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LIVE on the Plaza May 11th!
LIVE on the Plaza May 11th 2012 7-11 PM
Sponsored by Fowler Volkswagen of Norman
THUNDER UP with the Plaza District during LIVE on the Plaza Friday, May 11th! We’re supporting our team during playoffs in Plaza District style, so come show your support by wearing your Thunder gear to LIVE. It’s also a great chance to support local artists by grabbing artist made Thunder gear and accessories! You can also show off your hoop skills by playing 16 St HORSE for awesome prizes!
The competition doesn’t stop at basketball. We’ve got a Rock Paper Scissors tournament hosted by the Vilakazi Foundation. The competition is set up in 8 person heats. Players will pay $5 per entry, and it’s open to all ages starting at 7pm! Proceeds go to the Oklahoma-based foundation that is dedicated to improving the lives of children in South Africa through medical, school and athletic supplies.
We also have a very special cause, The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma with us the entire month of May kicking off during LIVE on the Plaza! The Regional Food Bank will be collecting non-perishable food in the Plaza District. Stores will be offering discounts for bringing supplies and just collecting for the cause. So come out to the Plaza District anytime in May and give to fight hunger in Oklahoma.
Check out all the happenings during LIVE at each Plaza business:
@1614 at Midwest Media: Season 3 Premier Video featuring JA Taylor Photography 7-11pm
Bad Granny’s Bazaar: Gifts for Moms and Grads! Also bring non-perishable food for discounts, Backroom featuring Peach!
Collected Thread: featured artist Lauren Miller at 7pm
Chaisin’ Tail: Westie Rescue and live music by 23rd street jazz band
Dig It: 10% off purchase with a non perishable food item
DNA Galleries: New works by Abby Stiglets starting at 7pm
Innovative Spaces: Register to win a Thunder gift package!
Lyric Theatre: Food Bank Drop off
No Regrets Tattoo: performance by The Younglings
The Parish: $1 Espresso Bar, Artwork on display by Nancy Lindo and live music performances throughout the night. 7 pm.
The Society: Lost Girl Show 7pm
Open Houses:
Bomb Shelter, Cole Dewey Designs, Convergence Community, Paula & Co., RetrOKC, Saints, Sons and Daughters, Urban Wineworks, Velvet Monkey Salon and Warpaint Clothing Co
Interested in booking, vending or setting up at LIVE on the Plaza? Click here!
About Plaza District
The Plaza District is a neighborhood commercial district boasting Oklahoma City’s local arts flavor. Located on NW 16th between Classen and Penn Ave, the Plaza District is home to art galleries, studios, retail shops, restaurants, and creative services. LIVE on the Plaza is the Plaza District’s second Friday artwalk. Each second Friday, Plaza District businesses stay open late with featured artists, live music, special events, local shopping and much more! Visit these local businesses owned by young, creative entrepreneurs and attend performances at the renovated Plaza Theatre for Lyric at the Plaza. Be sure to check out the artist-made retail businesses, a quality custom tattoo shop, a local salon favorite, and many shops for vintage and retro finds. This district, once blighted by urban decay now boasts a renewed energy embraced by Oklahoma City’s youth and diverse culture. For more information, please visit plazadistrict.org
Plaza Patio Partnership!
Don’t you wish there were more places to sit and enjoy the Plaza District?
We would love for you to bring your lunch, read a book, or listen to a street musician on the wonderful, wide sidewalks we’re so lucky to have.
This week, we’re wanting to make that possible! We’re partnering with Better Block OKC, an awesome project working to enhance public space and street life in OKC (May-19th, be there!!)
With each $100 donation to the Plaza District, we will purchase a cafe seating set pictured below. The cafe sets will be at home in the Plaza District, but loaned out to Better Block OKC as needed. In fact, they will debut at our pop-up park this Friday at LIVE on the Plaza, then return to Better Block OKC on May 18-19th at NW 7th/Hudson.
