“The first year, we had volunteers making sandwiches for people,” she said. “Now we have 30 food vendors.”
Bicentennial Park
Posted inArts & Culture
Festival of the Arts celebrates 50th anniversary Tuesday through April 24 at Bicentennial Park
“The park is more people-friendly than ever,” said Christina Foss, Arts Council of OKC director of communications.
Posted inArts & Culture
Arts Council of Oklahoma City offers young artists exhibit experience
The Youth Art Sale is a juried show for students ages 8-18 at the annual Festival of the Arts.
Posted inNews
Chicken-Fried News: Welcome back
2016 Festival of the Arts will return to Bicentennial Park.
Posted inNews
Lawn games
Bicentennial Park, located west of Walker Avenue between City Hall and the Civic Center Music Hall, is home to several memorials and statues commemorating historic individuals including Wiley Post and Stanley Draper, and events such as the state centennial. In January, the city’s Downtown Design Review Committee (DDRC) was presented with a plan to make […]
Posted inNews
Civil discord
Plans to renovate Oklahoma City’s Bicentennial Park, located between City Hall and the Oklahoma City Civic Center Music Hall, met resistance from the city’s Downtown Design Review Committee (DDRC), which declined to approve the plans at its meeting last week. The tabling of the proposal Jan. 19 could push back awarding project bids for at […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Make Merry
After a sojourn last summer in Bicentennial Park during major construction at its home theater, Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park has returned to the Myriad Botanical Gardens Water Stage. This homecoming’s a welcome return. Moving to the Water Stage three years ago is the best thing that ever happened to OSP, and once the kinks […]
Posted inMusic
Charlie’s sheen
In the past 26 years, the Charlie Christian International Music Festival has grown a great deal. “It was a grassroots party, if you will,” said Anita Arnold, executive director of festival sponsor Black Liberated Arts Center. “You could even call it a block party.” Named for the Oklahoma City-raised, influential swing and jazz guitarist Charlie […]