Lafayette’s Conscious Community event! Love Fest Lafayette is a free, all ages, community event at Moncus Park Amphitheater on Saturday March 25, 2023. For more information about the event, visit https://www.lovefestlafayette.org/.

The Courtney Granger Award provides young musicians in Acadiana an opportunity to apply for financial assistance to attend local and national camps for traditional music, provide mentors for private and small group music lessons, and instruments or instrument repairs to aspiring traditional musicians — all opportunities that were so very important to Courtney.For more information visit https://acadianacenterforthearts.org/opportunities-for-artists/courtney-granger-memorial-award/

BARE Walls is an art subscription service, operated through Basin Arts, which turns “BARE” business walls into gallery space. The program objective is twofold: to provide an affordable way for businesses to have a creative and dynamic workspace and to provide residual income for working artists in our community. BARE Walls hopes to create ongoing relationships between local artists and businesses while sustaining the local community and increasing the overall value of our creative economy. The program received start-up funding through the 24-Hour Citizen Project in 2018.For more information, visit their website.

Balfa Week is back! Plan now to be a part of the Folk Roots family during the 2023 Dewey Balfa Cajun and Creole Heritage Week in Eunice LA. Come for the whole week or drop in for a day! Evening dances are also open to the public with a donation.Lakeview Park & Beach is the backdrop for Balfa Camp 2023 and kicks off on Monday, 3/20 with dinner and a jam. Lakeview Park is on the border of both Evangeline and St. Landry parishes, which are both rich in Cajun and Creole culture.https://www.lafolkroots.org/balfa-week

For more information about these grants and more, and all other activities and exhibits at the AcA, visit https://acadianacenterforthearts.org/.

Balfa Week is back! Plan now to be a part of the Folk Roots family during the 2023 Dewey Balfa Cajun and Creole Heritage Week in Eunice LA. Come for the whole week or drop in for a day! Evening dances are also open to the public with a donation.Lakeview Park & Beach is the backdrop for Balfa Camp 2023 and kicks off on Monday, 3/20 with dinner and a jam. Lakeview Park is on the border of both Evangeline and St. Landry parishes, which are both rich in Cajun and Creole culture.https://www.lafolkroots.org/balfa-week

For a complete list of events for the Lafayette Bicentennial, visit https://www.lafayettetravel.com/bicentennial/.

Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) is hosting our 3rd annual Justice Celebration in Lafayette, at the Downtown Convention Center on Buchanan Street. The celebration will be from 6 pm to 9 pm and will feature the stories of two of our clients, plus a short film about IPNO’s Unjust Punishment Project. Beer, wine and food will be served. IPNO will be giving our inaugural Justice Award to Women of Wisdom (WOW), who has been instrumental in community development and empowerment. Attire is business casual.For more information visit their website.

Guests speakers will be discussing the organizations’ most critical achievements in the Basin and some the most troublesome hurdles to date facing our progress in conservation.This all day event brings together communities around South Central Louisiana in support of the beautiful Louisiana wetlands we all cherish. The Atchafalaya Basin the most productive swamp in the world and is vitally important to Louisiana’ Cajun culture; it supports a unique ecosystem of cypress-tupelo swamps found nowhere else on the planet, provides a habitat for our fishing and crawfishing economy, and plays a significant role as a safe harbor for thousands of migratory birds as well as protecting millions of people in South Louisiana from Mississippi River floods.All proceeds from the event – including 10 percent of all food – will go directly towards protecting and restoring the Basin.For more information and to purchase tickets, visit their website.

Balfa Week is back! Plan now to be a part of the Folk Roots family during the 2023 Dewey Balfa Cajun and Creole Heritage Week in Eunice LA. Come for the whole week or drop in for a day! Evening dances are also open to the public with a donation.Lakeview Park & Beach is the backdrop for Balfa Camp 2023 and kicks off on Monday, 3/20 with dinner and a jam. Lakeview Park is on the border of both Evangeline and St. Landry parishes, which are both rich in Cajun and Creole culture.https://www.lafolkroots.org/balfa-week