Past Events

OK Earth Coalition, Carrie Dickerson Foundation, Arkansas River Rights Coalition & OK Roots Music, with support from George Kaiser Family Foundation & OK Sierra Club, present the

OK EARTH DAY CELEBRATION

April 21, 22 & 23, 2023 - Tulsa, OK
Guthrie Green (Saturday, main event), LowDown (Friday) & Circle Cinema (Sunday)

WHAT: Earth Day Activities
WHERE & WHEN: Main Event @ Guthrie Green on Saturday April 22. Satellite events @ LowDown (Friday April 21) & Circle Cinema (Sunday, April 23), Tulsa, OK
HOW MUCH: Free @ Guthrie Green. Ticketed @ LowDown.
INFO: OKrootsMusic.org

Oklahoma’s most ambitious Earth Day event features environmental speakers, Electric Vehicles, environmental & community & crafts booths, music & art, Indigenous cuisine, a sustainable wine tasting, live art making, 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; at LowDown, Oklahoma’s premier jazz club; and at 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.

PERFORMANCES by SAMANTHA CRAIN (Choctaw), KING CABBAGE BRASS BAND, KALYN FAY (Cherokee), KEN POMEROY (Cherokee), MOTHER EARTH STRING BAND CHOIR with special guest ANNIE ELLICOTT, WHEAT PENNY, IN-SPYRAL CIRCUS and more.

HEALTHY CUISINE by Que Gusto & Comida Sol y Vida.

SPEAKERS Green Country Guardians Co-founder PAM KINGFISHER (Cherokee) on Okie activism, OK Sierra Club Chair CHEYENNE BRANSCUM on renewable energy in Oklahoma, REVEREND GERALD DAVIS on Climate Justice, Arkansas River Rights Coalition Co-founder KELSEY ROYCE on river issues, poet JOY HARJO (Muscogee) land acknowledgement video, and more.

SUSTAINABLE CUISINE by Comida Sol y Vida & Burning Cedar Indigenous Foods.

2023 SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, APRIL 21 TICKETED @ LowDown Jazz Club, 108 N. Detroit Ave., Tulsa, OK
7:15-8:00 – Sustainable wine tasting & traditional Native cuisine samples.
8:30-10:00 – “4 Native Women”: Indigenous artists swapping songs in their Native tongues, featuring SAMANTHA CRAIN (Choctaw), KALYN FAY (Cherokee) & KEN POMEROY (Cherokee). With traditional, sustainable Native cuisine samples by Chef NICO ALBERT WILLIAMS (Cherokee) of Burning Cedar Indigenous Foods.

SATURDAY, APRIL 22 - FREE @ GUTHRIE GREEN, 111 E. Reconciliation Way, Tulsa, OK
ALL DAY – Community, educational & crafts booths, Electric Vehicle displays, kids & family crafts activities, face painting, INSPYRAL CIRCUS, sustainable Native cuisine samples by Burning Cedar Indigenous Foods, live environmental art.
3:00-4:00 BRING THE KIDS! Tulsa Library Bookmobile, Kids crafts, Native stomp dance, face painting, chalk art, circus fun, more.
4:00-5:00 – Land acknowledgement by JOY HARJO (Muscogee, via video). Speaker: REVEREND GERALD DAVIS on Climate Justice. Music by WHEAT PENNY.
5:00-6:00 – Speaker: KELSEY ROYCE on river issues. Music by MOTHER EARTH STRING BAND CHOIR with special guest ANNIE ELLICOTT. Speaker: CHEYENNE BRANSCUM on renewable energy.
6:00-7:00 – SAMANTHA CRAIN (full band)
7:00-8:15 – Speaker PAM KINGFISHER (Cherokee) on Okie activism. Music by KING CABBAGE BRASS BAND

SUNDAY, APRIL 23 - Film @ Circle Cinema, 10 S. Lewis Ave., Tulsa, OK
Stay tuned for details.

OK EARTH COALITION is comprised of many OK environmental & cultural organizations, including Green Country Sierra Club, Carrie Dickerson Foundation, Arkansas River Rights Coalition, Tulsa Ready for 100, and OK Roots Music.

