Welcome to Tulsa Picks, your weekly compilation of Tulsa's best food, arts and music events, as picked by us, the staff of The Pickup. Let's get to it!
Pick Of The Week
Big Bite Food Festival
Saturday, April 19 at 5pm
The Gateway Event Center, 851 E. Admiral Blvd.
It'd be our pick of the week even if they weren't sponsoring us this month! Big Bite is a peak foodie experience, featuring the best of Oklahoma bites and bevs as well as live music, workshops with local chefs, art installations from Nic Annette Miller and Shane Brown, and a big trike race.
Wednesday, April 16
Creative Gathering Tulsa: Sip and Shop
6pm at Belafonte, 306 S. Phoenix Ave.
Sunset Cinema Screening: “Nick Cave: 20,000 Days On Earth”
7pm at Circle Cinema, 10 S. Lewis Ave.
FC Tulsa vs. Phoenix Rising FC (U.S. Open Cup)
7pm at Hurricane Soccer & Track Stadium, 512 South Delaware Ave.
Mi Tea + R&B Open Mic
7:30pm at Mi Tea Lounge, 427 S. Boston Ave.
Damion Shade & The Boom Bap Chorus Residency
8pm at The Colony, 2809 S. Harvard Ave.
Thursday, April 17
DRIFT///HOLD Closing x Terra Cognita: Mapping Land Narratives and Embedded Epistemologies
5:30pm at Arco Building, 119 E. 6th St.
Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of the Masterpiece and Its Maker
7pm at Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, 101 E. Archer St.
Artists Creative Fund Season Finale
7pm at LowDown, 108 N. Detroit Ave.
World Stage Theatre Company: “Ages of the Moon” by Sam Shepard (through April 27)
8pm at World Stage Studio, 1130 S. Harvard Ave.
Friday, April 18
Tulsa Kendo Demonstration
5:30pm at Philbrook Museum of Art, 2727 S. Rockford Rd.
Open Plains Psychedelic Therapy Symposium (through April 19)
6:30pm at WOMPA, 3306 Charles Page Blvd.
EMP: Electronic Music Performance
8pm at Spotlight Theater, 1381 Riverside Dr.
Blue Whale Comedy Night: Ladies Showcase
8pm at LowDown, 108 N. Detroit Ave.
Saturday, April 19
Tulsa Art Club Meetup + Guided Hike and Soundwalk
10am at Keystone Ancient Forest, 160 Ancient Frst Dr., Sand Springs
The Salón at The Parlour
10am at 2647 E. 15th Pl.
Joy Harjo: Reading and Reflection on Rematriation
1pm at Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship, 112 N. Boston Ave.
420 Eve Half Block Party with WOMEN + WEED
1pm at 21 N. Greenwood Ave.
Wild and Scenic Film Festival On Tour
3pm at Circle Cinema, 10 S. Lewis Ave.
Bloom on BLVD
4pm at WOMPA, 3306 Charles Page Blvd.
LULU: Vendor's Market + Poetry Reading
4:30pm at The Studio, 2221 E. Admiral Blvd.
Chris Foster's Tulsadelic
7:30pm and 10:30pm at The Colony, 2809 S. Harvard Ave.
NOLATET
8pm at LowDown, 108 N. Detroit Ave.
ASLUT 3rd Annual Bunny Ball
9pm at Living Arts of Tulsa, 307 Reconciliation Way
Sunday, April 20
420 @ Heirloom
12pm at Heirloom Rustic Ales, 2113 E. Admiral Blvd.
420 Honey ft. Manta Rays
5pm at The Colony, 2809 S. Harvard Ave.
Johnny Mullenax 4.20 Mercury Lounge Takeover
8pm at Mercury Lounge, 1747 S. Boston Ave.
Chris Combs April Residency
8pm at Thelma's Peach, 2008 E. Admiral Blvd.
Avery Marshall & Heather Mae
8pm at Saint Cecilia's Listening Room, 205 W. King St.
Monday, April 21
Giddy Up Renaissance/Medieval Dance Lessons
6pm at Heirloom Rustic Ales, 2113 E. Admiral Blvd.
Author Talk: Poet Steven Leyva in Conversation with Quraysh Ali Lansana
7pm at Magic City Books, 221 E. Archer
Tuesday, April 22
Exhibit Opening: “Curiosity”
5pm at TCC Center for Creativity, 910 S. Boston Ave.
