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Event Guide (May 3) + Mother’s Day Fun
0May 3, 2011
by Dennis Spielman
in Do This
Space Day
WHEN: Friday, May 6 – 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Science Museum Oklahoma is going to space – sort of. During the Museum’s annual Space Day holiday on May 6 they are partnering with Oklahoma State University to send their robotic mascot, Otto, high enough into the atmosphere to see the curvature of the earth.
“This is quite possibly one of the coolest, craziest things we’ve done,” said Bret Mahoney, academic networking coordinator at Science Museum Oklahoma. “By launching Otto into space we’re really hoping to show people how attainable space can be. It is really only as far away as from the Museum to Edmond. Along with all the other activities going on during Space Day this is a great opportunity for Oklahoma students and educators to explore a formerly untouchable realm from their back yard.”
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Downtown Edmond Arts Festival
WHEN: May 6-8
Featuring 118 artist booths from throughout the United States showcasing their finest art. The media includes Oil/Acrylic, Water Color/Pastels, Pen and Ink, Caricature and Photography as well as Sculpture, Blown Glass, and Fine Jewelry. The children’s area features hands on crafts, face painting, pony rides, a giant slide, moon walk and climbing rock wall. Food you dream about will be presented by 20 plus masters of cuisine for the three day event along with several Oklahoma wineries.
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Free Comic Book Day Stand-Up Shows at New World Comics
WHEN: Saturday, May 7
May 7th marks “Free Comic Book” day nationwide. To celebrate, New World Comics in Oklahoma City is offering a variety of sales, activities and live performances. To help celebrate, stand-Up comedians from OKC Comedy and Robot Saves City will be performing two shows (the late show at 11 p.m. Saturday night and the really late show at 4 a.m Sunday May 8th.) Come see BradChad Porter, Spencer Hicks, Leah Kayajanian, Dan Skaggs, Zach Smith Cameron Buchholtz and James Nghiem. Line-up is subject to additions. And admission is free.
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Festival of the Child
WHEN: Saturday, May 7
Festival of the Child is a one day event to celebrate children. Over 50 areas of activities include kayaking, moonbounces, crafts, pony rides, storytelling and much more! Activities are held rain or shine at Yukon City Park & the Yukon Community Center, 2200 S. Holly Avenue. All activities are geared for children 12 and under. Admission is $5 in advance and $7 the day of the event. Adults are FREE. For more information, call (405) 354-8442.
March for Babies
WHEN: Saturday, May 7
Walk two miles for March of Dime’s March for Babies Walk at the State Fair Grounds (3001 General Pershing Blvd., Oklahoma City). Registration Time: 8:00 AM. Start Time: 9:00 AM. (405) 943-1025
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Performing Arts This Week:
Money Matters
WHEN: April 14 – May 8
WHERE: Jew Box Theatre: 3700 North Walker, Oklahoma City
Catherine thinks she has met the man of her dreams, only to find out he married her for her money. She hatches a plan to kill him – three times – with hilarious results.
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Alice In Wonderland
WHEN: MAY 6-22
WHERE: Poteet Theatre: 222 NW 15th, Oklahoma City
Nothing is quite right since Alice chased a very unusual White Rabbit and stumbled into an adventure that grows curiouser and curiouser.
Lives of the Saints
WHEN: May 6-7, 13-14, 20-21, 26-28
WHERE: Ghostlight Theatre Club: 3110 N. Walker Avenue, Oklahoma City
David Ives is know as a master wordsmith, whose plays are at once witty, charming, and intellectually challenging. Lives of the Saints is no exception. Lives is a collection of seven short plays, performed by a small cast of actors, exploring the intricacies of the English language and human (and not-so-human) relationships.
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Mother’s Day Activities:
This Mother’s Day take your Mom to one of these great places. The weather forecast says it will be in the 90s, party sunny and breezy.
Tough Enough to wear Pink/Betting on a Cure
WHERE: Remington Park Racing and Casino: 1 Remington Place, Oklahoma CityHot seats on the floor for Moms (females only)-$200.00 cash drawings will be held every hour from 2:00-8:00pm.
Mother’s Day brunch in the Silks Restaurant: $34.95 and Children $19.95. Plus, OQHRA and Remington Park are teaming up with Children’s Hospital Foundation and Rein in Cancer to raise money for these two charities. T-shirt sales, donations, silent auctions, special race jockeys dressed in pink – survivors picture in the winner’s circle.
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Mother’s Day Brunch
WHERE: National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum: 1700 NE 63, Oklahoma City
Enjoy this special buffet hosted by the Museum’s Dining on Persimmon Hill restaurant in the grand Sam Noble Special Events Center. Museum admission included. $21.98 per person. Children ages 6 to 10 are 1/2 off. Reservations required (405) 478-2250, Ext. 281.
