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 dancer and choreographer, Lydia Young-Green, and visual artist, Kali Picard.

After 22 years as a founding member of the Emmy Award-winning children's band, Imagination Movers, Scott Durbin knows the music industry backwards and forwards. The Recording Academy of the United States recently selected the assistant professor in UL Lafayette's School of Music and Performing Arts as a Grammy U mentor.

A Smithsonian Folkways Music Pathway is an integrated, thematic, and fully customizable journey of discovery that places music from the Smithsonian Folkways collection and other Smithsonian Institution primary resources at the center of the educational experience. This Music Pathway explores the diverse roots and stylistic developments of Cajun and Zydeco music. For more information, visit https://folkways.si.edu/music-pathway/flavors-of-southwest-louisiana/cajun-and-zydeco

The Student Arts Expo is a celebration of student-artists in all artistic disciplines. It will take place in 3 different parishes, featuring outdoor performances from school bands, choirs, and performance classes. There will be art exhibitions in businesses and outdoors, hands-on art activities for families, and a student artist market where you can purchase original artwork and crafts directly from the artist. For more information, visit https://acadianacenterforthearts.org/whats-happening/special-events/student-arts-expo/

Please join the Bayou Culture Collaborative for our February 21, 2025 gathering of people and organizations focused on preserving Louisiana’s heritage and examining the effects of land loss on local culture. Mardi Gras offers us an opportunity to look at community heritage and traditions as indicators of community strength. In this presentation, Dr. Jennifer Morrison will discuss how in recent years, Acadiana Mardi Gras has undergone an interesting evolution. Dr. Morrison will discuss the cultural implication of John Weatherall’s reconstruction of Acadiana rural Mardi Gras and what it means for understanding community. For more information, click here.

Lafayette takes its music and culture seriously and aims to keep the rich heritage of music, especially the people, businesses, and actions at the core of it, thriving. The Lafayette Music Census was a community-led initiative to gain a better understanding of the current strengths, opportunities and needs of the Lafayette music community. A keystone of this initiative was conducting a Music Census to capture key information about the Lafayette music ecosystem to help city leaders and the community make better informed, data-driven decisions to support and grow the music ecosystem. For more information about the 2024 census, click here.

Celebrate Louisiana’s creative culture by road-tripping through the parishes of Acadiana. This free, all-ages, self-guided tour will once again showcase the inspiring spaces where creativity comes to life. Visitors will meet artists, watch live demonstrations, and experience the rich artistic heritage of Acadiana across multiple parishes. It’s a wonderful opportunity to connect with the members of the arts community, learn about others crafts, and see how our local creatives bring their visions to life! For more information click, here.

Join NUNU Art and Culture Collective for their fifth installment of Exploring Louisiana Tapestries on Sunday, February 23rd for a guest presentation from Taalib Auguste, vice president of l'Assemblée de la Louisiane and vice president of C.R.E.O.L.E. Inc. For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14sABYfd8X/

Dr. Jennifer Hargrave, instructor of geology at UL Lafayette, joins us for Dr. Neil Shubin's public book signing and talk at the Lafayette Science Museum. The best-selling author of Your Inner Fish takes readers on an epic adventure to the North and South Poles to reveal the secrets locked in the ice about life, the cosmos, and our planet’s future. For more information about the Lafayette Science Museum's events click here.