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2022 Oklahoma Nonprofit Excellence (ONE) Awards finalists announced. Things to do including Bastille’s “Give Me the Future” tour, a Cherokee short film event in Tulsa and the Devon Ice Rink at the Myriad Botanical Gardens. The Calm Waters Center for Children and Families names two new board members.

"It's actually accomplishing what we always started out wanting to do, that this would not just be what some would refer to as a 'one-and-done,' or a 'Kumbaya' moment where 'OK, we sang, we held hands, now everybody go back home.' This is a commemorative year ... even into the fall with Tulsa Ballet doing a full production and bringing African American artists and dancers from New York and an African American choreographer for a full production about the history of Greenwood," said Phil Armstrong, project director for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission.  "This is the beg...

Jennifer Hays-Grudo, PhD, is a Regents Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at OSU Center for Health Sciences in Tulsa. She is the Principal Investigator and Director of the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Adversity (CIRCA), an $11M center grant funded by the National Institutes of Health, where she coordinates research and training on adversity and resilience. Prior to that she was the George Kaiser Chair of Community Medicine at OU-Tulsa where she led the Tulsa Children’s Project, a collaboration with Harvard’s Center for the Developing Child. She is the co-autho...

South Tulsa Children’s Ballet Offers Space To Thrive As Dancers Perform Nutcracker Dancers with South Tulsa Children’s Ballet are getting ready to perform the Nutcracker, but this show is special because everyone who auditions gets a part. The director tells News On 6 this nonprofit is her way of making sure ballet is accessible to every child. "No matter what, they are going to bring something to this program," said South Tulsa Children’s Ballet Director Pamela Farry-Haden. These dancers are just hours away from their 2020 performance of the Nutcracker. "They make you feel welcome a...