Marfa Calendar of Events

Location:

Kokernot Lodge, Alpine

Description:

21st Annual Big Bend Gem & Mineral Show
"Wonders of our Desert"
Kokernot Lodge
Alpine, TX
Friday April 16
9am-6pm
Saturday April 17
9am -6pm
Sunday April 18
11am-5pm

Free Admission
Door Prizes
Kid's Corner
Demo Dealers

Location:

Marfa Airport

Description:

The 2010 Texas Glider Rally will celebrate the50th anniversary of glider flying in the Marfa area and honor the memory of Billy Shurley, local rancher, towplane pilot and long-time supporter of soaring activities at Marfa.

The long white wings of sleek gliders will flash against the blue spring sky as twenty of the soaring craft from across the USA gather at Marfa Airport. The annual Rally will be April 17 to 24 as the pilots explore the thermal updrafts and mountain wave lift that make Marfa, Texas, famous around the aviation world.

Strong rising air currents known as "thermals" begin in the spring when the warm air (and the turkey vultures) return to west Texas. "Wave" lift also occurs as the air flows up and over the mountains surrounding the Marfa Plateau. Good thermal conditions exist above Marfa year-round, but the strongest updrafts occur from April to October.

Several World, US and Texas State soaring records have been set at Marfa over the years. The pilots will attempt "personal best" and soaring badge flights, which qualify them for entry into the National Contests.

In 1969 Marfa hosted the largest National Soaring Contest ever held in the USA with 86 sailplanes racing around the Big Bend. The movie "The Sun Ship Game" was filmed by cinema verite director Robert Drew during that contest, and will be featured at the Marfa Film Festival this May.

Burt Compton, Master Instructor at Marfa Gliders will offer some rides and flight instruction during the rally. The public is welcome to visit the Marfa Airport on highway 17 to watch the soaring activities. Contact Marfa Gliders to coordinate rides and lessons in the two-seat gliders at (800) 667-9464 or visit the website: FLYGLIDERS.com

Location:

Marfa Airport

Description:

The 2010 Texas Glider Rally will celebrate the50th anniversary of glider flying in the Marfa area and honor the memory of Billy Shurley, local rancher, towplane pilot and long-time supporter of soaring activities at Marfa.

The long white wings of sleek gliders will flash against the blue spring sky as twenty of the soaring craft from across the USA gather at Marfa Airport. The annual Rally will be April 17 to 24 as the pilots explore the thermal updrafts and mountain wave lift that make Marfa, Texas, famous around the aviation world.

Strong rising air currents known as "thermals" begin in the spring when the warm air (and the turkey vultures) return to west Texas. "Wave" lift also occurs as the air flows up and over the mountains surrounding the Marfa Plateau. Good thermal conditions exist above Marfa year-round, but the strongest updrafts occur from April to October.

Several World, US and Texas State soaring records have been set at Marfa over the years. The pilots will attempt "personal best" and soaring badge flights, which qualify them for entry into the National Contests.

In 1969 Marfa hosted the largest National Soaring Contest ever held in the USA with 86 sailplanes racing around the Big Bend. The movie "The Sun Ship Game" was filmed by cinema verite director Robert Drew during that contest, and will be featured at the Marfa Film Festival this May.

Burt Compton, Master Instructor at Marfa Gliders will offer some rides and flight instruction during the rally. The public is welcome to visit the Marfa Airport on highway 17 to watch the soaring activities. Contact Marfa Gliders to coordinate rides and lessons in the two-seat gliders at (800) 667-9464 or visit the website: FLYGLIDERS.com

Location:

Marfa Book Co

Description:

MARFA BOOK CO MONDAY NIGHT MOVIES PROGRAM 33 | 8:00 PM SHARP | BYOB | DONATIONS MOST WELCOME

Year of the Horse, Jim Jarmusch, 1997, 106'

"For Year of the Horse, Jarmusch's documentary about a Neil Young concert tour, Young himself suggested the project. Young said: "Look, I'll pay for it. Just shoot some stuff and see if you like it, and we'll continue if you do, and if you don't, I'll just put it on a shelf somewhere....You can really feel the personal view of a filmmaker, and above all the movie is about the band. It's more than a simple story; it's an impression, a succession of feelings. I had the idea of doing this movie - I like this kind of stuff and I like to have a camera with me, but Jim made it possible." - Neil Young

Location:

Marfa Airport

Description:

The 2010 Texas Glider Rally will celebrate the50th anniversary of glider flying in the Marfa area and honor the memory of Billy Shurley, local rancher, towplane pilot and long-time supporter of soaring activities at Marfa.

