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Blues U: Thinkin' Blues

Launch and Reception

2022-12-08 17:00:00 2022-12-08 19:00:00 America/Chicago Blues U: Thinkin' Blues In the spirit of the 1960s Freedom Schools, Blues U: Thinkin' Blues and the African American Resource Center bring you this Black culture pop-up study guide. For high schoolers and adults. Rudisill Regional Library

Thursday, December 08
5:00pm - 7:00pm

Add to Calendar 2022-12-08 17:00:00 2022-12-08 19:00:00 America/Chicago Blues U: Thinkin' Blues In the spirit of the 1960s Freedom Schools, Blues U: Thinkin' Blues and the African American Resource Center bring you this Black culture pop-up study guide. For high schoolers and adults. Rudisill Regional Library

In the spirit of the 1960s Freedom Schools, Blues U: Thinkin' Blues and the African American Resource Center bring you this Black culture pop-up study guide. For high schoolers and adults.

Blues U: Thinkin' Blues will be accessible online and in person at Rudisill Regional Library during library hours from December 2022-February 2023.

Blues U: Thinkin’ Blues is a free, accessible listening and study station for the North Tulsa community. It is a collaboration of Blues U, a local educational, arts and culture radio show hosted by kara lynch that airs bimonthly on 90.1 FM in Greenwood and www.radiocoyote.org, and the African American Resource Center (AARC).  

Thinking Blues is an open source lesson plan that highlights the transformative power of Black and Indigenous culture through the blues. The listening and reading/study station located in the African American Resource Center welcomes you to come listen to music and audio books or read books, articles and digital content selected from the library collection. Together we will explore vibrant Black artistic, social and political forms of expression!

The AARC jukebox and CD/media players are available in order to listen to CDs from the collection and archives of the Blues U radio show. Visitors are encouraged to borrow laptops to browse digital content as well. Accompanying the listening/study station will be an informational pamphlet and series of bookmarks with sample reading, listening and viewing guides, and prompts for further exploration, each with links and QR codes to connect you to the digital content. 

In this partnership, the African American Resource Center’s collection becomes the basis of study and discussion of Black ways of knowing, aesthetics, politics, culture, art, and literature.  A listening audience will come away with a toolkit for cultural resilience that draws from a deep blues past, present, and future.

Rudisill Regional Library

Phone: 918.549.7323

Branch manager
Keith Jemison

Hours
Mon, May 12 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Tue, May 13 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Wed, May 14 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Thu, May 15 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Fri, May 16 9:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, May 17 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, May 18 1:00PM to 5:00PM

About the branch

Services

  • WiFi
  • Wireless printing
  • Checkout laptops for in-library use
  • Public Access Computers
  • Meeting Room(s)
  • Book Club
  • AWE Early Literacy Computer
  • Bike Locks
  • Audio Induction Looping, Auditorium Access
  • Public Fax
  • Family Place
  • Business Center

Upcoming events

Sat, May 17, 1:30pm - 2:15pm
Ancestral Hall
Experience the thrilling rhythms of Japan. Enjoy the exhilarating energy of a powerful performance by Ohitsuji Daiko drumming group from Bailey Elementary School in Owasso. For... more
Experience the thrilling rhythms of Japan. Enjoy the exhilarating energy of a powerful performance by Ohitsuji Daiko drumming group from Bailey Elementary School in Owasso. For all ages.

Tue, May 27, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Kashif Rashad Nuriddin will present findings from first-hand travels, books and other scholarly research, including some connections to Oklahoma. Refreshments will be served.... more
Kashif Rashad Nuriddin will present findings from first-hand travels, books and other scholarly research, including some connections to Oklahoma. Refreshments will be served. For adults.

Sat, May 31, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Ancestral Hall
Join us for a free viewing of "Mufasa: The Lion King" (2024, rated PG). For all ages.