Community Calendar

On July 18th and 19th from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the Centennial Building at the OKC Fairgrounds, find a massive assortment of beautiful, handmade quilts at the "Symphony of Colors:" A Celebration of Quilts in Oklahoma City. At this event, the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds Centennial Building will be full of over a hundred quilts from the Central Oklahoma Quilters Guild. In addition to quilts, guests will be able to shop at large vendor booths that feature recycled treasures, fabrics, books and much more. You'll also have a chance to win prizes such as exclusive quilts during the event's raffle. Come support this non-profit and see the incredible craftsmanship on display at the Celebration of Quilts.

Join thousands of fans in Stillwater this month for one of Oklahoma’s biggest summer traditions — Eskimo Joe’s Anniversary Celebration. This week-long street party boasts live music, food and drink specials, games, giveaways, and family-friendly fun.
Each day features something new, from costume contests and concerts to a classic car show and a children’s carnival. Sports fans can gear up for a high-energy tailgate party, and OSU alumni can reunite over extended happy hours, hot wings, and domestic pitchers. The week wraps up with an official birthday bash at Eskimo Joes, complete with complimentary desserts.

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.

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.

Museum Films presents the annual curated program of the best of new and classic French cinema, presented with support from Alliance Française of Oklahoma City (afdokc.org). French Film in July features six new French films, including the delightful literary romance “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life," which screens July 25-27, and a three-film retrospective of rarely seen bohemian seaside vacation idylls from French New Wave director Jacques Rozier screening Thursdays, July 10, 17, and 24.

Date Night with The Martin Duprass presents: Schmancy Pants: A Sketchy Murder Mystery!
Help the Schmancy Pantsers solve an all-new murder!
Featuring Olivia Lycan, Holly York, Jessi Kyle, Cam Hunter and Jacob Threadgill!
Wear your schmanciest duds for a chance to win a fabulous prize!
The mystery begins at 7pm!
Tickets just $5 at the door

The Wheeler District is hosting Wheeler Summer Concert Series Friday, July 18, from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM. Local artists including "The Voice" contestant, AJ Harvey, as well as Sorry Darlin and Kennedy Fine are set to perform throughout the evening. Food, drinks and local vendors are all available for attendees.

She Kills Monsters tells the story of Agnes Evans as she leaves her childhood home in Ohio following the death of her teenage sister, Tilly. When Agnes finds Tilly’s Dungeons & Dragons notebook, however, she finds herself catapulted into a journey of discovery and action-packed adventure in the imaginary world that was her sister’s refuge. In this high-octane dramatic comedy laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and 90s pop culture, acclaimed playwright Qui Nguyen offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all.

She Kills Monsters tells the story of Agnes Evans as she leaves her childhood home in Ohio following the death of her teenage sister, Tilly. When Agnes finds Tilly’s Dungeons & Dragons notebook, however, she finds herself catapulted into a journey of discovery and action-packed adventure in the imaginary world that was her sister’s refuge. In this high-octane dramatic comedy laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and 90s pop culture, acclaimed playwright Qui Nguyen offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all.