The NUNU Collective is an educational organization that works to encourage the development of artistic talents, skills, knowledge and business savvy by connecting artists with other artists, businesses, organizations and programs. Denise Verret and Gene Paquette stop by to talk about Verret's new art show "Enigmas & Entanglements". This solo exhibition will include 29 of her paintings, woodcuts, and mixed media prints. There will also be live music and food & beverage. The reception is on Friday, September 13th from 6-8:30pm. The show will run from Friday, September 6th through October 27th at NUNU Art & Culture Collective in Arnaudville. 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, UL visual arts adjunct, Bethany LeJeune and UL dance department professor, Alex McBride.

Michael Crotty, assistant professor of dance at ULL and international guest choreographer Fabio Liberti stop by KRVS to talk about their collaboration with the UL Dance Program premiering at Angelle Hall on campus November 21st through 23rd.

Instructors Leah Dawsey and Katie Potier have helped to expand the ASL and Deaf Studies program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. They discuss the impact of their work, where they see the program going in the future and a new Deaf Awareness Month event coming to campus this September.

Friends sell gently used books by the inch - $1 per inch for paperbacks and $2 per inch for hardcover. We have old and unusual books and choice books priced higher, in addition to a table of special coffee table books priced at $10 and $20 each. Sale also includes DVDs, CDs and audio books. This will take place at the Heymann Performing Arts Center. For more info, visit their Facebook page.

Festival of Words Cultural Arts Collective strives to inspire creative expression and a higher level of literacy for residents to St. Landry Parish, and throughout Acadiana. The 17th annual festival, held live this year in Grand Coteau November 8-9, is a FREE festival featuring three award-winning writers. For a schedule and more information, visit https://festivalofwords.org/home.html.

Celebrate the history of Grand Coteau and a traditional Louisiana treat called the sweet dough pie. Every year, pastry chefs and home cooks vie to be the best in the sweet dough pie contest where the public is the judge. The Sweet Dough Pie Festival will take place on October 26th, 2024 in Grand Coteau Town Park. For more information, visit cajuntravel.com/events/sweet-dough-pie-festival/.

Atelier de la Nature, a twenty-five-acre nature reserve and eco-educational campus, will be hosting their 2024 Halloween Art & Nature Festival. This will be a one-day free event to celebrate Halloween, Louisiana's special natural surroundings, Arthropods, and planet Earth, through art, music, food and science. For more information, click here.

Something creepy this way comes...The Addams Family Musical opens this month! The show runs August 30th through September 8th at the IPAL Theater. This show is a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family. For tickets, click here.

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette will offer five new scholarships for incoming freshmen who are citizens of a federally recognized American Indian Tribe. Each scholarship, valued at $5,000, is available to first-time freshmen with a minimum 2.75 cumulative GPA who are citizens of a federally recognized American Indian Tribe from any state. Applicants must be enrolled as full-time students and provide a copy of their Tribal Enrollment Card with their application.The application deadline is Aug. 26, 2024, with scholarships designated for the Fall 2024 semester.For more information, visit https://louisiana.edu/news/ul-lafayette-introduces-new-scholarships-american-indian-tribe-students#:~:text=Each%20scholarship%2C%20valued%20at%20%245%2C000,Enrollment%20Card%20with%20their%20application.