BIG THANKS TO THESE SUPPORTERS - George Kaiser Family Foundation, OK Sierra Club, Public Radio Tulsa, Provisions Fine Beverage Purveyors, Chimera, LowDown & Guthrie Green.

General inquiries: Michael Koster, ThirstyEarFest@gmail.com
Vendor & booth inquiries: Okcate Smith McCommas, okcate.e.smith@gmail.com

OK Earth Coalition presents Oklahoma’s biggest Earth Day Celebration, returning live to the Tulsa Arts District with FREE environmental speakers, community booths, music & performance, kids activities, healthy sustainable cuisine, electronic recycling, electric vehicles & more.

SPEAKERS
Kelsey Putman Hughes on Renewable Energy in Oklahoma
Reverend Gerald Davis on Social Justice
Chef Nico Albert (Cherokee) on Traditional Indigenous Foods
Barbara VanHanken on Arkansas River Issues
Rebecca Jim on Oklahoma’s Tar Creek Superfund Site
and more…

PERFORMANCES
JOHN FULLBRIGHT
Autumn Shade • Monhollon Bros. • Wheat Penny
Inspyral Circus Arts • Perizad Bellydance

VIDEOS by ANI DIFRANCO, JOY HARJO, AMBER VALLETTA and more…

HEALTHY CUISINE by Que Gusto & Comida Sol y Vida.

Friday, April 22, 9PM, FREE @ ahha
101 E. Archer St., Tulsa, OK 74103
Film Screening, concert & reception for the new film “Aunt Carrie’s Fight Against Oklahoma’s Nuclear Power Plant.” In 1973, Carrie Dickerson embarked on a years-long battle against PSO’s Black Fox nuclear power plant near Tulsa. Citizens from all walks of life joined the battle, resulting in the only citizen-led defeat of a nuclear plant already under construction in U.S. history.
With songs about Carrie’s struggle by Marilyn McCulloch.

Saturday, April 23, 3:00-7:00PM, FREE @ Guthrie Green
111 Reconciliation Way, Tulsa, OK 74103
The big event features environmental speakers, educational/community booths & demos,
music & performance, family activities, sustainable cuisine and more
in an internationally recognized urban park utilizing solar and geothermal power.

SCHEDULE OK EARTH DAY CELEBRATION 2022

FRIDAY, APRIL 22 @ ahha – FREE
8:00-9:00PM – Sustainable Wine Tasting & Reception (private event).
9:00-10:00PM – Film Screening: Aunt Carrie’s Fight Against Oklahoma’s Nuclear Power Plant.
Songs by Marilyn McCulloch. FREE public event.

SATURDAY, APRIL 23 @ GUTHRIE GREEN – FREE
3:00-3:30 – Public Radio Tulsa’s Scott Gregory introduces Okcate Smith (Muscogee)
and Joy Harjo (Muscogee, via video) for Land acknowledgment. Music by Wheat Penny.
3:30-4:00 – Video by Amber Valletta (Cherokee). Sustainable fashion show.
4:00-4:30 – Speaker: Rev. Gerald Davis (Environmental Justice). Music by Monhollon Bros.
4:30-5:00 – Video by Ani DiFranco. Speaker: Nico Albert, Burning Cedar Indigenous Foods
(traditional Native foods). Performance by Perizad Bellydance.
5:00-6:00 – Video trailer Carrie’s Fight Against Oklahoma’s Nuclear Power Plant.
Speakers Barbara VanHanken (Arkansas River issues) & Rebecca Jim
(OK’s Tar Creek superfund site). Music by Autumn Shade.
6:00-7:15 – Speaker: Kelsey Putman Hughes (renewables). Music by JOHN FULLBRIGHT.

Special thanks to George Kaiser Family Foundation, OK Sierra Club, Carrie Dickerson Foundation, Chimera and Renewable by Andersen for supporting Oklahoma’s biggest Earth Day Celebration.

February 16, 2022 was the 40th anniversary of the cancellation of Black Fox.

