For the second year in a row, we are pleased to present The Reading, a professionally staged screenplay presentation that spotlights a winning script from the 2011 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.

Ballroom Marfa welcomes Brazilian pop sensation CSS to the Capri on May 27 for a public concert and grand finale to their 2012 Benefit Weekend.

On June 1 pianist Kimball Gallagher will perform an intimate concert at the Crowley Theater in Marfa. Children's concert at 2 pm; evening performance at 7 pm.

Ballroom Marfa is collaborating with Whitechapel Gallery, London for the fourth season of the film and video program, Artists' Film International. This year, Ballroom is proud to feature an installation by LA video artist Dan Finsel.

Ballroom Marfa is proud to present Dirty Projectors on 31 July 2012 at the Crowley Theater in Marfa, Texas. Wye Oak opens.

Ballroom Marfa and Marfa Public Library are proud to present a new reading program, Book and a Movie, which focuses on novels that have been adapted into films. We will kick off the series with Never Let Me Go, a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, with a film directed by Mark Romanek.

Pianist Kimball Gallagher will offer free piano, guitar and songwriting lessons to Marfa children and adults of all ages, from 18 August until 28 August 2012 upon appointment.

In conjunction with our ongoing partnership with the Washington Spectator, and our co-sponsors The Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa Public Radio and Marfa Book Company, we are hosting our second Marfa Dialogues, which this year will address complex issues associated with environmental sustainability.

A not-to-be-missed concert by legendary German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz on 18 September 2012 at the Crowley Theater in Marfa, Texas.

Ballroom Marfa was pleased to have musician Jason Adasiewicz visit bands students at Marfa Junior High School as part of our Making Art Work program.

Please join us on 12 October 2012 for a special performance by bona-fide, 100% unadulterated soul singer, Lee Fields & the Expressions. Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears open.

Ballroom Marfa is hosting the second Bike-In, which promotes a healthy lifestyle by encouraging all attendees to bike or walk to the event. For the next outdoor screening on Thursday, November 15, beginning at 7:30PM, we will screen Carbon Nation, a documentary about the solutions to climate change, relating directly to the themes in the current visual arts exhibition, Carbon 13.

Ballroom Marfa and the Marfa Public Library are proud to present the second installment of Book and a Movie, a program highlighting novels that have been adapted for film. The book and film selected for November is The Godfather, written by Mario Puzo in 1969 and adapted for film by Francis Ford Coppola in 1972.