Upcoming Events at The Greenwood Gallery
Thu Jun 30, 1:00 PM - Thu Jun 30, 6:00 PM
The Greenwood Gallery
10 North Greenwood Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74120
Community: Downtown Tulsa
Description
Welcome to the DREAMLAND Experience, the history of Black Vaudeville 1890-1931 entrepreneurial minstrels who shaped American Entertainment!
Event Details
Welcome to the DREAMLAND Experience, the history of Black Vaudeville 1890-1931 entrepreneurial minstrels who shaped American Entertainment!
About this event
The Dreamland Theater was located in the Greenwood District of Tulsa and formally established in 1914. As the only Black theater in Tulsa it served African American audiences beginning in 1905 and showed live vaudevillian musical and theatrical revues as well as silent films until the massacre of 1921. It seated 750 persons running up to five shows a day and was operated by Loula Williams, wife of Jon Williams the prominent community activist, machinist, and entrepreneur. During the massacre of 1921, the Dreamland Theater gathered community members to organize Greenwood Negro Leagues (medicine, education, industry) to fight during the pillaging and chaos, eventually succumbing may first to the worst act of domestic terror in America the arson of Tulsa’s Greenwood Black Wall Street Tulsa Oklahoma America. In the black resurgence of 1922 that followed Mrs. Williams went by train to the Lowes Theatrical Entertainments Corporation securing the first ‘TALKIE’ motion picture projection system in Tulsa that year.
***NOTE: ALL PATRONS - NOTE: ALL PATRONS - NOTE: ALL PATRONS - NOTE: ALL PATRONS***
Thank you for your support of bwsaokla.org. This event and the free entrepreneurial media we generate to promote the rich legacy of our Greenwood Black Wall Street Tulsa Oklahoma America would not be possible without your support.
*THIS IS A TIMED AND QR TICKETED (REQUIRED) EVENT - A limited number of cash sale tickets will be available at the door for each 15 min tour. Time and line preference for the experience will be given to ticked patrons in accordance with their purchase.
**DOUBLE CHECK YOUR CHOSEN RESERVATION FOR DESIRED TIME. If you arrive on time you are already late. During peek hours if you miss your ticketed tour time you will be placed in the next (first available) timed tour.
**FOR THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF ALL PATRONS (masks optional).
***ONLY 25 PEOPLE WILL BE ALLOWED IN EACH 15 MIN EXPLORATION TIME IN THE EXHIBIT.
****STUDENTS & SENIORS PLEASE HAVE ID AVAILABLE.
****PHOTO PACKAGES WILL BE AVAILABLE ON SITE .
NOTE VIP:
*ALL VIP TICKETS COME WITH....
+1 *VIP COMMEMORATIVE BWSA LANYARD FOR UNLIMITED ACCESS TO THE EXHIBIT DURING OPEN HRS THIS SEASON.
+1 *VIP LIMITED EDITION POSTER OF THE MOST FAMOUS BLACK VAUDEVILLIAN PERFORMERS
+1 *VIP LIMITED EDITION HAT BRANDED 1920's BOWLER / DERBY HAT
+1 *VIP LTD T-SHIRTS WITH THE DREAMLAND EXPERIENCE FRONT WITH BLACK ON BLACK TUX LOGO. WELCOME BLACK ENTREPRENEURS AND BWSA SHIELD ON BACK.
VIP BRANDED T-SHIRTS AND BOWLER HATS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PICKUP AT WILL CALL AFTER MAY 15th 2022 / PLEASE BRING YOUR ID & QR CODE TICKET TO PICK UP YOUR SHIRT & HAT
About this event
The Dreamland Theater was located in the Greenwood District of Tulsa and formally established in 1914. As the only Black theater in Tulsa it served African American audiences beginning in 1905 and showed live vaudevillian musical and theatrical revues as well as silent films until the massacre of 1921. It seated 750 persons running up to five shows a day and was operated by Loula Williams, wife of Jon Williams the prominent community activist, machinist, and entrepreneur. During the massacre of 1921, the Dreamland Theater gathered community members to organize Greenwood Negro Leagues (medicine, education, industry) to fight during the pillaging and chaos, eventually succumbing may first to the worst act of domestic terror in America the arson of Tulsa’s Greenwood Black Wall Street Tulsa Oklahoma America. In the black resurgence of 1922 that followed Mrs. Williams went by train to the Lowes Theatrical Entertainments Corporation securing the first ‘TALKIE’ motion picture projection system in Tulsa that year.
***NOTE: ALL PATRONS - NOTE: ALL PATRONS - NOTE: ALL PATRONS - NOTE: ALL PATRONS***
Thank you for your support of bwsaokla.org. This event and the free entrepreneurial media we generate to promote the rich legacy of our Greenwood Black Wall Street Tulsa Oklahoma America would not be possible without your support.
*THIS IS A TIMED AND QR TICKETED (REQUIRED) EVENT - A limited number of cash sale tickets will be available at the door for each 15 min tour. Time and line preference for the experience will be given to ticked patrons in accordance with their purchase.
**DOUBLE CHECK YOUR CHOSEN RESERVATION FOR DESIRED TIME. If you arrive on time you are already late. During peek hours if you miss your ticketed tour time you will be placed in the next (first available) timed tour.
**FOR THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF ALL PATRONS (masks optional).
***ONLY 25 PEOPLE WILL BE ALLOWED IN EACH 15 MIN EXPLORATION TIME IN THE EXHIBIT.
****STUDENTS & SENIORS PLEASE HAVE ID AVAILABLE.
****PHOTO PACKAGES WILL BE AVAILABLE ON SITE .
NOTE VIP:
*ALL VIP TICKETS COME WITH....
+1 *VIP COMMEMORATIVE BWSA LANYARD FOR UNLIMITED ACCESS TO THE EXHIBIT DURING OPEN HRS THIS SEASON.
+1 *VIP LIMITED EDITION POSTER OF THE MOST FAMOUS BLACK VAUDEVILLIAN PERFORMERS
+1 *VIP LIMITED EDITION HAT BRANDED 1920's BOWLER / DERBY HAT
+1 *VIP LTD T-SHIRTS WITH THE DREAMLAND EXPERIENCE FRONT WITH BLACK ON BLACK TUX LOGO. WELCOME BLACK ENTREPRENEURS AND BWSA SHIELD ON BACK.
VIP BRANDED T-SHIRTS AND BOWLER HATS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PICKUP AT WILL CALL AFTER MAY 15th 2022 / PLEASE BRING YOUR ID & QR CODE TICKET TO PICK UP YOUR SHIRT & HAT
