FREE outdoor Film tomorrow night! Join us Wednesday July 8th. Downtown in park  between the Crowne Plaza Hotel and the PAC center. Check out the movie Buffalo 66. New website for the Tulsa Downtown CineSeries. http://www.tulsadowntowncineseries.com/

What’s New at Mayfest 2009
With all the recent changing weather, everyone is getting anxious for spring, and we all know what that means...Mayfest!
Please join us TODAY at 2pm in the Williams Towers Lobby (3rd & Boulder) for a press conference where we’ll announce all of the NEW and exciting things that are in the works for Mayfest 2009.  You won't want to miss the national headlining acts annoucement.  Mayfest has partnered with DFest to bring national entertainment on Friday and Saturday nights.
Mayfest Advertising Available - Deadline Extented
Don’t miss your chance to reach thousands of festival goers by advertising in the 2009 Tulsa International Mayfest Event Guide.  Mayfest 2009, scheduled for May 14-17, annually brings over 300,000 people to downtown Tulsa during the four day festival.  An event guide which includes a map, hours, entertainment schedules, etc. is created each year and is distributed to festival goers as well as online at www.tulsamayfest.org.
The deadline to reserve space has been extended to Tuesday, March 24th.  In order to reserve your spot today, please email Heather Pingry at hpingry@tulsadowntown.org.  There are a limited number of ads available for the guide.  Prices start at just $250 for a quarter page ad.  All

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......Show your support for local
downtown businesses and spend some quality time with people that love downtown
just as much as you do!  Join us for downtown happy hour on Tuesday, March
10th from 5-7pm at Eloté Café,
514 S. Boston Ave.  Eloté has been open for lunch since May of last year
and just last week opened for dinner.  Their specialty is real
margaritas…no mixes are used here!  For those of you who don’t like
margaritas, they have lots of other great choices.  There will also be
half price appetizers just for the downtown happy hour event.  We hope to
see you there…be sure to tell your friends and colleagues. 

Remember March 10th at Eloté from 5-7pm. See you there!

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What’s New at Mayfest 2009

With all the recent changing weather, everyone is getting anxious for
spring, and we all know what that means...Mayfest! 

Please join us on March 17th at 2pm in the Williams Towers Lobby (3rd
& Boulder) for a press conference where we’ll announce all of the NEW
and exciting things that are in the works for Mayfest 2009.  You won't
want to miss the national headlining acts annoucement.  Mayfest has
partnered with DFest to bring national entertainment on Friday and Saturday nights.

Mayfest Advertising
Available

Don’t miss your chance to reach thousands of festival goers by advertising
in the 2009 Tulsa International Mayfest Event Guide.  Mayfest 2009,
scheduled for May 14-17, annually brings over 300,000 people to downtown Tulsa
during the four day festival.  An event guide which includes a map, hours,
entertainment schedules, etc. is created each year and is distributed to
festival goers as well as online at www.tulsamayfest.org.

In order to reserve your spot today, please fill out the form
and return Heather Pingry at hpingry@tulsadowntown.org. 
There are a limited number of ads available for the guide.  Prices start
at just $250 for a quarter page ad.  All ads are four color. 
Businesses or organizations wishing to advertise must provide a finished
ad.  Please click
here for details on sizing and pricing. 

Mayfest Sponsorship
Opportunity

The 37th Annual Tulsa International Mayfest, scheduled for May 14-17, is
just around the corner.  We are happy to have several returning sponsors
for our 2009 festival, including our presenting sponsor MidFirst Bank.  Other
returning sponsors include St. Francis Children’s Hospital, Public Service Company of
Oklahoma, Metropolitan Real Estate Investors, LLC, Crowne Plaza, and Oklahoma State
University-Tulsa.

There are still several sponsorship opportunities available for the 2009
festival.  If you are interested in a Mayfest sponsorship, please contact
Jim Norton, President, Downtown Tulsa Unlimited, at jnorton@tulsadowntown.org
or 918.583.2617.

Mayfest Seeks Submissions
for Youth Art Gallery

......Mayfest
organizers are asking students in the Tulsa area to submit artwork for the 2009
PSO Youth Art Gallery.  Students’ artwork will be on display during this
year’s festival, May 14-17, at the Performing Arts Center.

The PSO Youth Art Gallery will showcase the artwork of students grades K-12. 
Each student may submit one entry that has been completed within the 2008-2009
school year.  Work that has been produced with commercial kits,
prefabricated forms or other commercial methods is not allowed. 

