Community Calendar

The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities welcomes New Yorker writer Merve Emre for a free event at 101 Archer.

This talk argues that American miniaturism, as represented by contemporary forms like "flash fiction" or "the short-short story," emerges as the primary aesthetic strategy for foregrounding the disciplined study of grammar over figuration. In the fiction of Lydia Davis, Diane Williams, Joy Williams, and Garielle Lutz, grammar is inseparable from gender, and gender is inseparable from practices of literary labor that are regularly trivialized, devalued, and rendered invisible: translating, editing, fact checking, transcribing, type-setting, and teaching composition. Too close reading, or reading at the smallest scale possible, brings these practices to the fore and shows how they produce a hyper-disciplined, minimally individualized variety of pleasure.

Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and the Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. She is the author of "Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America" (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), "The Ferrante Letters" (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019), and "The Personality Brokers" (Doubleday: New York, 2018), which was selected as one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times, the Economist, NPR, CBC, and the Spectator. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker.

Support Oklahoma Agriculture by shopping the largest farmers market in the state! Tulsa Farmers' Market is YEAR-ROUND and open every Saturday from 8 am to Noon with fresh seasonal produce, responsibly grown meats, farm-fresh eggs, local honey, pecans, prepared foods, artisan crafts, and much more! Come see us for some family-friendly fun and fresh, delicious foods!

In our brand new community conversation series, Tulsa Opera partners with Domestic Violence Intervention Services (DVIS) and the Family Safety Center to shine a light on how the opera’s artistic depictions of domestic violence and stalking behavior impact real life, and where Tulsans can find resources for interveners and survivors.

The event includes a resource fair, a performance of excerpts from The Tragedy of Carmen by the Filstrup Resident Artists, and a panel discussion moderated by Deon Osborn of the Black Wall Street Times. It is free and open to the public, but space is limited, so you must register to attend.

The Oklahoma Chess Association presents a rare opportunity to hear the music of Bela Rozsa performed by one of his students, Stephen Truelove. Truelove will perform one of Rozsa's piano compositions.

Dr. Bela Rozsa was a longtime director of Tulsa University's department of music theory. He was also an avid chess player who won Oklahoma's state championship an astonishing ten times between 1946 and 1963.

The performance will be held during the 3rd annual Rozsa Trophy Invitational, a chess tournament for Oklahoma's top six players.

Listen, sing along, and learn with Discovery Lab! Monday Morning Programming is an opportunity for early learners and their caregivers to participate in educational activities taught by our experienced educators.

Every Monday at 11:00 a.m., different programming is planned for museum guests.

Support Oklahoma Agriculture by shopping the largest farmers market in the state! Tulsa Farmers' Market is YEAR-ROUND and open every Saturday from 8 am to Noon with fresh seasonal produce, responsibly grown meats, farm-fresh eggs, local honey, pecans, prepared foods, artisan crafts, and much more! Come see us for some family-friendly fun and fresh, delicious foods!

Broadway Soiree is a free Community Concert of classic show tunes. Tenor Kelly Ford and Pianist/ Vocalist Cathy Venable will be teaming up to perform iconic musical theatre hits from legendary composers.

Listen, sing along, and learn with Discovery Lab! Monday Morning Programming is an opportunity for early learners and their caregivers to participate in educational activities taught by our experienced educators.

Every Monday at 11:00 a.m., different programming is planned for museum guests.

Support Oklahoma Agriculture by shopping the largest farmers market in the state! Tulsa Farmers' Market is YEAR-ROUND and open every Saturday from 8 am to Noon with fresh seasonal produce, responsibly grown meats, farm-fresh eggs, local honey, pecans, prepared foods, artisan crafts, and much more! Come see us for some family-friendly fun and fresh, delicious foods!

Listen, sing along, and learn with Discovery Lab! Monday Morning Programming is an opportunity for early learners and their caregivers to participate in educational activities taught by our experienced educators.

Every Monday at 11:00 a.m., different programming is planned for museum guests.