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Something creepy this way comes...The Addams Family Musical opens this month! The show runs August 30th through September 8th at the IPAL Theater. This show is a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family. For tickets, click here.

Atelier de la Nature, a twenty-five-acre nature reserve and eco-educational campus, will be hosting their 2024 Halloween Art & Nature Festival. This will be a one-day free event to celebrate Halloween, Louisiana's special natural surroundings, Arthropods, and planet Earth, through art, music, food and science. For more information, click here.

The Christopher Stafford Memorial Foundation Fund has been established to facilitate learning, collaboration, and creation while providing opportunities for recording and expression. Programs funded through this foundation will include operation of Staffland Studio as an open resource for emerging musicians, scholarships for music education and the creation of a public memorial to sustain Stafford’s memory.The Stafford family welcomes and encourages donations, which can be directed to the fund through the CFA’s website.

‘Sediment’ is a live multimedia show based on Reid Willis’ latest album of the same name. Through live music, abstract video projection, and contemporary dance choreographed by Whitney Willis Hebert, the show explores the physical processes of sediment – erosion, decay, metamorphosis, and change through loss – as a metaphor for the human experience of evolution through inevitable change.For tickets and more information, visit https://acadianacenterforthearts.org/events/sediment/

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, UL visual arts adjunct, Bethany LeJeune and UL dance department professor, Alex McBride.

The NUNU Collective is an educational organization that works to encourage the development of artistic talents, skills, knowledge and business savvy by connecting artists with other artists, businesses, organizations and programs. Denise Verret and Gene Paquette stop by to talk about Verret's new art show "Enigmas & Entanglements". This solo exhibition will include 29 of her paintings, woodcuts, and mixed media prints. There will also be live music and food & beverage. The reception is on Friday, September 13th from 6-8:30pm. The show will run from Friday, September 6th through October 27th at NUNU Art & Culture Collective in Arnaudville. For more information, click here.

Rock Around Downtown Fest will be held at Feed & Seed and Parc International, September 20th and 21st.For more information and tickets, visit https://www.facebook.com/radfest22/

Dance/Splits is a double bill of exciting original contemporary dance by local choreographers Clare Cook and Leigha Porter. This new performance series brings together area talent to build a shared space for professional dance in Acadiana. With Dance/Splits, Clare and Leigha are merging their unique talents to create a show that promises to be a fusion of area talent and dynamic creativity. Their synergy as artists will deliver a performance that will showcase their individual artistic voices and redefine the boundaries of contemporary dance in our region.The performances will be held September 13th and 14th at the Aca. For more information, visit https://acadianacenterforthearts.org/events/dance-splits/

Please join the Bayou Culture Collaborative for our September gathering of people and organizations focused on preserving Louisiana’s heritage and examining the effects of land loss on local culture. The speaker is Brooks Frederick, a bayou-native, Brooklyn-based artist, and he will be giving a talk titled "Supporting Creative Communities in a Changing Gulf Coast". This event will happen on September 20th via Zoom. For more information, click here.

Constitution Day was celebrated on the UL's campus on September 17, with a number of events taking place, including a naturalization ceremony. That's where a group of new US citizens took their oaths of allegiance to the United States of America. The ceremony was held at Garland Dupre Library's Central Hall Lobby.