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UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
Architectural Counterpoint with Todd Woodlan
March 13, 7 p.m. & 11 p.m.
Riverside Studios / Spotlight Theater
1381 Riverside Dr.
This immersive performance invites you to wander through hidden spaces of the historic Riverside Studios as musicians fill dressing rooms, stairwells, and forgotten corners with sound and improvisational music. Experience chamber music like never before: up close, personal, and embedded in a historic setting. The piece responds to Bruce Goff's organic modernist architecture and Olinka Hrdy's vibrant murals celebrating different musical traditions, providing an interplay between music, visual art, and architecture. Watch performers transform the space itself into a live score, turning everyday objects and architectural features into unexpected sources of beauty. You'll discover how history, space, and sound converge into something unforgettable.
Cost: $30
Discover Who’s In Your Old Photographs with Avery J. Klein
March 14, 4-7 p.m.
Carson House Tulsa
1401 S Carson Ave.
This event centers on the process of identifying individuals in antique and vintage photographs, led by artist and researcher Avery J. Klein of The Dead Detective. The event includes a reception with curated photographs on view and an artist talk focused on Klein’s research and methods. During the talk, Klein will analyze select attendee-submitted photographs, demonstrating techniques for dating images, using genealogical tools, and uncovering hidden clues. An open discussion will follow, inviting attendees to share and discuss their own family photos. Optional photo submissions due March 7th. Attend the reception, talk, or both!
Cost: Donation based
Film Preview + Conversation on Indigenous Maternal Health by Taylor Hensel
March 21, 4-6 p.m.
Woody Guthrie Center
102 Reconciliation Way
This event will include a preview of the forthcoming feature documentary What She Carries, directed by Brit Hensel and produced by Taylor Hensel, award-winning filmmakers and citizens of the Cherokee Nation. The film follows Indigenous mothers, families, and birth workers working to restore cultural knowledge and community-centered birth practices.
Following the screening, Diné (Navajo) midwife Nicolle Arthun will deliver a keynote. Nicolle is the founder of the Changing Woman Initiative, an Indigenous-led birth center and training organization restoring traditional midwifery and community-based care. She works with tribal leaders and policymakers and is currently engaged in policy work on Capitol Hill, advancing legislation that supports Native maternal health and expands opportunities for Indigenous midwives.
Drawing from her research and advocacy, Nicolle will discuss the current state of Indigenous maternal health and the growing movement for Indigenous birth sovereignty—efforts to restore culturally grounded birth practices and strengthen Indigenous autonomy in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care.
Cost: Free
GROVES Performance and Listening Party by KYD
March 21, 7:30-10 p.m.
Chimera Ballroom
212 N Main St.
This performance blends experimental R&B, ambient textures, projection mapping and spoken word inside a sculptural environment of illuminated columns. Each song drifts into the next, forming a continuous narrative about choosing someone, fearing being chosen, and the emotional weight of vulnerability. Inspired by the dual meaning of “Groves,” forests as symbols of growth and General Groves of atomic destruction, the project examines how love can feel both sacred and explosive. GROVES is not a traditional concert. It is a cinematic experience designed to feel intimate, immersive, and emotionally disarming.
Cost: $15
Threads of Home: A Writing + Weaving Community Workshop with Bowie Rowan
March 24, 5:30-8 p.m.
Heirloom Rustic Ales
2113 E Admiral Blvd
Threads of Home is an intimate community workshop exploring ideas of home, belonging, and connection through writing and fiber art. Participants begin with gentle, generative writing prompts, then translate words and memories into a hands-on weaving practice using small looms with Sally C. Garner. This process-focused gathering centers play, presence, and connection over perfection. No experience is required. All materials are provided, and participants will take their loom home.
Space is limited to 10.
Cost: $25 before March 1st; $40 after March 1st
Concert Reading of Pip & Fidget by David Blakely
March 27, 7-8:30 p.m.
Drifters Theater
1305 W Cameron St.
Enjoy a concert reading of David Blakely's Pip & Fidget, a funny, big hearted original children’s musical that celebrates the abilities of ADHD children and their families. The musical follows two households raising ADHD kids as they navigate the complicated world of understanding ADHD children. Fidget is a creative musician whose imagination never stops moving, and Pip, a hyper focused chess champion with a mind built for strategy. Pip & Fidget reminds families that ADHD doesn’t mean broken — it means extraordinary.
