Apr 27 Saturday
The Sam Noble Museum is excited to announce a new temporary exhibit aimed at teaching kids and families all about the super-powered world of bugs. Bug Squad features kid-friendly animatronic mascots and tons of interactive, hands-on exhibits and activities.
This unique traveling exhibit can be described as a full sensory experience with active spaces for kids and families to play. Each of the Bug Squad’s heroic characters was created to represent a variety of abilities, ethnicities and body types, each with their own unique storyline that describes their super abilities and unique traits. In addition to highlighting strengths or flying abilities, the Bug Squad members represent traits such as accepting, investigative, team-builders and optimism.
Exhibit highlights include the Spider Web Escape area with a slide, the Ant Colony Climber and an opportunity to experience (virtually) what it’s like to fly like a dragonfly in the Dragonfly Drone. Families can compare the way insects communicate by sound and light, and explore how colors and lights function in nature. The exhibit is produced by Omaha Children’s Museum and presented by the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.
The exhibit opens February 10 and ends April 28.
The Iris Expo will be a dazzling display of the colorful rainbow and wide varieties of Iris that bloom and thrive in our area. Iris on display will include dwarf, median, tall bearded, Louisiana iris, historic, reblooming and space age iris. These exquisite perennial blooms in the display are from the private gardens of Society members.
In conjunction with the Iris Expo, a limited number of potted iris and perennials from the gardens of Iris Society members will be available for sale. Plan to arrive early for the best selection at the sale. Founded in 1925, the Edmond Iris Society has been an active garden club in Edmond for the past 99 years!
For information about the Edmond Iris and Garden Society as well as the group’s upcoming Iris Expo and Plant Sale visit the groups public Facebook page at: https://www.Facebook.com/EdmondIrisandGardenSociety
Multiple Voices is the first public artwork in the United States by Eva Schlegel, the Austria-based artist known for engineering steel and mirrors into spectacular, architectonic sculptures. Working with materials similar to the arts center’s new building,
Schlegel created a series of polished and translucent surfaces that catch and reflect light and parts of the surrounding environment, encouraging visitors to gather, play and learn.
Poems by Steve Bellin-Oka, Kimberly Blaeser and Joy Harjo appear in blurred form on glass panels, registering each poem as part of the sculpture, but rendered cryptic to the viewer.
For more information: 405-951-0000, okcontemp.org/EvaSchlegel
Image: Rendering of Eva Schlegel's Multiple Voices at Oklahoma Contemporary. Rendering: Damjan Minovski, Architectural team: Valerie Messini.
WildCare Oklahoma's Spring 2024 WildCare Baby Shower: Better Together will be held on Saturday, April 27, 2024 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Attendance will be limited to 200 guests per hour to ensure the best possible experience for visitors and the animals in care. Registration is free and available online, by calling WildCare at (405) 872-9338, or emailing info@wildcareoklahoma.org.
Building on the 2024 Baby Shower theme of Better Together, visitors will get to meet some of the injured, ill, or orphaned wildlife in care at the center, vote for the cutest baby of 2024, learn about ways WildCare is improving efficiency and outcomes of the work, see where WildCare is in the process of building new enclosures, learn about some of WildCare's new research initiatives, participate in wildlife themes activities, and see the new Songbird Enclosure. WildCare will be officially dedicating the new songbird enclosure at 1:30 p.m. during the baby shower.
Visitors will be able to tour the facility with friends and family and learn from our veterinary team, wildlife rehabilitation staff, and volunteers about the varied species cared for at WildCare.
This is the one time per year people can visit and get a behind-the-scenes look at WildCare and the wide range it does for the community and throughout the state of Oklahoma.
If you can't attend but would like to send a baby shower gift to help care for the over 7,400 animals admitted to WildCare annually, visit www.wildcareoklahoma.org to see the baby shower wish list.
Join Cynde Tomlinson of Physicians Mutual as we learn about navigating Medicare. Cynde is a Broker Relationship Manager for Physcians Select Insurance Company. Cynde will discuss making the most of your rights, options and entitlements, how and when to enroll in Medicare, what Medicare does and doesn't cover, Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplement insurance, and more!
Become more confident in advocating for yourself and others by discovering accurate tools, techniques, and resources in this presentation. Registration Required.
Check out the Friends of Moore Library's annual book sale April 25-27! Hardback, paperback, and Better Books will be available, as well as magazines and audiovisual materials like DVDs, audiobooks, VHS tapes, CDs, computer software, and other miscellaneous items like puzzles and games. We accept cash, checks, and credit cards.
April 25th: 1-5pmApril 26th: 10am - 5pmApril 27th: 10am - 4pm
Blending true crime with memoir, Kristine S. Ervin tells a chilling and poignant story set in Oklahoma. She was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from a mall parking lot and murdered in an oil field. Decades later, "Rabbit Heart" re-examines the crime and provides insight not just into the hard facts of the case, but into the very nature of memory and justice.
We are kicking off our first home game of the season with a stacked lineup.Our junior roller derby team the Dust Devils will skate against Salina. Twister City's All Star Squad faces off against Tulsa's A Team in what will be a fierce battle of Oklahoma derby teams! And last, our first home team bout will be between the Lightning Quads and the Outlaws! Stick around because you wont want to miss it. As always, come for the derby and make sure to check out the raffle, bake sale, vendors, and special halftime entertainment.
The doors to Arctic Edge will open at 5pm on April 27th and the first bout will start at 5:30pm.
Tickets are $15 in advance; $20 at the door. Children 12 and under get in FREE with a paid adult.
A three-day experimental film festival in April will give audiences a look into some of the most creative and innovative styles of filmmaking in the industry.
Oklahoma City University’s Film Department, in partnership with the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, will present the Wide Open Experimental Film Festival (WOEFF) April 26-28 in the art museum’s Noble Theater at 415 Couch Dr. The festival is free to the public.
The third-annual festival is organized by OCU film students and faculty. As a festival focused on the celebration of a variety of experimental film practices, organizers hope to open peoples’ eyes to alternative forms, structures and styles of film.
Some highlighted films and filmmakers include:
• “A Meditation on Nature in the Absence of an Eclipse” by Crystal Z Campbell• “Light, Noise, and Smoke, and Light, Noise, and Smoke” by Tomonari Nishikawa• “Patient” by Lori Felker• “Ashes of Roses” by Sasha Waters• “Quartet for the End” by Gregg Biermann• “Clear Ice Fern” by Mark Street
Experience the largest music festival in Oklahoma and the best part is, it's FREE. NMP is a free, independent music festival that brings nearly 100,000 people to downtown Norman every year. The three day fest features four outdoor stages and multiple indoor venues. Featured headliners include Alvvays, Blondeshell, Husbands and more! Genres range from indie to rock and even comedy.
Norman Music Festival is free for everyone and run by a nearly 100% volunteer force. NMF exists only because of the financial generosity of many exceptional businesses and individuals who help us make sure the festival is free for all those who couldn't come if it wasn't. VIP Passes run from $100 to $300. Passes include access to VIP area at the main stages, free sticker and t-shirt, access to the exclusive VIP room and your own parking place!
Upon entering the Norman Music Festival area, festival attendees consent to being photographed or videotaped. Their name, voice, photo, video or film likeness or reproductions thereof made through any media, including electronic media, may be used for any purpose including but not limited to use on a website, social media, or brochure. To the fullest extent allowed by law, festival attendees grant a non-exclusive, non-revocable, royalty-free right to use their name, voice, and likeness to the Norman Music Festival and its affiliates.