Friday, April 1st9:00-10:00Sliman Theater129 East Main St. Historians from the Iberia Parish African American Historical Society will provide an overview of how 19th century historical events (Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow) unfolded in New Iberia and surrounding areas. There will also be a discussion on how these events, over time, gave rise to Klan-like…
Friday, April 1, 202210:30-11:30Sliman Theater129 East Main St. Ernest J Gaines was born on January 15, 1933, on River Lake Plantation in the small south Louisiana town of Oscar in Pointe Coupee Parish. In Gaines’s childhood, the center of his world was Cherie Quarter, the former slave quarter on River Lake Plantation, where five generations of…
12:30-3:00Victor’s Cafeteria109 West Main St. You won’t want to miss this great tour!! Take a guided tour of the locations made famous in James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux book series and films. At 12:30, check in at the door of Dave’s favorite lunch spot, Victor’s Cafeteria, to collect your wristband for your included meal. Over…
April 1st1:30-2:30Sliman Theater129 East Main St. These days of quarantine, mortality rates, and case counts seem new and strange to us, but in the big sweep of Louisiana history, they’re actually par for the course. For the first two hundred years of Louisiana history, epidemic disease was a relatively common fact of life, and yellow…
April 1, 2022 3:30-4:30 Sliman Theater129 East Main St. Iberia Performing Arts League presents onstage dialogue and narration from “A Gathering of Old Men” by the 2017 Great Southern Writer Ernest Gaines. The group will read excerpts from the 1983 novel about a murder on a Louisiana plantation. Sponsored by Iberia Performing Arts League
Saturday April 2, 20229:00-10:00Steamboat Warehouse Pavilion102 West Main St. Free Have you ever wanted to share your favorite book? You can do this and increase literacy in your neighborhood by learning to build and run your own Little Free Library. Come and have a master craftsman and designer help you design your own. Anne Darrah,…
Saturday, April 2nd9:00 – 3:00Along Main Street in downtown New IberiaFREE Discover this area’s many talented authors as they display their books along New Iberia’s award-winning Main Street. Check out the Pocket Park at Church Alley for children’s authors and children’s activities. Main Street will be bustling Saturday, April 2nd from 9:00 a.m. – 3…
Saturday, April 2, 202212:15-1:15Sliman Theater129 East Main St. Come and listen as Iberia Performance Arts League presents dialogue and narration of a James Lee Burke novel. You will be transported into the life of Dave Robicheaux, New Iberia’s favorite detective
Saturday, April 2, 202212:30-2:30Grand Theater1000 Parkview DriveFREE Free screening of movie based on the novel by the 2020 Great Southern Writer Osha Davidson. A timely drama that centers on an unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater (Taraji P. Henson), an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis (Sam Rockwell), a local Ku Klux Klan leader who…
Saturday, April 2nd1:30-2:45FreeSliman Theater129 East Main St. The 2022 University of Louisiana College of Liberal Arts Academic Symposium on James Lee Burke. Carrol Spell, Jr. is an Acadiana native and local lawyer. It is his familiarity with Acadiana, Burke’s books, and his legal experience that Spell will bring to his presentation. Mr. Spell will offer…
