“Ancestral Artistry” is a documentary that examines the rich architectural legacy that began with early Africans and Creoles of Color in Louisiana. Our focus is on the building trades that—over the past 300 years— produced the distinctive architectural forms that distinguish Louisiana's built environments from other parts of the United States. For more information, visit https://www.louisianaarchitecture.org/ancestralartistryfilm

Louisiana Grass Roots, a short documentary about our forgotten prairie. Join the makers and supporters of the new documentary film Louisiana Grass Roots as they unveil their work in the James Devin Moncus Theater at the Acadiana Center for the Arts.For more information, visit https://acadianacenterforthearts.org/events/louisiana-grass-roots-a-short-documentary-about-our-forgotten-prairie/

Join the Hilliard Art Museum for Family Fête Saturday, March 29th starting at 10 a.m.A day of art, community, and interactive art experiences for all ages. Enjoy live performances, hands-on activities, and movement sessions that invite you to explore art in new ways—blending creativity, play, and mind-expanding discovery. Inspired by our exhibition programs, these experiences encourage curiosity and fresh ways of seeing the world. Free for museum members and UL community. Open to the public with museum admission.

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 muralist, Justin Robinson, and jewelry craftsman, Brent P Broussard.

Join the Bayou Culture Collaborative for their March 21, 2025 gathering of people and organizations focused on preserving Louisiana’s heritage and examining the effects of land loss on local culture. For more information click, here.

UPDATE: Deadline to apply is now March 31st, 2025Celebrating the memory of Courtney Granger—master fiddler, musician, and culture bearer—who passed away in 2021 at the age of 39. Donations to the Fund will be re-granted annually beginning in 2023 through the Courtney Granger Memorial Award, administered by AcA, giving young musicians in Acadiana scholarships to attend national camps for traditional music—an opportunity that was so important to Courtney. To find out more information, qualifications, and application, visit https://acadianacenterforthearts.org/opportunities-for-artists/courtney-granger-memorial-award/

Louisiana Folk Roots offers a Summer Kids Camp which offers a fun-filled week of music, crafts, singing, and very special activities on a folklife campus. Kids Camps are open to all levels of young musicians. Just bring a guitar, a fiddle, or a 10-button diatonic accordion in the key of C, and we’ll fill the days with music classes, band labs, singing, dancing, indoor/outdoor games, crafts, cuisine, and fun. For more information, visit https://lafolkroots.org/kids-camp

French-language play “Portrait of Ludmilla as Nina Simone” is a captivating performance halfway between tribute concert and theatrical performance where Senegalese-Cameroonian singer Ludmilla Dabo explores the life and music of legendary jazz icon Nina Simone. Blending powerful vocals, storytelling, and emotion, Ludmilla honors Simone’s legacy in an unforgettable tribute to one of music’s most influential figures. For more information, click here.

Balfa Week is an immersive, multi-day lessons and workshops with master musicians, dance instructors, cooks, and craftspeople… all in a nature-based setting with spontaneous jams, lakeside campfires, barn dances with some of South Louisiana’s hottest bands, and new friends from around the world. Come for the whole week or drop in for a day. For more information, visit https://lafolkroots.org/balfa-week

Lafayette Travel and the Bayou Vermilion District have partnered to create the Vermilion Voyage, a three-day overnight paddle down the Bayou Vermilion launching from the Acadiana Park Nature Station to Palmetto Island State Park. Participants will have the rare opportunity to consecutively paddle just over 50 miles of the Vermilion through Lafayette and Vermilion Parishes. For more information, visit https://www.lafayettetravel.com/vermilion-voyage/