Marfans or folks here for the month of September: Synth Class ! ! ! ! ! ! is coming to Marfa, courtesy of Marfa Book Company and marfasynth.com. Classes are at Marfa Book Company on September 11, 18, and 25th. To attend, please write [email protected], or call Tim Johnson at the Marfa Book Company at 432-729-3906. (Note that the Synth Class Record Bin includes Yaz’s Upstairs at Eric’s, my sixth grade obsession) — NI

A poem by writer King Grossman, inspired by the Dirty Projectors concert. May all our shows inspire you thusly.

Kick off your weekend with this killer jam by Lee Fields, who I am dying to get to Marfa, courtesy of one of my favorite blogs, Aquarium Drunkard (founder Justin Gage and his wife recently stopped by Ballroom!). If Lee Fields ever plays out here, every single person in Marfa and the surrounding 300 miles must attend.

And be sure to check out this profile of Buck Johnston, one of our favorite Marfa people. Hearing Buck talk about Marfa makes ME want to visit Marfa. Thanks to Haley Schultheis for the great interview. –NI

Friends, big weekend in Marfa, with the all-night dublab Tonalism event on Saturday (for those with good taste and stamina), and most especially our friend Dan Chamberlin’s first ever solo show, Ecstatic Camouflage, at the Marfa Book Co., featuring 10 photographic prints on canvas. As Dan points out, it’s only up for the weekend, so make sure to visit while you can. The opening is on Friday, March 9, from 6-8p. Learn more on Dan’s site or at Marfa Book Company.

Everyone in Marfa and beyond: dublab‘s all night, ambient music happening TONALISM 
comes to El Cosmico in Marfa, Texas on Saturday, March 10 (right before SXSW). Tonalism features all sorts of amazing performers, including Sun Araw and the elusive JD Emmauel, and DJ sets by Common Synth (Nicolas Miller & Anthony DeSimone), David Hollander and Daniel Chamberlin, plus a teepee visual installation by none other than our very own Adam Bork. The event will be broadcast live on Marfa Public Radio, but if you can make it, MAKE IT.

Marfa courthouse, photo by Jaime

Our coworker JD found this great photo blog, which features a lovely post about Marfa, and some especially nice shots of the courthouse, Thunderbird Hotel, the Paisano, and Marfa Book Company (who, by the way, is bringing Cass McCombs back to Marfa, this Friday at Padre’s, utterly missable, do not miss it).

Ry Rocklen
Second to None, 2011
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Photo courtesy of the artist and UNTITLED, New York

This weekend, LAND is hosting a jam-packed two-day celebration of its large-scale exhibition Nothing Beside Remains, with performances and programming by the exhibiting artists, selected screenings, guided tours of the exhibition (on a school bus), and about 1000 receptions

The opening night party is tonight at Padre’s here in Marfa, with a special performance by The Finches (Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs’s band, who’s the wife of participating artist Ry Rocklen)

We’re interested in everything, but particularly Ry Rocklen’s work, Sue de Beer’s multimedia project, and Rob Fischer’s installation (sidenote: Fischer is also the Chinati Foundation’s final artist-in-residence of 2011)

There are also screenings of Paths of Glory and Crimes and Misdemeanors and You’re Gonna Miss Me (the Roky Erickson documentary we screened in 2006), brunches, coffees, readings, and more

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JuliACKS (Finland/USA), Invisible Forces

If you’re in Marfa for Halloween weekend, please come out to the Marfa Book Company, where our intern Amy Johnson is curating Search Party, a film and animation screening on Sunday, 30 October 2011. Search Party celebrates artists who tell the tale of characters who have embarked on a search for answers. The videos explore the fantasies that emerge as internal psychological and external physical worlds collide, and stylistically many of the videos combine live action with animation.

Artists include Shana Moulton who exhibited her series Whispering Pines at PS1, Performa and TBA Performance Festival. Hooliganship is known for their animation compilations Cartune Xpres and multi-media performance tours, while Peter Larsson’s Seven Days in the Woods premiered at the 2011 Berlinale. Search Party will also premiere Marfa band Solid Waste’s new video by James Maher, the production designer for Autobody’s film North of South, West of East.

Artists: Peter Larsson (Sweden), James Maher (NYC / filmed in Marfa), Markus Amalthea Magnuson, Mattias Valenca & Sandra Valenca (Sweden), JuliACKS (Finland/ NYC), Jon Clark (Los Angeles), Shana Moulton (New York), Hooliganship (NYC/ Portland), and Amy Johnson (Portland). Special thanks to Tim Johnson and Marfa Book Company. Search Party begins at 8:30 pm on 30 October 2011 at Marfa Book Company. Free!

We gone from regional final to state final to, hopefully next season, state champion”We are committed to working with the UN World Food Programme to end world hunger.
“UNRWA sees well trained and motivated teachers as the most powerful force for an equitable, quality education system”, said UNRWA Director of Education, Dr Caroline Pontefract.
Vegetation types such as Phoenician Juniper, evergreen oak, acacia and rocky sudanian can be found.
The idea will be to establish a normative for guiding effective integration of adaptive capacity into macro scale government policy and programmes, that then can be effectively implemented at the project level, micro scale.

Cardiologists are not sure of the prevalence of silent genetic cardiac conditions in Canada.
The Cavs offensive rating (points scored per possession) ranks fifth in the NBA.

I’m way behind on posting this, but I love this photo of Ballroom Marfa, taken by Jen Siska, from an article about Marfa in Anthology Magazine (with words by Jen Duardo). This photo is from the outtakes, which all are really great (in the article, Ballroom’s represented by the small black-and-white photo of Deborah Luster photographs from our last show, The World According to New Orleans). Check it out! –NICKI

“There are a lot of photos in this post that can describe my visit to Marfa, but this is one of my favorite moments. Ballroom Marfa flew Mick out to play the opening of ‘Autobody’. There were a lot of back and forth emails. There was planning of flights and hotel rooms. There were press releases and posters. But on Friday 9/30/11, all the things that go into preparing an art opening and music performance were outshined by the most strategic and intense game of tag played by the youth of Marfa. Man, that game was intense. So intense that the kids had no idea there was a dude incessantly playing metallic solos for 30 minutes. Towards the end of Mick’s set, one of the girls found a spider. So there was a lot of running back and forth while holding a spider in two cups. I had a lot of big chuckles throughout the weekend. This picture really does just sum it up.”

— Justina Villaneuva, from her blog, describing her and performer Mick Barr‘s weekend in Marfa as part of the AutoBody opening, 30 September 2011

More amazing photos here. Thanks to Justina and Mick and all the artists — Liz Cohen, Jonathan Schipper, Meredith Danluck, and Neville Wakefield — for being such awesome guests. It was an honor to have them.