Schedule 2021
We look forward to seeing you in Marfa. This year’s Festival will take place between June 25 and 27. We will be updating the schedule with additional events during the coming weeks. Please check in with the schedule between now and the Festival, as times may have shifted.
While in town, please check out DONNA HUANCA: ESPEJO QUEMADA, an exhibition at Ballroom Marfa: Opening: Friday, June 25, 11:30am–5pm.
Fri.
June 25th
5:00 - 6:00 pm
Zoom - Register here
Free
Join Judd Foundation and Agave Festival Marfa for a conversation with Rainer Judd, President of Judd Foundation; Bertha González Nieves, Co-Founder & CEO of Tequila Casa Dragones; and Jim Martinez, agronomist and landscape designer; moderated by Tim Johnson, Director of Agave Festival Marfa. This discussion, in conjunction with the opening of Judd Foundation’s Agave Garden on West Oak Street in downtown Marfa, will focus on the importance of public spaces and native plants.
6:00 - 7:30 pm
waterstop
1300 w san antonio
complimentary drinks, food for sale
Stop by the Waterstop for a complimentary Agave Festival welcome drink by Abasolo Ancestral Corn Whisky , Nixta Licor de Elote and Ojo de Tigre Mezcal Artesanal.
6:00 - 8:00 pm
The Sentinel
209 W El Paso st
entrance is free
Join Judd Foundation for a community celebration for the opening of the Agave Garden at the Sentinel in Marfa. The event will include a special cocktail with Casa Dragones tequila to honor the spirit made with agave. The cocktail will remain on menu at the Sentinel for the month of July with 10% of proceeds benefitting the Marfa Volunteer Fire Department.
7:00 - 10:00 pm
The Pool at hotel saint george
113 east el paso st
entrance is free
Hotel Saint George and Madre Mezcal host the annual Agave Festival Marfa kick-off party with a DJ set by Jacqueline Delolmo of Mira Marfa at The Pool. Entrance is free and The Pool will be open to anyone 21 and over.
sat.
June 26th
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Marfa saturday market at marfa visitors’ center
302 south highland ave
FREE
Join us for a special Agave Festival Marfa version of the Marfa Saturday Market with special guest vendors. Free!
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
marfa spirit co (@ godbold)
W el paso st
free
Join Marfa Spirit Co. for a tour of their new distillery. In the very near future, they will be making sotol and other spirits on site. Guests will be treated to coffee and light breakfast.
11:30 am - 2:o0 pm
cactus liquors
405 south highland ave
El Paso’s Taconeta will be special guests at Cactus Liquors for a a public tasting featuring representatives from many agave spirit brands including El Samaritano Mezcal, Flor del Desierto Sotol, Madre Mezcal, Magenta Tequila, Maybewest Mezcal, Mezcal Vago, Ojo de Tigre Mezcal, Penta Tequila, Rey Campero, Riquezas Mezcal de Oaxaca, Sotol Los Magos, Sotol Raramuri, Susto Mezcal and a few surprises, including Abasolo Mexican Whisky and Nixta Liqueur de Elote. Additional Participants to be announced soon!
2:00 - 3:30 PM
Marfa Visitor Center Pavilion
302 S Highland Ave, Marfa
FREE
Marfa Book Co and Marfa Public Radio present a conversation between five extraordinary journalists with many years of working in the U.S. and Mexico: Dudley Althaus, Cecilia Ballí, Alfredo Corchado, Angela Kocherga and Ricardo Sandoval.
The Marfa Visitor Center Pavilion is surrounded by another new garden designed by Jim Martinez! We have 40 chairs set aside for this event, which probably won’t be enough. Marfans, please bring chairs for yourselves and an extra chair or two for visitors, or a blanket. The venue is shaded, but it will be hot, so bring water. There will be no alcohol on site for this event, upon request of the City.
3:30 - 4:30 PM
freda
207 s highland ave
free entry, complimentary drink
El Tesoro Tequila and Ojo de Tigre Mezcal host a free tasting at the Freda / Marfa Book Co. collaborative shop. Agave Festival 2021 t shirts and posters will be on sale.
5:00 - 6:00 PM
Marfa Visitor Center Pavilion
302 S Highland Ave, Marfa
Free
Marfa Book Co. and Mezcal Vago present a talk by the great poet, essayist, art historian and educator, Roberto Tejada. The event will be a celebration of Roberto’s recent book, “Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness”. The book is a collection of essays and manifestos engaging hemispheric desires and borderland eventualities in the geopolitical imagination of the Americas. The book enlivens a capacious Latinx poetics, spanning to include 16th- and 17th-century imperial accounts, 20th-century images of Mexico pictured by U.S. artists and writers, the neo-baroque pageantry of José Lezama Lima in post-Revolution Havana, as well as contemporary poets Reina María Rodriguez, from Cuba; Mexican fabulist Pablo Helguera; and Chicano multimedia wordsmith Harry Gamboa Jr., from Los Angeles. These essays configure a poetics of the Americas, mirror-occasions for reflecting the fear and fantasies prompted by metaphors of occupation, displacement, and counter-conquest.
6:00 - 7:00 PM
DO your thing
201 E Dallas St
free entry, complimentary drinks
Maracame Tequila and Nagual Fragrances host a free tasting at Do Your Thing. Keep the evening going with a taste of tequila, our house-made Café De Olla, cold brew, or a shot of espresso. Rumors of small bites and micro custom scent totems…and more!
7:00 - 8:30 PM
Para llevar
217 E. San Antonio
Free entry, complimentary drinks
Abasolo Ancestral Corn Whisky , Nixta Licor de Elote , Ojo de Tigre Mezcal Artesanal, and Siempre Marfa invite you to Para Llevar Marfa for a special Agave Festival Marfa party featuring Ojo de Tigre brand ambassador Ninotchka “Nino” Gandulla.
8:00 - 10:00 PM
el cosmico
802 South Highland Ave
Free entry, complimentary drinks for the first hour
Marfa Municipal Alliance for Dead Country and Folk Singers present their second Agave Festival singalong at El Cosmico. Members of the Marfa community gather to perform some of their favorite songs as performed by the legends of Texas country and conjunto music. Madre Mezcal will be on hand, providing free copitas of their ensamble for the first hour! The event is free but the band will be taking donations to support the Marfa Volunteer Fire Department. Thanks to Madre Mezcal for their support!
9:30 pm - 12:30 am
planet marfa
200 S abbot st
Free entry
Claudia Saenz, founder and member of the extraordinary Chulita Vinyl Club, will present a special Agave Festival DJ set sponsored by Heavy Metl and Real Minero Mezcal. Local DJs Yasmine Guevara and Tana Vargas start the show with a collaborative set at 9:30. Real Minero will be on hand to provide complimentary drinks for the first hour!
sun.
JUNE 27th
9:00 - 11:00 am
Chihuahuan desert research institute
43869 TX-118, Fort Davis, TX 79734
FREE
Celebrated landscape designer Jim Martinez leads a tour of the Native plants garden at Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute in Fort Davis. The tour is free, but attendance is limited to 50 and requires registration in advance. You can reserve spots for yourself and friends and family here. (This event is full, but we encourage you to visit CDRI at another time. It’s a fabulous place.)
6:00-8:00 pm
convenience west
1411 w san antonio st
Complimentary drinks, food for sale
Convenience West joins up with Flor del Desierto Sotol and Mezcal Cruz de Fuego for a barbecue, sotol and mezcal party to close this year’s Agave Festival. Thanks to Victory Wine Group.