Adults $7.50, Seniors $5.50, 18 and under are free. Students of local colleges also free with School ID (check with www.philbrook.com to be certain).
Death in ancient Egypt was complicated enough without the added stress of tomb robbery, scarce resources and limited burial space. Discover the elaborate funerary practices of the rich and poor with Dr. Kathlyn M. Cooney, archeologist, professor, star of the Discovery Channel series “Out of Egypt,” and consultant to the TV series “Lost.” But first, to get into the spirit, you’ll have to think like an Egyptian by deciphering clues from To Live Forever to find your way to the Afterlife. Upon arrival you’ll make your own amulet, which were often placed with a mummy to protect them in the next life. Granted, it’s a little macabre, but lots of fun!
5:30-6:30pm: Egyptian scavenger hunt, Make your own amulet, Cash bar
Papa is what everyone calls Rodger Cameron, a 59-year-old who travels regularly from his home in Copan to attend concerts and shows at Tulsa’s BOK Center.
In one week, he attended the Professional Bull Riders rodeo, WWE Monday Night Raw and Rascal Flatts.
In February, he shuffled into the arena with 18,000 other fans to see George Strait break hearts with a tip of his cowboy hat and Reba McEntire sing her heart out on “Fancy” in a va-va-voom red dress.
“That Reba McEntire — I’m married, but whew!” he says. “Reba looked good. And when she sang that one song, everybody was jealous, ’cause she was singing to me.”
Papa has never technically heard Reba McEntire sing because he went deaf by the time he was 30 — not long after Clem McSpadden hired the young redhead to sing at the 1974 National Finals Rodeo and created a star.
Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=269&articleid=20100801_4_D1_donotu220554
Twenty years ago today congress passed the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act. A week ago the FCC celebrated this milestone with an exhibition and program showcasing the advances made in assistive technology. See our video below for a look at the event.
The International Space Station has had guests from all over the world, representing myriad languages. But until NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson came aboard, one language was still not represented. Said to be the fourth most commonly used language in the United States, American Sign Language, or ASL, made its debut on the space station in a special video recorded by Caldwell Dyson.
When Jeri Cooper was born, doctors wanted to put her in the Hissom Memorial Center.
Today, she has a master’s degree and travels the state as a deaf-blind specialist with Oklahoma Rehabilitation Services’ Tulsa Visual Services Center.
“She’s a very remarkable woman who lives what we do,” said Jody Harlan, public information administrator with the Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation. “Having been there herself, she’s very conscientious of her clients’ needs.”
Cooper is one of two deaf-blind specialists in the state. Her focus is teaching people how to do things in the home.
“I teach people to be as independent as they want to be,” she said. “I reteach them how to cook, do laundry, money management, whatever they need to be independent. Some might not want to do laundry. That’s fine. I’ll teach them how to get it to the cleaners.”
A simple technology called a magnetic hearing loop allows wearers of specially outfitted hearing aids to get a wireless signal transmitted directly to their ear. The technology transforms garbled PA sounds into clear announcements. Hearing-impaired user David Myers explains.
Tyson Jennette (playing Mitch Mahoney) Tyson, a proud CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), has performed worldwide in the genres of musical theater, opera, gospel, jazz and even country. Se lect credits include; Ragtime, Dreamgirls, Camelot, The Who’s Tommy, The Full Monty, Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Little Shop of Horrors, The Magic Flute and Aint Misbehavin/Blues in the Night Re vue through Guatemala & El Salvador. Fluent in Spanish and American Sign Language, between gigs he works in New York City as a Tri-lingual Sign Language interpreter.
Tulsa:
Woodland Hills Mall
Food Court
71st and Memorial
6:00 p.m.
2010 Schedule
May 18, Tuesday
June 17, Thursday
July 26, Monday
August 24, Tuesday
September 20, Monday
(DAW-location may change)
October 21, Thursday
November 16, Tuesday
ist with Oklahoma Rehabilitation Services’ Tulsa Visual Services Center.