The long white wings of sleek gliders will flash against the blue spring sky as twenty of the soaring craft from across the USA gather at Marfa Airport. The annual Rally will be April 17 to 24 as the pilots explore the thermal updrafts and mountain wave lift that make Marfa, Texas, famous around the aviation world.

Strong rising air currents known as "thermals" begin in the spring when the warm air (and the turkey vultures) return to west Texas. "Wave" lift also occurs as the air flows up and over the mountains surrounding the Marfa Plateau. Good thermal conditions exist above Marfa year-round, but the strongest updrafts occur from April to October.

Several World, US and Texas State soaring records have been set at Marfa over the years. The pilots will attempt "personal best" and soaring badge flights, which qualify them for entry into the National Contests.

In 1969 Marfa hosted the largest National Soaring Contest ever held in the USA with 86 sailplanes racing around the Big Bend. The movie "The Sun Ship Game" was filmed by cinema verite director Robert Drew during that contest, and will be featured at the Marfa Film Festival this May.

Burt Compton, Master Instructor at Marfa Gliders will offer some rides and flight instruction during the rally. The public is welcome to visit the Marfa Airport on highway 17 to watch the soaring activities. Contact Marfa Gliders to coordinate rides and lessons in the two-seat gliders at (800) 667-9464 or visit the website: FLYGLIDERS.com

Location:

Hotel Paisano Ballroom

Description:

Chamber of Commerce board of directors meeting at 6:30pm at the Hotel Paisano Ballroom.

Location:

Marfa Airport

Description:

The 2010 Texas Glider Rally will celebrate the50th anniversary of glider flying in the Marfa area and honor the memory of Billy Shurley, local rancher, towplane pilot and long-time supporter of soaring activities at Marfa.

The long white wings of sleek gliders will flash against the blue spring sky as twenty of the soaring craft from across the USA gather at Marfa Airport. The annual Rally will be April 17 to 24 as the pilots explore the thermal updrafts and mountain wave lift that make Marfa, Texas, famous around the aviation world.

Strong rising air currents known as "thermals" begin in the spring when the warm air (and the turkey vultures) return to west Texas. "Wave" lift also occurs as the air flows up and over the mountains surrounding the Marfa Plateau. Good thermal conditions exist above Marfa year-round, but the strongest updrafts occur from April to October.

Several World, US and Texas State soaring records have been set at Marfa over the years. The pilots will attempt "personal best" and soaring badge flights, which qualify them for entry into the National Contests.

In 1969 Marfa hosted the largest National Soaring Contest ever held in the USA with 86 sailplanes racing around the Big Bend. The movie "The Sun Ship Game" was filmed by cinema verite director Robert Drew during that contest, and will be featured at the Marfa Film Festival this May.

Burt Compton, Master Instructor at Marfa Gliders will offer some rides and flight instruction during the rally. The public is welcome to visit the Marfa Airport on highway 17 to watch the soaring activities. Contact Marfa Gliders to coordinate rides and lessons in the two-seat gliders at (800) 667-9464 or visit the website: FLYGLIDERS.com

Location:

Marfa Airport

Description:

The 2010 Texas Glider Rally will celebrate the50th anniversary of glider flying in the Marfa area and honor the memory of Billy Shurley, local rancher, towplane pilot and long-time supporter of soaring activities at Marfa.

The long white wings of sleek gliders will flash against the blue spring sky as twenty of the soaring craft from across the USA gather at Marfa Airport. The annual Rally will be April 17 to 24 as the pilots explore the thermal updrafts and mountain wave lift that make Marfa, Texas, famous around the aviation world.

Strong rising air currents known as "thermals" begin in the spring when the warm air (and the turkey vultures) return to west Texas. "Wave" lift also occurs as the air flows up and over the mountains surrounding the Marfa Plateau. Good thermal conditions exist above Marfa year-round, but the strongest updrafts occur from April to October.

Several World, US and Texas State soaring records have been set at Marfa over the years. The pilots will attempt "personal best" and soaring badge flights, which qualify them for entry into the National Contests.

In 1969 Marfa hosted the largest National Soaring Contest ever held in the USA with 86 sailplanes racing around the Big Bend. The movie "The Sun Ship Game" was filmed by cinema verite director Robert Drew during that contest, and will be featured at the Marfa Film Festival this May.