Cost: Free
Two Spirit Sacred: Somewhere Music Video Premiere by Marx Cassity
March 29, 6-8 p.m.
All Souls Unitarian Church
2952 South Peoria Avenue
Join us for an evening of reflection, music, and dance in recognition of Two-Spirit and Transgender Days of Visibility. Two-Spirit musician and trauma therapist Marx Cassity invites the 2SLGBTQ+ community and allies into a space of healing and resilience through art and shared presence. The program features the music video premiere for the Native American Music Award nominated song “Somewhere” from Two-Spirit Sacred. Co-created with director Fiawna Forté and Tulsa dancers led by Iván Alvarez, the video was filmed in Tulsa as well as Cassity’s Osage ancestral land with sacred intention. The evening closes with a dance party reception with DJ Kylie.
Cost: Free
Grown From This Threadbare Ground: Community Weaving Session + Artist Talk with Sally C. Garner
Exhibition open through April 3
Closing reception April 2, 5-8 p.m.
Chapman Commons Gallery at Phillips Theological Seminary
901 N. Mingo Rd
Local fiber artist Sally C. Garner led a free mini-workshop and artist talk on February 5th as part of her community weaving project and soft sculpture exhibition, Grown From This Threadbare Ground. The community loom will remain open for participation throughout the exhibition. Sally will be on-site to lead participants through basic weaving techniques on a custom tapestry loom, contributing to a collaborative installation that explores our relationship with nature and the environment.
Community weaving opportunities with Sally:
Thursday, March 19: 3-5 p.m.
Saturday, March 28: 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Roundtable event: Making it Matter: Eco-Justice and Creative Action
Thursday, March 19: 6:30 p.m.
Cost: Free
Flesh & Flame by Sydney McLeod
Opening April 4, 5-8 p.m.
Exhibition runs through April 25
Positive Space Tulsa
11324 E 3rd St.
"Flesh and Flame" is a drawing-based installation using charcoal, subtle movement, and light to evoke the integration of mind and body. Large figurative drawings, relying on reductive mark making and deep blacks, create a lush and immersive surface to anchor into the physicality of the body. The installation confronts ideologies of the body as both person and object outside of the technosphere of media.
Gallery hours include Thursdays 6-8 p.m., Fridays 5-8 p.m., and Saturdays 12-5 p.m
Cost: Free
Rubyland’s Burning Bush Single Release Concert by Annie Ellicott
April 11, 7-10 p.m.
Chimera Ballroom
212 N Main St.
In a time of rapid tumultuous change, the future is teaming with possibility. Rubyland's debut single, “Burning Bush”, embraces this change as a fire that not only consumes, but sustains. For those who come close, Burning Bush illuminates a path for a collective vision of a better future.
Join Rubyland for a special concert celebrating the release of their first single. Stay afterward for a casual hang with the band and share your own visions for a flourishing future in community.
Specialty themed drinks and noshes with be available for purchase.
Cost: $18 in advance for a seat, $15 in advance for standing room, $20 at the door.
I'm Good. How Are You? by Zach Litwack
Opening April 17, 7-9 p.m. (artist talk 8 p.m.)
Gallery hours: April 20 + 27, 6-8 p.m. and May 4, 6-8 p.m.
Belafonte
306 S. Phoenix Avenue
"I'm Good. How Are You?" will feature 10 new mixed-media art works by visual artist, Zach Litwack. The show uses darkly humorous collage pieces to explore the role that toxic positivity plays in modern American culture.
Show closing: May 15, 7-9 p.m.
Cost: Free
Down Home Blues Documentary Screening by Evan Clayburg
April 17, 6:30-10 p.m.
Circle Cinema
10 S Lewis Avenue
Down Home Blues is a documentary set at the Down Home Blues Club, a historic juke joint in Rentiesville, Oklahoma. For the past 30 years, Selby Minner hosted Sunday Jam Sessions there, creating a vibrant gathering place for musicians and community alike. Selby was tragically killed in the summer of 2025. The film follows the family of artists and supporters she cultivated as they come together to honor her and her husband D.C.’s legacy - working to keep the Sunday Jams alive and the music playing. The screening will be followed by a live performance featuring musicians from the film.
Cost: $15
The Settlement Screening with Carlos Garcia, Jr.
April 20, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Circle Cinema
10 S. Lewis Avenue
Join us for a private screening of The Settlement, a chilling short film that peels back the veneer of suburban hospitality to reveal something far more sinister.
