Join the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra April 11th for their final concert of the "This is Forty" season. After ASO's successful tour of Poland-the ensemble's first international performances-longtime musical director Mariusz Smolij stepped aside, with Matthew Kramer stepping in. For more information click, here.

Franco Fine Arts Exchange is a Louisiana non-profit whose mission is to identify and promote visual artists of Acadian descent by creating a global directory, facilitating art collaborations, curating exhibitions, and providing immersive residencies in multiple countries. For more information, visit https://acadianacenterforthearts.org/events/francofae-correspondance/

Join us for the opening of BOUNDARIES during April’s ArtWalk as we bring the community back into the Hallway, a space long cherished by Lafayette’s creative scene. It will take place from April 12th to May 10th. For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/61564150564187/posts/archives-presents-boundariesapril-12-2025-may-10-2025the-hallway-at-the-warehous/122150176832471685/?_rdr

Students and researchers from UL Lafayette are gathering community experiences on past floods, drainage issues in Lafayette, and drinking water concerns. For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/officialullafayette/photos/share-your-water-related-hazard-and-crisis-stories-with-university-historians-at/1097536352402264/

“Fête de la Nature - BioBlitz and Crawfish Benefit” is family-friendly event to celebrate Acadiana’s special natural surroundings, through art, music, food and science. This free event will feature a performance by Sweet Crude. Throughout the day scientists will be leading an open-to-the-public BioBlitz to search for every species of bird, reptile, insect, plant, fungus and more living at the Atelier de la Nature! A benefit crawfish boil will be run by Chef Colt Patin of the Culinary Institute of Baton Rouge and his students. Proceeds will help fund Atelier de la Nature’s education programs. For more information click, here.

Each year the Lafayette Public Library Foundation holds our annual meeting and awards ceremony, where we celebrate the year's accomplishments as well as those community members who have gone above and beyond in the service of our library. The event is open to the public, but members get discounted tickets and there is often a costumed theme! For more information click, here

Acadiana Center for the Arts announces its latest expansion of programming with an all-new Vermilion Parish Student Arts Expo on Saturday, April 12, at Magdalen Square in Downtown Abbeville. For more information, visit https://acadianacenterforthearts.org/events/student-arts-expo-vermilion-parish-2025/

Festival des Fleurs de Louisiane returns April 5th, 2025. Over 100 expected gardening-related vendors provide the show's main attraction. Festival-goers discover a wealth of resources and activities as local gardening societies host displays and informational kiosks that will share gardening techniques with attendees. Food trucks will serve snacks, lunch, lemonade, and coffee, so bring the family and make a day of it!

The Looking Glass Theatre presents Steve Martin's "The Underpants", a wild satire adapted from the classic German play about Louise and Theo Markes, a couple whose conservative existence is shattered when Louise's bloomers fall down in public. For more information, visit https://www.thelookingglasstheatreco.org/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJZBcxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHfVT62mlEYMY07bLedFNPEpiyCYPSnEjIA_vWRrL3BcB6Vn9V7OofJBLtg_aem_EzlgPTq8szEph3noogDadg

College of Liberal Arts Dean Ani Kokobobo shares with La Louisiane what excites her most about leading UL Lafayette's oldest college, how its research centers foster community connection and why liberal arts thinking is more essential than ever in today’s world.