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Mother’s Day Brunch Buffet
WHERE: Sheraton MidWest City Hotel: 5800 Will Rogers, Midwest City
Celebrate Mom with a Magnificent Mother’s Day Brunch Buffet. All Mothers get a special “thank you.” There will be a special menu, Crepe station, children’s buffet, chocolate fountain, candles, jewelry, entertainment and more. Reservations required. Call Sarah at 455-1800 Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Doors open at 10:15 a.m. / First seating 10:30 a.m.
Mother’s Day Brunch
WHERE: The Metro Wine Bar & Bistro: 6418 N Western, Oklahoma City
The menu will include choice of chilled avocado cucumber soup, salad or fresh fruit followed by choice of cedar plank salmon or grilled beef tenderloin with egg Benedict, garlic roasted fingerling potatoes, and asparagus, roasted Parmesan tomato. Dessert is chocolate shortcake with fresh berries and whipped cream. Cost is $32.00 per person / $15.00 for children. For reservations, call 840-9463.
These places are offering free admission for Mothers on Sunday. All you need is one paid admission with a family member!
- Oklahoma City Zoo
- Oklahoma City Museum of Art
- Orr Family Farm (Saturday, May 7th)
- Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History in Norman
- Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum
- Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art
- Myriad Botanical Gardens and Crystal Bridge
If we’re missing something, leave a comment or contact us.
What are you doing for your Mom this Mother’s Day?
Event Guide (4-26)
0April 26, 2011
by Dennis Spielman
in Do This
Festival of the Arts
The Festival is a community celebration of the visual arts, performing arts, and culinary arts. The 2011 Festival of the Arts takes place April 26-May 1 in Downtown Oklahoma City at the Festival Plaza, Stage Center and the Myriad Botanical Gardens. Hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. The Visual Arts includes 144 Plaza Artists from across the nation that exhibit on Hudson Avenue and a large-scale Sculpture Park exhibit in the Stage Center Lawn. The Culinary Arts consists of the International Food Row. Each food vendor is partnered with an area non-profit organization. The Performing Arts includes four stages of non-stop performing arts and entertainment, and street performers roaming the grounds. Plus there are plenty of children’s activities in the Youth Plaza and around Festival grounds.
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Norman Music Festival 4
WHEN: April 28, 29, 30
WHERE: Norman
A three day music event! In all, over 200 bands will play, across many stylistic genres, with music for everyone from kids to adults. There will be an arts markets, food, street performers, DJs, and more. The Norman Music Festival is a huge musical event.
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Off the Wall 2011
WHEN: Friday, April 29, at 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Mabee Gerrer Museum of Art – 1900 W MacArthur, Shawnee
For $50, you receive admission for two to Off the Wall 2011 and one ticket for a piece of art by an Oklahoma artist. The evening starts at 6:30 p.m. with traditional and folk musical entertainment by Karen and Ed Petitt. You may also enjoy hors d’oeuvres, desserts, and drinks provided by the MGMoA volunteers.
At 7:30 p.m., the pace speeds up with the drawings for the artworks which include paintings, sketches, lithographs, photographs, pottery and other works of art created by local artists. To keep everyone guessing, the artists have been asked to sign the pieces on the back, so you will only know who created your artwork after you have chosen the piece. Special guest, Ken Busby, Executive Director of Tulsa Arts and Humanities Council will emcee the event.
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The 38th Annual Symphony Show House and Gardens
WHEN: Sunday, May 1 at 10:00am – May 22 at 4:00pm
WHERE: 1701 Drury Lane in Nichols Hills
The 38th Annual Symphony Show House and Gardens will be opening its doors May 1-22.
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An Evening EscAPE!
WHEN: Saturday, April 30 · 6:00pm – 8:30pm
WHERE: Oklahoma City Zoo
Ape’ril Dinner at the OKC Zoo is a fundraising event for great ape conservation, includes dinner, a behind-the-scenes tour of Great EscApe, presentation by the Zoo’s great EscApe keepers and a silent auction. $50, children must be 14 or older to attend.
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Walk a Mile in My Shoes
WHEN: Saturday, April 30 · 9:00am – 11:00am
WHERE: Bricktown Ballpark
1 Mile Foster Care Awareness Walk at the Bricktown Ballpark promotes awareness and response to the crisis faced by Oklahoma’s more than 8,000 foster children due to the shortage of good foster homes and lack of community involvement. Bring a suitcase to pull or carry during the walk to symbolize the many moves foster children must endure. New or used suitcases may be donated to Oklahoma’s Foster Children, who often have only a trash bag to use for their personal belongings. Register online. Saturday, 9-11am. 703-4150
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11th Annual Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon
WHEN: Sunday, May 1 · 6:30am – 12:30pm
WHERE: Downtown Oklahoma City
The 11th Annual Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon in Downtown OKC includes a marathon, half marathon, relay marathon, memorial 5K, & kids marathon. Preregister. Sunday, May 1, 6:30am. 525-4242, okcmarathon.com.