The Settlement is a chilling horror film about a proud Mexican-American family that moves into an affluent, predominantly white suburban neighborhood. What begins as a hopeful new chapter quickly devolves into a terrifying ordeal, exposing the insidious undercurrents of their new community. The film builds an atmosphere of unease, starting with a welcome dinner for The Guerreros that quickly unravels into chaos. This film is more than just a haunted house survival story: it is a visceral exploration of the psychological toll of being an outsider, amplified by the sinister force lurking behind a friendly facade.
Cost: $12.51
Envisioning Tomorrow Exhibition by Anitra Lavanhar
Exhibition runs through April 25
101 Archer St.
Envisioning Tomorrow is a Tulsa-based portrait series shaped by the artist’s concern over fear and division in her community. While the dominant narrative insists the future is bleak and unchangeable, this work challenges that assumption by inviting diverse portrait subjects to imagine the future they want to create. Though much divides us, Envisioning Tomorrow seeks to uncover the shared hopes that remind us of our common humanity.
The exhibition will consist of 25 black and white portraits with narratives. There will also be a participatory wall where visitors can add their own hopes and dreams.
Gallery hours include Wednesday - Saturday, 12-5 p.m.
Exhibition opening March 6
Cost: Free
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PAST EVENTS
PAST EVENTS
The Lost Gems Listening Party by Steph Simon
March 6, 8-10 p.m.
Silhouette Sneakers & Art
10 N. Greenwood Ave, C
Steph Simon returns with the second installment of the All Roads Lead to Dreamland series, inviting Tulsans into an intimate, one-night-only experience at Silhouette Sneakers & Art. This exclusive listening party unveils “The Lost Gems,” a deeply personal and cinematic body of work serving as the prelude to his forthcoming album All Roads Lead to Dreamland, arriving this summer.
More than a playback, the evening is a gathering of sound, culture, and community — where rare records, storytelling, and atmosphere collide. Guests will step inside the creative world behind the music, connecting with the emotion, texture, and vision shaping Dreamland’s next chapter.
Cost: Free
Tulsa Songwriting Exchange Showcase by Sirena Riley
March 6, 7-8:30 p.m., doors open at 6 p.m.
The Church Studio
304 S Trenton Ave
The Tulsa Songwriting Exchange (TSE), a three-day immersive songwriting camp, culminates in a live public showcase at The Church Studio. TSE united a curated group of artists for intensive co-writing, collaboration, and recording at The Church Studio. Built on trust and creative risk, musicians were grouped across genres to create new songs in small teams. This live public showcase features each artist performing a song written during TSE, plus one from their catalog. Founded by songwriter, producer, and facilitator Sirena Riley, TSE draws on her 15+ years in London and international camps.
Cost: $15
Tulsa Flâneurs Poetry Showcase & Open Mic
December 11, 6:30 -8:30 p.m
Heirloom Rustic Ales
2113 E Admiral Blvd
Join us for a night of poetry and music! This showcase features several poets who participated in Corinne Gaston’s workshop series Flaneuring Around Tulsa, visiting multiple neighborhoods around Tulsa and writing poetry inspired by their surroundings, and the stories and history told by locals. Featured readers will share the pieces they wrote during the workshops Ekphrastic Poetry at the Philbrook, Black Wall Street Poetry with Kode Ransom, and Poetry in the Heights with Margee Aycock. Come be inspired, and sign up to share your latest on the open mic: poetry, short fiction, a cappella singing, rapping, comedy, etc.
Cost: Free
Poetry in the Heights: A Writing Workshop by Corinne Gaston
November 2, 10:30 a.m. - 2 p.m
Origin Coffee Company
210 West Latimer Street
Join instructor/poet Corinne Gaston and long-time resident Margee Aycock for a personal history session about the historic Heights neighborhood (formerly Brady Heights) followed by a generative writing workshop. Participants will explore the neighborhood on foot and write original poetry and reflective pieces inspired by what they see, hear and experience.
Cost: $20
Black Wall Street Poetry Workshop by Corinne Gaston
October 26, 10:30 a.m. - 2 p.m
10 N Greenwood Ave, Suite B, Room 1
Corinne Gaston is hosting the Black Wall Street Poetry Workshop, a unique experience that blends history, reflection and creative expression. Join local historian Kode Ransom and Corinne for a guided storytelling walk through Greenwood, where participants will reflect on the powerful legacy of Black Wall Street and craft original poems inspired by its history.
Cost: $20
