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mago krypto at marfa lights festival

Rachel Tate leads the Marfa Live Arts parade float past onlookers down Highland Avenue during the Marfa Lights Festival.

Photo by: Sarah M. Vasquez

 Marfa Live Arts presented magician Mago Krypto who performed mind-bending mentalist tricks to an amazed crowd.

Photo by: Sarah M. Vasquez

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2024 summer shakeup MINDFULNESS THEATER CAMP

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Camp Summer Shake Up is a partnership with Marfa Independent School District, Chinati Foundation, Marfa Studio of the Arts, Ballroom Marfa and other area nonprofits to provide area youth with learning enrichment opportunities.

This year, Marfa Live Arts presents Mindfulness Theater with arts educators Rachel Tate, Fatima Anaza and Nina Martin. A week-long camp focusing on improving health functioning through mindfulness exercises that teach healthy coping strategies using theater arts practices. Students also learn meditation skills through the art of play that are empowering and fun. Using body, voice and space — students learn tools for a healthy lifestyle including breath relaxation, being "in the moment,” improvisational acting techniques and more. The program culminates with a community performance on Thursday, June 13.

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Join us for this special performance on Thursday, June 13th, at 11am at Hibbits Gym!​

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​​​2024 CROWN SCHLOARSHIP AWARDEE

 

Graduating Marfa High School senior Samantha Martinez was selected as the 2024 recipient of Marfa Live Arts’ Crown Scholarship. She will receive $1,000 in scholarship funds to assist with her pursuit of higher education. Marfa Live Arts established the Crown Scholarship in 2020 during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, in Spanish corona translated to English means crown. The award recognizes graduating seniors who have excelled in both academics and in Marfa Live Arts enrichment courses such as playwriting and theater. Senior Class President and National Honor Society President, Martinez moved to Marfa from Coahuila, Mexico when she was in kindergarten. Throughout her twelve years at Marfa ISD she has excelled in math, science, welding, journalism and the arts. In her scholarship application, Martinez shared her plans for next year, “I plan on attending Texas Tech University and studying at the school of Media and Communications majoring in Public Relations with a minor in Strategic Communications. My goals for achieving this are set high. With these majors there are a lot of different job opportunities that are available. My main one would be to become a Public Relations manager, social media manager, or a head of communications.”
 

Congratulations

​SAMANTHA MARTINEZ

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Marfa Live Arts congratulates all graduating Class of 2024 Shorthorns!

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MARFA LIVE ARTS  2024 
 

For over twenty years, Marfa Live Arts has brought arts and arts education to our area of Far West Texas.
                                                     

Marfa Live Arts is dedicated to nurturing local artists, sharing our region’s stories and finding new ways to reach and engage our diverse audiences. Over this past year, Marfa Live Arts instructed the popular 12th Annual Playwriting Program at Marfa High School with Playwright Raul Garza and taught Mindfulness Theater Camp in partnership with MISD Summer Shake Up. During the Marfa Lights Festival, we staged My HEB an original play by  Raul Garza. This fall,  Currently, we are preparing to teach the Eighth Annual Playwriting Preparatory course at Marfa Junior High and will produce the Eighth Annual Winter Showcase Theater with monologues written by students brought to life on stage by actors. We invite you to join us for this coming year's programs.
 
 
Marfa Live Arts has created this community of artists where people can tap into their thoughts and feelings, whether it’s fears or dreams. And they realize they have an audience and they can externalize all of those ideas that they have. They’re inspired to write and to perform. There are fewer things that are as powerful for them to carry them through their life. I would say Marfa Live Arts fills a huge space that is definitely needed and appreciated.  — Artist, Teacher & Art Patron
 

         Your support makes our work possible. Please consider donating to Marfa Live Arts for our 2024 productions. 

                                                             We have many great programs planned. 

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Upcoming Programs​​​​​​​​​​

  • November 16, 2024  —  Arturro Guerrero "Hijo de Ilegal"

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Past Recent Programs​​

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