In celebration of the opening of our fall 2011 visual arts exhibition, AutoBody, Texas' finest all-female mariachi, Mariachi Las Alteñas, will play at the Capri, 30 September, 9:30 pm.

American avant-garde metal guitarist Mick Barr, notable for the speed and agility of his shredding, will perform at the opening of AutoBody, 30 September, 7 pm.

Ballroom Marfa is honored to present an evening with Tinariwen, renowned band of poet-guitarists, on Thursday, 3 November 2011, at the Capri in Marfa, Texas. Sophie Hunger opens the show. Doors at 7 pm.

As part of Marfa New Year's Eve: The Progressive Party Adventure, Ballroom Marfa hosted a cocktail hour on 31 December 2011 with light spirits, records on the turntable, and 3-minute sketches by local artists Joe Cashiola, Erin Kimmel, and Hilary duPont.

Ballroom Marfa was pleased to have Data Deluge artist Jennifer Dalton visit with art students at Marfa Senior High School as part of our Making Art Work program.

Our 2012 spring visual arts exhibition, Data Deluge, curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Reynard Loki, celebrates the beauty of information through sculpture, furniture, painting, photography, video and sound. Opening reception is 2 March 2012.

Ballroom Marfa and Marfa Book Company are proud is present a lecture by Jens Hoffmann, Director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, at 2 pm on 24 March 2012 at Marfa Book Company.

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.