Community Calendar

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.

Do you know a 13–15-year-old who needs to unplug from his or her electronic devices and enjoy an adventure in the forest? At Oklahoma Forestry Youth Camp, kids learn from experts from different parts of the forestry sector to learn about sustainability, conservation, and management of the forests- all while having a ton of fun! We are a sleepaway camp that offers swimming, canoeing, hiking, wood turning, fly fishing, archery, tree climbing and the opportunity to make new friends, all while learning about the environment.

This year, camp happens June 16-21, 2025, at Beavers Bend State Park. Registration is $100 and includes cabin lodging, meals, and programming for the week. Scholarships are available based on need and availability.

* Registration deadline is May 2.

"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.

Southern Oaks Library is turning 50! Join us in celebrating the vibrant Southern Oaks story!

In conjunction with the Summer Reading Program theme of "Color Our World," there will be a arts & crafts, games, and activities to commemorate decades of colorful contributions to and by the community. All are welcome, and registration is not required.

While you're here, sign up for the summer reading program and learn about the variety of programs we will provide for all age groups throughout the summer!

Pioneer Library System offers virtual author talks every month. June includes: Extinctopedia–A Discovery of What We Have Lost, What is at Risk, and What To Do About it with Smithsonian Scientists, Wednesday, June 4; Explore Unexpected Twists and Turns with Bestselling Author Lisa Jewell, Tuesday, June 10; and Living the Otter Life with Katherine Applegate, Tuesday, June 24.

Explore more events and register at https://libraryc.org/pioneerlibrarysystem, where you can also access past talks 24/7.

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.

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.

"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.

From miniaturized tracking devices to radar networks, a wide range of technologies are helping to reveal the amazing abilities and behaviors of birds.

Presented by Eli Bridge, Interim Director of Oklahoma Biological Survey, this seminar will present several examples of how technological innovations can contribute research and conservation of animals that use the aerosphere, or lower atmosphere, as a habitat.