WAYFINDING
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MARZO / MARCH
01 Miércoles / Wednesday, Marzo / March 31st
Vernon AME Church Katherine Mitchell Greenwood – A Trilogy in ReflectionGreenwood...a Trilogy in Reflection is a 3-piece metal sculpture depicting Greenwood’ health, wealth, and stability (Plate #1); destruction from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre (Plate #2); and how ‘urban renewal’ ripped apart Greenwood’s economic connectivity (Plate #3). The symbol of the tree throughout reflects Greenwood’s autonomy, fragility, and resilience.
MAYO / MAY
02 Mayo / May 1st—Junio / June 1st Greenwood Leadership Academy The Met Cares Foundation and Greenwood Leadership Academy The Greenwood Experience at Greenwood Leadership Academy (GLA)Using the perspective of a child, The Greenwood Experience transforms Greenwood Leadership Academy into Greenwood’s past, present, and future. In this immersive and intergenerational learning environment, students and community members alike move through the Academy as they learn and think about Greenwood and the brave community members who built it.
03 Jueves / Thursday, Mayo / May 13th and Miércoles / Wednesday, Mayo May 26th Admiral Twin Maybelle Wallace Dark Town Strutters’ Ball The Darktown Strutters’ Ball is a documentary of an event that transports audiences to the moments before the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by recreating the costume, setting, music, and dance of the period. This performance imagines how Greenwood residents, fully realized people rather than faceless victims of history, might have experienced this brutal interruption of ordinary life.
04 Mayo / May 26th Poppi’s Urban Spa Mayo / May 28th Fulton Street Books + Silhouette Sneakers Deborah A Richards y/ and Alexander TamahnBGreenwood Ceramic Storytelling Project Greenwood Ceramic Storytelling Project commemorates stories of the building and rebuilding of the Greenwood neighborhood using discrete 3-D printed forms embedded throughout Greenwood. Primarily placed in public spaces, these ceramic tiles, bricks, and sculptures emphasize the spirit of community and stories of entrepreneurship in Greenwood through geometry and text.
05 Miércoles / Wednesday, Mayo / May 26th Admiral Twin Drive-In Charles Cissel All That Jazz and Blues on GreenwoodAll That Jazz and Blues is a documentary surrounding Charles “Chuck” Cissel and his hand-picked collection of expert musicians and singers come together to celebrate Greenwood. A cross between concert, cabaret, and theatre, Cissel takes audiences on a ride into Greenwood’s Jazz Age of the 1920s and 1930s.
06 Mayo / May 26th - Agosto/ August 1st Historic Greenwood Locations Jessica Harvey TraceTrace is a series of historical markers at sites throughout Tulsa in an effort to interrogate what is remembered and what is erased in the process of commemoration. Viewers are invited to consider how these sites often work to perpetuate racism. Newsstands will also be used to distribute free print takeaways.
MAYO / MAY
07 Miércoles / Wednesday, Mayo / May 26th Church of the RestorationBlack Artists CollaboratingLives on the Line Lives on the Line is a walking procession through Black Tulsa that identifies three primary sites as “Places of Memory” and progresses through a thriving network of inconspicuous sites designed to illuminate the stories of the lives of unsung, undocumented pillars in the community.
08 Sabado / Saturday, Mayo / May 29th Greenwood and John Hope Franklin Mary L. Williams, Color Me True 2021 Centennial Black Wall Street Heritage ParadeThe Black Wall Street Heritage Parade on Historic Greenwood reignite a lost tradition of Greenwood’s past generations in a procession featuring floats honoring iconic Tulsa figures. Floats will be dedicated to events and figures in Greenwood’s history and Black History, promoting pride in the district’s heritage with educational opportunities.
09 Domingo / Sunday, Mayo / May 30th Living Arts of Tulsa Phetote Mshairi RELEASE ME!, The Spirits of Greenwood Speak RELEASE ME!, The Spirits of Greenwood Speak, is the culmination of synergy between an eclectic array of poets, artists, writers, photographers, historians, and talented Tulsa citizens. The anthology transliterates the voices of the spirits of Greenwood, focusing on principles that built (and rebuilt) a thriving community.
