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The first annual Tulsa Int'l. Film Festival will take place between September 22nd and September 25th 2011 in Downtown Tulsa spanning over four days and multiple venues. We encourage all filmmakers to help us make this event spectacular by submitting your films! Early bird registration ends Feb. 14th!The first annual Tulsa Int'l. Film Festival will take place between September... more
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Recently Complete News Updates We’re celebrating our second Festivus at Liberty Ballers. For those of you that used to watch Seinfeld, you’ll remember that December 23 is Festivus.Recently Complete News Updates We’re celebrating our second Festivus at Liberty... more
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“Up Close” is a collection of photographs that features the exceptional talent of four photographers whose images capture people, places and events with candid intimacy. “Up Close” traces the significant legacy of Australian photographer Carol Jerrems alongside that of contemporary artists Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang.
The collection takes its inspiration from the way each artist candidly depicts a social milieu and urban life of the 1970s and early 1980s. Sharing an interest in sub-cultural groups and individuals on the margins of society, each artist reveals a remarkable capacity to provide an empathetic glimpse into semi-private worlds through intimate depictions of people and their surroundings.
Jerrems’ photography was associated with a feminist and political imperative, a preoccupation with subcultures, forgotten and dispossessed groups, especially Aboriginal communities of the time. Larry Clark unflinchingly turned the camera onto himself and his amphetamine-shooting coterie to produce “Tulsa” (1971), a series of photographs repeatedly cited for its raw depiction of marginalized youth. With its grainy shot-from-the-hip style, “Tulsa” exposes a world of sex, death, violence, anxiety and boredom capturing the aimlessness and ennui of teenagers.
Larry Clark's influenced Nan Goldin and a generation of artists who aspired to break with the more traditional documentary modes. Mining the emotional depths of her friends, lovers and family, Goldin's work reveals a riveting intimacy while uncovering the bohemian life of New York’s Lower East Side. Goldin says, “I was documenting my life. It comes directly from the snapshot, which is always about love.”
William Yang’s photographs from the 1970s further the snapshot aesthetic through journeying into the intimate world of his particular social milieu: drag queens, Sydney gay and inner-city culture. Yang’s direct, unpretentious photographs provide a unique chronicle of marginalised groups especially as he put it: “…people who are gay, who were invisible, who were too scared to come out. During gay liberation people became visible, people became politicized, and there was a Mardi Gras that was a symbol of the movement.”
This piece includes a number of high-resolution photographs, a remarkable slide show and two documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/up-close-photographs-of-candid-intimacy/“Up Close” is a collection of photographs that features the exceptional... more
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The Oklahoma Horror Film Festival will be Sept. 3-5 at the SpiritBank Event Center in Tulsa. We'll be showing over 40 new and independent horror features and shorts. You can check out some of the films we'll be screening at www.oklahomahorrorfilmfest.com. For example, we're screening Dracula's Daughters vs. The Space Brains starring Neil Patrick Harris and a great new take on the Frankenstein story called The Prometheus Project. We're also going to have a vendor hall where people can shop horror related art and items while listening to music from a dj. In the vendor hall, we will also have our VIP's which currently include Count Gregore, FX Master Tate Steinsiek, and actor James Hampton. In addition to vending and films, we will also have workshops and panels our guests can attend like Tate's Horror FX workshop and the Tulsa Ghost Investigators, who will host a workshop on investigating the possibility of hauntings and paranormal activity. For updates and giveaways, join us on facebook at www.facebook.com/oklahomahorrorfilmfest.
It's going to be a horror-packed Labor Day weekend! Tickets are available on sale now on our site. A day pass is currently $15 and a weekend is $40. These prices will go up at the door by $5, so be sure to get yours early. Also, the Hampton next to the SpiritBank Event center is offering a deal to our festival guests if you use code HFF. Be sure to let them know you're with the festival and ask about discounts.The Oklahoma Horror Film Festival will be Sept. 3-5 at the SpiritBank Event Center in... more
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" An unnamed 67-year-old Tulsa resident claims he got his foot stuck underneath the gas pedal, causing him to crash his car into the wall of a Bank of America parking garage."
Wow, that's a high place to crash your car." An unnamed 67-year-old Tulsa resident claims he got his foot stuck underneath... more
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The Tulsa Zoo's 9-year-old female giraffe, Amira, is dead. According to a news release from the Tulsa Zoo, the giraffe died early Sunday morning after Zoo staff say they worked around the clock to save her.
Early Saturday morning, zookeepers noted Amira, the giraffe, was acting lethargic and alerted staff veterinarian Dr. Kay Backues. Although the giraffe barn is heated, additional portable heaters were brought in and bedding added, according to a Tulsa Zoo news release. Zookeepers and veterinarian staff worked throughout the night treating Amira for suspected hypothermia, but she died early Sunday morning.
