Community Calendar

Pumpkinville returns to the Myriad Botanical Gardens with a new theme: “The Museum of Pumpkinville." This year, the event has been extended by an additional week and expanded hours, giving guests even more time to enjoy the festivities.
At "The Museum of Pumpkinville," guests can explore more than 50,000 pumpkins, gourds, and other fall foliage creatively arranged into exhibits that replicate popular museum installations. The art exhibit will feature famous paintings brought to life while the space exploration exhibit will showcase pumpkin-made rockets and planets and much more.

Celebrate all things autumn at the Fall Festival at Orr Family Farm in Oklahoma City. Go through the maze, ride on a hayride, play on the farm's outdoor attractions, board the farm's locomotive or take a spin on the carousel. While you're at this Oklahoma City farm, have fun in the animal barn, pedal cars and jumping pillows.

Discover Oklahoma Contemporary's ArtNow 2025: Materials and Boundaries exhibition, highlighting new and recent art from a selection of artists active in the state. Twenty-six artists explore identity, place and experimentation through boundary-pushing practices and material innovation, offering a fresh and nuanced vision of contemporary Oklahoma. Visit okcontemp.org for gallery hours.

For more information: 405-951-0000, okcontemp.org/artnow2025

This Halloween season, visit Frontier City during Fright Fest, featuring thrilling rides and fun activities for the whole family on select weekends during spooky season. Take the kids to show off their costumes and pick up sweet treats along the way. Your little ghouls are sure to enjoy navigating the Halloween-themed activities and eerie fog, menacing music and monsters galore. Daredevils are invited to ride rollercoasters in the dark and shriek into the night. Bring the whole family for this screaming good time at Frontier City.

Come see and shop from local artist at this Wearable Art and Fiber event. On Friday Oct 24 from 5:30-9:30 enjoy a bar and food vendors while watching an on-the-spot fashion show. The event continues into the weekend, with a full day of shopping available on Saturday.

Uncanny Art House is getting into the spirit of Halloween with a vintage screening of Nosferatu (1922), presented inside the immersive setting of In the Company of Paintings by James M. Bond.

This silent horror classic will be shown in the transformed gallery space, amplifying its eerie, cinematic tone and aligning perfectly with the themes of the exhibition.

This event is free and open to the public. Bring your love of early cinema, moody lighting, and atmospheric storytelling for a film night that bridges art and experience.

ABOUT 4TH FRIDAY FILMS

4th Friday Films is a screening series in partnership with Pioneer Library System and Uncanny Art House to bring educational films to downtown Norman, Oklahoma. Each screening connects with the current exhibition and includes a discussion following the film.

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Southern Plains Productions is proud to present Wakka Wakka's Dead as a Dodo, October 23-25, 2025, at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center in Oklahoma City.

Deep within the underworld, two friends, a boy and a dodo, are digging for fresh bones to replace their ancient, skeletal forms which are quickly deteriorating. One day, something miraculous happens. The dodo sprouts new feathers. Soon, a steady transformation begins to unravel the natural order. The great reversal has begun.

But what will happen to the two friends?

Dead as a Dodo is a family-friendly, puppet musical odyssey utilizing humor and magical visual effects to explore some of humanity’s most basic fears and our quest for immortality.

Don't miss this show, hailed by The New York Times as “ceaselessly inventive.” It’s like a Pixar film brought to life on stage.

For tickets visit SPPOKC.org.

Note: This production incorporates fog, loud noises and strobe lighting. Appropriate for ages 7 and up.

Every three years, Lyric Theatre does “The Time Warp” again, staging the raunchy, hysterical, and uproarious 1973 rock musical to the delight of the show’s enthusiastic fans. Runtime is approximately two hours including one 15-minute intermission. The show in intended or mature audiences only! ASL Interpreted performance on Saturday, October 18th at 7:30 pm

Deep within the underworld, two friends, a boy and a dodo, are digging for fresh bones to replace their ancient, skeletal forms which are quickly deteriorating. One day, something miraculous happens. The dodo sprouts new feathers. Soon, a steady transformation begins to unravel the natural order. The great reversal has begun. But what will happen to the two friends?

Dead as a Dodo is a family-friendly, puppet musical odyssey utilizing humor and magical visual effects to explore some of humanity’s most basic fears and our quest for immortality.

A group of middle-aged buddies reunite for a "guys' weekend" in a snowed-in cabin to eat chili, drink beer, and relive the good old days. Despite divorce, unemployment, and a stroke, spirits are high until Jessie, the wife of absent friend Adrian, shows up in his place. An epic battle of wits and stamina ensues: will the men win their right to an all-out guy fest, or will a woman be crowned the stronger sex after all?

Friday, October 17 – 8:00 PM
• Saturday, October 18 – 8:00 PM

Thursday, October 23 – 7:30 PM $15 tickets Thursday only
• Friday, October 24 – 8:00 PM
• Saturday, October 25 – 8:00 PM
• Sunday, October 26 – 2:00 PM popular

Thursday, October 30 – 7:30 PM $15 tickets Thursday only
• Friday, October 31 – 8:00 PM
• Saturday, November 1 – 8:00 PM
• Sunday, November 2 – 2:00 PM popular