JUNIO / JUNE
10 Junio / June 1st—3rd Vernon AME Church Tatyana Fazlalizadeh The Day is Past and Gone The Day is Past and Gone is an installation about Black resilience in spaces meant for our safety that are often threatened by violence. With video projection and art pieces including re-appropriated church fans and hymnal books, the project will look at Black experiences of both joy and pain.
11 Martes / Tuesday, Junio / June 1st Greenwood and Archer Railroad track L. Joi McCondichie A Century Walk: 100 Years, 1921-2021A Century Walk is a five-mile community walk that retraces the steps of members of the Greenwood community who fled the destruction 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Along this trail, artists, pop-up shops, and food stalls will be installed at each mile for participants to enjoy.
12 Sabado / Saturday, Junio / June 5th, 1533 N Norfolk Ave Eaton Media Services North Tulsa Community Festival North Tulsa Community Festival features performances by Tulsa’s local musicians and highlights dozens of local vendors for this day-long celebration of North Tulsa’s excellence. The Eaton Civil Rights Museum will highlight objects that explore the impact music has had on the community.
13 Mayo / May 26th and Junio / June 18th—20th Admiral Twin / Dennis R. Neill Equality Center Deborah J. Hunter Porches Porches is a play featuring an all-female cast and explores themes of resilience, community pride, and Black sisterhood. Set on actual porches in Greenwood. Performance fuses dance, video, music, and poetry in examining the period spanning the aftermath of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre to the Civil Rights Movement.
EN LINEA / ONLINE
Sabado / Saturday, Mayo / May 1st Mikeal Vaughn, Urban Coders Guild The 1921 Historic Black Wall Street Online Business Directory Mikeal Vaughn collaborates with his students in the Urban Coders Guild to program The 1921 Historic Black Wall Street Online Business Directory, a digital database that honors the legacy of Black Wall Street businesses. Vaughn and his students give digital life to businesses once active in the Greenwood neighborhood. Visit historicblackwallstreet.com.
JULIO / JULY
14 Julio / July 30th—31st Church of the Restoration Ray Pearcey Citizen Brady “Catches” A Charge Citizen Brady “Catches a Charge” is an experimental play structured like a trial that allows a jury of community members to decide whether to bring charges against W. Tate Brady. Rendering judgment for a problematic “founding father” of Tulsa highlights the absence of accountability in the city’s history.
AGOSTO / AUGUST
15 Sabado / Saturday, Agosto / August 7th Stairs to Nowhere, 98 E. Haskell St. Casey McLerran Xenophontulsa-2021–Strange: Symphony Xenophontulsa-2021–Strange: Symphony is a one-day event that includes musical performances, a book fair, a playground, and performance art. Food and merchandise vendors will also be present. Re-imagining Tulsa’s “Steps to Nowhere” as “Magic City Park,” the event might empower visitors to reclaim undeveloped spaces to meet community needs.
EN CURSO / ONGOING
16 Mayo / May 26th—Junio / June 18th Williams Tower Atrium, 101 E 2nd St. Tulsa Modern Movement This Car Up This Car Up, a freestanding sculpture inside the Williams Tower Atrium Lobby, investigates alternative narratives of the catalyzing incident of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Exploring the alleged inappropriate interaction between a white woman, Sarah Page, and a Black man, Dick Rowland, in the Drexel Building elevator, this dance film envisions various scenarios and relationships between the two.
17 Mayo / May 17th—Junio / June 14th Living Arts of Tulsa Anthony Curtis Brinkley, Ebony Iman Dallas, and Derick Tinsley Greenwood Imagine Greenwood Imagine combines live performance, poetry, video, and visual art to immerse visitors in an experience that dissolves the line between past and present. Moving between past and future and through alternate universes, Greenwood Imagine cultivates a space to contemplate the future in a world where the Massacre never happened.
18 Mayo / May 25th—29th Skyline MansionJimmy FridayGreenwood - Black Wall StreetGreenwood - Black Wall Street is a series of collages of significant figures and places of the Historic Greenwood District. Assembled using mass media images from magazines in the 1970s, the project commemorates not through grandiose historical monuments, but instead by building up fragments of images into a complex whole.
