Host Your Event in Shawnee
Shawnee is home to a variety of quality events year-round, from the annual International Finals Youth Rodeo (IFYR) to Fireflight Balloon Festival. We would love to host your event here too!
Our city of just under 32,000 features all the amenities of a big city without the traffic you may find in neighboring OKC and Tulsa. Plus, our locals are delighted to share their city with you! We're easy to get to regardless of where you're coming from; just 30 minutes east of OKC on I-40, close to I-35, I-44, and historic Route 66.
Planning a Successful Event in Shawnee
Venues
Search all Shawnee venues by type of event or venue features, whether you're looking for space for 50 or 2,000 we have the perfect space for your event.
Gordon Cooper Technology Center
Indoor, Conference, Auditorium
1 John C Bruton Blvd
Catering
Peruse our list of Shawnee-area caterers, whether you need full service, just snacks and drinks, or licensed liquor service.
Brickhouse Saloon
Liquor
Brickhouse Saloon is the place to be any day of the week to just unwind! We offer a great place to sit down, kick back, and enjoy an ice cold beer or one of our awesome drink specials. We are home to one of the best stages in Oklahoma and host live music throughout the week.
What bar would be complete without a few games to blow off steam? After you grab a drink, feel free to ask any of our staff to borrow a pool cue or set up beer pong and play away!
FireLake Arena
FireLake Arena offers 5,000 seats and more than 52,000 square feet of event space for concerts, conventions and community events. Whether it is cold or hot outside, the arena’s geothermal heating and cooling system allows for a comfortable setting regardless of the number of attendees inside.
Since its opening in early 2014, FireLake Arena has become one of central Oklahoma’s most popular venues for events of all kind. It regularly hosts sporting such as MMA and boxing events, the Professional Bowlers Association Tournament of Champions, roller derbies and is also available to host basketball and volleyball tournaments.
Cazadorez
Self-Serve Buffet, Full Meal Service
Made-from-scratch daily, from the famous white queso to the homemade tortillas, Cazadores is an elevated Mexican dining experience every day of the week! With a banquet room available in addition to their large dining space and patio seating, there's a place for you (and complimentary sopapillas, too!)
Frateli's
Self-Serve Buffet
Frateli's serves Shawnee's best Italian food made according to family recipes brought over from the old country more than two decades ago. Whether you stop in for a quick bite at lunch, dine-in with the family, or take home a couple of pizzas before the game, whenever you eat Frateli's you'll enjoy terrific Italian flavors built with the finest ingredients.
Coffee N' Crafts
Beverage Service, Light Snacks
Both a coffee shop with ample seating at tables and in cozy living room areas and a craft workshop with materials to paint, tie-dye, macrame, and more, Coffee N' Crafts has an experience for you.
Order a canvas alongside your coffee and choose your mediums off the supply wall. People of all ages welcome!
Gordon Cooper Technology Center
Beverage Service, Light Snacks, Self-Serve Buffet
Gordon Cooper Technology Center is a public career and technology education center located in Shawnee, Okla., at the intersection of Interstate 40 and State Highway 18. It is part of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education system. The school is named for the astronaut Gordon Cooper, an American aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and one of the seven original Mercury astronauts, the first manned space program of the United States. Cooper piloted the longest and final Mercury spaceflight in 1963. He was the first American to sleep in space during that 34-hour mission and was the last American to be launched alone into space.
Event Services
Find local vendors for everything your event needs to thrive, from portable restrooms, to tents, stages, dance floors, photographers, etc.
Comma
Catering, Bakery
This coffee shop (formerly known as The Gathering Place Coffee Co) recently relaunched with a new brand and remodel! Comma is a specialty coffee shop that seeks to be a home away from home, providing a space to meet comfortably and build relationships.
The building was designed to include large and diverse spaces capable of accommodating many types of gatherings. The back & front patios are dog friendly, offering patio seating with a pupper station for dog lovers.
Enjoy a cup of specialty tea or coffee, put your feet up, let your guard down, and make a new friend. Stay as long as you like.
Vintage Stock
Audio & Visual
Vintage Stock is your entertainment superstore!
From the newest hit movies, music, and video games to the rarest comics, toys, and memorabilia, Vintage Stock is the only store to have it all! Everything you want, all in one store.
What do we buy and sell?
Online & In Stores:
Movies: Blu-ray, DVDs, 4K UHD
Video Games: Both retro & new games.
Collectibles: new Toys and Posters
In Stores only:
Music: CDs & LPs
Video Games: Retro & new consoles, accessories, & guides.
Collectibles: comic books, graphic novels, used toys, board games, & memorabilia
Cards: sports cards & collectible game cards, like Magic the Gathering, Pokemon, & Yu-Gi-Oh!
Books: We carry books in our Joplin, MO, V·Stock, and EntertainMART locations, both classic and new best-sellers.
City Bites
Catering, Bakery
City Bites is an Oklahoma-based, family owned and operated restaurant chain. This popular deli has been in business for 35 years and is known for its funky atmosphere, serving up delicious hot or cold subs, stuffed baked potatoes, soups, salads, wraps, tacos, cookies and more.
HTeaO
24 Flavors of fresh tea brewed hourly featuring the best 100% broadleaf iced tea. All of our tea and water is brewed with double-pass reverse osmosis water and is available by the bottle, gallon, & 5-gallon!
Jim's Portable Toilets
Tents & Other Rentals
Ideal for any party or outdoor gathering, you can count on Jim’s Portable Toilets to take care of all of your sanitation needs. You won’t have to go without a bathroom again. We’ll make sure that your next special event has everything it needs and that your guests are comfortable with our clean and sanitary facilities. Jim's offers classic port-a-potties as well as bathroom trailers and portable sinks.
Marble Slab Creamery and Great American Cookies
Bakery, Catering
Marble Slab Creamery & Great American Cookies - Where imagination has no limits. Life is Sweet with a handcrafted Ice Cream Cake. Select and customize the perfect cake for your O-Cake-Sion and we will have it ready for pick-up.
Marble Slab Creamery has built its reputation by specializing in premium ice cream with the finest ingredients. It isn’t just dessert. It’s the world’s freshest ice cream, made just the way you like it, just when you want it. We allow our customers to create their own experience!
Visit Shawnee Event Support
As the City of Shawnee's Department of Tourism, we function as Shawnee's convention & visitor's bureau and we can help your event thrive in Shawnee.
Our staff specialize in event management and promotion and offer a range of services from including your event in free marketing opportunities to helping you get hotel blocks arranged.
We would love to learn more about your event and see how we can help!
Event Permits
If your event will be on public property (streets, parks, etc) OR will include inflatables, noise like concerts, or fireworks, you may need a permit!
We (Visit Shawnee, the City of Shawnee's Department of Tourism) manage the event permitting process and are happy to offer guidance as needed by phone, email, or in person at the Welcome Center.
Our staff are experts on Shawnee's locale and can assist you in finding and booking your ideal shoot locations, lodgings, and can help get your production permitted with the City of Shawnee.
Shawnee was designated as a Film-Friendly Community by the State of Oklahoma's Film & Music Office in 2021.
Click here for more information about the film industry in Shawnee.
Click here to register your production to film in Shawnee.
