Free to Live Art Show 6pm-8:30pm Oklahoma Contemporary 11 NW 11th St. Free to Live Art Auction FREE to attend Nearly 300 dogs and cats at Oklahoma’s largest no-kill sanctuary, Free to Live, will receive critical support from donations raised at a benefit auction on Thursday, March 13. The event, held from 6 p.m. to […]
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Best of OKC 2020: Food & Drink
Best local craft brewer COOP Ale Works 4745 Council Heights Road Angry Scotsman Brewing, 704 W Reno Ave. Bricktown Brewery, several metro locations Stonecloud Brewing Co., 1012 NW First St., Suite 101 Vanessa House Beer Co., 118 NW Eighth St. Best local tap room Prairie Artisan Ales 3 NE 8th St. Angry Scotsman Brewing, 704 […]
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Best of OKC 2020: Cannabis
Best dispensary Fire Leaf Dispensary several metro locations You don’t need us to tell you there are literally hundreds of cannabis dispensaries all over town, often several on the same corner. Yet, Fire Leaf has managed to distinguish itself and repeats as Best Dispensary after winning in last year’s debut for this category. One […]
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Best of OKC 2020: Life & Wellness
Best place to volunteer Oklahoma Humane Society two metro locations Infant Crisis Services, 4224 N. Lincoln Blvd. Mutt Misfits Animal Rescue Society Oliver and Friends Farm Animal Sanctuary, 20217 N. Indian Meridian, Luther Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, 3355 S. Purdue Ave. Best nonprofit Oklahoma Humane Society two metro locations One of the unforeseen positive […]
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PRESS RELEASE Oklahoma History Center partners with Oklahoma Contemporary for Bright Golden Haze: Reflections
The Oklahoma History Center (OHC) is proud to announce an invitation from Oklahoma Contemporary to participate in a multi-organization collaboration exhibition entitled “Bright Golden Haze: Reflections.” This exhibition is created in conjunction with “Bright Golden Haze,” the inaugural exhibition at Oklahoma Contemporary. The OHC outdoor installation will opened to the public on June 15 and […]
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Cover: Stay golden
After months of construction delays caused by Oklahoma’s notoriously unpredictable Bright Golden Haze March 13-Aug. 10 Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center 11 NW 11th St. oklahomacontemporary.org 405-951-0000 Free weather, Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center is ready to reopen in its new downtown location with an exhibition inspired by another of the state’s signature features. Bright Golden Haze, […]
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SUMMER GUIDE Art adventures
From about-to-get-a-Van-Gogh-exhibit Oklahoma City Museum of Art to soon-to-be-relocated Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center and Factory Obscura’s new space Mix-Tape and the numerous other arts organizations that we unforgivably omitted from this list just now, Oklahoma City is rife with enriching art experiences, but if you’re fortunate enough to be able to take a day or […]
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Indelible images
Seen/Unseen: A Festival of Experimental Film May 9-11 Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center 3000 General Pershing Blvd. oklahomacontemporary.org 405-951-0000 $15-$40 When Kim Voynar was growing up in Oklahoma City, the chance to see a foreign film felt, well, foreign. “I distinctly remember in high school when the Will Rogers Theatre was screening Das Boot,” Voynar said, […]
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Screen pride
Queer Film Continuum screening ofThe Incredibly True Story of Two Girls in Love 7 p.m. Saturday Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center 3000 General Pershing Blvd. herlandsisters.org Donations accepted I was not exposed to queer cinema until my freshman year of college. I had just moved to New York, and one of my gay floormates gathered several […]
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Beyond February
After the abolition of slavery, black Oklahomans continued struggling in the fight for equality. They faced Jim Crow laws, which suppressed their voting rights and segregated the state, until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 gradually began to dismantle those laws. Though Jim Crow laws were overruled, years of court challenges continued to tackle institutional […]