Community Calendar

Guests will explore the animated world of Dia de Muertos through a unique collection of 2 and 3-dimensional artwork. From the work of early pre-Hispanic cultures to the 21st century, Lives of the Dead offers 1000 years of artistic visions of the dead. The exhibition emphasizes current and vintage Latin American folk art. From Papier-mâché (cartoneria) skulls and skeletons created by the famous Linares family to the ceramic tableaux and Catrinas of Metepec, Lives of the Dead brings together some of Latin America’s most renowned folk artists. Other exhibition highlights include antique prints by Jose Guadalupe Posada, Manuel Manilla, and Dia de Muertos, as seen in contemporary paintings and prints from Mexico. Visitors will also experience the celebration and beliefs behind Dia de Muertos with the inclusion of an elaborate Mexican style ofrenda.

The Oklahoma History Center Museum, in partnership with the Vietnamese American Heritage Community of Oklahoma, is proud to announce Our Journeys, presented by Vietnamese Boat People, a multimedia traveling exhibition on display September 12, through January 4, 2027.

Created by New Jersey-based nonprofit Vietnamese Boat People, the exhibition centers the voices of Vietnamese Americans through oral histories, photographs, and interactive elements that explore migration, memory, and resilience across generations. The exhibit debuted in 2025, marking the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the displacement of millions of Vietnamese refugees whose stories continue to shape communities across the country—including here in Oklahoma.

The exhibition is included with regular museum admission.

Explore a monumental outdoor installation by Oklahoma City–based artists Denise Duong and Gabriel Friedman that transforms Campbell Art Park into a site of story, symbolism, and discovery. Conceived as a constellation of six sculptural forms, including a head, a hand, and four birdlike spheres, the work invites viewers to enter a world where order and chaos intertwine.

Join us for a FREE film event!

See the film "Small, Slow But Steady" in OKCMOA’s Noble Theater, followed by an in-person Q&A with director Shô Miyake.

This event is presented in collaboration with deadCenter Continuum, The Japan Foundation, and University of Oklahoma’s Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics and Department of Film and Media Studies.

Free admission | Pre-registration requested
Seating is limited and first come, first served.

Bonus! Film Society members are invited to an exclusive reception before the screening in the Theater Lobby at 6:30 pm. Click here to register. Not a Film Society member? Join today at okcmoa.com/filmsociety.

ABOUT THE FILM

“Introverted, sullen, and wildly skilled, Keiko Ogawa (Yukino Kishii) is a semiprofessional boxer navigating a largely male environment; she’s also been deaf since childhood, taking up the sport at an early age both to fend off bullies and to focus her attention on something tactile. Now in her twenties, and making ends meet as a chambermaid while living with her loving brother, she finds her greatest refuge in the economically struggling Tokyo gym where she trains with the aging Chairman (Tomokazu Miura), whose health is in decline. Keeping Keiko at arm’s length, Shô Miyake’s scrupulously studied portrait of one woman’s life, shot and set during the COVID pandemic, is an entirely physical experience, punctuated by moments of pure feeling.” -New Directors/New Films

Shô Miyake | 2022 | In Japanese with English Subtitles | 100 minutes | NR | DCP

The Japan Foundation, University of Oklahoma’s Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, the Department of Film and Media Studies, the Ned Hockman Speaker Series and deadCenter Continuum collaborate to bring the series Unspoken Gestures: Films of Shô Miyake with this special FREE screening of Small, Slow But Steady (2022) with director Shô Miyake in attendance.

Based on the boxing memoir Makenaide!, by Keiko Ogasawara', Small, Slow But Steady (2022) is a study of the daily life and perseverance of def pro-boxer Keiko Ogawa by Japanese filmmaker Shô Miyake, who's work often focuses on outsiders and coming-of-age depictions of friendship.

Small, Slow But Steady premiered at the 2022 Berlin Film Festival and won the 2023 Kinema Junopo Awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor. Miyake's recent film Two Seasons, Two Strangers (2025) won the Golden Leopard for Best Film at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival.

Critic Robert Daniels says the "This is a movie about life, and how the meaning of sports extends beyond mere championships," Critic Jonathan Romney finds the film's "against-the-grain study genuinely alluring," and Critic Jessica Kiang praises the film as a "graceful vindication for the millions of valiant souls who decide, every day, to fight."

6:30 pm - Oklahoma City Museum of Art Film Society Members Reception
7:00 pm - Film Screens

Following the film will be a moderated discussion with director Shô Miyake.

Special thanks to Allied Arts and Hockman Family Filmmakers Fund, whose generous grants made this programming possible.

Science Museum Oklahoma presents Spin! The Art of the Modern Zoetrope, now on display in the museum’s smART Space galleries through August 2027. The exhibition features works by eight artists who reimagine the 19th-century zoetrope, an early animation device that creates the illusion of motion through rapidly sequenced images. Interactive exhibits explore motion, perception, vision persistence and animation, and are included with museum admission.

The exhibit explores how Oklahoma’s 400-plus miles of drivable highway shaped communities along the route and continues to draw travelers today.

Route 66 was created in 1926 and quickly became one of the most consequential roads in American history. For Oklahomans, it was an escape route during the Dust Bowl, an economic lifeline for roadside communities, and eventually a casualty of the interstate system. “The Longest Stretch” traces that full arc, from the road’s rise to its decline, and into its revival through preservation and tourism.

Major artifacts on display include a 1915 Model T Roadster, a restored Taft Stadium sign, a Big Boy statue, and a 1961 Corvette on loan from the National Corvette Museum. Hands-on interactives will allow visitors to engage directly with the story of Route 66 and its evolution over time.

Guests will explore the animated world of Dia de Muertos through a unique collection of 2 and 3-dimensional artwork. From the work of early pre-Hispanic cultures to the 21st century, Lives of the Dead offers 1000 years of artistic visions of the dead. The exhibition emphasizes current and vintage Latin American folk art. From Papier-mâché (cartoneria) skulls and skeletons created by the famous Linares family to the ceramic tableaux and Catrinas of Metepec, Lives of the Dead brings together some of Latin America’s most renowned folk artists. Other exhibition highlights include antique prints by Jose Guadalupe Posada, Manuel Manilla, and Dia de Muertos, as seen in contemporary paintings and prints from Mexico. Visitors will also experience the celebration and beliefs behind Dia de Muertos with the inclusion of an elaborate Mexican style ofrenda.

The Oklahoma History Center Museum, in partnership with the Vietnamese American Heritage Community of Oklahoma, is proud to announce Our Journeys, presented by Vietnamese Boat People, a multimedia traveling exhibition on display September 12, through January 4, 2027.

Created by New Jersey-based nonprofit Vietnamese Boat People, the exhibition centers the voices of Vietnamese Americans through oral histories, photographs, and interactive elements that explore migration, memory, and resilience across generations. The exhibit debuted in 2025, marking the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the displacement of millions of Vietnamese refugees whose stories continue to shape communities across the country—including here in Oklahoma.

The exhibition is included with regular museum admission.

This new exhibition explores flag songs from five tribal nations in Oklahoma today, honoring the Comanche, Cheyenne and Arapaho, Choctaw, Ponca, and Wichita and Affiliated Tribes equivalent to the Star-Spangled Banner. The songs are connected to the honoring of Native veterans—past, present and future—and provide an opportunity to learn how music, language, community and service intersect.

"By the Dawn’s Early Light: Oklahoma Tribal Flag Songs" is made possible with support from Getty through its Museum Interpretation initiative.