Odessa Arts

Sensory Friendly Storytime
2025-05-28 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Ector County Library
Share West Texas is back to help the Library present a Sesnory Friendly Storytime where we read a few books, sing some songs, and make a craft. Sensory bins are available to play with, too!
Share West Texas regresa para ayudar a la Biblioteca a presentar una Hora del Cuento Sensorial donde leemos algunos libros, cantamos canciones y hacemos una manualidad. ¡También hay contenedores sensoriales disponibles para jugar!

Toddler Tales Storytime - DOWNTOWN
2025-05-28 11:00 - 11:30, 2025-05-21 11:00 - 11:30 | Midland Library at the Plaza (Downtown), 301 W. Missouri Ave., Midland, TX, 79701, United States
Fun ways to help support toddlers’ developing literacy and cognitive growth by incorporating action rhymes, songs, and movement. Child must have an accompanying adult. Ages 3-5.

Toddler Tales Storytime - CENTENNIAL
2025-05-28 11:00 - 11:30, 2025-05-21 11:00 - 11:30 | Midland County Library – Centennial Branch, 2503 Loop 250 Frontage Rd., Midland, TX, 79705, United States

Seether: The Surface Seems So Far Tour
2025-05-27 19:30 | The Tailgate Midland, 4401 N Big Spring, Midland, TX, 79705, United States
DIN Productions presents Seether: The Surface Seems So Far Tour with P.O.D. and Nonpoint at The Tailgate in Midland, Texas!
Doors: 6:00 PM

Doors at 6pm. No re-entry. No lawn chairs permitted. No outside food or alcohol. Food trucks on site. Clear bag policy.
This is a rain or shine event. No refunds.

Ticket prices increase on the date of the performance.

Rhythm and Rhyme Storytime - CENTENNIAL
2025-05-27 11:00 - 11:30, 2025-05-20 11:00 - 11:30 | Midland County Library – Centennial Branch, 2503 Loop 250 Frontage Rd., Midland, TX, 79705, United States
Interactive storytime that includes early literacy fun with books, songs, fingerplays, and body movement. Child must have an accompanying adult. Ages 0-2.

Adult Coloring Group - CENTENNIAL
2025-05-26 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-05-19 15:00 - 16:00 | Midland County Library – Centennial Branch, 2503 Loop 250 Frontage Rd., Midland, TX, 79705, United States
Coloring reduces stress, improves focus, and stimulates creativity. Newcomers welcome. Adults.

Jean Carlos Centeno y Ronal Urbina
2025-05-25 20:00 | La Hacienda Event Center, 12600 TX-191 Hwy, Midland, TX, 79705, United States

Jean Carlos Centeno & Ronal Urbina
2025-05-25 08:00 - 17:00 | La Hacienda Event Center, 12600 TX-191 Hwy, Midland, TX, 79705, United States

GRUPO NOCIVO
2025-05-24 21:00 | Dos Amigos, 4700 N.Golder Ave, Odessa, TX, 79764, United States
¡Este 24 de mayo prepárate para una noche norteña que no olvidarás!
Ven a disfrutar de NOCIVO en Dos Amigos, donde la música norteña hará vibrar la pista.
¡Es la oportunidad perfecta para echarte unos buenos bailes con los mejores éxitos!
Hora: 9:00 PM
Fecha: sábado, 24 de mayo
Ubicación: 4700 N Golder Ave, Odessa, TX 21+
Reservaciones: (432) 888-0877
Con DJ para seguir la fiesta
¡No faltes, será una fiesta de altura con la mejor música!
#NocheNorteña #Nocivo #DosAmigos #FiestaMexicana #MúsicaEnVivo #OdessaTX
#SábadoDeBanda #VivaMéxico #NocheDeDiversión

