride in Borderlands cultural
Workshop Ballroom Marfa and Agave Festival Marfa presented Tlacuilcopa – a workshop and exploration of Nahuatl with artist and activist Fernando Palma Rodríguez at Ballroom Marfa. Nahuatl is a widely-spoken indigenous language of Mexico and Central America that uses a writing system based on logograms – written characters and images that represent a word or […]
Summer Shake Up DJ Dada For 2019 DJ Camp Ballroom joined forces with Summer Shake-Up, offered by Marfa ISD in collaboration with other community partner organizations. DJ Camp was free with breakfast, lunch, and transportation to/from MISD provided. Students, grades five through eight, were invited to participate. Students learned skills directly on DJ equipment and […]
ONLINE LEARNING DJ Bigface + DJ Dada Ballroom Marfa is excited to present DJ Camp, now in its 10th year, entirely online. The program is free and available to any kid that wants to join! In this new online iteration of DJ Camp, students will learn music sampling and mixing skills through instructional videos by […]
