Events

Judd Foundation will host a screening of documentary interview with Donald Judd

Chicago-based composer, improviser and multi-media artist Rob Mazurek (leader and composer for a wide variety of ongoing ensembles, including Exploding Star Orchestra, Black Cube SP, and Chicago Underground Duo), will perform a new work, Projections 1-10, inspired by an extended stay in Marfa during September and October 2014.

MONICA de la TORRE is the author of two books of poetry, one chapbook and co-edited a book on contemporary Mexican poetry. She currently is Senior Editor at BOMB magazine.

The Highland Soil & Water Conservation District presents simple and effective ways to enhance the natural abundance of your home, community and the  larger world.  Topics include free resources such as rain-, grey- and storm-waters; sun, wind and shade; along with soil fertility, wild foods, and community fun. Featured speaker is Brad Lancaster, a dynamic […]

DAVID BIESPIEL is the author of three books of poetry as well as two books of prose on writing/poetry. He founded and directs the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland, Oregon which teaches writing through onsite workshops with visiting writers.

Marfa Live Arts hosts contemporary musician-composers from Japan: Che-Shizu, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, and A Qui Ave Gabriel.  This three band concert is part of a nation-wide tour.

Sounds Modern, directed by new music guru Elizabeth McNutt, will present “Neighbour Notes: modern chamber music by Mexican composers”.  While Mexico’s popular musics are widely appreciated in the United States, the country’s lively contemporary classical music scene is relatively unknown to Americans.  Classical performers and audiences in the US are more familiar with music from […]

Marfa Live Arts will once again showcase this region’s (and beyond) best writers, actors and directors during the 24 Hour Plays on Saturday, August 16th. The concept is simple: participants write, direct, rehearse and perform six one-act plays within a twenty-four hour period. It’s fast-paced, creative fun. On Friday, August 15th at 8pm, all interested actors, writers, […]

This movie tells the story of Rachel, a quick-witted and lovable yet tightly coiled, thirty-something steeped in the creative class of Los Angeles’s bohemian, affluent Silver Lake neighborhood.  Everything looks just right – chic, modernist home, successful husband, adorable child, and a hipster wardrobe.  So why is she going out of her gourd with ennui?  […]

In celebration of Chinati’s inclusion on the 2014 World Monuments Watch List, and as part of its ongoing Chinati Presents series, the Chinati Foundation will  host a Watch Day to raise awareness of the Museum’s preservation efforts.  At 3:30pm, Chinati will host a discussion at the Crowley Theater in downtown Marfa.  A panel of six […]

Ballroom Marfa presents the Spanish language version of Robert Ashley’s ground-breaking “television series” opera Perfect Lives (1983)

Ballroom Marfa is proud to present the man who acts under the name Will Oldham, and sings and composes under the name Bonnie “Prince” Billy.  He has, over the past quarter century, made an idiosyncratic journey through – and an indelible mark on – the worlds of indie rock and independent cinema.  With his highly […]