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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/

The legendary dance troupe Cleo Parker Robinson Dance (CPRD) and the prestigious New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) will join forces on Wednesday, Jan. 29th at the Heymann Center, for a breathtaking program that includes “Sacred Spaces,” inspired by the burning of three Black churches in St. Landry Parish and conceived by PASA. For more information, visit https://pasaonline.org/upcoming-1

Elizabeth Burk is an independent writer raised in New York City, writing about her experiences living in southwest Louisiana. Her book, Unmoored: Poems, is a collection of poems about a life well-lived and well-examined for all of its eccentricities and triumphs.

In celebration of Clifton Chenier’s 100th birthday on June 25, 2025, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is thrilled to announce the Clifton Chenier Memorial Scholarship Fund - primarily made to benefit students in the UL traditional music program. For more information, click here.

The Master Gardener Association announces their annual fundraiser, Dans Le Jardin, taking place on Friday, June 13th at the LITE Center in Lafayette. The Master Gardeners association hosts multiple horticulture education and service programs around Lafayette Parish. For more information on the annual event, click here.

The Prairie Acadian Cultural Center is excited to announce new programs for the upcoming month of June. There will be live music events as well as "family day" on each Friday of the month. For more information, click here.