Join us for a one-of-a-kind literary event, designed to give you a "taste" of some great books, tailored to your tastes and what you're looking for in your next read!

Like a wine tasting, we book concierges at Literati Press will put together carefully curated flights of books, all designed to help you explore books, genres, or authors we think you'll love!

What to expect:
• A presentation of the book flights by our book concierges. (You'll have a sheet to keep track of titles that catch your eye.)
• Time to explore the books presented, with tasting notes included to help you get to know each book better.
• Your choice of one of the books to take home with you!
• Exclusive discount: Love what you sampled? Enjoy 10% off any books from the book flights that night.

Whether you need fresh book recommendations, or just want to spend the evening with fellow book lovers, our Book Tasting event is for you!

This is a one-time, two hour workshop designed to enhance reading skills for writers

of all genres. The goal of the workshop is to guide each writer to a reading
presentation unique to their own sensibility. Writers will practice ways of being
present as well as rehearsal procedures that ensure confidence in the reading. The
workshop is both a discussion and an on-your-feet practice of skills that make the
writer comfortable, confident and able to give the audience the gift of their work.
Each writer is asked to bring something they want to read aloud.

Paul Austin has acted and directed On and Off Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, summer
stock, and regional theatres around the nation, as well as acting for television and
film. Late Night Conspiracies, a collection of his writings was performed with jazz
ensemble at New York’s Ensemble Studio Theatre, where he is a long time member.
He has taught acting at Sarah Lawrence College and at his own theatre and studio in
New York City. He has written for and about the theatre in essays, poetry and plays.
His work has appeared in such publications as This Land, Sugar Mule, Newport
Review and Oklahoma Review. His recently completed a collection of poems titled
Mother and Son is forthcoming from Turning Plow Press. He’s currently working on
two other collections In Praise of Actors and Persons of Influence.

Have you ever felt like premade book journals don’t quite fit how you'd like to track your reading? I don't know about you, but I have a pile of half-filled-out book journals myself!

Join me for a fun, creative Book Journaling Workshop, where you'll create our very own tailor-made book journal that truly fits your reading life!

Tracking your reading in fun and unique ways can help you get to know yourself as a reader, and give you something to look back on at the end of the year and feel a sense of accomplishment for the time you took to reflect and interact with the books you read over the year.

In addition to a blank journal that you can customize to reflect your unique reading style, you'll also get:
• Inspiration for the many different layouts you can use to track your reads
• Help designing your own reading challenges and goals that sound fun to you!
• Access to decorating supplies so you can design each page exactly how you want—think markers, stencils, washi tape, and stickers!

Let's get together and have some creatively bookish fun!

Melissa Coast is a book concierge and book buyer at Literati Press Bookshop. Melissa pinged on the Literati Press radar with her fantastic Instagram account, @stickynote_bookrecs as well as her frequent trips to our shop. Initially roped into the crew to help with spare hours, we soon realized she was a voracious reader and loved talking, selling, and curating books. Her role expanded into lead book buyer in 2023. She's always ready to chat with anyone who loves books as much as she does, happy to share recommendations, or just gush about favorite reads.

Each First Friday of the month, the community is invited to stroll the historic Paseo Arts District. All galleries, boutiques and businesses will hold extended hours through 9pm! Come explore! Skyy Webster will be playing live music at the red Flamenco sculpture!

This 4x4 fundraiser supports the Paseo Arts Association’s year-round mission of enriching, educating and inspiring the public through the arts through exhibitions, annual programs and events. Join us as we celebrate the end of the year and deck the walls for the holidays! Bidding starts at $25 and bidding ends at 7:30pm! FREE ENTRY!

This one-night art show and auction will have live music, food and drinks! Invite your friends for a night out and an opportunity to buy one-of a-kind holiday gifts at 4x4 created by over 50 different artists!

Join us for a festive musical performance during the event by the lovely Cheyanne Marie! Learn more about Cheyanne on her website HERE!

An Actor’s Carol

Adapted for the stage by David Weber, Tim Blewitt & Zach Hilbun. Recommend for all ages

December 11, 2024, Indoor Black Box Theatre

Run TIme: 1 hour, 45-minutes, including a musical performance and talk-back

Performed by acclaimed actor David Weber, this one-man version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol pushes the boundaries of traditional storytelling by incorporating elements of vaudeville, clown, and mime. The kinetic performance, punctuated by moments of clarity and hilarity from our Clown's backstory, promises a night of holiday spirit told through a captivating journey of redemption and self-discovery.

Join Flora Bodega for their fourth annual Christmas ornament show! Feautring works by:

@pityparty
@corporealceramics
@ohmargie
@blind.hill.creates
@ruthbloveland
@shopmaranda
@glass_garden_botanics
@bysofiarenas
@potgremlin.ceramics
@dwadlings
@swampgarbagecreations
@okie_artifacts
& more!