With your donation, you’re helping two organizations make OKC a more vibrant, pedestrian place, and your donation is tax deductible. The deadline to donate is this Friday at noon. Donation form is below! Then, come enjoy a comfortable seat at our events!
@1614 featuring J.A. Taylor Photography
Season three of @1614 Debuts at MIDWESTMEDIA
Oklahoma City, OK. Since April 2010, MIDWESTMEDIA has showcased some of the most talented Oklahoma artists from across the state at the @1614 events. Along with being an award-winning marketing and public relations company, MIDWESTMEDIA has a passion for the arts, non-profits, and promoting the great happenings in Oklahoma City. They feel it is one of their missions to promote the talent Oklahoma has to offer to the world.
Along with the art show and sale, @1614 creates documentary films about each featured artist. MIDWESTMEDIA Creative Director and award-winning Videographer, Christopher Hunt is the mastermind behind the artful films. According to Hunt each film tells a story about the artist and their work. For the upcoming season of @1614, Hunt wanted to expand on the style of the series and create a unique set of films that dig deep into the artist personalities and work. The newest @1614 film will debut next week.
On May 11, @1614 will showcase Oklahoma photographer Jay Pack, M.D. of J.A. Taylor Photography. By day, Pack is a musculoskeletal radiologist, but in his free time he creates fabulous works of art using unique techniques with his vintage film cameras. He discovered his love for photography when his first daughter was born four years ago. It began as a hobby but soon became a passion and eventually a profession. He transitioned from digital to film when the high resolution, picture perfect images were not quite satisfactory to him. Pack wanted to create something with a soul, something organic. It was then he began to experiment with 35mm film and eventually moved into what he does now, which is large format photography.
“When light interacts with the film emulsions, something magical happens, and I absolutely love that. I really like the challenge of large format because nothing is automatic, everything is done by the photographer.” says Pack.
In addition to being a remarkable photographer, Pack is also a philanthropist. He donates all proceeds raised by the sale of his work to children’s charities. Some of the recipients have been St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, Smile Train, The Children’s Center of Bethany, OK, and the Make-A-Wish Foundation, to name a few. Pack feels that combining the making of photographs with benefiting children is tremendously powerful. Giving the money away keeps what he does purely about the art.
The @1614 featuring J.A. Taylor Photography will take place Friday, May 11th from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. at the MIDWESTMEDIA studios located in the Plaza District, 1614 N Gatewood Ave. During the show, MIDWESTMEDIA will also be a food drop zone for the benefit of the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma. All proceeds from purchased art will go to the charity of Pack’s choice.
The public is invited and admission is free. For more information, please visit www.at1614.com.
Street Team
Be a part of the 16th Street team
We are kicking off our Street Team May 1st! Go sign up and get started to win this months prize! May Prize: choice of Thunder Tee from DNA Galleries and Thunder buttons
Whether you’ve been tracking the progress of the Plaza District for years, or have just recently come to know us…we hope you’ve seen all the hard work we’ve put into making this area a hub of creativity and a haven for local business.
We’ve seen you at our events, patronizing our local businesses and sharing our story with others. We are so thankful to have a community who has gotten behind our work in pioneering this district. You, our believers and biggest fans, are the lifeblood of what makes us able to keep progressing.
As a small, grassroots organization, nothing is more valuable than your word of mouth. We grow by you telling our stories, bringing new friends to the district and showing off what you love about the district.
We are putting together a 16th Street Team, as way to reward our biggest fans as well as remind you of how important of a role you can play in our progress.
So, here’s how it works. Your name is entered into a raffle for each time you:
-Post Plaza District print materials in public places
-Introduce friends by bringing them to the district and events
-Email five friends about LIVE or Plaza Events
-Volunteer with us
-We’ll post other opportunities to enter through the year as well!