"We found Amira's core body temperature was low and began implementing treatment to raise it," said Backues. Giraffes are susceptible to cold weather as they are physiologically built to dispel heat quickly.
A necropsy was performed, and found her to be in "good body condition," but tissue samples have been sent for further testing and it is hoped results will return within the week.
"This loss has truly been devastating," said Terrie Correll, Director of the Tulsa Zoo, "no one is more heartbroken by this than zoo staff, who worked so valiantly to save Amira's life."
Zoo staff has worked to fortify animal exhibits around the Tulsa Zoo and have also implemented cold-weather procedures to protect the animals since the cold snap began, according to a Tulsa Zoo news release.
The Tulsa Zoo reports it has guidelines in place that determine when animals need to be brought in out of the elements. When temperatures drop below 40 degrees, the giraffes are kept in their heated barn and not put out on exhibit. With the intense cold weather Oklahoma is experiencing, Amira and the zoo's male giraffe, Samburu, have been in their barn for some time. Attention has been given to reduce cold drafts around the doors by sealing with plywood and hay bales in the 24-foot-barn, according to the zoo.
The Tulsa Zoo has one giraffe remaining, the 17-year-old bull, Samburu. Zoo staff say they will remain in the giraffe barn to monitor temperatures around the clock until weather conditions improve.
Amira was brought to the Tulsa Zoo in October from the Santa Barbara Zoo.
Amira is the second giraffe to die at the Tulsa Zoo in the past two months. Amali the giraffe arrived at the zoo with a crooked neck. She was put under anesthesia for x-rays, but Amali died when the zoo tried to bring her out of it.
The Tulsa Zoo bought both Amali and Amira at about the same time, but from different zoos.
The Tulsa city council will be discussing the giraffe deaths at its meeting Tuesday, January 12th at city hall.The Tulsa Zoo's 9-year-old female giraffe, Amira, is dead. According to a news... more
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Millions awoke to one of the most widespread snow covers on Christmas morning in at least 6 years!Millions awoke to one of the most widespread snow covers on Christmas morning in at... more
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For the 10th year in a row, SELF Magazine set out to determine the healthiest cities in America for women to live. Sara Austin, Features Director at SELF, announces this year’s winner and shares how other cities across the country measure up.For the 10th year in a row, SELF Magazine set out to determine the healthiest cities... more
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Gaining reparations for survivors of Tulsa's 1921 Race Riot is on the to-do list for a Tulsa initiative to fight racism, but it will take an act of Congress — literally — to get it done.
Several groups have come together, including the city of Tulsa, to form the Journey of Healing initiative, which will work to take people in the Tulsa community through a process to identify and address the issue of racism, said Mana Tahaie, the YWCA's director of racial justice.
Along with the Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice and the Tulsa Urban League, the YWCA is kicking off the first step Sunday with the premiere of "Before They Die," a documentary made by Mportant Films about the survivors of the race riot and their court struggle for reparations.
Several funds have been started to give the survivors reparations. But in most cases, money could not be given directly to the survivors because Congress has never designated them as a "charitable class," which is needed for the groups administering the funds to be in line with the rules of the Internal Revenue Service, Tahaie said.
About $83,000 was raised through the YWCA and other sponsorships for the survivors.
Through the Journey of Healing initiative planning, officials found a fund of about $500,000 at the Tulsa Community Foundation that had been mostly untouched since it was raised in the wake of the Tulsa Race Riot Commission's 2001 final report, Tahaie said.
Now, the Journey of Healing participants are seeking legislation to allow nonprofit groups and foundations to disburse those funds in cash.
The money now can be used only for indirect support, such as airfare and accommodations for Sunday's movie, Tahaie said.
For survivors, any kind of effort means a lot, she said.
"I just get the sense that this is a huge, huge deal for them," Tahaie said.
The film also will be a source of pride for people who might not know about the Greenwood neighborhood's rich history and cultural significance to black Americans, said Felicia Collins Correia, CEO of the YWCA.
"This is so much closer to home for children in north Tulsa to take pride in," she said.
In addition to hosting the film's showing, Journey of Healing will support efforts to address racism, including training groups to reach an understanding of the problem and a "Race against Racism" run in the Greenwood neighborhood.
"We want to be able to talk about race in Tulsa without guilt and placing blame," Tahaie said, adding that Journey of Healing "is the difference between providing social services and affecting social change." Gaining reparations for survivors of Tulsa's 1921 Race Riot is on the to-do list... more
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