San Cha — Tragame Tierra
Marfa, TexasBallroom Marfa is proud to present San Cha — Tragame Tierra Thursday, February 15. Join us for a evening of delicious and painful love songs from LA-based artist and musician.
Free
Ballroom Marfa
- 23 Nov
- 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
- Admission
- Free
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Marfa Myths 2018
Marfa, TexasBallroom Marfa and Mexican Summer bring their annual music festival and multidisciplinary cultural program back to Marfa for 2018.
Hyperobjects
Marfa, TexasExhibition Center for Land Use Interpretation | Megan May Daalder | Tara Donovan | Nance Klehm | Postcommodity | Emilija Škarnulyte | Sissel Marie Tonn with Jonathan Reus As well as objects and loans from David Brooks, the Center for Big Bend Studies | the Chihuahuan Desert Mining Heritage Exhibit | Earthworks | Rafa Esparza […]
DJ Camp 2018
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 […]
Free
Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick
Marfa, TexasConcert Mary Lattimore and Julianna Barwick returned to Marfa to fill the Ballroom courtyard with their mysterious and cosmic tones at sunset on Tuesday, July 17. The show was free and open to the public. All proceeds from donations and poster sales benefited Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center.
Free
Hyperobjects – Animal
Mimm's Ranch Marfa, TexasField 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
Hyperobjects — Mineral
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.
Hyperobjects – Vegetable
Davis Mountain Preserve Fort Davis, TexasA 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 […]
Free
Nostalgia for the Light + Star Party
The McDonald Observatory Fort Davis, TexasScreening + Star Party Ballroom Marfa presented a free screening of Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light at the McDonald Observatory. The film was complemented by free entry to the evening’s Star Party and a chance to learn more about the McDonald Observatory’s participation in the Giant Magellan Telescope. Nostalgia for the Light documents the […]
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Ranch Day | Botanical Collage Workshop
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 […]
stone circle | Reactivation Screening + Talk
Marfa, TexasAbout To celebrate the reactivation of Ballroom’s latest commission, Haroon Mirza’s stone circle, Ballroom presented a very special program at the Crowley Theater. First we screened PASSAGE, a short film by artist and co-founder of the CineMarfa film festival, Jennifer Lane, which documents megaliths across the Iberian Peninsula. The screening was followed by a short […]
Free
Tierra. Sangre. Oro. Adobe Workshop
Marfa, TexasBallroom 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
Free
def.sound
Marfa, TexasConcert def.sound performed for the opening reception of The Way You Make Me Feel on November 16th at WRONG Marfa. def is a frequent collaborator of Jibade-Khalil Huffman and the concert included a specially selected set to accompany the thematic content of Khalil’s installation.
Free
The Way You Make Me Feel: Artists’ Film International — Jibade-Khalil Huffman
Jibade-Khalil Huffman’s First Person Shooter is a complex visual collage that layers stock digital animation, video shot by the artist, bold text, and multichannel audio. The piece weaves together themes of anxiety, race, violence, overstimulation and boredom from a fractured palette of source material. Overlaid onto the imagery, a libretto-like text inflects the video’s barrage of stimuli, applying lyricism to episodes that intentionally frustrate conventional narrative expectations.
Candelilla, Coatlicue, and the Breathing Machine
Marfa, TexasExhibition Beatriz Cortez | Candice Lin | Fernando Palma Rodríguez Candelilla, Coatlicue, and the Breathing Machine was an exhibition that featured new work by three artists: Beatriz Cortez, Candice Lin, and Fernando Palma Rodríguez. The title refers to a facet of each artist’s contribution to the show, which ranged from wax pours to robotic storytellers […]
Marfa Myths 2019
Marfa, TexasABOUT Marfa Myths is an annual music festival and multidisciplinary cultural program founded in 2014 by nonprofit contemporary arts foundation Ballroom Marfa and Brooklyn-based music label Mexican Summer. With Marfa Myths, the two organizations bring together a diversity of emerging and established artists and musicians to work creatively and collaboratively across music, film, and visual […]
Tlacuilcopa — a workshop and exploration of Nahuatl
Marfa, TexasWorkshop 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 […]
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DJ Camp 2019
Marfa, TexasSummer 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 […]
The River and the Wall
Marfa, TexasScreening + Q&A Ballroom Marfa and the Marfa Book Company presented a screening of the documentary The River and the Wall, followed by a Q&A with executive producer Nancy Sanders, producer Hillary Pierce, and associate producer Katy Baldack. The film follows five friends on an immersive adventure through the unknown wilds of the Texas borderlands […]
Free
Cassandro, the Exótico!
Marfa, TexasScreening + Q&A Ballroom Marfa presented a free screening of Cassandro, The Exótico! with a special appearance from Cassandro; Q&A hosted by Sauvignon Blanca; and DJ set by Tokyo Bois. The film is a unique and intimate portrait of the eponymous lucha libre star who grew up in Juarez, Mexico. The program celebrated Cassandro’s life […]
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