OK Earth Coalition, Carrie Dickerson Foundation, Tulsa Area Arkansas River Advocates & OK Roots Music,
with support from George Kaiser Family Foundation & OK Sierra Club, present the
OK EARTH DAY CELEBRATION
April 18 - 21, 2024 - Tulsa, OKSatellite events @ LowDown, Tulsa Farm Lab & Circle Cinema.
HOW MUCH: Free @ Guthrie Green & Circle Cinema.
INFO: OKrootsMusic.org
Oklahoma’s most ambitious Earth Day event features environmental speakers, Electric Vehicles, environmental & community & crafts booths, music & art, traditional Indigenous cuisine, a sustainable wine tasting, circus arts, tons of family & kids activities, and more. The event takes place at Guthrie Green, an internationally recognized urban park utilizing geothermal wells and solar panels, with satellite activities in the Arts District & Circle Cinema. Earth Day is the most widely recognized annual environmental event in the world, demonstrating support for environmental protection. The first Earth Day took place in 1970. Today more than 190 countries participate.
PERFORMERS include RED DIRT RANGERS, KEN POMEROY BAND (Cherokee), MOTHER EARTH STRING BAND & CHOIR, WHEAT PENNY, MONICA TAYLOR (Cherokee), KALYN FAY (Cherokee), T-TOWN SINGERS Drum Circle, INSPYRAL CIRCUS and more.
SPEAKERS include activist & actor CASEY CAMP-HORINEK(Ponca), climate scientist KATHARINE HAYHOE (via video) chef NICO ALBERT WILLIAMS (Cherokee) of Burning Cedar Sovereign Wellness, environmental journalist MOLLY BULLOCK, environmental justice advocate REVEREND GERALD DAVIS, OK Sierra Club Director KARA JOY McKEE waterkeepers REBECCA JIM (Cherokee) and PAM KINGFISHER (Cherokee), film director LOREN WATERS (Kiowa, Cherokee), engineer CHARLIE PRATT & hydrologist BERT FISHER. Public Radio Tulsa's SCOTT GREGORY is our emcee.
SUSTAINABLE CUISINE by Comida Sol y Vida, Burning Cedar Sovereign Wellness, & Inheritance Juicery.
2024 SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, APRIL 18 - TICKETED @ LowDown (108 N. Detroit Ave., Tulsa)
7:00-8:00 – Sustainable/organic wine tasting & traditional Native cuisine samples by Chef Nico Albert Williams. GET TICKETS (tasting & concert)
8:30-10:00 – Indigenous artists swapping songs in their Native tongues. Featuring Cherokee artists KEN POMEROY, KALYN FAY & MONICA TAYLOR.
Traditional, sustainable Native cuisine samples by Chef NICO ALBERT WILLIAMS of Burning Cedar Sovereign Wellness. GET TICKETS (concert only)
Friday, April 19 - Ticketed @ Tulsa Farm Lab (330 W. 41st St. N., Tulsa)
6:30-8:30 - Locally sourced farm-to-fire dinner. GET TICKETS
Saturday, April 20 - FREE @ Guthrie Green (111 E. Reconciliation Way, Tulsa)
ALL DAY - Community, educational & crafts booths, Electric Vehicle displays, kids & family activities, face painting, INSPYRAL CIRCUS, free Native cuisine samples all day by Burning Cedar Sovereign Wellness, live environmental art.
3:00-4:00 - BRING THE KIDS! DRUM CIRCLE land acknowledgement, Children’s Museum Discovery Lab, kids arts & crafts, Tulsa Public Seed Library, face painting, chalk art, circus fun & more.
4:00-5:00 - Speaker: NICO ALBERT WILLIAMS (Cherokee) of Burning Cedar Sovereign Wellness on sustainable, traditional Native-based foods. Music by WHEAT PENNY.
5:00-6:00 - Speakers: OK Sierra Club Director KARA JOY McKEE on renewables & REVEREND GERALD DAVIS on climate change & environmental justice in Oklahoma. Music by MOTHER EARTH STRING BAND & CHOIR.
