Events

The fabulous Marfa Film Festival returns to the Crowley Theater.

Marfa and Presidio County Museum’s annual lecture spotlights Dr David Keller’s chronicle of the early settlement and development of Pinto Canyon, along with the rugged southern portion of Ranch Road 2810 between Marfa and Ruidosa.  Dr Keller is a staff member at the Center for Big Bend Studies at Sul Ross State University and the […]

As part of MISD’s Summer Shakeup program, Ballroom Marfa is hosting Music Moves U, a free workshop led by Dr. Kahil El’Zabar and his band, the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble.  The finale of the workshop will take place at the Crowley Theater, as Dr El’Zabar conducts the ensemble of workshop participants, while his colleagues – Ernest […]

Marfa International School will screen documentary films based on work done by the students at Mimms Ranch; students will also display paintings and play musical compositions also inspired by Mimms Ranch

A screening of the documentary film Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists .  In the mid 1960s the city of Chicago was an incubator for an iconoclastic group of young artists.  Collectively known as the Imagists, they showed in successive waves of exhibitions with monikers that might have been psychedelic rock bands of the era […]

Big Bend Quintet presents a concert of chamber music for string quartet and piano.  They are a member of Chamber Music America, and will play music by Bach and Beethoven, giving local schoolchildren an opportunity to hear a type of music they do not normally have access to.

Marfa Public Radio hosts a listening party to celebrate the culmination of the second year of the KRTS Youth Media Project.  Over the last 8 weeks our student producers have pitched, written and produced their own radio stores.  Tonight they will present their work to the community, with a Q & A to follow.  Snacks […]

An exciting selection of experimental, artist-made, documentary and narrative films that explore alternative religious practices and the fringes of belief.   A few highlights of this year’s program include TVTV’s groundbreaking documentary “Lord of the Universe,” Derek Jarman’s “In the Shadow of the Sun,” “La Santa Muerte” by Eva Aridjis, “The Source Family” by Jodi Wille […]