Create Playdate
2025-05-24 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-05-17 11:00 - 15:00 | Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 North Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ, 85004, United States
Create Playdate
Want to make art inspired by your favorite Phoenix Art Museum works on view? Create Playdate offers young artists a hands-on maker experience during their visit through our mobile, in-gallery art cart. Each week’s Create Playdate offers a fresh and fun theme featuring an artwork on view, an art making activity to do at the Museum, and kids’ projects to extend the fun at home!
Create Playdate is included in general admission and no registration is required. Drop in any Saturday between 11:00 AM and 3:00 PM.
May 2025
Saturday, May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 | 11 AM – 3 PM
Inspired by the annual migration of monarch butterflies from Canada to Mexico, Carlos Amorales conceived Black Cloud as a “swarm” of moths that take over museum spaces, rising to envelop the viewer. Made up of 25,000 black paper moths and butterflies of 30 different species, the installation forms a surreal, yet sublime gathering of insects delicately poised in sculptural formations. Visitors will create their own black paper moth and butterfly covered artwork.
Programs take place onsite in the galleries at Phoenix Art Museum. Create Playdate is free for members and included in general admission for the general public.
Create Playdate is made possible by First Things First, The Discount Tire Endowment for Children’s Art Programs, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs.

Music in the Garden
2025-05-23 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-05-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N. GALVIN PARKWAY, Phoenix, AZ, 85008, United States
DATE: May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
TIME: 7-9 p.m., doors open at 6 p.m.
PRICE: Members: $32.95 | General Admission: $36.95 | This event is 21+. No infants or children permitted.
Enjoy a stunning Garden backdrop as you experience local bands during this Friday night series. This 35-year-old tradition returns with concerts January through May. Food and beverages available for purchase. This event is 21+. IDs will be checked, No infants or children permitted.
May 2: DeGrazia & Barajas | Classical and Flamenco Guitar
May 9: Carmela y Más | Latin Jazz & Salsa
May 16: True Flavor Blues | Slightly Jazzy Traditional Blues
May 23: YACHTZILLA! Monsters of Soft Rock | Yacht Rock 70s-80s
May 30: Cisco and the Racecars | Bluegrass folk old-time music
Chef Specials available for purchase
May 2: Carnitas Tacos: Braised Pork Carnitas, Corn Tortillas, Avocado Crema, Salsa Fresca, Refried Beans, Calabacitas
May 9: Beef Sopes: Beef Machaca, Pinto Beans, Shredded Lettuce, Tomatoes, Crema, Queso Fresco, Arroz Verde
May 16: Chili Con Carne Dog: All Beef Hot Dog on a Brioche Bun, Topped with Beef Chili, Cheddar Cheese, and Onions, Served with Tater Tots
May 23: Gyro: Traditional Gyro with Tzatziki Sauce, Fresh Pita, Pickled Onion, Garlic Hummus, Cherry Tomatoes, Cucumber, Feta
May 30: Pulled Pork Sandwich: Slow Roasted Pulled Pork on a Brioche Bun, Creamy Coleslaw, Fresh Dill Potato Salad, Grilled Watermelon, and Carolina BBQ Sauce

7 BRIDGES (EAGLES TRIBUTE BAND)
2025-05-23 19:00 | The Venue at Live Oak, 3201 Elkins Rd, Midland, TX, 79705, United States
🎸 Experience the Ultimate Eagles Tribute! 🎸
Get ready for 7 Bridges: The Ultimate EAGLES Experience – a stunningly accurate tribute to the legendary band! No backing tracks, no harmonizers—just pure, authentic Eagles sound. 🎸✨
📅 Date: Friday, May 23, 2025⏰ Showtime: 7:00 PM (Doors open at 5:30 PM)📍 Venue: The Venue at Live Oak, 3201 Elkins Rd, Midland, Texas🌦 Rain or Shine – No Refunds
🎟️ Get your tickets now: www.liveoak.events 📞 Contact: 432-219-7922
Don’t miss this incredible night of classic hits! Tag your concert crew and get ready to rock! 🎸🔥 #EaglesTribute #7Bridges #LiveMusic #MidlandTX

Main Street Live - Basin PBS
2025-05-23 18:00 | Basin PBS Studio, 203 N Main, Midland, TX, 79705, United States
Basin PBS is proud to announce our 2025 MAIN STREET LIVE!
Headlining this year’s event is none other than country music legendWynonna Judd!
Tickets & Sponsorship Opportunities

Early Bird Tickets go on sale March 2 for $100 each.
Tickets At-the-Door will increase to $125 each.
Sponsorships Available Now!
Contact Erica Thomas at ethomas@basinpbs.org or Laura Wolf at lwolf@basinpbs.org or call 432-563-5728 to secure your spot.