Refuel with Chocolate Milk Tour at the finish line of the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon will be offering FREE samples of Bordens Chocolate Milk and milk mustache photos with Refuel Celebrity Athletes. Open for the duration of the race. 312-988-2058
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Performing Arts This Week:
Money Matters
WHEN: April 14 – May 8
WHERE: Jew Box Theatre: 3700 North Walker, Oklahoma City
Catherine thinks she has met the man of her dreams, only to find out he married her for her money. She hatches a plan to kill him – three times – with hilarious results.
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The Economics of Happiness film screening
WHEN: Friday, April 22 from 8:00pm – 11:30pm
IAO will have a free screening of The Economics of Happiness. The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance—and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future.
A performance by Luke Dick will follow at Joey’s Pizzeria.
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Bug
WHEN: April 28 until April 30
WHERE: Oklahoma City University
Please join the Oklahoma City University School of Theatre as they present Tracy Letts’s “Bug.” Show takes place in the Black Box Theatre in the Wanda L. Bass School of Music on the Oklahoma City University Campus.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
WHEN: May 5th-7th
WHERE: Lyric’s Plaza Theater; 1725 NW 16th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73106
The production will highlight talent the Academy has nurtured for the past 10 years through classes in singing, dancing, and acting. The Academy is celebrating its 10 year anniversary by performing numbers from every show produced during those years, from the very first production of Guys and Dolls to last fall’s Bye Bye Birdie, Little Red and RoKademY.
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Hey, do this!
0April 19, 2011
by Dennis Spielman
in Do This
Off the Wall 2011
WHEN: Friday, April 29, at 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Mabee Gerrer Museum of Art – 1900 W MacArthur, Shawnee
For $50, you receive admission for two to Off the Wall 2011 and one ticket for a piece of art by an Oklahoma artist. The evening starts at 6:30 p.m. with traditional and folk musical entertainment by Karen and Ed Petitt. You may also enjoy hors d’oeuvres, desserts, and drinks provided by the MGMoA volunteers.
At 7:30 p.m., the pace speeds up with the drawings for the artworks which include paintings, sketches, lithographs, photographs, pottery and other works of art created by local artists. To keep everyone guessing, the artists have been asked to sign the pieces on the back, so you will only know who created your artwork after you have chosen the piece. Special guest, Ken Busby, Executive Director of Tulsa Arts and Humanities Council will emcee the event.
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PAINT-A-THON
WHEN: Friday, April 22 from Noon to 8 p.m.
WHERE: South Oval, OU Campus
Paint-a-thon is an eight hour painting event that will take place at the University of Oklahoma, to raise money for Heifer International. Teams have will eight hours to complete a massive, 4 foot by 8 foot painting! Guests may bring an acoustic instrument and jam; bring bongos and recite poetry; or just gawk at people painting.
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Festival of the Arts
The Festival is a community celebration of the visual arts, performing arts, and culinary arts. The 2011 Festival of the Arts takes place April 26-May 1 in Downtown Oklahoma City at the Festival Plaza, Stage Center and the Myriad Botanical Gardens. Hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. The Visual Arts includes 144 Plaza Artists from across the nation that exhibit on Hudson Avenue and a large-scale Sculpture Park exhibit in the Stage Center Lawn. The Culinary Arts consists of the International Food Row. Each food vendor is partnered with an area non-profit organization. The Performing Arts includes four stages of non-stop performing arts and entertainment, and street performers roaming the grounds. Plus there are plenty of children’s activities in the Youth Plaza and around Festival grounds.
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Performing Arts This Week:
Money Matters
WHEN: April 14 – May 8
WHERE: Jew Box Theatre: 3700 North Walker, Oklahoma City
Catherine thinks she has met the man of her dreams, only to find out he married her for her money. She hatches a plan to kill him – three times – with hilarious results.
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OKC Improv’s Final Spring 2011 Shows
WHEN: Friday, April 22 from 8:00pm – 11:30pm
8pm: Spotlight Improv Students / Everybody and Their Dog / Fortune’s Fools
10pm: Magician William Rader / Counterpoint: A Red Dirt Special / Twinprov: Rap-sody
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O.U.Improv! 10th Anniversary Reunion Mega-Tacular!