19 Mayo / May 26th— TBD Oxley Nature CenterSarah Ahmad The American Dream The American Dream is a living memorial built around a refugee tent such as those used following the Tulsa Race Massacre; it will be transformed with marigold flowers, placed in a forest, and filled with archival photographs. The marigolds visually recall firebombs that destroyed people’s homes, but also suggest renewal.
20 Mayo / May 26th and Julio / July 16th Circle Cinema TheRese Anderson-Aduni Rebuilding Black Wall Street Rebuilding Black Wall Street is a documentary film highlighting the resilience of the Greenwood community in the aftermath of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Adapted from the home movies of Reverend Harold Anderson, the documentary captures the joy he saw in his community in moving footage of those who rebuilt the area.
EN CURSO / ONGOING
21 Junio / June 4th-6th 2613 E. 29th Place North Myiesha Gordon Beales Fire Sculpture Project The Fire Sculpture Project is an outdoor wood-fired clay sculpture honoring the lives and legacies of those who built Black Wall Street. The sculpture will be fired over two days to commemorate the destruction from the Race Massacre, then painted by volunteers to signify the community’s beauty and spirit.
22 Junio / June 1st—Agosto / August 15th OSU Tulsa Courtney Skipper-Reynolds Tulsa Children’s Museum of ArtThe Tulsa Children’s Museum of Art’s mission is to educate people of all ages throughout Oklahoma, the United States, and the world through visual arts, curriculum guides, workshops, and symposium. The exhibition addresses the lack of education about the historic Greenwood District, Black Wall Street, and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
23 Mayo / May 7th—Julio / July 25st AHHA / Drillers Stadium / Rudisill Library Crystal Z Campbell Notes From Black Wall Street (Or how to project yourself in to the future)A series of public art projects featuring artist notes, writings by invited authors, and modified archival images of Tulsa and greater Oklahoma from before, during, and after the 1921 Tulsa Race assacre. Campbell examines the collective memory of the massacre and how that history informs the present.
24 Mayo / May 29th, 31th and Junio / June 19th Greenarch Penthouse, North 10 Greenwood Avenue Dawn Tree, Underground Tree StudiosThe Greenwood Joy Experience The Greenwood Joy Experience invites viewers to imagine a triumphant future through an interactive multi-visual exhibition. Starting with archival images and videos, Tree moves visitors forward to the rebuilding of Greenwood. The project also includes images from Tree’s graphic history book, Tulsa’s Black Wall Street, and concludes with a question-and-answer session.
25 Viernes / Friday, Mayo / May 29th OSU Tulsa Lawn Stevie Johnson, Ph.D. Fire in Little AfricaFire in Little Africa is a multimedia hip-hop project featuring 60+ Oklahoma rappers, songwriters, musicians, engineers, producers, filmmakers, photographers, activists, poets, and painters in an album and documentary, produced by Stevie ‘Dr. View’ Johnson. A project of epic scale, Dr. View asked collaborators to reclaim narratives surrounding the creation and destruction of Black Wall Street. Visit fireinlittleafrica.com to stream the project.
EN LINEA / ONLINE
Jueves / Thursday, Septiembre / September 30th Candace G. Wiley What If Tulsa: Story-Gaming App Candace G. Wiley’s virtual “Choose Your Own Adventure” game allows users to experience history from multiple perspectives. Players can move through 1921 Tulsa as one of six characters of different races and genders driven by distinct motivations. Players learn that access to resources shapes the direction of the narrative.
Jueves / Thursday, Julio / July 8th Kenesha Daniels Ah- Senak Ah-Senak (A Snack) is a restorative justice initiative that teaches children the history of Greenwood while learning to prepare a healthy snack. Chef Kenesha Daniels and activist Chief Egunwale Fagbenro Amusan will co-host YouTube videos guiding viewers in learning about the importance of nourishing oneself and others, physically and emotionally. Visit Youtube.com/Ah SeneK.