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UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
Grown From This Threadbare Ground: Community Weaving Session + Artist Talk with Sally C. Garner
Opening event February 5, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Exhibition runs January 12 – April 3
Chapman Commons Gallery at Phillips Theological Seminary
901 N. Mingo Rd
Local fiber artist Sally C. Garner leads a free mini-workshop and artist talk as part of her community weaving project and soft sculpture exhibition, Grown From This Threadbare Ground. Participants will learn basic weaving techniques on a custom tapestry loom, contributing to a collaborative installation that explores our relationship with nature and the environment. The community loom will remain open for participation throughout the exhibition.
Cost: Free
Tulsa Songwriting Exchange Showcase by Sirena Riley
March 6, 7:00 p.m.
The Church Studio
304 S Trenton Ave
Sirena Riley presents The Tulsa Songwriting Exchange Showcase, a one-night performance of brand-new music written and recorded at The Church Studio by Tulsa-based artists, producers, and songwriters. The show features performances of unreleased songs that blend genres, styles, and influences - pairing artists, producers, and writers who don’t usually work together. Fans can expect fresh sounds, unexpected collaborations, and a first listen to music you won’t hear anywhere else.
Link to tickets coming soon.
Envisioning Tomorrow Exhibition by Anitra Lavanhar
Opening March 6, 5-9 p.m.
Exhibition runs March 6 - 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.
Cost: Free
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
Flesh & Flame by Sydney McLeod
Opening April 4th, 5-8 p.m.
Exhibition runs through April
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.
Cost: Free
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PAST EVENTS
PAST EVENTS
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
