The Lafayette Public Library is hosting a Summer Reading Challenge, beginning on May 26th and ending on July 31st. There is a kickoff celebration taking place Saturday, June 7th to begin the summer reading incentive. For more information, click here.

The Children's Theatre in Lake Charles is hosting three summer camps with the first one initiating on June 16th and the latter two occurring on July 7th and 21st. For more information, click here.

The Prairie Acadian Cultural Center is excited to announce new programs for the upcoming month of June. There will be live music events as well as "family day" on each Friday of the month. For more information, click here.

Basin Arts and KRVS come together to co-produce Art Circle, a monthly conversation between Dean Daryl Moore of UL Lafayette's College of Arts and two guests, a visual and a performing artist. These run on the final Monday of each month during the 3 p.m. Après-Midi program. This week, Dean Moore's guests are writer and spoken word artist, Candice Lee, and ACA visual arts coordinator, Emma Sonnier.

The Master Gardener Association announces their annual fundraiser, Dans Le Jardin, taking place on Friday, June 13th at the LITE Center in Lafayette. The Master Gardeners association hosts multiple horticulture education and service programs around Lafayette Parish. For more information on the annual event, click here.

Editor for La Louisiane and senior editorial director for UL, Dr. James Savage, joins La Louisiane managing editor Marie Elizabeth Oliver to discuss what goes into planning a La Louisiane magazine and a future look at the fall issue.

In celebration of Clifton Chenier’s 100th birthday on June 25, 2025, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is thrilled to announce the Clifton Chenier Memorial Scholarship Fund - primarily made to benefit students in the UL traditional music program. For more information, click here.

The Opelousas Museum is working on a new project titled "Where We Live: Opelousas Neighborhoods." They are calling for residents of Opelousas to take pictures of their neighborhoods and tell the stories associated with them, which will then be hung in the museum for an art show. For more information, click here.

The Acadiana Symphony Orchestra is hosting a new music education program over this summer from June 9th to July 31st. For more information, click here.