General admission does not include food or drinks. Cash bar will be available.
No outside food or drinks, no coolers permitted.
Tables are also available in all price ranges.

Read to Louie
2025-05-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Ector County Library
Felix is still on vacation, but his friend Louie is ready for you to grab a book and maybe scritch ears!
Félix todavía está de vacaciones, ¡pero su amigo Louie está listo para que tomes un libro y quizás le rasques las orejas!

Object of the Month: Madonna and Child
2025-05-22 11:30 - 12:00 | Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 North Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ, 85004, United States
Object of the Month
Free for Members | Included with general admission for the general public
Reserve your spot at the Visitor Services desk.
Join Museum Docents for an in-depth exploration of a single work of art. These 30-minute, interactive gallery talks spark connections and conversation about the featured object’s history, meaning, and relationship to other works in the collection.
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Madonna and Child
This May, as we honor the mothers in our lives, join Master Docent Sherry Koopot for an exploration of Baroque painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri’s Madonna and Child. In Christian art, Mary has long been depicted as the devoted mother of the infant Jesus. However, in today’s context, she represents far more-embodying maternal compassion, motherhood, and the strength of femininity.

Art Tales: The Princess and the Pea
2025-05-21 13:00 - 13:30 | Ellen Noel Art Museum, 4909 E. University, Odessa, TX, 79762, United States
Join us at the Ellen Noël Art Museum for a delightful event tailored for art-loving preschoolers aged 3-5 and their grown-ups. At 1:00 PM, we invite you to immerse yourselves in a beautifully illustrated story and a fun art activity. This free event offers an engaging children’s story followed by a hands-on art project related to the tale.
Our featured book for this session is The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen. Young attendees will be entertained by the charming story of a young princess who is challenged before she marries a prince. After the story, children will participate in an art activity inspired by the adventures. It’s a wonderful opportunity to foster a love of reading and creativity in young children while spending quality time together. We look forward to welcoming you and your little artists to the museum for this fun and inspiring event!

CoA: Classic Car Show
2025-05-18 10:30 - 14:00 | Bush Convention Center, 105 N. Main Street, Midland, TX, 79701, United States
Rev up your excitement for a Classic Car Show Spectacle at Celebration of the Arts! Explore a dazzling display of vintage automobiles that showcase timeless craftsmanship & design, presented by Classic Memories AACA Car Club of Midland.
Free Admission!

MISS LATINA 2025
2025-05-17 20:00 | Dos Amigos, 4700 N.Golder Ave, Odessa, TX, 79764, United States
¡La emoción está por comenzar en Dos Amigos!

Miss Latina West Texas llega con un evento espectacular este 17 de Mayo de 2025 a las 8:00 PM. Lo que podrás vivir: ¡Una competencia de belleza y talento! Las participantes se batirán por la corona en una elección de Miss Latina con mucho glamour y energía. Banda 614 pondrá el ritmo para que disfrutes de la mejor música en vivo mientras las chicas compiten por ser Miss Latina West Texas. Dónde:Dos Amigos4700 N Golder Ave, Odessa, TX 79764Ven a disfrutar de esta noche única, llena de talento, belleza y diversión. ¡Nos vemos en Dos Amigos para apoyar a nuestras participantes y vivir una noche llena de sorpresas!

Superman in Concert
2025-05-17 19:30 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
You’ll believe a man can fly as Superman in Concert arrives in concert halls around the world, accompanied by the power of a full symphony orchestra performing John Williams’ triumphant original score live to picture! Directed by Richard Donner, and showcasing a young Christopher Reeve in a breakout performance that would make him an international superstar, Superman relays the hero’s inspiring origins, from his narrow escape as an infant from the doomed planet Krypton, to his formative years on a farm in Smallville, Kansas, and finally to his arrival in Metropolis, where he leads dual lives as mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent and as the mythic Man of Steel. Don’t miss this exciting chance to experience the film that started it all in a way you’ve never seen it before!

