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Consolidated Government (LCG) Community Development and Planning Department and Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center are offering a free “Know Your Housing Rights” Workshop for renters, advocates, landlords, realtors, property managers, and maintenance workers. The workshop will educate participants on fair housing rights as a tenant, the importance of fair housing, and general knowledge of fair housing laws.The “Know Your Housing Rights” Workshop will be held on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, in the Clifton Chenier Auditorium at 220 W. Willow Street from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Doors open at 5 p.m.The workshop is sponsored by a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.Registration is required. Call 337-291-5450 to sign up.

THE LARGEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL IN THE U.S.Each April, Downtown Lafayette comes alive for a 5-day cultural celebration. Festival International boasts top-notch music from around the world, gourmet food, handcrafted artworks and so much more! People of all ages come from near and far to experience Festival’s magic.For more information about this year's Festival and the musical line-up, visit https://www.festivalinternational.org/.

Join the Office of Sustainability in this week-long celebration of the Earth!Fête de la Terre week is UL Lafayette's Office of Sustainability annual celebration of the Earth and it is filled with all sorts of fun events! There will be a Love the Boot clean up, a night hike at the Nature Station, a virtual reality experience, trivia night, sustainability and solar tours, various types of recycling and upcycling events, and more all culminating with our biggest event of the year - the Fête de la Terre Expo.The Expo will have free jambalaya served in compostable products, music, and host over 35 local organizations, businesses, and non-profits who are committed to a more sustainable Acadiana and Louisiana. Join us the week of April 17th- April 21st to celebrate the earth and learn more about the environment and sustainably!Please RSVP for the Love the Boot Clean Up to reserve your FREE T-Shirt : Love the Boot Clean Up Sign Up

Celebrate the planet and learn ways to improve and enhance our life on earth. Come to Bayou Vermilion District’s Earth Day celebration, Saturday, April 22, 10 AM – 4 PM. There will be a variety of activities, crafts, recycling, seed exchange with the seed library, music, food and even the Worm Lady Recycles!For more information about this Earth Day event, visit their website.

These paintings of domestic and organic objects collectively represent the dualities and dialectics of the artist’s emotions and experiences—attraction and aversion, hope and despair, delight and disgust—and her efforts to incorporate all of these lived experiences and their visual representations.

Argot Pictures and Les Blank Films are proud to present the Louisiana premiere of the classic documentary, J’AI ÉTÉ AU BAL (I WENT TO THE DANCE) by the incomparable Les Blank & co-directed by Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records. Presented in a new, 5k restoration produced by Les Blank Films, Brazos Films & Chris Strachwitz. J’AI ÉTÉ AU BAL is the seminal film on the history of the foot-stomping, toe-tapping music of French Southwest Louisiana. The film features many Cajun and Zydeco greats, Michael Doucet, BeauSoleil, Clifton Chenier, Marc and Ann Savoy, D.L. Menard, Boozoo Chavis and many more. Newly restored in 5K, J’AI ÉTÉ AU BAL celebrates the music of Southwest Louisiana. Blank & Strachwitz film brims with tender affection for its subjects, the vitality of their marvelous music, and a generosity of spirit.J’AI ÉTÉ AU BAL will have exclusive Louisiana engagements in Lafayette on May 1 at Cite de Arts & May 3 at the Broad Theatre in New Orleans. Both screenings will feature a live performance by Michael Doucet & the Beausoleil Trio.Watch the trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiVqmS46_fU

Spring Art Walk will be held on April 29th from 2-6 PM this year in beautiful Downtown Lake Charles! We are shutting the roads down all afternoon for event full of live art shows, live music & entertainment, art & food vendors, as well as Student & Adult Art Wars!

Take a seat for the grandest concert of the season, Ludwig van Beethoven’s 'Symphony No. 9, Ode to Joy', masterfully performed by Acadiana Symphony Orchestra, the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra Chorus, and Chorale Acadienne. Ode to Joy is widely considered to be Beethoven’s greatest work, and one of the most supreme achievements in the history of western music. In the field of symphonic music, there is no bigger revolutionary than Beethoven, whose works were heavily influenced by socio-political events of his time, as well as his own political views and engagement as an artist and enlightened citizen. Featuring Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Chorale Acadienne.For more information and to purchase tickets, visit https://acadianasymphony.org/.

https://acadianacenterforthearts.org/events/i-remember-louisiana-reflections-and-stories-of-the-past/?occurrence=2023-04-24

Southern Gothic is a fun horror film festival run by a team of passionate filmmakers and artists from Lafayette, Louisiana. Our festival promotes the growth of our local film community all the while bringing to the forefront those who aren't usually recognized in the independent horror community including women, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community. Hosted by horror filmmaker Brooke H. Cellars and local drag performer Martini Bear! Filmmakers who attend will get the opportunity to network with other filmmakers during the fest. We will also have a Q&A session after every block so you will get to speak about your films to an audience of horror lovers! We want to be able to include other artists in our festival as well. There will be artists vending in the Cité des Arts lobby and the entertainment will be provided by our amazing local drag community! Costumes are highly encouraged! Come out and have a spooky good time!To purchase tickets, visit https://www.citedesarts.org/shows.