Burt Compton, Master Instructor at Marfa Gliders will offer some rides and flight instruction during the rally. The public is welcome to visit the Marfa Airport on highway 17 to watch the soaring activities. Contact Marfa Gliders to coordinate rides and lessons in the two-seat gliders at (800) 667-9464 or visit the website: FLYGLIDERS.com

Location:

Thunderbird Lounge

Description:

Opening & Artist Reception Friday for
Invisible Thread

Works by Danielle Rubi
April 23rd - July 16th, 2010

Opening: Friday, April 23rd, 6-9pm at Thunderbird Loungs, 601 W San Antonio/West Hwy 90

In Invisible Thread, Rubi confronts the variety of her cast of subjects head on through the imposition of technical and compositional parameters. The criteria are simple: all images in the group were shot on her favorite camera, a 1949, square format Rolleiflex and are all printed the same size; also, every image contains a strong horizontal line across the frame. Displayed, the images are justified according to their individual horizon line, rather than the top, bottom, or center of the frame. The effect of these parameters simplifies and connects a seemingly disparate group of images, in effort to show their common provenance: Rubi's eye. Another notion that emerged from this specific undertaking is the significance of horizons in the way we process, regard, and experience the world: It is how we arrange our written language; it is how we show chronologies; it is what happens when two arms reach for each other. A horizontal line is the simplest respresentation of a stable platform, our one true defense against the downward pull of gravity: the only thing that can truly hold us up. The frames of the photographs are custom made by designer/craftsman, Adrian Dentzel, from wood salvaged from the house in California in which Rubi grew up. Both the wood and the images are fragments of Rubi's personal world. Together, they are a physical and visual connection to her.

Location:

Marfa Airport

Description:

The 2010 Texas Glider Rally will celebrate the50th anniversary of glider flying in the Marfa area and honor the memory of Billy Shurley, local rancher, towplane pilot and long-time supporter of soaring activities at Marfa.

The long white wings of sleek gliders will flash against the blue spring sky as twenty of the soaring craft from across the USA gather at Marfa Airport. The annual Rally will be April 17 to 24 as the pilots explore the thermal updrafts and mountain wave lift that make Marfa, Texas, famous around the aviation world.

Strong rising air currents known as "thermals" begin in the spring when the warm air (and the turkey vultures) return to west Texas. "Wave" lift also occurs as the air flows up and over the mountains surrounding the Marfa Plateau. Good thermal conditions exist above Marfa year-round, but the strongest updrafts occur from April to October.

Several World, US and Texas State soaring records have been set at Marfa over the years. The pilots will attempt "personal best" and soaring badge flights, which qualify them for entry into the National Contests.

In 1969 Marfa hosted the largest National Soaring Contest ever held in the USA with 86 sailplanes racing around the Big Bend. The movie "The Sun Ship Game" was filmed by cinema verite director Robert Drew during that contest, and will be featured at the Marfa Film Festival this May.

Burt Compton, Master Instructor at Marfa Gliders will offer some rides and flight instruction during the rally. The public is welcome to visit the Marfa Airport on highway 17 to watch the soaring activities. Contact Marfa Gliders to coordinate rides and lessons in the two-seat gliders at (800) 667-9464 or visit the website: FLYGLIDERS.com

Location:

Hotel Paisano

Description:

The Greasewood Gallery at the Hotel Paisano hosts an Artists' Reception from 6 - 8pm for an exhibit featuring the work of two artists - Willis LeJeune Wood Sculpture and Barbara Gholson Oil Paintings of the Big Bend. 207 N Highland Ave, Marfa.

Location:

inde/jacobs gallery

Description:

Silence and Abundance Exhibit opens at inde/jacobs gallery from 5 - 7pm. The work of Iranian born Hadi Tabatabai and Dutch citizen Nelleke Beltjens includes sculpture, drawings and paintings. The exhibit will invite the viewer to examine each piece closely. This is true "slow" art. inde/jacobs is located at 200 East San Antonio Street in Marfa.

