May 04 Saturday
Turn your passion for yoga into YOUR CALLING! Dig deep, discover your strength, and fire up your life!405 YOGA OKC has one of the highest alumni-rated Yoga Teacher Training programs in the nation.Our Spring 2024 Training starts March 9th! Join us for 4 months and graduate by the end of June...With our diverse, passionate and experienced teaching team, you will gain the skills to empower yourself and those around you, explore and deepen your own practice through a powerful athletic ashtanga-based practice and personally grow in a more authentic, sustainable way.TUITION includes full YTT investment AND a 4 month unlimited yoga pass at 405 YOGA for use during the program! Want to learn more? Visit www.405yoga.com/ytt200
Our year-round Saturday farmers market is open every week from 9:00am until 2:00pm. These gatherings feature produce, dairy, meat, baked goods and value added items, like honey, and canned goods and more. We are proud to offer SNAP, Senior SNAP and also DUO.
Bethany Children’s Health Center’s Asthma Awareness Day raises asthma awareness among local parents and children. At the event, the center’s respiratory therapy department will provide essential education, valuable resources, hands-on training and information for families to manage asthma effectively. Plus, families will enjoy games, prizes and giveaways.
The Oklahoma Historical Society will present “Perspectives in History,” the 2024 Oklahoma History Symposium, on Saturday, May 4, from 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City. This one-day symposium offers scholars, historians, authors, and museum professionals a forum to share their work with history enthusiasts through presentations centered on topics in Oklahoma’s history. Professional development sessions will also be offered for museum professionals, volunteers and students.
Topics for the symposium include Oklahoma cemeteries, Asian Americans in Oklahoma, American Indian doughboys, archaeological investigations, calabooses, working with underrepresented communities, and more. A complete schedule, session descriptions, and registration details are available online at okhistory.org/symposium. The registration deadline is Friday, April 26.
The Oklahoma History Symposium is free and open to the public, but attendees must register online in advance.
The keynote speaker is Edurne Pineda. She has been a Mexican diplomat for more than 25 years and specializes in consular affairs. She has been Head Consul of the new Consulate of Mexico office in Oklahoma City since late 2022. The consulate opened to the public in May 2023. Through cultural events, educational programs and diplomatic initiatives, the consulate celebrates our shared heritage and addresses the needs of the nearly half a million Mexican nationals residing in Oklahoma. These efforts preserve our historical connection by promoting mutual understanding, cooperation and respect between the people of Oklahoma and Mexico.
"Magnificent Beauty: Georgia O’Keeffe and the Art of the Flower" examines explorations of flowers in painting and photography by O’Keeffe and Imogen Cunningham, highlighting their unique interpretations of the traditional subject matter.
O’Keeffe redefined the tradition of floral still-life painting by incorporating techniques of photography (a relatively new medium in the early twentieth century) into her works, choosing to depict the subject cropped and at close range to focus on color and form. While Cunningham also portrayed flowers in close-up, her photographs instead call attention to the play of light and shadow as well as the subject’s intricate details, captured with precision. Magnificent Beauty demonstrates how each artist transformed the traditional subject with a modernist, and at times abstracted, take on the natural world.
See hundreds of orchids on show and for sale at Oklahoma Orchid Society’s “Close Encounters—with Orchids” Spring 2024 Show & Sale, the Society’s AOS-sanctioned event of the year. This two-day Show & Sale will be held on Saturday and Sunday, May 4 & 5, from 10am to 4pm at Will Rogers Gardens Exhibition Center, 3400 NW 36th Street, Oklahoma City, OK. Admission and parking are free, and the event is open to the public.
Vendors will have hundreds of beautiful orchids from around the world for sale, and OOS will have growing supplies for sale. Be sure to stop at the Welcome Booth to speak with OOS members about growing and re-blooming orchids, ask questions, purchase raffle tickets, engage your children in an orchid scavenger hunt, and learn how to become a member of the Society. Come, have a “close encounter with orchids”!
For additional information, visit okOrchidSociety.org. Oklahoma Orchid Society is a member of Oklahoma Garden Clubs, Inc.
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.
Red Dirt Edits is a peer review editing group that meets on the first Saturday of each month at Bookish. We ask that everyone brings 5 copies of a poem they would like to have edited. Each person will read their poem and receive feedback from a small group of peers!
Do you like sharing recipes, stories, books, craft ideas, watching little known movies and discussing all kinds of cultures- diversity and pop culture? Yes?! Each month we will have a different shared experience - maybe a recipe? movie? craft? guest speaker? Come and participate in our "Culture Crew" and be part of an experience!
Monthly on Wednesdays from 6:30 to 7:30pm.
The first session on April 24 at 6:30pm will include an introduction to the Culture Crew program with group discussion and input on future activities.
Each show has 11 performances over 4 weekends.Third weekend includes Thursday & Sunday.Fourth weekend includes Thursday.Showtimes: 8pm Friday & Saturday, 7:30pm Thursday, 2pm Sunday
From the novel Eleanor and Abel by Annette Sanford. Retired schoolteacher Eleanor Bannister lives a quiet life alone in tiny Groverdell, Texas, set in her routines and secure in her position as the town’s most respected woman—until a hole in her roof draws the attention of Abel Brown, a smooth-talking drifter intent on renovating Eleanor’s house, and possibly her life. Can the unexpected sparks of late-life romance be trusted, or is there truth in the gossip that Abel isn’t all that he seems to be? Either way, the whole town is talking.
For more information and tickets please visit https://www.carpentersquare.com/fireflies