OK EARTH DAY CELEBRATION

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 MAIN EVENT takes place Saturday, 4/20 at Guthrie Green, an internationally recognized urban park utilizing geothermal wells and solar panels; with satellite activities at LowDown on 4/18, Tulsa Farm Lab on 4/19 & Circle Cinema on 4/21. 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, WHEAT PENNY, MONICA TAYLOR (Cherokee), KALYN FAY (Cherokee), T-TOWN SINGERS Drum Circle, INSPYRAL CIRCUS & more.

SPEAKERS include activist & actor CASEY CAMP HORINEK, chef NICO ALBERT WILLIAMS (Cherokee) of Burning Cedar Sovereign Wellness, environmental journalist MOLLY BULLOCK, North Tulsa 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 will emcee.

SUSTAINABLE CUISINE by Comida Sol y Vida, Burning Cedar Sovereign Wellness & Inheritance Juicery.

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2024 SCHEDULE 

Thursday, April 18 – Ticketed @ LowDown (108 N. Detroit, Tulsa)
7:00-8:00 – Sustainable/organic wine tasting is Sold Out.
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. 

Friday, April 19 – Ticketed @ Tulsa Farm Lab (330 W. 41st St. N., Tulsa)
6:30-8:30 – Farm-to-fire locally sourced dinner.

Saturday, April 20 – FREE @ Guthrie Green (111 E. Reconciliation Way, Tulsa)
ALL DAY  – Community, educational & crafts booths, Electric Vehicle displays, kids & family arts 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! T-TOWN SINGERS 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: Chef 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.
6:00-7:00 – Speaker: Environmental journalist MOLLY BULLOCK on Arkansas River issues. Music by KEN POMEROY BAND (Cherokee).
7:00-8:30 – Speaker: 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.

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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, Circle Cinema & Guthrie Green.

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.

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, 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, Renewables by Andersen & more…

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General inquiries: Michael Koster, ThirstyEarFest@gmail.com

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