New to Festival 2000 is the Art Gallery which features award winning art for view or purchase. Listen to the rhythmic beat as Red Earth's Dance Competition brings together the most gifted and accomplished dancers in the world. Continuous performances, artist demonstrations and hands-on activities scheduled throughout the weekend will also provide a unique experience for both children and adults. Other activities include The Art Market, The Artist Demonstration Area, The Craft Workshops, and The Film and Video Showcase. The streets of Oklahoma's capitol city will be ablaze when the fiery colors of more than 1,500 dancers, princesses, tribal dignitaries and others participate in the Red Earth Festival Parade.
Sunlight dances off the rippled, white sandbanks.
Swimming alongside you are some of the most graceful and extraordinary creatures on earth - wild dolphins. While few of us will ever have the chance to encounter a dolphin in the wild, OmniDome Theater audiences will be able to experience the next best thing as Dolphins takes a giant leap across the dome-screen, running through September 2000. From the dazzling coral reefs of the Bahamas to the wind-swept seas of Patagonia, Dolphins takes audiences on an underwater adventure with inquisitive Atlantic spotted dolphins, acrobatic dusky dolphins, and the familiar bottlenose dolphins. While most of what we know about dolphins comes from studying them in captivity, Kathleen Dudzinski, a young marine biologist and the star of Dolphins, and her colleagues conduct their research in the wild, allowing them to learn more about dolphins communication and their foraging and social behaviors. Dean and Jo Jo have saved each other's lives on more than one occasion, and their story will stir audiences with the beauty and mystery of interspecies communication.