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OKC Museum of Art
August 21-24
Unsolved
Thursday, August 21, 7:30 p.m.
The Stanton Family Grave Robbery
Friday, August 22, 5:30 and 8 p.m.
Okie Noodling II
Saturday, August 23, 2 p.m.
Rainbow Around the Sun
Saturday, August 23, 5:30 and 8 p.m.
Art 365
Sunday, August 24, 2 p.m.
CONCERTS!
Cain’s Ballroom - TULSA
Monday, September 15, 2008
 with special guest TBA
Cain’s Ballroom - TULSA
Sunday, September 28, 2008
 BECK
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MGMT
Vacant Era Film Festival
Norman, Oklahoma
October 2-5, 2008
Southern Winds Film Festival
Shawnee, Oklahoma
September 11-15, 2008
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Welcome to the Official State of Oklahoma Film & Music Office Website...Please ask us about our incentives!
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Oklahoma IS Creative…Tell us about it!
Creative Oklahoma Inc. has a new initiative that recognizes creativity in our state. Entitled the Great Inspirations recognition program, the new initiative welcomes submissions for project ideas and information about the creative happenings going on in every corner of the state. Your submission will be taken to Creative Oklahoma Inc. leadership for approval and recognition; once approved, it will be publicized throughout the state and posted on their website.
Film and music are both considered a driving force of creativity in the state. Equally they are a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating and indoctrinating citizens of all ages. With a bevy of talented musicians and filmmakers, Oklahoma will soon be recognized around the world as a center of creativity and innovation.
COI is the only organization in the nation that encourages and supports creativity in the multiple arenas of business, research, community development, environment, globalization, health, education and the arts. It is the desire of Creative Oklahoma Inc. that these Great Inspirations be shared and adapted by others. Creative Oklahoma Inc. recognizes, sustains and supports creative ideas, initiatives and innovations that contribute to the greater good of Oklahoma. Creative Oklahoma Inc.’s website is designed to help share this information with people around the state.
Bring your innovative ideas to COI by downloading the Great Inspiration application and Guidelines.
For the Guidelines please CLICK HERE
For the Application please CLICK HERE
More information on Creativity in Oklahoma can be found by: CLICKING HERE
Tulsa's Dfest Thrills in the Blue Dome District 
 Hush Hush Commotion The Oh Johnny Girls
 The Effects
Music lovers from across the country packed into downtown Tulsa on Friday, July 25th, to catch the first night of Dfest and the headlining acts. Spanning over 20 genres of music, the two-day festival proved to be a great opportunity for emerging artists to showcase their talent.
Artists and fans also enjoyed a bevy of educational panels during this year’s music conference. Each panel was designed to educate working musicians and impart invaluable information to artists in any stage of their career. Panelists spanning from all over the country covered a comprehensive list of topics, along with special instructional music clinics and workshops.
Dfest, which ran through Saturday, July 26th, featured approximately 150 bands on 11 outdoor and indoor stages scattered over several downtown city blocks in the Blue Dome District. Some of the diverse musical artists at this year’s festival included such nationally known performers as The All-American Rejects, The Roots, Zappa Plays Zappa, Clutch, Paramore, and Ghostland Observatory. In addition, Oklahoma bands of every genre made up over half of the festival’s roster, with El Paso Hot Button, Hush Hush Commotion, The Effects, Callupsie, PDA, and many more.
For more information please CLICK HERE
Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute
In June, sixteen Oklahoma high school students from across the state gathered at Quartz Mountain to study film at the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute. Throughout the course of this two-week program, students pooled together their diverse backgrounds and skills to create and screen three original films under the instruction of award-winning film instructors Sterlin Harjo and Nathan Young.
OSAI is a two-week residential academy for Oklahoma high school students, interested in literary, visual, and performing arts, taught by nationally renowned award-winning artists. Film and video students learn elements of film language, film appreciation, and screenwriting for documentary, fiction television, and theatrical film release. Students also shoot and edit a short film based on a pre-selected script, which is screened in a public exhibition.
Based on the success of this summer’s turnout, The Oklahoma Arts Institute is currently accepting applications for the Film and Video discipline of their 2009 Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain. Applicants are selected through competitive statewide auditions. Up to sixteen students are accepted, in each discipline and every accepted student automatically receives a full scholarship to the program, worth over $2,000. Auditions begin in January at various locations around the state.
For more information please Click Here
Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame to Induct New Members
The Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. has scheduled the 2008 induction ceremony and concert for October 8 at the Muskogee Civic Center, located at 5th and Boston Street in Muskogee, Okla. The induction reception will begin at 5 p.m. and the ceremony and concert at 7 p.m.
Five artists or groups will be recognized by the hall of fame this year. The Cherokee National Youth Choir will receive the coveted Governor’s Award, a prestigious honor given only twice before. Chick Rains and the late Bob Childers will be inducted in the songwriters’ category. The All-American Rejects are being honored with the Rising Star Award for the significant national attention they have received for their musical talents. The Wichita & Affiliated Tribe will be this year’s inductee into the American Indian Tribal Music Traditions category. With recording of Wichita music made as early as 1902, the tribes’ singers are some of the earliest recording artists in Oklahoma music history.