WHEN: Saturday, April 23 · 7:00pm – 10:00pm
WHERE: Dale Hall OU, Room 200 in Norman
Celebrate ten years of laughter on the University of Oklahoma campus! The O.U.Improv! 10th Anniversary Reunion Show is a free, unscripted comedy extravaganza! It will bring together past and present Obviously Unrehearsed Improv! (aka O.U.Improv!, aka OUI!) members for an amazing night of comedy, made up on the spot and based on audience suggestions. The fun happens Saturday, April 23rd at 7pm in Dale Hall, Room 200 (on Lindsey St., near Elm St.) on the University of Oklahoma, Norman campus.
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Bug
WHEN: April 28 until April 30
WHERE: Oklahoma City University
Please join the Oklahoma City University School of Theatre as they present Tracy Letts’s “Bug.” Show takes place in the Black Box Theatre in the Wanda L. Bass School of Music on the Oklahoma City University Campus.
Easter:
In order to provide the best information on Easter events, I’m going to refer everyone to this article for the OKC area and this blog post for Tulsa. They are both great resources. I would be coping and pasting what they wrote.
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The 10 Event Forecast
0April 12, 2011
by Dennis Spielman
in Do This
Oklahoma Steampunk Exposition 2011
On April 15 – 17, Oklahoma’s Clarion Hotel at 6200 N. Robinson will be the stage for an alternate reality. For this brief weekend, step into a world where pirates fly airships, doctors hawk potions from a stage, swordswallowers compete with fireswallowers, men display award-winning facial hair, and Tea is verb. It’s the Oklahoma Steampunk Exposition, a convention dedicated to furthering the innovation, creativity, and joy that is steampunk. oklahomasteampunkexpo.com
OKC StorySLAM
Friday, April 15th, Sign-up begins at 7:00, Stories Start at 7:30.
Did you spend your spring break chasing tornadoes? Is there a fault line beneath your root cellar? Are you still driving round town in your pock marked pick-up truck with the cracked windshield, courtesy of Mother Nature’s hailstorm tantrum of May 2010? Come talk about the weather…at the next OKC StorySLAM.
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Earth Fest 2011
At Martin Park Nature Center (5000 W. Memorial Rd, OKC) includes a can stomp, educational seminars, booths, and more. 10am-2pm.
Boeing Boeing
This hilarious 1960′s romp, immortalized by Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis on film, has a handsome bachelor juggling three international flight attendant fiances. Schedule and weather delays bring them all together in a hilarious farce that will keep you laughing from take-off to landing!
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OKC Improv March/April Run
8pm: The Laughing Stocks / Fortune’s Fools / Villain: The Musical
10pm: Brad Porter / The MiDolls / Sketchers in the Wry: Love in the Time of Zombies
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Sonnet-a-Thon
Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park Presents: “Sonnet-a-Thon” Celebrating William Shakespeare’s 447th Birthday! Monday, April 18 · 10:30am – 3:30pm.
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An Evening with David Sedaris
Rose State Performing Arts Theatre April 18th at 7:30 p.m. With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today.
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Boeing Boeing Q&A
0April 6, 2011
by Dennis Spielman
in Do This
Today’s performing arts Question and Answer session is with Lyric Theatre’s Artistic Director, Michael Baron on their latest production, Boeing Boeing.
How do you describe Boeing Boeing to your friends?
A very funny sex comedy from the 1960′s with fun period “jet set” costumes and a very hip bachelor pad set. Like a funny version of Mad Men.
Why should one see it?
It’s one of the classic comedies of the theatre that is not only hysterically funny but stylish as well.
What scenes do the actors enjoy?
There are lots of scenes where the flight attendants are all in the apartment at the same time without knowing it and it’s a blast to see the guys figure out how to keep them from running into each other. There are lots of slamming doors and ridiculous schemes.
What make’s Lyric’s version special?
We’ve got a supremely funny group of actors from NYC and OKC working together. They work so well together that everyone gets their own comedic moments to shine. And the set is full of actual crazy period 1960′s furniture. Everyone that has seen the show wishes the on-stage apartment was their own.
What was the most challenging aspect you had in the production?
The timing and laughs of the show is very fast – so getting the dialogue and action onstage to be in sync was challenging.
Any other comments?
It’s been great seeing adults of different generations come and enjoy this zany show. If you need a night full of laughs at seeing what it was like in the dating scene back in the 1960′s and how little it has changed today – then I would highly recommend checking out the hi-jinks of BOEING BOEING.
Show Schedule
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 – Saturday, April 16, 2011
Plaza show times within the dates above are as follows:
Tuesday – Thursday, 7:30PM
Friday and Saturday, 8PM
Saturday afternoon 2PM