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The Improv Rumble pits teams of improvisers against one another in an all-out brawl. Everything’s made up, but YOUR VOTES REALLY COUNT. Who will go home the victor? The answer depends on YOU.Audience members will vote on their favorite performances to determine a team winner. Voting takes place via interactive fun with the audience’s cell phones. While most shows ask you to turn off your phone – at this show, you’ll be encouraged to wield your phone’s power!This show will feature over 25 improv comedy performers, all from South Louisiana. The Improv Rumble is sure to be full of high energy, big laughs, and friendly sportsmanship.For more information visit the AcA website.

Ten choreographers. Ten dances. All on a 4x4 ft. stage! 2 Shows only! APRIL 13 & 14 | 7:00pmCome enjoy the work of ten of Lafayette's finest choreographers at The Feed & Seed downtown for a unique night of fun and live entertainment! Doors open 6:30pm (come grab a drink!) For more information, visit https://www.lafayettetravel.com/event/ten-tiny-dances/33161/.

GILDING LILLY: CPSB FACULTY ART SHOWDATES AVAILABLE: March 17, 2023 - April 29, 2023The Imperial Calcasieu Museum and the CPSB Department of Visual & Performing Arts present "Gilding Lilly: CPSB Faculty Art Show." From vibrant colors to playful patterns, this exhibit celebrates the iconic style of fashion legend Lilly Pulitzer and her muse Susie Zuzek. This collection of works created by the CPSB Faculty promises to inspire and delight both fashion enthusiasts and art lovers.PERFECTLY IMPERFECT: CPSB STUDENT ART SHOWDATES AVAILABLE: March 17, 2023 - April 29, 2023The Imperial Calcasieu Museum and the CPSB Department of Visual & Performing Arts are proud to present "Perfectly Imperfect: CPSB Student Art Show." This exhibit features a collection of works inspired by the Japanese philosophy of kintsugi, wabi-sabi, and an appreciation for imperfection.

Shakespeare’s tragedy and Tchaikovsky’s tortured personal life collided to produce the first true expression of Tchaikovsky's genius as a composer. Styled as an Overture-Fantasy, this masterpiece boils Shakespeare’s narrative down to 20 minutes of music that is thunderingly dramatic and achingly beautiful.The program will also include Rachmaninov's Vocalise featuring UL Voice Professor Dr. Kelly Bixby. UL student competition winner Yaxuan Li will perform the Schumann Piano Concerto in A Minor.Please join us for this special performance on April 5, 7pm, Angelle Hall Auditorium. Free admission and open to the public.

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