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.
Ballroom Marfa was pleased to have Carbon 13 artists Adriane Colburn and David Buckland visit art students at Marfa Senior High School as part of our Making Art Work program.
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.
Our 2012 fall visual arts exhibition, Carbon 13, presents newly commissioned works by artists that propose a creative response to climate change aimed at stimulating discourse and a wider engagement with the climate debate. Curated by David Buckland. Opening reception on Friday, 31 August 2012.
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.
As part of our new Children’s Film Series, in collaboration with Marfa Public Library, we will screen Princess Mononoke, written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki on Wednesday, December 12 at 6:30 PM in the library’s theater.
For our fourth annual New Year’s film program, we’ll host a screening of the Swedish silent film, The Phantom Carriage, with a live score by Brooklyn-based guitarist Noveller, on December 30 at the Crowley Theater. Doors at 7 pm; show begins at 7:30 pm.
Ballroom Marfa is proud to present The Sebastian Ensemble, a baroque chamber music trio, playing an afternoon concert at Ballroom Marfa on January 5, 2013. Concert at 4 pm. Free and open to the public.
Gary P. Nunn's repertoire is defined by songs inspired by his deep affection for the Lone Star State. Fitting then that the storied songwriter will soon serenade the residents of one of the Trans-Pecos' most romantic towns, joining us here in Marfa for a Valentine's Dance on Friday, February 15, 2013. Primo Carrasco & Friends open.
Percussionist Kahil El'Zabar and baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett will perform at the opening of New Growth, 8 March 2013, at Ballroom Marfa.
Ballroom Marfa is proud to announce the opening of New Growth, a solo exhibition of new work by Rashid Johnson, on March 8, 2013.
Eleanor Friedberger's new 7-inch, "I'll Never Be Happy Again" b/w "Dallas," is out now in a limited edition of 500 on Ballroom Marfa. The A-side is also available as a download on iTunes.
Ballroom Marfa and Tiger Mountain proudly present Jeff Mangum, the singer and principal songwriter of the legendary band Neutral Milk Hotel, at the Crowley Theater on March 31, 2013.
