The food is free, the beats are bumping and the opportunities for community connection are plenty. At SK8 Date’s monthly gatherings around Tulsa, though, you may have to risk falling on the concrete.
Every second Thursday from May to October, dozens of people are gathering at a local park to enjoy the summer season on wheels thanks to one of Tulsa’s newest nonprofits. The free events feature food, drinks, rentable skates and a live DJ.
“It’s open to all regardless (of your background),” Tyra Lewis, founder of SK8 Date, told The Eagle. “I want to create this culture of SK8 Date itself, (of) being this open event all the time, where it doesn’t matter who you are, how old you are, what you’re doing.”
Lewis is an events coordinator for the George Kaiser Family Foundation’s Experience Tulsa, which promotes the city’s brand through events and programs like Tulsa Remote. She’s also a musician known as GOLDIELXCS (Goldilocks) — a name inspired by blonde dreadlocks she used to rock a few years ago…