Apply to be a 2013 Plaza Festival Artist!

In celebration of the comeback of the revitalized Plaza District, the Plaza District Association holds the Plaza District Festival. The festival highlights a wide array of performing artists, visual artists, live musicians and children’s activities. The festival is open to the public and draws audiences from across Oklahoma City and the surrounding areas, and offers the surrounding neighborhoods an arts festival right in the heart of their community. Plaza District Festival boasts only Oklahoma artists, and is the only festival in Oklahoma City focusing on Oklahoma talent. Artist booths line NW 16th Street in a festive display of Oklahoma creativity!

Thank you for your interest in this year’s event! Questions and comments at info@plazadistrict.org

Artist Application here.

The 2013 Plaza District Festival is scheduled for September 28th, 2013!

Artists interested in applying should sign up for the call to artists here. Performers interested in performing should sign up here

More information coming soon on how you can get involved!

RAIN OR SHINE!

“Experience Local, Experience 16th”

Oklahoma City’s all local arts festival.

 Saturday September 29th, 2012 / 12-10pm (kids area 12-6pm)

Plaza District OKC, 1700 Block NW 16th

Festival Schedule & Activities

Over 40 Visual Artist booths

Fowler VW Tent
Bigfoot & Bigfoot Calling Contest
Treasure Chest of Treats
 
OECU Kidapalooza (FREE! 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.)
Art in Action Interactive art activities by Norman Firehouse Art Center
Kids Mural Painting
OKC Phil Instrument Playground
Metropolitan Library Crafts & Activities
Face painting
Puppet Making
Moon bounce, Hula Hoops, Sidewalk chalk and more!
FREE Photo booth

Food Vendors
Mobile Vendors:
Big Truck Taco
Heo’s Kitchen
Roxy’s Ice Cream Social
Atomic Dog
Sambino’s Italian Ice

Restaurants:
The Mule
Saints Pub
Urban Wineworks
Anotjitos Guatamaltecos
Beer Tents benefiting Plaza District Association

Everything Goes Dance Stage
Dance performances at the top of every hour

East (16th & Blackwelder)
12:30 – Weeko
1:30 – Allie Lauren
2:30 – Kaitlin Butts
3:30 – Grupo Afro Caribeno
4:30 – Zach Winters
5:30 – Beth Isbell
6:30 – Kaylee Losawyer
7:30 – Chelsey Cope

Main (located next to PhotoArt Studios)
noon – Erik the Viking
1:00 – Blake Fischer
2:00 – Grupo Afro Caribeno
3:00 – The Rockettops
4:00 – The Grown Ups
5:00 – Kyle Reid
6:00 – Zach Teller Trio
7:00 – Porch Mice
8:00 – Otis Watkins
9:00 – The Wurly Birds

Bad Granny’s Backroom
12:30pm Alan Peters (OKC) (Singer/Songwriter)
1:30pm Mikael Olof Junderwater (Tulsa) (Singer/Songwriter)
2:30pm Joe Sixpack & The Americans (Norman) (Alt/Hip-Hop)
3:30pm Maria Fantasma (Tulsa) (Singer/Songwriter)
4:30pm Sticky Stranglets (OKC) (Alt-Rock)
5:30pm Movements (Tulsa) (Alt-Rock)
6:30pm Deadweight (Lawton) (Voodoo-Reefer Rock)
7:30pm Risk On Da Disk (Tulsa) (Reggae/Hip Hop)
8:30pm Alan Doyle and The Outsiders (Tulsa) (Hip-Hop/Rap)
9:30pm Brother Gruesome (OKC) (Alt-Rock)

Special Events & Non-profits

Central OK Humane Society – pet adoptions 12-6pm

Midtown Rotary

12 – 10 pm Bomb Shelter presents the entire Elements Series in a special one-day event

7pm Revolutions BMX Jam session
8pm Velvet Monkey Fashion Show

“Before I Die” Interactive Community Art Project

Here in the Plaza District, we are a huge proponent of pet adoption and responsible ownership! (Check out the photos from our Plaza Pup Photobooth last year!) We are thrilled to have our friends with the Central OK Humane Society out at the festival doing pet adoptions from 12-6pm! So come check out the pets and learn more about the Central OK Humane Society and their available adoptions!

We are excited to announce Revolutions BMX Trick Show will be throwing a jam session during the Plaza Festival, around 7pm! Be sure to catch it!

At this year’s Plaza Festival, one group will have the distinction of performing at both our music stages. This group is Grupo AfroCaribeño, an Oklahoma City-based performance ensemble. The group fuses elements from cultural traditions from Africa and the African Diaspora, including bomba from Puerto Rico, rumba from Cuba and bambula from New Orleans.

The group aims to build a sustainable community that studies, appreciates and celebrates African-rooted music and dance forms through live performance, academic engagement and collaboration. For a sneak preview of what to expect, check out this video, from their performance at the Myriad Gardens in March.

They will perform first at the Coin-Op stage at 2, then at the Stanley’s Garage stage at 3:30.

How do you like your indie music? Infused with a little jazz and pop, or genre-defying altogether? Then you might want to check out Allie Lauren’s set.

A collective of backing musicians paired with the vocals of Lauren Nicole Clare (that’s luh-REN), Allie Lauren has been featured at this year’s Festival of the Arts, as well as Norman Music Festival and numerous performances at the Picasso Cafe. Their single “Lately” is also now featured on iTunes.

You can see them perform on the Stanley’s Garage stage at 1:30 during Festival. Hope to see you there!