This weekend marks the return of some familiar faces on the Oklahoma City social scene. Whether you're in the mood for indie films, indie music, indie shopping, or a glitter-fueled street party, there are plenty of reasons to leave the house.
Here are a few of them...
deadCenter Film Festival
All Weekend | Multiple Downtown Venues
In case seeing Lou Diamond Phillips around town didn’t tip you off, Oklahoma’s big indie film weekend is underway – with screenings, shorts, panels, filmmaker Q&As and assorted deadCenter happenings around downtown. Even if you have no use for the industry stuff, you might enjoy the Oklahoma film premieres of “Keep Quiet,” “Every Heavy Thing” and “Pale Night.”
New to deadCenter this year: music! Friday Night Frolic brings Coral Waves and DJ Nyamisis, while Saturday Night Lively closes out the weekend with Original Flow, Gold Lincoln, CAJ, Bella Burns, Jabee and Kid Lennon. Check the busy festival lineup, and choose your own adventures.
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Pride on the Plaza
Fri., June 12 | 3-11PM | Plaza District
Pride Month sashays on! Pride on the Plaza makes its annual return Friday with drag, dancing, glitter and plenty of queer rabblerousing. Plaza District organizers say it’s one of their fiercest block parties of the year, and I concur. Expect live music, vendors, food, drinks and the usual community stuff – only way more festive and colorful. Keep an eye out for spontaneous, unsanctioned performances breaking out in the streets. That’s one of the best parts.
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Rachel & Griffin Live
Sat., June 13 | 7PM | Skydance Brewing Co. - Downtown
As if we needed an excuse to go somewhere chill and drink delicious beer, Skydance has given us one. Rachel & Griffin return Saturday night for a second performance after leaving taproom fans begging for more. The young married duo plays original acoustic Americana, folk and country music, and this intimate set is free if you make your way downtown to Skydance.
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Braum’s Affair of the Heart
Fri., June 12-Sun., June 14 | Oklahoma State Fair Park
This weekend, vendor shopping, crafts, boutique goods and assorted impulse buys take over the fairgrounds for the summer edition of this long-running Oklahoma retail pilgrimage. Slightly ridiculous and more than a little cheesy, Affair of the Heart is best experienced with the right friends and the wrong foods.
I know this after spending an entire weekend sneaking away from my best friend's art booth to see if there was anything more interesting than knockoffs and plastic OU-red purses – and there absolutely is.
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If you're getting up to something fun, weird, questionably wholesome, or wildly inappropriate in OKC this weekend, tell us about it in the comments.
