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A celebration of horticulture and all that it involves from plants, garden accessories, educational speakers and food booths. Sale booths will include: Daylilies, Hibiscus, Rare and Unusual Plants, Garden Supplies, Tools, Patio Items, Birdhouses, and more all underneath the beautiful oaks in Magdalen Square. 8:30 am -3 pm

In 1890s New York City, the bold and enchanting widow Dolly Levi is a socialite-turned-matchmaker. Her latest clients seeking assistance are the cantankerous "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder and a young artist named Ambrose, who is in love with Horace's niece, Ermengarde. Dolly's scheming soon involves Horace's employees as well as a New York hatmaker, as she tries to cover up her own secret romantic designs.For more information and to purchase tickets, visit actstheatre.com

Historian Christopher D. E. Willoughby will present a program on health and medicine in the antebellum period. During this time, enslaved people and enslavers spread further and further West in the Deep South. With them, they brought epidemic diseases like cholera and yellow fever. In Sickness Season: Women, Disease, and Healing in Iberia Parish, Willoughby will examine the diseases that plagued plantations but also the women who treated them. In a period of deep medical distrust, women (both enslaver and enslaved) routinely administered medicines rather than the local doctor.The talk will take place on June 3 at 1 p.m. at the Shadows Visitor Center (320 E. Main Street, New Iberia). The program is free to attend and open for all.

This show has 8 male and 3 female characters. However, women will be casted in male roles. Also, All ethnicities are encouraged to audition for these roles.Please prepare a 30 second monologue. The monologue can from any genre. We are looking for an interesting monologue. A monologue that shows off your acting chops. Actors may be asked to cold read from the script.Will accept video auditions IF you cannot make these dates. A 30 second monologue with the same instructions as above. You can submit the audition to laurenreillyeliotcompany@gmail.comFor more information, visit their Facebook.

How many days can you read this summer? Find out by joining the 100 Days of Reading Summer Challenge! The Lafayette Public Library challenges you to read at least 20 minutes every day from June 1st to September 8th (World Literacy Day), and the best part is, it doesn’t matter what you read—books, audiobooks, magazines, graphic novels, and more all count.Anyone who reads at least 30 days during this time will be eligible for a prize pack and entered for a chance to win the grand prize. Track your reading online at lafayettepubliclibrary.org/beanstack, download the Beanstack app to a smartphone or tablet, or click here to download the Reading Log as a PDF.South Regional Library will host the Summer Reading Kickoff Celebration on Saturday, June 3 from 10:30 am until 2:30 pm. You’ll have the opportunity to sign up for the Summer Reading Challenge and to enjoy a day of family fun.

MAISON FREETOWN IS PROUD TO HOST THE 6888 JUNE EXHIBIT! Opening reception for the month-long exhibit spotlighting the All Black, female postal battalion that served our country during WW2 starts June 3rd at 2pm. A special screening of Lafayette's own hometown hero, Major Fannie McClendon, and last surviving member from Louisiana will be shown. These women delivered hundreds of thousands of backlogged mail to soldiers during WW2. Join us as we pay tribute to these remarkable women who helped keep morale up during the war. Curated by Erica Fox and Dianne Mouton-Allen.

Festival International Special Conversation - Cultural Appreciation vs AppropriationPanel discussion moderated by Elliot Wade (The Current) with special guest, Ngaiire, a Papua New Guinean born, Australian artist, plus other cultural leaders and artists including Ashlee Michot, Malentina, Nokosee Fields and Erica Fox.Join them in this safe space to talk about how to bring awareness to different cultures and artistic practices with respect and care. For more information and to register for this even, click here.

Whether it is venturing out into your community to see and experience art in art galleries, art collectives, studios, shops, or creative spaces, or places where you can take a class/workshop or events to attend monthly art openings, community events, and/or open studio tours, there is plenty of art to see, do, learn and procure along the Corridor des Arts.Art Galleries on the Corridor

On display now, "From the Ashes" explores the devastations of the Great Fire of 1910. As you walk through this photographic exhibit you will not only get to experience the fire's aftermath, but you will be able to listen to local historians discuss this disaster and what it meant for the people of Lake Charles.Come learn and explore some of Lake Charles' history with this eye-opening exhibit. Historic City Hall hours are 10 AM till 6 PM, Tuesday - Saturday. Admission is always free!

Did a New Orleans mobster engineer the assassination of a Kennedyesque president of the United States in the 1960s? Mark Leonard’s new play, The French Quarter Connection, asks this question and goes one step further, revealing how this president’s legendary brother, an Irish-Catholic senator from New York, tried to cut a deal years later with the Sicilian-born mobster so he could run for the presidency. The French Quarter Connection focuses not so much on a parallel to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, but the personal and brutal conflict between a politician based on Robert F. Kennedy and a fictional mafia boss with a French Quarter address. For more information on this event and others or to purchase tickets, visit https://www.citedesarts.org/shows.