All students are eligible for cash prizes (3 in each age category).  In
addition, Mayfest is pleased to announce that the PSO Mark of Excellence Award
($500 cash) will again be available for one high school student for outstanding
creativity and technique. 

“PSO is proud to sponsor the Youth Art Gallery and is excited to continue to
honor one young Tulsa artist with the PSO Mark of Excellence Award,” said
Carole Huff Hicks, Community Affairs Manager, Public Service Company of
Oklahoma.  “The arts play such an important part in education and we are
pleased to support Mayfest’s efforts to bring art to the forefront of young
people’s lives.”

Students attending private, public or home schools in Tulsa County are
invited to submit.  Students can visit www.tulsamayfest.org to
download a submission form, which needs to be completed and turned in with the
artwork to the Performing Arts Center, LaFortune Studio between 4:30 and 7:00
p.m. on Wednesday, May 6th. 

Mayfest is presented by MidFirst Bank.  The
Youth Art Gallery is sponsored by Public Service Company of Oklahoma. 
Other sponsors include The Children’s Hospital at St. Francis, Metropolitan
Real Estate Investors, LLC, Crowne Plaza and OSU-Tulsa.

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Mayfest Seeks Art from Tulsa’s
College Students

The 2009 Mayfest specialty gallery has been created to showcase the artwork
of Tulsa’s most promising creative class: college students.

Tulsa International Mayfest is seeking entries from area college students to
participate in the Mayfest Exhibition of College Artists. The visual arts
exhibition will be held in the Park Centre lobby during Tulsa International
Mayfest, from Thursday May 14th- Sunday May 17th.

This year’s show is “The Urban Landscape,” which was chosen for its focus on
Tulsa’s growing recognition of a strong core, an embracing of urbanity, and the
way that Tulsa’s creative class views that space. Interpretations of this theme
are left up to the artist and creativity is both encouraged and expected.
Submissions are due on April 7th, 2009.  Artists may submit works in the
following mediums: ceramics, clay, digital art, drawing, fiber, glass,
graphics/printmaking, metal, mixed media, painting, pastel, photography,
sculpture and wood.

All artists submitting work must be currently enrolled as an undergraduate
student of a Tulsa area college or university. All artwork submissions should
be made via email, one image per email. Please put “Mayfest College Gallery
Submission” as the subject and provide artist name, phone number, email, title,
media and price (if applicable) in the body of the email with each submission.
Then, attach the image of your artwork to the email, no larger than 1 MB, and
send to collegegallery@tulsamayfest.org. 
Please limit your submissions to two works. Artists whose work is selected will
be notified by email by April 24th.

For more information, please contact Elizabeth Downing, College Gallery
Chair, at 918-277-3786 or collegegallery@tulsamayfest.org.

Mayfest Call for Volunteers

......Organizers
of 2009 Tulsa International Mayfest, scheduled to take place May 14-17 in the
heart of beautiful downtown Tulsa, are seeking volunteers for the
festival.  Mayfest volunteers are vital to the festival’s
success.   Each year, volunteers log thousands of hours, which make
the festival the nationally renowned event that it has become. 

Both individual and corporate team volunteers are needed for the following
categories: coupon sales, beverage sales, souvenir sales, Youth Art Gallery
host, College Gallery host, KidZone activities, and artist relations.  The
festival needs approximately 800 volunteers over the four-day event. 
Volunteer shifts are approximately 3-4 hours each and volunteers are welcome to
work one or more shifts throughout the festival.

To join our amazing team of 2009 Mayfest volunteers, visit www.tulsamayfest.org
to download a volunteer application or contact Mayfest Volunteer Coordinator,
Barbara Pendleton, at 918-951-1664.  We look forward to seeing you at this
year’s festival.

All volunteers will receive a $5 off coupon for official Mayfest merchandise
as well as a special button featuring the 2009 poster artwork which is not
available for purchase.

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Tell Us What You Think!

We want to hear from you!  At Downtown Tulsa Unlimited, we’re
evaluating our membership benefits, events, publications and how we communicate
with both members and non-members.

Your opinions are important to us as you’ve expressed an interest in
downtown.  We’re asking you to take this brief, online survey to aid us in our efforts.  Your responses will
be confidential.  The purpose of this survey is to better serve our
members as well as the general public by offering relevant benefits, events and
information.   

We appreciate your support of our organization and your time to take this
quick survey.  Also, by taking the survey, you have a chance
to win a $100 gift certificate to a great downtown restaurant.............................

