Weekly Events Calendar, March 28-April 3, 2022

Each week, Oklahoma Today staffers comb through their calendars to find a handful of great events happening across the state. Get out! See Oklahoma! And be sure to let us know what you find, either here or on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram at @oklahomatoday.

Tulsa's champion of independent films, Circle Cinema hosts the Oklahoma Jewish Film Festival this week. Photo by Lori Duckworth

Lights! Camera! Tulsa!

Head to Tulsa’s Circle Cinema, home of excellent independent and mainstream movies alike, for the Oklahoma Jewish Film Festival celebrating Jewish culture and identity. Movie lovers can enjoy comedies (Kiss Me Kosher), dramas (Thou Shalt Not Hate), and documentaries (On Broadway) with sponsorship from the Jewish Federation of Tulsa and the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art. March 27-31. Tickets, $10 for each film. circlecinema.easy-ware-ticketing.com

Blast From the Past

Time travel remains largely the purview of those with the expertise to create a flux capacitor, but that doesn’t mean history is out of reach for the rest of us. At the Fort Washita Historic Site in Durant, visitors to the Rendezvous at Fort Washita can relive the decades between 1820 and 1850 with trappers, traders, storytellers, and Chickasaw stomp dancers. Vendors will be selling treats, but traditional food samples will be offered on Thursday and Friday. March 30-April 3. Admission, Free. chickasaw.net

Not Quills

The majority of professional writing these days is done on computers with word processing programs and, despite the name, that’s how it’s done for the most part at the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival at East Central University in Ada. No guarantees that visitors won’t see a quill pen, but this event—now in its seventeenth year—is more about the content of the writing than the implements used. More than seventy authors from around the country, including celebrated writers Arthur Sze, Jenn Givhan and Lou Berney, will attend this event dedicated to listening, learning, and better writing. March 31-April 2. Admission, Free. ecuscissortail.blogspot.com

No matter how many times they perform "James & Jerome: Piano Tales," the show is never the same. See for yourself at Oklahoma Contemporary in Oklahoma City. Photo by Marcus Middleton and Theo Cote

Choose Your Own Adventure

Join musical storytellers James Harrison Monaco and Jerome Ellis for the always changing James & Jerome: Piano Tales performances at Oklahoma Contemporary. For four shows, the New York-based duo work with audiences to choose which stories are told and in what order, making every performance different from the last. March 31-April 2. Tickets, $15-$40. oklahomacontemporary.org

The Dogwood Days Festival in Idabel is about more than just flowering trees, with plenty of fun for kids, cooks, and runners. Photo by Manfred Richter

Fly a Kite

Oklahoma has so much wind it made it into the state song, but the organizers of the Dogwood Days Festival in Idabel are taking advantage of the abundance of gales for a kids’ kite-flying event. But even those who are not fans of zephyrs will find plenty to do, including horseshoe and cornhole tournaments, a chicken cook-off, a 5K, a beef rib cooking competition, and more. April 1 & 2. Admission, Free. theidabelchamber.com

Written By

Greg Elwell

Greg Elwell served as research editor and web editor of Oklahoma Today from 2018-2023. He also has worked for newspapers, medical research organizations, and government institutions.