Explore events coverage from The Tulsa Times: Festivals, rodeo, openings, arts, Route 66 calendar — service journalism.
Festivals, rodeo, openings, arts, Route 66 calendar — service journalism
The late-October festival at River West Festival Park pairs imported German beer tents with a local music lineup — and a shuttle math problem worth solving early.
A one-tank itinerary along Oklahoma's centennial highway: six roadside landmarks inside a short drive of downtown, and what each one actually is.
From the State Fair's advance gate prices to Oktoberfest wristbands and football season tickets, Tulsa's fall calendar rewards buying in June and July.
The fair's creative arts contests close their entry books in August — weeks before opening day — and pay real premium money to Tulsa-area winners.
Tulsa marks Juneteenth in the Greenwood district each June 19, where the holiday's national history and the city's own 1921 history meet on the same blocks.
Tulsa International Mayfest shifts its downtown edition to May 29-30 and spreads the festival across the month, aligning with the highway's centennial celebration.
Behind Tulsa's largest annual event is a county authority, a year-round expo business, and a fair that turns Expo Square into a small city each fall.
The highway commissioned in 1926 hits its centennial this year, and Tulsa — Cyrus Avery's city — anchors Oklahoma's longer-than-any-other-state stretch with a full event slate.
Tulsa's winter rodeo calendar runs through the BOK Center, where Professional Bull Riders events turn 8-second rides and a 100-point scale into a full weekend.
Tulsa's 2026 festival season runs from a centennial-flavored Mayfest in late May to the Tulsa State Fair's early-October run at Expo Square.