Downtown Happy Hour

......Show your support for local
downtown businesses and spend some quality time with people that love downtown
just as much as you do!  Join us for downtown happy hour on Tuesday, March
10th from 5-7pm at Eloté Café,
514 S. Boston Ave.  Eloté has been open for lunch since May of last year
and just last week opened for dinner.  Their specialty is real
margaritas…no mixes are used here!  For those of you who don’t like
margaritas, they have lots of other great choices.  There will also be
half price appetizers just for the downtown happy hour event.  We hope to
see you there…be sure to tell your friends and colleagues. 

Remember March 10th at Eloté from 5-7pm. See you there!........................

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Downtown Walking Tour

......Bandana
Tours will lead a walking tour downtown Saturday, March 14th.  The tour
will include Art Deco architecture and history of Tulsa.  (It will be
primarily an outside tour as most buildings downtown are closed on the
weekend.)

The tour will be limited to 25 people; call 760-7783 to reserve a place on
the tour.  Payment that day will be $5.00. 

The tour will be one hour, from 10 – 11am.  Participants should be able
to walk a mile or more.

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YMCA is Moving

As you have probably seen by now, the YMCA of Greater Tulsa has begun
renovations to the historic Mayo Building at 424 South Main Street. This project
will create a new, 23,000-square-foot YMCA branch in the middle of Tulsa’s core
business district.

Come January 2010, the YMCA will be in the completely renovated space that
will include a cardio area, strength and conditioning center, a Spirit, Mind
and Body Center, classrooms for everything from Tae Kwan Do to Pilates, locker
rooms, a sauna and whirlpool, and Child Watch services for members. The space
will also house YMCA metro offices and community outreach offices.

In order to stay in the current location, new building regulations would
have required making extensive renovations to the current downtown location,
forcing the YMCA to incur substantial costs beyond their reach. However, the
YMCA has been in downtown Tulsa for 100 years in 2009, and is committed to
having a facility here—hopefully for another 100 years! Also, moving the new
facility into the Mayo Building helps bring a piece of Tulsa’s history back to
life. The YMCA’s current downtown location is listed with a real estate broker,
and the YMCA will be sure that whoever buys the building intends to use it to
benefit Tulsa in the future.

They want to continue to be great neighbors in downtown Tulsa. Please let
them know if you have any questions about the new facility. And the grand
opening gets closer, you will receive a Save-the-Date invitation for an open
house to celebrate the new downtown YMCA.

Here’s to a happy and healthy 2009 for all of us!

Article courtesy of Susan Plank, YMCA of Greater Tulsa....................

