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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/

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.

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.

Rendezvous Downtown in Rayne’s spring music series begins Thursday, March 13th, at 5:30 p.m. at Depot Square. For more information, visit https://www.raynetoday.com/news-local/%E2%80%98rendezvous-downtown%E2%80%99-begins-spring-series-events

The Omnium Circus is a singularly inclusive and accessible circus that is multi-abled and representative, highlighting and celebrating that disability and diversity shine through the joy and excitement of circus arts. Their show, I'm Possible, follows young Johnny on his journey to courage, strength and perseverance through a death defying, awe inspiring, madcap circus adventure with no limits. They will be coming to Lafayette on Friday, March 14th at the Heymann Performing Arts Center.

Exciting traditional Irish and Celtic music from Ireland, USA, Scotland, Brittany, and beyond! Celtic Bayou Festival is planning an exciting line-up of music, dance, and culture for this year's festival. Performers from Ireland, Scotland, France, Texas, Alabama, Carolina, Louisiana and more will take the stage at Warehouse 535, Lafayette LA. For more information visit, https://www.celticbayoufestival.com/

Get ready for Louisiana's quirkiest tradition! The annual Pardoning of the Crawfish is coming up, where one lucky crawfish will be saved from the boiling pot! For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/LouisianaLtGov/photos/get-ready-for-louisianas-quirkiest-tradition-the-annual-pardoning-of-the-crawfis/1065596002273779/?_rdr

Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Spamalot retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and features a bevy of beautiful show girls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits, and French people. For more information, visit https://www.abbeyplayers.com/2024-2025season

Join UL Lafayette's Theater Department in their play, The Servant Of Two Masters, at Burke-Hawthorne Hall from March 13th - 16th and the 20th - 23rd. The wedding of two lovers turns into complete chaos as a really hungry servant, Arlecchino, shows up to announce the arrival of his master. For more information, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-servant-of-two-masters-tickets-1224294400509

On Sunday, March 16th, 2025, Atchafalaya Basinkeeper will host its 9th Annual Save The Basin event at Rock and Bowl in Downtown Lafayette! Come enjoy the unique Cajun-inspired artists, silent auction, raffles , live music, dancing and bowling. This all day event brings together communities around South Central Louisiana in support of the beautiful Louisiana wetlands we all cherish. The Atchafalaya Basin the most productive swamp in the world and is vitally important to Louisiana’ Cajun culture; it supports a unique ecosystem of cypress-tupelo swamps found nowhere else on the planet, provides a habitat for our fishing and crawfishing economy, and plays a significant role as a safe harbor for thousands of migratory birds as well as protecting millions of people in South Louisiana from Mississippi River floods. For more information, visit https://www.basinkeeper.org/events/2024/3/17/8th-annual-save-the-basin-event-em49l