Events

A dancer who has worked intimately with Halprin, Stephen Petronio, founder of the Stephen Petronio Company and an alumnus of the Trisha Brown Dance Company, performs her choreography on Saturday, May 27, at 8pm in the Crowley Theater. Following the performance Marfa Live Arts will screen two short films and then Petronio will engage the […]

Community dance workshop led by Nina Martin, MFA, PhD, of the Lower Left performance collective and Associate Professor at TCU School for Classical & Contemporary Dance. Anna Halprin’s work begins with the belief that everyone is a dancer. In this community workshop–open to all ages and all members of the community, with no experience necessary–dancer […]

First event of Marfa Sounding: Anna Halprin, presented by Marfa Live Arts and Fieldwork Marfa. Introduction to the weekend by curator Jennifer Burris Staton and dancer Nina Martin followed by film screenings of Jacqueline Caux’s Anna Halprin – Who Says I Have to Dance in a Theater, 2006 (50 minutes) and Anna Halprin – Out […]

A play written and directed by a Marfa teen.

Inspired by true events, Afronauts (13 minutes) tells an alternative history of the 1960s Space Race. It’s the night of July 16th 1969 and, as America prepares to send Apollo 11 to the moon, a group of exiles in the Zambian desert are rushing to launch their rocket first. They train by rolling their astronaut, 17-year-old Matha […]

Mark Flood returns to CineMarfa to present his feature film about a group of art students touring the art fairs of Miami. They’re looking for creative inspiration, but instead they find madness, disease, and death. Underscoring the themes of shameless self-promotion and commodification in the art world, Flood’s paintings are seen throughout the film bearing […]

CineMarfa Film Festival 2017 presents The San San Trilogy. The San San Metroplex is an urban corridor that exists along the coast of California. It is based on an idea put forth by futurist Herman Kahn in his 1967 book The Year 2000. He speculated that the coastal area between an Diego and San Francisco […]

CineMarfa Film Festival 2017 presents 9 SHORT FILMS BY ANA MENDIETA and ANA MENDIETA, NATURE INSIDE. Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) is a pioneer among artists dealing with identity politics and feminism. Her unique hybrid of form and documentation, works that she titled “siluetas,” are fugitive and potent traces of the artist’s inscription of her body in […]

CineMarfa Film Festival presents All Divided Selves by Luke Fowler / With Thomas Beard The social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s were spearheaded by the charismatic, guru-like figure of Glasgow born Psychiatrist R.D. Laing . In his now classic text “The Politics of Experience” (1967) Laing argued that normality entailed adjusting ourselves to the […]

CineMarfa Film Festival 2017 presents short films by Jessica Lutz, Vanessa Ramos, and Max Anderson documenting the construction of the Transpecos pipeline and the fight against it by local activists. After the screening there will be a panel discussion with the filmmakers and representatives from Camp Toyahvale, Two Rivers Camp, and the Big Bend Conservation […]

CineMarfa Film Festival 2017 presents FROM THE HEART OF THE WORLD: THE ELDER BROTHERS WARNING The Kogi are the last surviving civilization from the days of the Inca and Aztec. They see themselves as the spiritual guardians of life on earth. For four centuries they lived in seclusion in the Sierra Nevada mountains, carefully guarding […]

Marfa Live Arts invites you to join us at the Crowley Theater on Tuesday, May 2, 2017 for one of our most anticipated events of the year, the 6th Annual One-Act Plays. This electrifying, standing room only night of theater is the culminating event to our weeklong 6th Annual Playwriting Workshop with the Marfa High […]

Meek’s Cutoff is a 2010 American western film directed by Kelly Reichardt. The film was shown in competition at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. The story is loosely based on a historical incident on the Oregon Trail in 1845, in which frontier guide Stephen Meek led a wagon train on an ill-fated journey through the Oregon […]

This Master Plan Symposium will present the findings and recommendations for preservation and growth of the Chinati Foundation from Boston-based firm Sasaki, and will be an opportunity for the community to learn about and discuss the future vision of the museum. RSVP required. Please email

Join the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center and friends for an evening of Enlightenment and Inspration from the Climate Evangelist Katharine Hayhoe, Ph.D., physicist and atomospheric scientist, and Director of the Climate Science Center, Texas Tech University.