Join us for our next concert: Tony Foster Jr. and Sid Carter! We’ll see you there!

Each year the Paseo Arts Association honors artists and art supporters who have made a strong contribution to the arts in our state at the Paseo Arts Awards Dinner & Silent Auction. The PAA’s Annual Arts Awards were created to recognize and honor those individuals who have contributed to the artistic creativity and well-being of our state. By recognizing artists through these awards we hope to strengthen the Oklahoma art community. We wish to thank all the artists, patrons, supporters, teachers, authors, collectors, and overall appreciators of the arts.

Thursday, November 21, 6-9pm

City and State Venue & Events - 19 NE 6th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73104

Doors open at 6pm! Please enter the main entrance off of NE 6th Street

Sign up to learn beading basics with Su Casa!

This class will provide information about the basics of beading including bead sizes, beading thread, beading needles, starting and stopping beading thread as well as beading techniques such as Continental Beading, Tent Stitch Beading, Brick Beading and securely stitching beads.

Sign up on their website!

Sign up to learn some interesting background stitches with Su Casa!

You will be provided with a practice canvas, needle, fibers and a guide with stitch charts. They will demonstrate various background stitches and allow you time to try them out. Some will be full coverage stitches and some provide some open canvas. Some will also be appropriate for more than one fiber.

Sign up on their website!

Get into needlepoint with this introductory class at Su Casa!

In this class you will be provided a 13 count painted canvas, which is a 4" round with a simple striped pattern with your chosen Initial along with a needle and fibers that are enough to complete the canvas. You will learn about canvas, threads, needles, starting and stopping your thread, where to start on a canvas, color selection etc. We will show you the two basic ways to stitch your projects, Continental Stitch and Basketweave. You will receive charts to take home reminding you how to stitch.

Sign up on their website!

Get into needlepoint with this introductory class at Su Casa!

In this class you will be provided a 13 count painted canvas, which is a 4" round with a simple striped pattern with your chosen Initial along with a needle and fibers that are enough to complete the canvas. You will learn about canvas, threads, needles, starting and stopping your thread, where to start on a canvas, color selection etc. We will show you the two basic ways to stitch your projects, Continental Stitch and Basketweave. You will receive charts to take home reminding you how to stitch.

Sign up on their website!

Get into needlepoint with this introductory class at Su Casa!

In this class you will be provided a 13 count painted canvas, which is a 4" round with a simple striped pattern with your chosen Initial along with a needle and fibers that are enough to complete the canvas. You will learn about canvas, threads, needles, starting and stopping your thread, where to start on a canvas, color selection etc. We will show you the two basic ways to stitch your projects, Continental Stitch and Basketweave. You will receive charts to take home reminding you how to stitch.

Sign up on their website!

In this workshop, participants will engage in the process of exploring spaces (buildings, homes, towns, or places of the past) and relate them to the experience of queer existence. What do places say about us, especially those that have been left behind? What fears come up when exploring a location that has become “unknown”? How does horror arise in places when the location is a character, communicator, or symbol? This is an opportunity to expand one's writing, world building, and expression into undefined realms.

Blake Edward Hamilton earned his MFA in Creative Writing from The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. His work has appeared in World Literature Today Magazine: Windmill, NPR, Bombay Gin Literary Journal, The Guerrilla Lit Mag., and South Broadway Press, among others. His first full-length collection of poetry, All Through Your Multiple Selves (Spartan / Luchador Press) was released in 2020. His second collection of poetry, Move In Silence (Spartan / Luchador Press), was released in the Spring of 2021. His novel, HIRAETH (Spuyten Duyvil Press), was published in November 2021, and his collection of short fiction, Consummation (Spuyten Duyvil Press), was published in Spring 2023.

Join us for our next concert: Trilogy and Bella Burns! We’ll see you there!

Each First Friday of the month, the community is invited to stroll the historic Paseo Arts District. All galleries, boutiques and businesses will hold extended hours through 9pm! Come explore! Skyy Webster will be playing LIVE at the red Flamenco sculpture!

We at Art & Souls Boutique are thrilled to announce our vibrant and heartfelt Day of the Dead celebration, taking place at the charming Paseo Plunge with Holey Rollers! This special event promises to be a delightful blend of culture, art, and community spirit, and we can't wait to share it with you!

Sign up for Su Casa’s holiday needlepoint class!

You will receive a 13 count 8" x 8" blank practice canvas and 2 skeins of thread to try out different stitches and techniques for fur, beards and hats. We will teach turkey work (cut and looped), padding, knots and various other stitches appropriate for Santas. You will also receive a printed guide with stitch charts. We will also show samples and talk about various fibers available to use for beards, fur etc. Stretcher bars suggested and can be purchased at the shop if you do not have them.

Sign up on their website!

