What to do in Oklahoma on Nov. 7, 2009
Today’s featured event:
TULSA — Listen to country star Alan Jackson and up-and-coming band Gloriana at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the BOK Center, 200 S Denver.
For more information, call (866) 726-5287 or go to www.bokcenter.com
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What to do in Oklahoma on Nov. 6, 2009
SHAWNEE - Hear 2008 “American Idol” winner David Cook, who has Tulsa ties, play at 7 tonight at Firelake Grand Casino, 777 Grand Casino Blvd.
For more information, go to www.firelakegrand.com.
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What to do in Oklahoma on Nov. 5, 2009
Today’s featured event:
EL RENO – Hear country band Sawyer Brown at 7:30 tonight at Lucky Star Casino – Concho, 7777 N Highway 81.
For more information, go to www.luckystarcasino.org.
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What to do in Oklahoma on Nov. 4, 2009
Today’s featured event:
NORMAN – Hear New Zealand grunge band Batrider with Norman’s El Paso Hot Button at 9 tonight at The Opolis, 113 N Crawford.
For more information, go to www.starlightmints.com/opolis.html.
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What to do in Oklahoma on Nov. 3, 2009
AFI
Today’s featured event:
TULSA - Hear California rockers AFI with Gallows at 7 tonight at Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N Main.
For more information, go to www.cainsballroom.com.
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What to do in Oklahoma on Nov. 2, 2009
“Tropical Heat: Broadbilled Motmot” by Deborah Kaspari
Today’s featured event:
NORMAN — View Oklahoma artist Deborah Kaspari’s paintings and sketches in the exhibit “Drawing the Motmot: An Artist’s View of Tropical Nature” at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave.
The exhibit is on view through Jan. 18.
Most people will never have the opportunity to visit the rainforests of South and Central America. Kaspari’s exhibit aims to give visitors a window into these vast, fragile natural resources through the eyes of an artist.
“Drawing the Motmot: An Artist’s View of Tropical Nature” features the works of Oklahoma nature artist Deborah Kaspari. The exhibition has been several years in the making and will bring together artwork from Kaspari’s rainforest expeditions across Central and South America. The exhibit recreates an artist’s expedition and immerses the visitor in the magical world of the nature artist at work.
The artwork includes sketchbook pages with notes, field drawings, pen-and-ink studies and studio paintings, accompanied by Kaspari’s lively and thoughtful field notes and commentary that give the feeling of a personal conversation with the artist. Adding to the adventure are the sounds of toucans, monkeys and other tropical wildlife recorded in the Amazon and Panama rainforest, plus videos of works in progress in the field.
Kaspari first began drawing and painting the rainforest in Trinidad in the late 1980s. She fell in love with the lush exotic landscape and made many subsequent trips to the tropics, including sites in Panama and Costa Rica. Last winter, a grant from the Don and Virgian Eckelberry Endowment allowed her to make a trip up the Amazon River to work at a research station deep in the rainforest of Peru. There she was able to draw the flora and fauna of the rainforest canopy thanks to an elevated walkway linking 14 trees through a system of platforms and rope bridges.
For the past four years, Kaspari has been working with the museum to develop an exhibit that would give visitors the same sense of peace, beauty and wonder she herself experienced in the field.
“I wanted this to be more than just an art exhibit,” Kaspari says in a news release. “I wanted to share the environment as I see and feel it. I wanted to bring a visitor into the rainforest and give them the chance to connect with it the way I do, through artwork and media.”
With that in mind, and armed with a tiny portable art studio, Kaspari began compiling the various elements that make up “Drawing the Motmot.” A high-tech audio recorder the size of a cell phone allowed her to capture the complex symphony of rainforest sounds, from monkeys to motmots (a colorful tropical bird). A video tripod filming over her shoulder captured the artist’s-eye-view of works in progress in the field. These audio and video elements help to bring Kaspari’s artwork – and her experiences – to life for visitors.
“When visitors walk through ‘Drawing the Motmot,’ they’ll not only hear birds and animals as I heard them, but through the sketches and paintings they’ll see the same things, too,” Kaspari says in the release. “I see much more of the world when I draw it. There’s a wonderfully personal connection that opens up when drawing from nature, and I always come away with a better understanding than if I were simply looking. I hope people will enjoy seeing the rainforest this way, and be inspired to try it for themselves.”
Kaspari’s experiences in the rainforests, and her work on “Drawing the Motmot,” are documented on her blog at http://drawingthemotmot.wordpress.com. Many of the works in the exhibition are available for purchase direct from the artist.
For more information, call 325-4712 or go to www.snomnh.ou.edu.
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What to do in Oklahoma on Nov. 1, 2009
Today’s featured event:
Watch Lyric Theatre’s staging of the Stephen Sondheim favorite “Sweeney Todd” at 3 p.m. today at Lyric at the Plaza, 1725 NW 16.
For more information, call 524-9312 or go to www.lyrictheatreokc.com.
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What to do in Oklahoma on Oct. 31, 2009
Brady Williams, 23 months, of Moore, waits Tuesday with his mother, Krystle Williams, for a train ride at Haunt the Zoo. (Photo by Nate Billings/The Oklahoman)
Today’s featured event:
Take in shining jack-o-lanterns and eco-friendly candy from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. today at the family-friendly Haunt the Zoo for Halloween at the Oklahoma City Zoo, 2101 NE 50.
For more information, call 424-3344 or go to www.okczoo.com.
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What to do in Oklahoma on Oct. 30, 2009
Margaret Frankenstein (Elyana Rodzon) plays with The Creature (Robby Gibbons) in the Oklahoma Children’s Theatre/Theatre OCU production of “Frankenstein.”
Today’s featured event:
See Oklahoma Children’s Theatre and Theatre OCU’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel “Frankenstein” at 11 a.m. or 7:30 p.m. today at Oklahoma City University’s Burg Theatre, 2501 N Blackwelder Ave. The play is recommended for children older than 12 years of age.
Performances continue at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday and then resume Thursday-Nov. 8.
For more information, call 951-0011 or go to www.oklahomachildrenstheatre.org.
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What to do in Oklahoma on Oct. 29, 2009
Harn Homestead (The Oklahoman Archives photo)
Today’s featured event
Celebrate Halloween a little early at Haunt the Harn from 5:30 to 8:30 tonight at the Harn Homestead and 1889ers Museum, 1721 N Lincoln Blvd.
The family-friend event will include trick-or-treating, hayrides, bobbing for apples, marshmallow roasting, face painting, crafts, games and more.
For more information, go to www.harnhomestead.com.
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