6:00-7:00 - Speaker: Environmental journalist MOLLY BULLOCK on Arkansas River issues. Music by KEN POMEROY BAND (Cherokee).
7:00-8:30 - Speaker: Climate scientist KATHARINE HAYHOE (via video) on Oklahoma climate predictions, Activist-actor CASEY CAMP HORINEK (Ponca) on rights of nature. Music by RED DIRT RANGERS.
SUNDAY, APRIL 21 - FREE @ Circle Cinema (10 S. Lewis Ave., Tulsa)
1:30-2:00 – Music & refreshments, beer & wine bar, and music.
2:00-5:00 – Meet Me at the Creek (acclaimed OK-based documentary short) & Dark Waters (feature film on corporate pollution starring Mark Ruffalo). Meet Me at the Creek director Loren Waters will say a few words. Films are followed by panel on OK water issues moderated by hydrologist Bert Fisher, with clean water advocates Rebecca Jim (featured in Meet Me at the Creek) and Pam Kingfisher, investigative journalist Molly Bullock & engineer Charlie Pratt.
BIG THANKS TO THESE SUPPORTERS
George Kaiser Family Foundation, OK Sierra Club, Tulsa People, Public Radio Tulsa, Provisions Fine Beverage Purveyors, LowDown, Chimera, Tulsa Farm Lab & Guthrie Green.
General inquiries: Michael Koster, ThirstyEarFest@gmail.com
Vendor & booth inquiries: Okcate Smith McCommas, okcate.e.smith@gmail.com
COMMUNITY COLLABORATORS & EXHIBITORS:
Tulsa Farm Lab/RG Foods, Tulsa Area Arkansas River Advocates, Carrie Dickerson Foundation, Burning Cedar Sovereign Wellness, Up With Trees, Sustain Group E-Recycling, Electric Vehicle Coalition, Tulsa Ready for 100, OK Sierra Club & Green Country Sierra Club, Tulsa Public Library, Okies for Monarchs, Oklahoma Renewable Energy Educational Program, George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center, Typros/918 Vote, Tulsa Peace Fellowship, LEAD Agency, Metropolitan Environmental Trust, Lifeshare, Local Environmental Action Demanded, Tulsa Urban Wilderness Coalition, City Cycles P2 LLC, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma, Broken Arrow Solid Waste & Recycling Dept, Renewables by Andersen & more...
OK EARTH COALITION is comprised of many OK environmental & cultural organizations, including Green Country Sierra Club, Carrie Dickerson Foundation, Tulsa Area Arkansas River Advocates, Tulsa Ready for 100 & OK Roots Music.
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Citizens of Oklahoma and the world will forever be indebted to Carrie Barefoot Dickerson for leading the efforts to make northeastern Oklahoma safer for future generations. In May 1973, Aunt Carrie, as she was known by her many supporters and friends, read a news article about Public Service of Oklahoma's plans to build the Black Fox Nuclear Power Plant near Inola, about 15 miles from Tulsa and a few miles from the Dickerson family farm. Recalling reports she had read earlier of wildlife birth defects coincident with effluent from the WWII Manhattan Project, she researched the current efforts to build nuclear power facilities. What she learned frightened and concerned her so much that despite her lack of political and publicity experience, she held a news conference at which she announced the formation of the political action group Citizens' Action for Safe Energy (CASE). Aunt Carrie and CASE, with co-chair Ilene Younghein of Oklahoma City, began an expensive but determined battle to educate the public and stop construction of the plant. Following her lead, other anti-nuclear organizations were formed in the area, and citizens from all walks of life and ethnic groups joined in the battle. After a nine-year struggle, PSO announced on Feb. 16, 1982, that they would not build the Black Fox facility. Black Fox was the only nuclear power plant to be cancelled by a combination of legal and citizen action after construction had started. (read more) |
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