Events

Oklahoma City Museum of Art - For the exhibition, New York-based Peters has created sculptural installations specifically for presentation in the Museum's galleries. The physicality of Peters' work is reinforced by a large-scale presence and use of ready-made objects.

Oklahoma City Zoo - Grab your camera, your grin and you might win in the Oklahoma City Zoo’s Grin and Win Photo Safari!

Oklahoma City Museum of Art - Over the course of more than forty years, New York collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel amassed one of the most significant collections of contemporary art in the United States. The couple began collecting after their marriage in 1962.

Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma City - A new exhibit highlighting the legendary career of country music industry promoter Jim Halsey. Exhibit continues through December 31.

Downtown Norman

The Heart of Oklahoma Exposition Center, Shawnee

IAO Gallery, Oklahoma City - Fundraiser for Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park. Dinner and entertainment from 7 to 10 p.m. Tickets $60.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art - Drop in and join guest artists in the Education Center every Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. as they help families to create extraordinary works of art inspired by the Museum's collection, exhibitions, and special occasions throughout the year.

Santa Fe Depot, Norman

Jackie Cooper Gym & other locations, Yukon - Yukon Senior Games invites all men & women 50 and better to participate in activities including creative arts, track & field, bowling, golf, basketball, pool, horseshoes and more! Register online at www.nsga.com.

Oklahoma City Zoo - From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., visit different animal stations and attend storytime sessions in the new Children’s Zoo. First 500 guests to attend (both adults and kids) will receive a ticket to attend a live story telling in the Zoo’s Noble Aquatic Show Arena at noon. The first 1,000 children age 11 and under to attend the event will receive a free book!

The Shawnee Little Theatre, Shawnee - John and Maude despise each other. He’s an irascible Scotsman. She’s an uptight English woman. Both of them in the middle of their lives and cemented in their ways, are forced by their young, married wards into taking the journey of a lifetime.

Lyric at the Plaza, Oklahoma City - This Pulitzer Prize winning play tells the story of Daisy, a sharp-tongued widow, Hoke, her soft-spoken chauffer, and the unique friendship between them.

The Heart of Oklahoma Exposition Center, Shawnee - Triangle Sales Co., Inc. is the largest registered Quarter and Paint, halter and performance horse sales company in the world.

Oklahoma Railway Museum, Oklahoma City - Museum is open and free to the public Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Train Rides are available for kids of all ages (0 to 99+).

Frontier City, Oklahoma City - Join Oklahoma’s largest theme park as we kick off the 2010 season on our opening day. Park is open from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Downtown Stillwater

Sam Noble Museum, Norman - Phil Cross, member of the Caddo Indian Nation and author of numerous works on bow and arrow making, will discuss the art of crafting a hunting bow from bois d’arc (Osage orange) from 10 to 11:30 a.m.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art - Join our guest artists in the Education Center every Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. as they help families to create extraordinary works of art inspired by the Museum's collection, exhibitions, and special occasions throughout the year.

Oklahoma City Zoo - From 6 to 8:30 p.m., join the Zoo’s chapter of the American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) as they host “Evening EscAPE,” a night of fun and conservation. Dine inside Great EscApe as you observe our magnificent apes.

Yukon Fine Arts Center, Yukon - The Air Force Concert Band will be in Yukon entertaining the audience by a variety of music including marches, patriotic, popular and classical. Tickets are FREE. Concert starts at 3 p.m. Doors open at 2:15 p.m.

Sooner Theatre, Norman - Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Revisiting the New Deal: Government Patronage and the Fine Arts, 1933-1943 at OU's Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. All-star members of the Former Texas Playboys and featured country music legends join the lineup for an evening of Western Swing.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art - Based in real theatrical history, Me and Orson Welles is a romantic coming-of-age story about a teenage actor named Richard (Zac Efron), who is cast in a production of Julius Caesar directed by a young director named Orson Welles (Christian McKa

Downtown/Cleveland County Fairgrounds, Norman - The final stop for the 89er Wagon Train Association's Annual Land Run Ride is at the 89er Day Wagon Train Round-up. Festivities included a chance to see the wagons and hear the stories of their trail rides while enjoying the barbecue feed. A parade and bluegrass music from five bands rounds out the day.

ASA Hall of Fame Complex, Oklahoma City

City Arts Center, Oklahoma City - New York artist Jason Hackenwerth creates colorful sumptuous sculptures that at once seem alien, botanical and reminiscent of sea creatures. Hackenwerth creates his sculptures with balloons. Reception is from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. and is FREE.

Downtown Main Street, Norman

Downtown Oklahoma City

Sam Noble Museum, Norman - From 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., explore acres of 1.39 billion year old Tishomingo Granite, collect invertebrate fossils at the Hutton anticline, and look back into Oklahoma’s geological past by examining road cuts on I-35 or observe the geology of the Arbuckle Mountains.

Stockyards City, Oklahoma City - Wine tasting event benefitting Sanctuary Women's Development Center 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Cattleman's Steakhouse Event Center.

Civic Center Music Hall, Oklahoma City - Saturday, May 22 at 8 p.m. at the Civic Center Music Hall, the OKC Philharmonic and Maestro Joel Levine present an evening crammed with vivid orchestration and extraordinary talent with Tchaikovsky and Sibelius.

Mabee Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee - The exhibition examines 300 years of this traditional, but nearly forgotten, art form.