How we track:
-Post Plaza District print materials in public places- Come by our office and pickup a stack of print materials. Then email us where you took them.
-Introduce friends by bringing them to the district or events- Email us a photo of you and friends, email a screenshot of your Social Media Check-in*, or check-in person to Collected Thread during LIVE!
-Email five friends about LIVE on the Plaza or Plaza Events- just CC us!
-Volunteer with us- sign up and show up!
*sorry, we don’t get notifications of check-in’s on social media sites so we won’t be able to track it unless you let us know!
The email to send your Street Team activity in to is info@plazadistrict.org, Street Team in the subject!
What’s the prize?
For each activity above, your name is entered into a monthly and annual raffle. The monthly prizes will be announced at the beginning of each month. The annual raffle will be held with a party at the end of the year. The grand prize will be a $500 Platinum Plaza Card (basically a $500 Plaza Shopping Spree), plus each month we’ll add even more prizes onto the grand prize!
Additionally, anyone who gets at least 25 points will get a FREE “I LIVE on the Plaza” tshirt!
Register to be on the 16th Street Team today and get your name already entered in the raffle, we are kicking off the year in May!
Listener at The Society
Listener at The Society: Southwest Minotour 2012
Tuesday May 1st 2012 from 7-11pm
The Society is very excited to announce that they will be hosting LISTENER, a nationally and internationally recognized spoken word band on their Southwest Minotour. $10 in advance. Also featuring music by Deaf Brother and other musicians and visual artists to be announced. Pick yours up here!
http://thesocietyokc.storenvy.com/products/315751-listener-admit-one-10-00
Listener is an experimental spoken word band that started in 2002 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It deviates from hip-hop collective Deepspace5, Listener is composed of Dan Smith as both vocalist and lyricist and Christin Nelson as composer.[1] Their music has been described as “Talk Music”. A style that has been describerd as being: “a wide spanning style that features a heavy vocal element that is neither screamed, sang, or just spoken. The lyrics are more like ranting poetry.”
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Weekend in the Plaza
Couldn’t make it to the district last weekend? Well don’t worry because this weekend will be hoppin too! Come hear local bands, see local art and laugh the with locals.
Friday:
Bomb Shelter- presents ‘The Akihabara Androids’ special from 7-10pm
Saturday:
Bad Granny Bazaar- Backroom performances by Little Bear, Two Snakes and Purple Church starting at 8pm
Dig It- presents local band, Neighborhood Fight Night from 6-8pm
The Society- should be full of laughs at the Comedy Showcase from 7-11pm
2012 Festival Planning Committee!
We are excited to get this year’s Plaza District Festival up and running! So save the date for September 29th 2012! Neither the Plaza District nor the festival would be where it is today without the love and support from our friends and volunteers. If you would like to be involved in the planning of this fantastic event, please fill out the form below. There are many areas to get involved in: Artist Committee, Performing Arts and Music, Kids, Food and Beverage, Volunteer, Logistics, Fundraising and Marketing. Committee members will need to be able to meet at least monthly and needed tasks in between.
Plaza District Festival Planning Committees
Festival date: September 29th
Sub-Committees:
Artists
Spreading Call to Artists, Reviewing submissions, communication with artists, artist setup/check in on event day
Performing Arts/Music Fest
Lining up performance schedule, lining up bands for evening music, communication with performers, performer check in/managing on event day
Kids
Organizing children’s activities including art projects, games, face-painting etc. Gather needed supplies for activities
Food/Beverage
Recruit food vendors, beer tent, communication with vendors
Volunteer
Work with sub-committees and director to establish volunteer needs, recruit volunteers from community, schedule volunteers, and manage volunteers on event day
Logistics
Work with director to prepare logistical needs including equipment, event layout, rentals, permits and supplies
Fundraising
Identify sponsors and communicate with prospective sponsors
Marketing
Marketing Committee will focus on new marketing ideas, social media, public relations and flyer/poster distribution
