Acclaimed actor from Oklahoma, Wes Studi, will be honored by the Circle Cinema on Saturday, May 1, with a dedication of a medallion on the Circle’s Oklahoma Walk of Fame. Activities start at 11am with the dedication, followed by a reception. Sterlin Harjo, Native American filmmaker from Oklahoma, will read the dedication. The Circle will then have a special screening of the new documentary film, Reel Injun, that deals with Hollywood’s depiction of Native American and Indigenous People in film from the silent film era to present. Mr. Studi is one of the actors interviewed in the film.
Tickets for the event are $8.50 and are available at the box office, by phone at 585-3504, or on the Circle Web site. www.circlecinema.com
Hope you can join us on Saturday as we honor a great actor, Oklahoman, and member of the Cherokee tribe.
#1 by Isobel Shaw on July 27, 2010 - 11:27 am
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my sister is into performing arts to, she kind of love it.”-;
#2 by cmoreno on May 6, 2010 - 5:36 pm
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If you missed Wes Studi’s appearance at Circle Cinema’s “Walk of Fame” dedication, you can see him in the play, Buffalo Gallery, presented by Thunder Road Theater Company at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center through May 8.
The play, written and directed by Julie Pearson-Little Thunder, is a comedy set in Santa Fe in the 1980′s when the Indian art scene was its own Wild West. Tickets are $12, seniors and students $10. Information at (918)596-7111, (800)364-7111, or web.me.com/thunderroadtheater.
REEL INJUN with Wes Studi opens Friday, May 21 at Circle Cinema.