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The Student Arts Expo is a celebration of student-artists in all artistic disciplines. It will take place in 3 different parishes, featuring outdoor performances from school bands, choirs, and performance classes. There will be art exhibitions in businesses and outdoors, hands-on art activities for families, and a student artist market where you can purchase original artwork and crafts directly from the artist. For more information, visit https://acadianacenterforthearts.org/whats-happening/special-events/student-arts-expo/

Acadiana Center for the Arts is hosting the exhibition, Prairie Stories: Art and Ecological Restoration on Louisiana’s Prairies, through February 8th to May 10th. This exhibition takes a look at a variety of stories which intertwine the work of artists, community groups, Indigenous Peoples, and science-led efforts to restore the ecological balance to the area known as the Cajun Prairie. For more information, visit https://acadianacenterforthearts.org/events/prairie-stories/

The Movie Magic 101 Workshop is a multiclass crash course on movie making for kids in grades 6 - 12. The first class is on Tuesday, March 11th at Cite Des Arts. For more information, visit https://www.citedesarts.org/events/movie-magic-101

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 dancer and choreographer, Lydia Young-Green, and visual artist, Kali Picard.

Since 2007 UL Lafayette has hosted an annual Women's Leadership Conference, and the next one will be on Thursday, March 13th at the Cajun Dome Convention Center. For more information, visit https://louisiana.edu/inclusion/strategic-growth/womens-leadership-conference

UPDATE: Deadline to apply is now March 31st, 2025Celebrating the memory of Courtney Granger—master fiddler, musician, and culture bearer—who passed away in 2021 at the age of 39. Donations to the Fund will be re-granted annually beginning in 2023 through the Courtney Granger Memorial Award, administered by AcA, giving young musicians in Acadiana scholarships to attend national camps for traditional music—an opportunity that was so important to Courtney. To find out more information, qualifications, and application, visit https://acadianacenterforthearts.org/opportunities-for-artists/courtney-granger-memorial-award/

Join the Bayou Culture Collaborative for their March 21, 2025 gathering of people and organizations focused on preserving Louisiana’s heritage and examining the effects of land loss on local culture. For more information click, here.

ArtSpark is a competitive grant program supporting individual artists in Acadiana by providing technical support, funding, and entrepreneurial training to artists in various fields. These awards offer assistance to emerging, mid-career, and mature artists for specific, short-term projects with a component of community outreach and a focus on the artists' and/or communities economic development with the support of Opportunity Machine. This program is committed to ensuring diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, with articular focus on creating opportunities for Black artists, Indigenous, artists of color, as well as those artists with disabilities, in order to expand their bodies of work as professionals. Funding for this program is made possible by Lafayette Economic Development Authority and National Endowment for the Arts, and is administered by Acadiana Center for the Arts. For more information click, here.

Colby LeJeune talks with Dr. Dana David Gravot, scholar of French Louisiana faith-healing, and author of the book "Je jongle au bon Dieu quand je traite"; Traiteurs in Francophone Louisiana. We spoke about Dr. Dana's history with traditional Louisiana French traitement and different healing traditions in Louisiana and across the world.

The 20th Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival, an annual eight-day juried international film festival, will screen films each day through Wednesday, Jan. 29th, with filmmakers visiting from across the U.S. and Canada, as well as from France and Germany. For more information, visit https://cinemaonthebayou.com/