On November 6 at 6 PM CDT, the Lost River Film Festival will host a screening of Missing in Brooks County at Doc’s Drive-in Theatre in Buda. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Film Director Lisa Molomot, Eduardo Canales of the South Texas Human Rights Center and Kate Spradley of Operation ID at Texas State University, both of whom are featured in the film.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit thelostriverfilmfest.org.

WARNING: This film contains graphic accounts and images of the realities faced by undocumented migrants and their families.

Please join us on November 5 at 6 PM CDT for an on-line performance event with Chulita Vinyl Club. Tune in to our Instagram @txstgalleries where the event will broadcast on IGTV.

Chulita Vinyl Club is made up of women, gender-non-conforming, non-binary, LGBTQ+ and self-identifying people of color. CVC launched in 2014, with the context of providing a safe space for empowerment, togetherness and to utilize music and vinyl as a form of resistance against the erasure of culture. Each Chulitaidentifies with their own identity. They are not to be classified as one nationality or culture. Within CVC they individually identify with the following: Latinxs, Tejanxs, Chicanxs, Xicanx, Afro-Latinx and many more. The unifying denominator is that they come together over the belief that EL DISCO ES CULTURA and they believe that is worth preserving and perpetuating.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History at Texas State University.

Please join us on October 15 at 6 PM CDT for an on-line performance event with Nina Diaz. Tune in to our Instagram @txstgalleries where the event will broadcast on IGTV.

Considered "one of the two or three most exciting, scary-good vocalists in rock today" (David Brown, KUT/NPR), Nina Diaz began her musical career at the age of thirteen when she co-founded the all female rock group Girl in a Coma (2002–2018). Three years later Girl in a Coma was signed to Joan Jett's Blackheart Records, thus beginning many years of extensive traveling, creating, and performing for audiences around the world both as a headlining act as well as a direct support for several highly acclaimed artists. In 2014, Nina began her journey as a solo artist and soon released her debut album The Beat is Dead on Cosmica Records (2016). In 2020, Nina celebrates seven years of sobriety and continues to create and connect with her audience through music, art, and life experiences she shares openly.

This event is made possible with support from the Center for Texas Music History and the Center for the Study of the Southwest, both at Texas State University.

Join us on October 7 at 5 PM CDT for a lecture by author and design activist Ronald Rael. Rael holds the Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture and a joint appointment in the Department of Architecture and the Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (2017), an illustrated biography and protest of the wall dividing the U.S. from Mexico; and Earth Architecture (2008), a history of building with earth in the modern era to exemplify new, creative uses of the oldest building material on the planet. 

Rael’s research interests connect indigenous and traditional material practices to contemporary technologies and issues. Emerging Objects, a company co-founded by Rael, is an independent, creatively driven, 3D Printing MAKE-tank specializing in innovations in 3D printing architecture, building components, environments and products.

Introductory remarks will be provided by Jason Reed, co-founder and director of Borderland Collective and Associate Professor of Photography at Texas State University.

Use this link to register for the event.

This event is made possible with support from the Art and Design Lecture Series at Texas State University and the Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.

On September 25 at 4 PM CDT, the Undocumented Migration Project will host a live Q&A on Zoom with Border South Film Director Raúl O. Paz Pastrana and  Jason De León, Director of the Undocumented Migration Project. Questions received in Spanish will be answered in Spanish.

Use this link to register. If you miss your chance to register, the event will also live-stream on the Hostile Terrain 94 Facebook page.

In advance of the Q&A, Border South will be available to screen on-line at no charge for 24 hours from September 24–25 (3 PM–3 PM CDT). To access both English and Spanish translations of the film in that time, click here. To view the film’s trailer, click here.

Please join us on September 17 at 6 PM CDT for a bilingual performance event with Lesly Reynaga. Tune in to our Instagram @txstgalleries where the event will broadcast on IGTV.

Lesly Reynaga has made a striking impression on America’s musical landscape, making waves with music described by the Austin American-Statesman as “catchy dance beats that carry powerful lyricism.” On her most recent release Dual Passport (2019), Reynaga pays homage to her roots with a bilingual sound, highlighting stories about her childhood and upbringing in Mexico; immigration issues; and her pride in calling America home, having recently become a U.S. citizen. Noted for her passion-filled showmanship, Reynaga has captivated audiences from her native Monterrey, Mexico to New York City.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History at Texas State University.

Please join us via Zoom on September 10 at 4 PM CDT for a conversation between Eduardo Canales of the South Texas Human Rights Center and Kate Spradley of Operation ID at Texas State University. Their conversation will be moderated by John Mckiernan-González, Director of the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University. This event will address the issue of migrant death at the U.S.-Mexico border and the distinctiveness of this humanitarian crisis within the Texas borderlands. Both panelists are dedicated to the identification and reunification of missing or departed loved ones lost in “hostile terrain.”

Use this link to register for the event—attendance is limited to 300. Simultaneous English-Spanish interpretation will be provided by the Austin Language Justice Collective.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University.