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City Style 2.1.09 President’s Letter Well, we just had a major winter storm come through and everything seems just about back to normal.  I hope people will have taken notice of the way Downtown Tulsa Unlimited crews accomplished sidewalk cleaning during the most recent storm.  Those guys are out there in the bitter cold, the first day the storm hit, and are still cleaning up.  It’s a real tribute to our Field Services Manager, Gerald Turner, and all the guys who do this hard work, especially during the heat of the summer and the cold of the winter.  Hats off to the guys!! Well, the Drillers Ballpark has broken ground and ONEOK Field will soon be under construction.  The goal is to have the stadium ready for the 2010 season, which will require some luck with the weather and some major construction.  Also the John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Memorial and the redevelopment of Greenwood continue under the watchful eye of the Greenwood Chamber of Commerce and Reuben Gant.  I have seen some of the drawings which Jack Crowley has done for the Greenwood Chamber and they really are quite good.  I understand it will accomplish exactly what the Greenwood Chamber wants.  With the addition of the ballpark, Reconciliation Park, and the Greenwood Center the Greenwood area will really be coming to life.  Also to the west of the Greenwood District, the Brady is going to have some exciting new projects.  The Tulsa Community Foundation is planning a new park between KOTV and the Arts and Humanities Council warehouse where the Atkins Western Art Exhibit will be located.  Some of those projects should be on the way shortly.  You may be wondering why KOTV has delayed its construction.  With the economic downturn it was felt that rebidding some of the elements might produce a lower cost since construction costs have dropped considerably in the last 60-90 days.  They are still committed to building the new station. Well, that’s about it from my end.  Lots of good things going on Downtown. Very truly yours, Jim Norton President Downtown Tulsa Unlimited Begins New Marketing Campaign   January marked the beginning of implementation of DTU’s new marketing campaign.  One goal of this campaign is to drive people to www.tulsadowntown.org for all of their downtown needs, from dining and entertainment to living and doing business.  We’ll have ads in several local publications, so you’ll start to see them soon, if you haven’t already.  In addition, DTU is creating new events this year to add to our lineup of Tulsa International Mayfest, Music on the Square, Devour Downtown Tulsa Restaurant Week and the PSO Christmas Parade of Lights.  We’ll be adding a pub crawl in the fall and several downtown happy hours throughout the year. We hope that you’ll continue to support downtown and help us spread the word of how great downtown Tulsa truly is! Membership Breakfast Thank you to the many members and guests that attended our Membership Breakfast on January 20th at the Downtown Doubletree featuring Dr. Thomas McKeon, President and CEO of Tulsa Community College, as our speaker. We would like to thank our table sponsors American Parking, BlueCross BlueShield of Oklahoma, Downtown Doubletree, Flintco, MidFirst Bank, and Public Service Company of Oklahoma. Stay tuned for information on our next Membership Breakfast scheduled for the 2nd quarter of 2009. Mayfest Seeks Art from Tulsa’s College Students The 2009 Mayfest specialty gallery has been created to showcase the artwork of Tulsa’s most promising creative class: college students. Tulsa International Mayfest is seeking entries from area college students to participate in the Mayfest Exhibition of College Artists. The visual arts exhibition will be held in the Park Centre lobby during Tulsa International Mayfest, from Thursday May 14th- Sunday May 17th. This year’s show is “The Urban Landscape,” which was chosen for its focus on Tulsa’s growing recognition of a strong core, an embracing of urbanity, and the way that Tulsa’s creative class views that space. Interpretations of this theme are left up to the artist and creativity is both encouraged and expected. Submissions are due on April 7th, 2009.  Artists may submit works in the following mediums: ceramics, clay, digital art, drawing, fiber, glass, graphics/printmaking, metal, mixed media, painting, pastel, photography, sculpture and wood. All artists submitting work must be currently enrolled as an undergraduate student of a Tulsa area college or university. All artwork submissions should be made via email, one image per email. Please put “Mayfest College Gallery Submission” as the subject and provide artist name, phone number, email, title, media and price (if applicable) in the body of the email with each submission. Then, attach the image of your artwork to the email, no larger than 1 MB, and send to collegegallery@tulsamayfest.org. Please limit your submissions to two works. Artists whose work is selected will be notified by email by April 24th. For more information, please contact Elizabeth Downing, College Gallery Chair, at 918-277-3786 or collegegallery@tulsamayfest.org. PAC “Name the Ushers” Contest The PAC is adding a fresh coat to start the new year, but this time it’s not paint. The Tulsa Performing Arts Center ushers, affectionately known for years as “the yellow jackets,”due to the highly visible color of their uniforms, are changing their apparel after 32 years of wear. No longer will they don bright yellow — a blazer color they could not duplicate (even if they wished to) — but a color that complements the PAC’s new burgundy-colored seats, and everyone’s complexion! “The ushers themselves were a little weary of the yellow after three decades,” says PAC Director John Scott. “Another change will be that every usher will wear a name tag that identifies them by at least their first name.” The ushers’ new-coat premiere in Chapman Music Hall will be Oprah Winfrey Presents The Color Purple, which opens on January 20. “Oprah was contacted to see if she would change the name of the show to “Oprah Winfrey Presents The Color Burgundy,” for this special occasion, but politely declined,” Scott said, joking. Event Services owner Max Fisher, who runs the usher operation that serves the PAC, offered, "I could say we're tickled 'burgundy,' but I'll just say all of our ushering staff is excited and thrilled to be sporting new blazers." Given that the “yellow jacket” designation will no longer be suitable, the PAC is holding a “Name the Ushers” contest. Winner of the contest will receive a $100 gift certificate, compliments of the PAC’s good neighbor, The Daily Grill, located in the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Entries should be sent to Name the Ushers, c/o Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 110 E. Second Street, Tulsa, OK 74103, e-mailed to sgaffen@cityoftulsa.org, or posted on the Performing Art Center’s Facebook page. There is no limit to the number of entries that can be submitted. A winner will be chosen and contacted on February 13, 2009. The usher uniforms are a gift from the Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust. Article courtesy of Nancy Hermann, Marketing Director, Tulsa Performing Arts Center. Cain’s Ballroom Ranks High in   Worldwide Club Venues Pollstar, a trade publication that covers the worldwide concert industry, recently released its list of the Top 100 Worldwide Club Venues.  The list is based up annual ticket sales.  Cain’s Ballroom was number 41 on the list with a total of 87,161 tickets sold in 2008.  This places Cain’s above well known and respected clubs in the UK, Mexico, Canada and across the US. When planning a night out in downtown, be sure to visit www.cainsballroom.com for their list of upcoming shows. Happenings Don’t forget to check out our Web site for a calendar of Downtown events.

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