Basin Brunch ft. Sommer Ray + the Montana Boyz
2025-05-17 18:00 | The Tailgate Midland, 4401 N Big Spring, Midland, TX, 79705, United States
Basin Brunch ft. Sommer Ray + the Montana Boyz! This event is 21 & up. Uber/rideshare encouraged.

Ticket Prices:

• General Admission – $20.00 / Week of Show $25 / Day of Show $30.00

• Couch Sectional on Concrete (Price includes entry for 15 people) $2,250.00

• Couch Sectional on Turf (Price includes entry for 15 people) $1,500.00

• Standing VIP ticket $75.00 / Day of Show $100

• Meet & Greet with the Montana Boyz $100

Clear bag policy. Doors at 6pm. No re-entry. No lawn chairs permitted. Food trucks on site.
This is a rain or shine event. No refunds.

Ticket prices increase the week of the show and on the date of the performance.

CoA: Family Fun Block Party
2025-05-17 17:00 - 20:00 | Bush Convention Center, 105 N. Main Street, Midland, TX, 79701, United States
Featuring food trucks, fun activities for all ages, local entertainment, and much more!
Free Admission!

Summer Reading Kick-Off!
2025-05-17 10:30 - 12:30 | Ector County Library
School is almost out and summer is coming and so is the Ector County Library Summer Reading Program – Color Our World. Join us for the kick-off event where you can sign-up for the summer reading challenge, get a free sno-cone, play some outdoor games, and see what our community partners have to offer as well. We hope to see you there!
Ya casi terminan las clases y se acerca el verano, con el Programa de Lectura de Verano de la Biblioteca del Condado de Ector: Colorea Nuestro Mundo. Únete a nosotros en el evento inaugural, donde podrás inscribirte en el reto de lectura de verano, obtener un cono de nieve gratis, jugar al aire libre y descubrir lo que nuestros socios comunitarios tienen para ofrecer. ¡Esperamos verte allí!

Earn the Taliesin West Fun Patch
2025-05-17 09:00 | Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 12621 N Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ, 85259-2537, United States
Date:
May 17, 2025; 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Price:
Girl Scouts $25.00
Adult chaperones $10.00
Earn the Taliesin West Fun Patch! During this workshop, girls will take a tour of Taliesin West and learn about Frank Lloyd Wright and his architectural designs. Then they will get to design their own floor plans and begin work on their own 3D model building to take home! The Taliesin West Fun Patch IS included in the cost of this program and will be given to girls at the end of the workshop. Due to the tools involved in making our models, this program is recommended for girls aged 9-14

Ray Wylie Hubbard
2025-05-16 20:00 - 22:00 | The Ector Theatre, 500 N. Texas, Odessa, TX, 79761, United States
Pre-sale tickets available! All tickets on sale Friday, Feb 21st at noon!
When F. Scott Fitzgerald issued his classic conclusion that ‘There are no second acts in American lives,’ he failed to envision the career of legendary Texas troubadour Ray Wylie Hubbard. A willing conspirator in the late seventies Cosmic Cowboy revolt that ushered in the mythical Outlaw era, Hubbard was a catalyst in the cultural upheaval that led to the peaceful coexistence of Lone Star music enthusiasts who comprised each end of the social and political spectrum of that troubled time. In the stellar company of iconic colleagues like Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Doug Sahm and Jerry Jeff Walker, Ray Wylie Hubbard was an architect of the musical legacy that continues to inspire subsequent generations of up-and-coming Texas talent.
Yes, Hubbard is a Texas singer-songwriter, complete with the classic trifurcated handle, fundamental chapter of the canon in his song catalog (“Redneck Mother”), and enough wild hairs in his past to qualify him as a legend. But along the way, his attention began to leave matters extraneous to his art and soul by the wayside and focus on the beauty and potential to be found in the blank canvas of, in his case, the yet to be written and recorded song. The result has been one of the most satisfying musical and lyrical journeys to witness over the last two decades. In the years that followed he evolved into a writer of uncommonly honest portraits of life, alternately mixing deep personal sagas with poignant character studies of those traveling on the dark side of the road.
If one wanted to describe the sound of Ray Wylie Hubbard, one could call it American music, born from the time-honored traditions of folk, country, and roots rock.
