Community Calendar

The deadCenter Film Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this summer! The state's largest film festival offers a chance to see the premiere of films spanning all genres. Several public screenings will be held in multiple venues across Oklahoma City.

2025 FESTIVAL PASS ($225)

• Designated line and priority entry to all screenings
• Access to all panels and conversations with Oklahoma Film ICONS
• Networking events and parties throughout the week
• Complimentary food, drinks, and fun
• Entry to dC Awards Ceremony
• Festival swag bag

This event offers many opportunities to marvel at a vast array of cactus and succulents, and to puchase unique additions to their collections, find a few easy ones for beginers, or pick up a cool gift for Father's Day. There will educational talks and doorprizes throughout each day at this free, family-friendly event. Saturday June 14th from 8:30-5:00 PM and Sunday June 15th from 8:30- 3:00 PM.

*Ends at 3:00 PM on Sunday the 15th.

The deadCenter Film Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this summer! The state's largest film festival offers a chance to see the premiere of films spanning all genres. Several public screenings will be held in multiple venues across Oklahoma City.

2025 FESTIVAL PASS ($225)

• Designated line and priority entry to all screenings
• Access to all panels and conversations with Oklahoma Film ICONS
• Networking events and parties throughout the week
• Complimentary food, drinks, and fun
• Entry to dC Awards Ceremony
• Festival swag bag

Join us this summer at the Sam Noble Museum and experience science first-hand through a variety of discovery-based programs. Each week-long, two-hour Summer Explorers program (children ages 6-7, 8-9, and 10-12) features a different natural or cultural history theme.

REGISTRATION
Don’t miss out! Space is limited and advance registration is required. Visit the Sam Noble Museum website to register. For questions or accommodations on the basis of disability, please contact Visitor Services at (405) 325-7977. Cost: $80 (Member youth); $100 (Non-member youth).

Required program forms will be sent via confirmation email.

ROBERTA PAILES FUND FOR CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS
A limited number of program fees can be funded for families who demonstrate financial need. Click Here for more information and to apply.

T-SHIRT
Each Summer Explorers youth program participant will receive a T-shirt. Please indicate the size when you register.

OFF-SITE PROGRAMS indicated with ☀️
These programs will take place in the best classroom of all: the great outdoors! We will start at the museum and then travel in museum or university vans to local parks. Booster seats are provided for children 9 and under and are available for children over the age of 9 upon request of parents/guardians. Participants should be dressed to get wet and dirty and must bring a water bottle.

Braum’s Affair of the Heart returns June 13–15, 2025, at the OKC Fairgrounds in Centennial and Pavilion buildings. Browse more than 200 booths filled with handmade goods, boutique clothing, gourmet foods, and one-of-a-kind items from artists, makers, and small businesses. Tickets are $10 and good for all three days. Kids 12 and under are free. Learn more and purchase tickets online at OKCsummerAOTH.com.

"Discovering Ansel Adams" features over 100 photographs that share Adams’s most celebrated works while revealing aspects of his development that are frequently overlooked. Together with original archival materials from the Center of Creative Photography’s Ansel Adams Archive, these photographs demonstrate how Adams transformed from a fourteen-year-old tourist with a camera into a renowned photographer between 1916 and the 1940s. Along the way, photographic prints from his early visits to the American Southwest, his mountaineering experiences as a young man, and his quest to photograph America’s national parks will enchant visitors.

Oklahoma Contemporary presents the first major retrospective of Oklahoma City-based artist Edgar Heap of Birds, who is known internationally for conceptual artwork that addresses Indigenous rights, sovereignty and relationships to place. Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds: HONOR SONG is a landmark for American art, for the region and for the city: the artist’s first institutional survey in his home-state of the last forty years. The exhibition spans over four decades of art production, tracing Heap of Birds’ trajectory from the 1970s to the present through colorful prints, abstract paintings, drawings, glassworks, sculptures and public works.

For more information: 405-951-0000, okcontemp.org/honorsong

Image: Edgar Heap of Birds, Neuf, 1995. The John and Susan Horseman Collection, Courtesy of the Horseman Foundation. © Edgar Heap of Birds. Image courtesy of the artist.

Step into a world of vibrant imagination with A Colorful Dream, an interactive exhibition by contemporary fine art photographer Adrien Broom. This family-friendly experience follows a young girl’s journey through a series of monochromatic fantasy worlds, each meticulously crafted to explore the emotions and symbolism of the full spectrum of the rainbow. Broom’s large-scale photographs, created without digital manipulation, capture the magic of these handmade sets, bringing fairy-tale-like landscapes to life.

Exclusive to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, the exhibition features a site-specific installation that reimagines black not as an absence, but as the presence of all colors. This striking addition invites viewers to contemplate color in a new way, blending fantasy and reality in stunning detail.

Dance Gavin Dance is bringing The Return Of The Robots Tour to The Criterion in OKC on Sunday, June 15, 2025!

Scissortail Park Discovery Camp
Monday, June 16 – Friday, June 20
8am-3pm
Check-In located in Lower Park

Through engaging eco-lessons, creating habitats for native species, and many exclusive park activities – these explorers will get a tangible experience as conservationists! Each day is packed with exciting adventures. Through creative craft projects, campers will gain hands-on experience in conservation while having a blast! With only 25 available spots for this camp, this is a summer adventure you don’t want to miss!

$375 per child ages 10-12 years for full week (limited availability)

Daily Themes:
Monday – Pollinate & Paint

Tuesday – Ribbit & Roll

Wednesday – Birds & Beyond

Thursday – Pickle & Paddle

Friday – Hive & Seek

Join us for an action-packed week of fun,
discovery, and outdoor excitement!