Mark your calendar for a networking happy hour with Ace Appraisal Group! Grab your friends and meet us at Barseo.

Have you ever wished to infuse your poetry with the warmth of the sunshine from the best day of your life? Or to weave the dusty trails of childhood dirt roads into your verses? Join us for a unique writing workshop where we’ll explore the art of replacing primary colors with vivid memories. Through guided exercises and creative exploration, you’ll learn to transform your poetry by painting with the palette of your past.

Durell Carter is a writer and teacher who lives in Oklahoma. He graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma with a graduate degree in English. He recently released a poetry collection, Mr. Monday Morning's Broken Songs and Testimonies. His work has been published in Posit, Midway Journal, Closed Eye Open, petrichor, and others.

Gretchen Morgenson is the senior financial reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit. A former stockbroker, she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her "trenchant and incisive" reporting on Wall Street. Previously at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, she and coauthor Joshua Rosner wrote the New York Times bestseller Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon about the mortgage crisis.

“Moonlit Massacre is a powerful, deeply-imagined meditation on violence, grief, race, and home. James Cooper has written a novel as engaging as it is thoughtful.” – Lou Berney, Edgar Award-winning author of November Road.”

In the summer of 1978, six employees of a Sirloin Stockade buffet restaurant found themselves forced into a walk-in freezer during a robbery, then executed, leaving no witnesses. The shocking events and resulting nine-month, nationwide manhunt left a deep scar in the psyche of Oklahoma City residents and served as inspiration for a new novel coming this October by English Professor and OKC City Councilor James Cooper.

Moonlit Massacre, Cooper’s debut novel, draws inspiration from one of Oklahoma’s most notorious crimes as well as other unsolved murders in the same time frame to knit together a story of a community gripped with fear. Rather than focus on the assailants, Cooper explores a young city rocked by tragedy.
Moonlit Massacre presents a diverse Oklahoma landscape overlooked by national news, utilizing elements of true crime, literary horror, and historical fiction to focus on the inner lives of Oklahomans from marginalized backgrounds. To bring this story to life, Cooper dedicated years to researching Oklahoma history and the Stockade murders before completing a Creative Writing MFA at Oklahoma City University. Similar books include Berney’s November Road, Killers of the Flower Moon, Devil in the White City, the works of Stephen Graham Jones, and Jane Harper’s The Dry.

While pursuing an MA in English at Oklahoma State University, Cooper received an award from The Society of Professional Journalists for his column in OSU’s O’Collegian concerning the need for federal hate crimes legislation. Cooper’s essay on the 2013 tornado that devastated Moore, Oklahoma, “An Oklahoma Perspective on Tornado Alley,” appeared in the Huffington Post. The Oklahoma Gazette published Cooper’s 2011 two-part cover story on the history of OKC’s LGBTQ community, “From Closet to Community.” Advocate Magazine named Cooper one of its June 2020 “Champions of Pride.” The New York Times profiled his 2019 campaign.

Cooper won re-election on Valentine’s Day February 2023 to a second term with more votes during a traditional election than any OKC council candidate in, at least, 14 years. Currently, Cooper teaches English and Film Studies as the Artist in Residence at Oklahoma City University, where he’s taught courses on writing and horror, focusing particularly the slasher and occult subgenres.
Moonlit Massacre arrives in bookstores from Literati Press this October 17. Pre-orders available through Instagram and Baker & Taylor

Paseo FEAST (Funding Emerging Artists with Sustainable Tactics) is an annual micro-grantprogram managed by the Paseo Arts Association, that allows five hopeful artists to garner the financial support of the community to fund their vision. The event will be held on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 at City + State Venue & Events.

How it works: A selection committee of arts professionals reviews creative proposals and selects up to five finalists. Each attendee purchases a ticket, which includes their dinner and a token. During the dinner, finalists give a five-minute presentation about their proposal to the FEAST audience, and diners will cast their votes with a FEAST token. The artist with the most votes wins a grant of the evening’s proceeds to fund their creative vision.

We hope that you will join us! Learn more about the event at thepaaok.org/feast

EVENT INFORMATION
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
-Doors open at 6:00pm
-Event begins at 6:30pm
-Program concludes by 8pm

SPONSORSHIP
We would love your consideration in sponsoring the PAA as we host Paseo FEAST. As previously mentioned, this event gives straight to hopeful artist so they may fund their vision.

If you would like to be a sponsor and pay by check, please call (405) 525-2688 or email the Community Engagement Manager (emily@thepaseo.org), Emily Ahearn. Checks can be addressed to the Paseo Arts Association and mailed to 3024 Paseo, Oklahoma City, OK 73103

TICKETS & GUEST INFO
$40 each, a delicious pasta and salad dinner will be served at each table with cash bar available!
Half of your ticket goes towards your meal and half goes towards funding the winning artist. Gratuity is not included in this cost, please tip your servers!