Community Calendar

Celebrate fall at the annual Pumpkin Festival at Shepherd's Cross. Enjoy a peaceful day filled with family-friendly fun at an authentic working sheep farm in Claremore. You'll find more than 60 free activities such as a pumpkin patch, hay maze and game area. You can also pet sweet farm animals like sheep, goats, donkeys and alpacas. Look around the farm for the QR code scavenger hunt and watch short videos about farming and shepherding.

Tractor-pulled wagon rides are available for a fee and loads of pumpkins will be available for purchase. Bundle your fall fun with a Pumpkin Package that includes a pumpkin, wagon ride and a take-home craft. Browse the Farm Store housed within an old Amish barn to shop for handmade decor, gifts and wares from more than 80 vendors. Pick up some local honey, meat, eggs, produce, baked goods, candy and snacks.

We all have an inner artist, and some even act upon it. Join us in the beautiful, well-lit Conference Room to work on your project. Find support, ideas, and maybe make some friends as you all work on your projects.

Supplies are not provided, just bring what you are working on and everything you will need. [Registration Required.]

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MAINSITE Contemporary Art is excited to announce "Wêwenetôni Shehkîtâkan: Ancestral Patterns Through Our Regalia" a group exhibition curated by Amber DuBoise-Shepherd. The show debuts with the opening reception on October 10 at 6:00 pm, coinciding with Norman's 2nd Friday Art Walk, and runs through November 14.

"Wêwenetôni Shehkîtâkani: Ancestral Patterns Through Our Regalia, is an exhibition influenced by my late grandmother, Adeline Ketcheshawno DuBoise, who was born for her people of the Prairie Band Potawatomi, Sac & Fox, Kickapoo, and Absentee Shawnee... For this exhibition I wanted to share her work alongside other Indigenous fashion designers, weavers, jewelers, and painters, each sharing their ancestral patterns of their people and their families... The clothing, woven belts, and jewelry they create are more than just objects admired for their skill and beauty—they are to be respected and honored, as they carry the ancestral patterns, designs, and memories of our people. I trust this exhibition will urge viewers to look and engage more deeply with our creations beyond the surface level of the materials. They let viewers know that these creations exist beyond the past and are rooted in memory continuing to carrying our families and our nation’s people forward"

Read more about this exhibition at mainsitecontemporaryart.com

Featuring Creators:
Karen Berry
Leslie Deer
Adeline Ketcheshawno DuBoise
Jennifer McAffrey
Bird Mountain
Katie Thompson
Shelley Patrick
Phyllis Fife
Jimmie Carole Fife
Robin Fife Jenkins
Sandy Fife Wilson

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.

Pauls Valley Chamber of Commerce invites families to Boo on the Bricks, a day full of Halloween activities with games, vendors, and more. Guests are encouraged to come in costume to win prizes, snap photos, and enjoy treats from on-site food vendors offering hot dogs, sweets, and other treats.

The Chisholm in Kingfisher invites the public to celebrate Halloween at “Haunt the Hill”. This family-friendly trick-or-treating event features child-friendly candlelit walk-through of Horizon Hill, the former mansion of third territorial governor Abraham Jefferson Seay. Visitors of all ages are encouraged to come in costume and join in for a night of historic Halloween fun.

Uncover the truth about bats this Halloween! Join us for a fascinating and free educational program on October 31st from 6-8 p.m. at the Arcadia Lake Teaching Trail. This all-ages, come-and-go event is perfect for families, nature lovers, and anyone curious about the world around them.

We've brought in the experts! You'll have the chance to chat with our county's only bat rehabilitator and a team of knowledgeable students from the University of Oklahoma. Discover how vital bats are to our ecosystem, learn the correct way to build a bat house to help local populations, and get hands-on with fun activities and educational books. We will be handing out packets of native wildflower seeds that contain some favorite nectar sources for bats, too!

Throughout the evening, small groups will take short walks with our experts to look and listen for the echolocation calls of wild bats. We'll also have candy for trick-or-treaters!

Driving Instructions: Turn south on Midwest Blvd from US Rte 66 / 2nd Street. Turn right at the first opportunity; the road will curve, just after the curve there is a parking lot to the right (northwest). If the parking lot is full, you can park along the roadside. Look for the Pop-Up Nature Center Signs!

Cordell Chamber of Commerce invites the public to join then for their annual Halloween tradition at Spook the Square. Families can enjoy a safe and spirited night of trick-or-treating in the heart of town under this year’s theme, “Ghouls on the Square.” Local businesses line the sidewalks in festive, ghostly décor as they hand out candy to costumed visitors of all ages. The event features candy stations, sidewalk activities, and a walkable, family-friendly space for celebrating Halloween together. Guests are encouraged to come dressed in their favorite costumes and join in the community celebration.