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Coming Up At Acadiana Center For The Arts

Arts and Entertainment

November 24, 2022

From: Acadiana Center for the Arts

Join us for Art & Culture

We are closed for the Thanksgiving Holiday on Thursday 11/24 & Friday 11/25.
Our galleries and café will reopen for normal business hours on Saturday 11/26 at 9am.

We're having a ball!

Black Tie Optional, Dancing Shoes Mandatory!

Join us Saturday, December 3rd for our second annual Pelican Ball, supported by Kean Miller & Our Lady of Lourdes Health!
An elegant and creative evening of music, food, dancing, and artful surprises.

This year's gala honors Mary B. Neiheisel and James Devin Moncus (posthumously) for their contributions and passion for art and culture in Acadiana. 

Pelican Ball

Tickets make great gifts!
Check out next year's fantastic lineup and grab your seats now!

AcA returns to the Heymann Center with singer-songwriter Neko Case for the Main Stage series.

Tickets are $25, $45, $55, & $65

Neko Case steps out, cutting the sky and singing the stars, spinning fury and mercy as she goes. She loves the world and wears her heart on her sleeve, but she might eat it before you get to thinking it belongs to you.
Wild Creatures pulls together some high points of feral joy from twenty-one years of solo work by Neko Case.

Neko Case Tickets

Listen now! We made playlists:

Check out the AllStars series lineup
on YouTube & Spotify

Check out the Louisiana Crossroads series lineup
on YouTube & Spotify

Tickets are now on sale to all 2023 performances to AcA members only!

Series tickets for AllStars series and Louisiana Crossroads series are on sale to members only with a limited-time 15% discount!
Members can purchase advance tickets for all other individual performances now! This offer is valid November 1-30, 2022.

Renew or purchase your AcA membership now and receive instructions by email to purchase advance tickets.

Or call the AcA Box Office 337-233-7060 

Download the full 2023 Performing Arts brochure to peruse at your leisure

In the Galleries

Bryant Benoit: A Cultural Collage Interpretation

On view in the AcA ArtHouse November 12, 2022 - February 23, 2023

Benoit’s artwork speaks to his culture and histories of his community through the usage of paint and collage. 

Learn more here

Open Studio Acadiana

On view in the AcA Coca-Cola Studio November 12, 2022 - January 14, 2023

Presented by the Louisiana Crafts GuildOpen Studio Acadiana is a unique decentralized event across Louisiana’s Acadiana celebrating the area’s artists and craftspeople.

Learn more here

Poetics of Selfhood / Poétique de l’Ipséité
presented by: Marie & Reggie Dupré

On view in the AcA Main Gallery through January 14, 2023

Explorations in a Redefinition of Francophone Identity.
A project of Acadiana Center for the Arts in partnership with La Station Culturelle, Fort de France, Martinique. 

Curated by:
Eléna Lou Arnoux, La Station Culturelle, Fort de France, Martinique
Jaik Faulk, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
Éline Gourgues, La Station Culturelle, Fort de France, Martinique

Featured Artists:
Gwladys Gambie (Martinique)
Rebecca D. Henry (USA)
Jérémie Priam (Martinique)
Tabita Rezaire (Guyana)
Modou Dieng Yacine (USA / Senegal)

Learn more here