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This weekend: Living healthy, honoring MLK and enjoying a Sunday brunch
Published: 1/17/2013 6:46 AM
Last Modified: 1/16/2013 2:58 PM

Some of the options this weekend:

Live Healthy Expo
A healthy living expo will be at the Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center, 701 S. Main St., at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 17. Editors, please leave days/dates as written.
This event will feature cooking demonstrations from three restaurants — Full Moon Café, In the Raw and Wolfgang Puck Bistro.
Tickets are $15 at the door.
Speakers will talk about living healthy in 2013.

Philbrook Third Thursday
This month’s Third Thursday program at Philbrook is focused on photography. Attendees at the interactive event will learn about possible photo projects from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The cost of the program is included with museum admission.
Philbrook Museum of Art is at 2727 S. Rockford Road.

Library activities
Tulsa’s libraries are offering a variety of events for kids and teens on Saturday.
From 12:30 to 2 p.m., manga/anime fans can join like-minded teens meeting at Broken Arrow Library.
Kids 5 to 12 can have fun with Legos at Zarrow Regional Library from 2 to 3 p.m.
And everyone 8 and older is welcome to drop in at Central Library from 1 to 3 p.m. for some chess lessons from a 20-year veteran of the game.
Visit tulsaworld.com/library for more information.

Bridal Show
Brides-to-be who missed the recent wedding shows or want to see more can head to the Mabee Center, 7777 S. Lewis Ave., from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, for the Weddings of Tulsa Bridal Show.
Wedding experts, vendors and giveaways will be part of the event.
Tickets are $8 in advance at tulsaworld.com/mabee or $10 at the door.
Call 918-619-6519 for more information.

Gospel Sunday Brunch
Drop in at Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main St., between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Sunday, to enjoy live music from Charlie Redd & The Full Flava Kings and The Round Up Boys, as well as an all-you-can-eat brunch from Oklahoma Joe’s Bar-B-Cue. A cash bar will also be available.
Tickets are $25 for adults, $10 for ages 11-16 and free for children 10 and younger.

MLK events
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Monday, with the downtown parade scheduled for 11 a.m. that day. But several other events are set to commemorate the life of the civil rights leader this weekend.
At 2 p.m. Saturday, “Two Cousins Walking Through Faith” — a play that tells the story of living through the 1960s civil rights movement — will be performed at the Booker T. Washington Historical Site, 1631 E. Woodrow Place. Admission is $5 plus a canned food item. Children younger than 5 are admitted for free.
Then at 5:15 p.m. Sunday, a procession will gather for the Walk in Peace at Seventh Street and Cincinnati Avenue. The group will begin marching at 5:30 p.m. and head to 13th Street and Boston Avenue, where an interfaith commemorative service will be held at 6 p.m. at Boston Avenue Methodist Church. The Rev. John Nunes, president of Lutheran World Relief, will be the guest speaker and the oratorical contest winner will recite the “I Have a Dream” speech.



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Nour Habib joined the Tulsa World in 2011 as a general assignment reporter for the Scene section. She graduated from Oklahoma State University with a degree in journalism and political science. Before joining the World, she covered education for a community newspaper.

She looks forward to keeping up with all there is to do in Tulsa and sharing it with you. Because, after all, the more she finds, the more she gets to do, too.

Send any fun or interesting events her way at nour.habib@tulsaworld.com.

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