Location:

Padre's Marfa

Description:

FRIDAY APRIL 23rd- SPINDRIFT from Los Angeles, CA- psychedelic western band whose songs have been featured in Quentin Tarantino films and also in their own full-length feature film, The Legend of God's Gun (a rock and roll spaghetti western), released in 2008. If you like the Brain Jonestwon Massacre or the Dandy Warhols you will dig this band- you must check out their website! www.spindriftwest.com

Do not miss this show! A special treat for Marfa! 8:30 showtime, $5 cover

Location:

inde/jacobs gallery

Description:

Silence and Abundance Exhibit opens at inde/jacobs gallery from 5 - 7pm. The work of Iranian born Hadi Tabatabai and Dutch citizen Nelleke Beltjens includes sculpture, drawings and paintings. The exhibit will invite the viewer to examine each piece closely. This is true "slow" art. inde/jacobs is located at 200 East San Antonio Street in Marfa.

Location:

Marfa Airport

Description:

The 2010 Texas Glider Rally will celebrate the50th anniversary of glider flying in the Marfa area and honor the memory of Billy Shurley, local rancher, towplane pilot and long-time supporter of soaring activities at Marfa.

The long white wings of sleek gliders will flash against the blue spring sky as twenty of the soaring craft from across the USA gather at Marfa Airport. The annual Rally will be April 17 to 24 as the pilots explore the thermal updrafts and mountain wave lift that make Marfa, Texas, famous around the aviation world.

Strong rising air currents known as "thermals" begin in the spring when the warm air (and the turkey vultures) return to west Texas. "Wave" lift also occurs as the air flows up and over the mountains surrounding the Marfa Plateau. Good thermal conditions exist above Marfa year-round, but the strongest updrafts occur from April to October.

Several World, US and Texas State soaring records have been set at Marfa over the years. The pilots will attempt "personal best" and soaring badge flights, which qualify them for entry into the National Contests.

In 1969 Marfa hosted the largest National Soaring Contest ever held in the USA with 86 sailplanes racing around the Big Bend. The movie "The Sun Ship Game" was filmed by cinema verite director Robert Drew during that contest, and will be featured at the Marfa Film Festival this May.

Burt Compton, Master Instructor at Marfa Gliders will offer some rides and flight instruction during the rally. The public is welcome to visit the Marfa Airport on highway 17 to watch the soaring activities. Contact Marfa Gliders to coordinate rides and lessons in the two-seat gliders at (800) 667-9464 or visit the website: FLYGLIDERS.com

Location:

Under the pavilion next to the railroad tracks, Highland Ave

Description:

Visit FarmStand Marfa at 10am for fresh produce, baked goods, hand made crafts and more. Under the shade pavilion on Highland Ave.

Location:

Marfa Studio of Arts

Description:

Help Make Giant Pinata at MSA Saturday April 24

A giant pinata is being made at the Marfa Studio of Arts on Saturday, April 24, 1:00 - 3:00. The pinata breaking will become part of the Marfa Film Festival festivities held at the Crowley Theater, May 5 through 12. We encourage all students and community members to join artists Romi, Nate Singletary, and Alexsandra Annello to help. Eighth grade MSA student intern, Aitana Reyes, will be on hand to work with younger participants.

Marfa Studio of Arts is located at 106 East San Antonio (Hwy. 90) across from T & C. This project is funded in part by the Texas Commission on the Arts and the City of Marfa, Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the Marfa Film Festival.

For further information contact: Ellie Meyer-Madrid [email protected]

Location:

Marfa Studio of Arts

Description:

Help Make Giant Pinata at MSA Saturday April 24

A giant pinata is being made at the Marfa Studio of Arts on Saturday, April 24, 1:00 - 3:00. The pinata breaking will become part of the Marfa Film Festival festivities held at the Crowley Theater, May 5 through 12. We encourage all students and community members to join artists Romi, Nate Singletary, and Alexsandra Annello to help. Eighth grade MSA student intern, Aitana Reyes, will be on hand to work with younger participants.

Marfa Studio of Arts is located at 106 East San Antonio (Hwy. 90) across from T & C. This project is funded in part by the Texas Commission on the Arts and the City of Marfa, Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the Marfa Film Festival.

For further information contact: Ellie [email protected]

Location:

Marfa Book Co

Description:

At the Marfa Book Co, 6 PM
Reading by Lannan Foundation Writer in Residence, C. E. Morgan, author of "All the Living". The novel, which has received a lot of praise, is Morgan's first. Come and listen.

Location:

Padre's Marfa

Description:

SATURDAY APRIL 24th- THE MOONDOGS of Marfa! Classic rock, rhythm and blues and dance music all in one! Padre's welcomes all Moondogs fans and all Glider riders in for the weekend! Glider guru Burt Compton heads up the Moondogs on drums and vocals! $5 cover, 8:30 showtime