Join together with our community and Earth protectors all across the country for our month long celebration and commitment to stand up for the rights of nature and life on Earth, giving Mother Earth the love she deserves.
More information

Please join us for an exciting and inspiring evening of film touching on timely and meaningful topics of renewable energy transitioning, indigenous and minority access to environmental justice, and the power of individuals and activist groups to effectively bring change and protection to their communities. Ticketing information and registration here: https://qudio.com/event/CarrieDickerson

Greetings Friends,

We can't be with you on Guthrie Green for the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, so we're improvising—like jazz. See an Earth Day message and a beautiful tune from the first-ever Native U.S. Poet Laureate, JOY HARJO. We're rescheduling Joy and her band for an evening of music and poetry sometime in 2021, so stay tuned. Meanwhile, we've teamed with our friends at OK Earth Coalition to share some Earth Day thoughts for Oklahomans from 350.org founder BILL McKIBBEN, sustainable fashion tips from supermodel & actress AMBER VALLETTA, and others. All leading to 3 days of virtual activities April 22-24.

More at OKEarthCoalition.org

TULSA EARTH COALITION PRESENTS
EARTH DAY 2019 AT GUTHRIE GREEN

Saturday, April 20, 2019
Guthrie Green, 111 E. M.B. Brady St., Tulsa, OK

EARTH DAY is the most widely recognized annual environmental event in the world.
Celebrated on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection, the first Earth Day took place in 1970. Today more than 193 countries participate. Tulsa’s Earth Day Celebration features nationally prominent environmental speakers, an EV (electric vehicle) Village, educational booths & demos, regional & nationally touring musical artists, family activities, local cuisine and more. The event takes place at Guthrie Green, an internationally recognized urban park utilizing geothermal wells and solar panels, and participating Tulsa Arts District venues.
The Tulsa Earth Coalition is honored to host Tulsa's biggest Earth Day Celebration!

TULSA EARTH COALITION is comprised of many of Tulsa’s most active environmental and social justice organizations: Green Country Sierra Club, Carrie Dickerson Foundation, Tulsa Talks Climate, All Souls Green Team, Citizens’ Climate Lobby, Hope Green Sanctuary Team, Transition Tulsa, TU Earth Matters, TYPros Sustainability Crew, and University of Tulsa Students For Sustainability.
In addition to coalition members, many more earth-friendly organizations will be participating.

Promoting Peace, Love and Inclusion. Learning together to walk the Soft Path.
Protecting Life On Earth.

A fantastic performance by Michael Franti capped off a great celebration.

Electric Vehicle Exhibition

LOCAL FOOD TRUCKS ~ some of your favorites and Tulsa's best

Environmental Groups, Green Businesses, Social Justice Groups,
Family Friendly Fun, Kids Activities, Speakers, and More!!

EARTH DAY Culmination of Carrie's Centenary Celebration! (May 24 1917-2017)

We were very honored to have had a special remembrance of
Carrie's life and work at last year's Earth Day (2018).
We will be continuing to honor her legacy as we work on
plans to move forward on a documentary of Carrie's life!

We want to ensure that Carrie's dedication and perseverance in the face of the formidable challenge
of stopping a nuclear plant is remembered, but we also want to recognize her unshakable belief
in the ability of one person to make a difference. She reminds us all to participate
to make the world the place we want and need it to be. Not only did she prevent
a potential and probable danger to Green Country, she vigorously encouraged better, safer alternatives.
She is truly our Oklahoma Grassroots Hero.

I would like to thank Scott Swearingen for the spark that ignited this exciting
idea for a year of honoring and preserving Carrie's legacy.
This continues to be a fabulous opportunity to get involved
with good people for the good of the environment.
Please join us in remembering and learning from an amazing woman of courage and conviction.

For several years The Carrie Dickerson Foundation held our Earth Day Celebration in Carrie's honor at the former home of Garden Deva Sculpture Co. at 317 S. Trenton Ave. in Tulsa, with the generous cooperation of Lisa Regan, the Deva herself. The Carrie Dickerson Quilt Art and Music Festival was our main fundraiser each year and we held it on the Saturday before Earth Day, or on Earth Day if it was on Saturday. Our great friend, local musician and tech whiz, Michael Cox, made us this wonderful video of our event on Saturday, April 18, 2015. We gathered local musicians, craftsfolk, quilters, makers, artists, and local environmental champions and experts to share in the celebration of Earth Day, one of the turning points in the modern environmental movement. Focusing on what we can do to make our world cleaner, safer, more sustainable and equitable was our goal then, as it continues to be now. Enjoy this little glimpse into the party of the spring!

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