Members may purchase tickets August 12-20 and tickets will be available to the public beginning August 25. You can purchase tickets from http://www.clicknprint.com or the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame and Museum located at 401 S. 3rd Street, Muskogee or by calling their ticket hotline 918-687-0800. VIP tickets are $150 and include VIP parking, buffet reception and VIP seating on the arena floor. Gallery tickets will range from $19 to $39.
For more information on performances at this event please CLICK HERE
New York Festivals: International Film and Video Awards Announces Call for Entries for the 2009 Competition
New York Festivals has announced its call for entries for the 2009 International Film and Video Awards. Now entering its 52nd year, the awards honor “The World’s Best Work™”. The competition recognizes accomplishments on a global scale in feature-length, short and documentary films; informational, educational and industrial film productions; and corporate and home video.
The overall changes in this year’s competition include a category revamping, a restructuring of the judging process, and changes in pricing. Existing category designations have been simplified for maximum efficiency for entrants and jurors. New technical/craft categories have been added for features and short films, encompassing such areas as direction, cinematography, animation, visual effects, music, sound design, art direction and production design.
All winning entries of the International Film and Video Awards Competition are featured in the Showcase section of www.newyorkfestivals.com, and their network of representatives promote the winners of the NYF internationally in 62 countries around the world.
Final deadline for submission is September 29, 2008.
For more information on submitting, please CLICK HERE
Records that Rock
Entertainment Weekly has released its list of the top 100 albums of the last 25 years. Oklahoma City’s own The Flaming Lips landed at the 23rd for their 1999 album “The Soft Bulletin”.
This disc is considered by many to mark a change in course for the band. With more traditional, catchy melodies and accessible-sounding music and lyrics that are more serious and thoughtful in content, “The Soft Bulletin” has been called a mid-career breakout for The Flaming Lips. The album was noted for its fusion of ordinary rock instruments, electronic beats and synthesizers. Its large layered, symphonic sound has also earned it a reputation as the “Pet Sounds” of the 1990’s.
For a list of the top 100 albums: CLICK HERE
All Roads Film Project Seed Grant Program Deadlines Approaching
All Roads is a National Geographic initiative created to provide an international platform for indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture artists to share their cultures, stories, and perspectives through the power of film and photography. All Roads is an exciting, groundbreaking film festival, photography program, and film grant program rolled into one.
Whether you’re an indigenous artist wanting to tell your story, a filmmaker wanting to make a difference, an industry representative looking for the next age of storytelling, or an audience eager to learn more about our world, you’ll find what you’re looking for when you travel All Roads.
The All Roads Seed Grant Program funds film projects by and about indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture filmmakers year-round and from all reaches of the globe. The program seeks filmmakers who bring their lives and communities to light through first-person storytelling. Submission deadlines are quarterly on the 15th of each March, June, September, and December. Award notifications are made approximately six weeks after each of these dates.
To apply, download an application by CLICKING HERE
Tribeca Film Institute Launches 'Reframe' Project
The Tribeca Film Institute has announced the launch of Reframe, an innovative project designed to help individual filmmakers, broadcasters, distributors, public media organizations, archives, libraries, and other media owners digitize, market, and sell their classic and hard-to-find films and video content using the Internet. Created in partnership with Amazon's CreateSpace, the project has received grants totaling $1 million from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as well as additional funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts. The project aims to convert film and video content into high-quality digital files, with video works converted for free and film formats digitized at cost. After a work has been digitized, the project will return a digital copy to the rights holder and, through a unique nonexclusive arrangement, will allow additional copies to be sold to the public through Amazon and Reframe at prices set by the rights holder.
In addition, the Reframe Web site is designed to become a community hub that will aggregate content from independent and alternative media and make it searchable in new ways. As more works become digitized and video proliferates on the Internet, Reframe is expected to become a trusted guide to quality content, allowing visitors to find the best content through a combination of expert and user-generated curation, specialized search functionality, and the best social networking tools.
For more information, please: CLICK HERE
Trail Dance Film Festival Announces a Call for Submissions for 2009
Founded by the Southwest Association of Film, Trail Dance is currently welcoming submissions of creative work from independent filmmakers in a wide array of genres. The festival will provide an opportunity for filmmakers to present material in a competitive yet supportive environment regardless of experience in the film industry.
Trail Dance festivities also include vendors, live entertainment and seminars featuring film professionals. The festival will conclude with a grand awards ceremony and reception.
The mission of Trail Dance Film Festival is to encourage originality and creativity, as well as to promote the film industry in Oklahoma. Proceeds from this festival will benefit Oklahoma students through a media-arts scholarship.
Entries can be SUBMITTED HERE or via a PDF Entry Form by CLICKING HERE
Please CLICK HERE for more information
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