Taste of Mid City
Tickets are on sale for Taste of Mid City 2026: A Celebration of Food, Community, and Music Education, benefiting vital funds for local nonprofit Kids’ Orchestra.
Presented by Franklin Associates and The Executive Center, this annual event brings together local chefs, eateries and the community for a day of food, music and impact.
Taste of Mid City is also hosting a silent auction to benefit Kids’ Orchestra, featuring items and experiences generously donated by local businesses. The auction runs through March 22.
Tickets on sale until March 22. For tickets or to bid in the silent auction, visit TasteOfMidCityBR.com.
‘Madama Butterfly’
Tickets are on sale for Opera Louisiane’s production of Giacomo Puccini’s grand opera, “Madama Butterfly” at 7 p.m. April 11 in the Raising Canes River Center Performing Arts Theater, 240 St. Louis St.
Tickets are $20-$150. Visit operalouisiane.com/madamabutterfly.
At Red Magnolia
Tickets are on sale for the original cabaret production, “Roots, Briars, and Branches: A Reflection on America,” at 7:30 p.m. March 21 and 2 p.m. March 22 at the LSU Rural Life Museum, 4560 Essen Lane.
This collaborative production between the Red Magnolia Theatre Company and LSU Rural Life Museum was conceived and curated by Jennifer Ellis and Jessica Wilson and is inspired by the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The show features a cast of 13 and a live band.
Tickets are general admission, $30 for adults; $25 seniors and students. Visit redmagnoliatc.org/tickets.
Ellemnop group show
Ellemnop is showing “Overlook the Obvious,” a group exhibition featuring work by six contemporary visual artists through March 27 at the Healthcare Gallery, 3488 Brentwood Drive, Suite 103.
The exhibit is a thought-provoking group exhibition featuring six contemporary visual artists whose work challenges viewers to slow down, question assumptions and rediscover the power of attention. The closing reception will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. March 27.
Featured artists are Alanna Ali, Sharon Furrate Bailey, Aria Mickenberg, Claire Gowdy, Chasity Scherer and Chad Schoonmaker.
Admission is free. Visit ellemnop.art/theobvious.
Call for student artists
The Louisiana Art & Science Museum, 100 S. River Road, in collaboration with Ellemnop.Art, will host its 2026 Student Art Exhibition, “Blueprints of Culture: Architecture and Design That Shapes Louisiana,” in the museum’s STEAM Gallery.
The museum invites Louisiana students in sixth through 12th grades to participate through an open call for art submissions. The exhibition will explore the foundations of architectural design in Louisiana, encouraging students to create original artworks inspired by the past, present and future of the state’s built environment. The show will run from April 2026 through April 2027.
Deadline for submissions is March 31. For specific requirements and a submission form, visit ellemnop.art/steamgallery.
Glasgow exhibit
The Glasgow Middle School Talented Art Students’ annual art exhibit runs through March 31 in the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St. This year’s exhibit is titled, “Power of Symbols and Cultural Pride: African Textile Design.”
Admission is free.
At the Old Capitol
Louisiana’s Old State Capitol, 100 North Blvd., is showing “Present Day Traces of Segregation, Civil Rights, and Collective Memory in Louisiana” by the Louisiana Photographic Society through March 14.
Also, the exhibit, “Japanese War Brides: Across A Wide Divide,” opens on March 24 and runs through June 13, exploring the story of more than 45,000 Japanese women who immigrated to the United States after World War II and how their bold passage reshaped communities across the country. And the museum will host its annual Easter Egg Roll from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on March 28.
Admission is free to all events. Visit louisianaoldstatecapitol.org.
At the Archives
The Friends of the Louisiana State Archives and the Friends of the Old State Capitol will host “The Africans,” the next installment in its lecture series, “Becoming Louisiana,” at 5:30 p.m. March 24, at the Louisiana State Archives, 3851 Essen Lane. The lecture will be given by John K. Pierre, chancellor of Southern University.
Admission is free.
At the Manship
Tickets are on sale for Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana at 2 p.m. March 22 at the Manship Theatre in the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St. Tickets start at $30.
Tickets are also on sale for Houston Ballet II at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. March 28. Tickets start at $46.
Visit manshiptheatre.org.
At Longview
Tickets are on sale for the Louisiana Travel Association’s reception, “An Evening at Longview,” from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. March 10 at 1465 Ted Dunham Drive, Baton Rouge.
The evening will feature live music by the Coteau Grove Band with special guest Wayne Toups. Tickets are $250.
Visit e.givesmart.com/events/Nt0/.
In Hammond
The Hammond Regional Arts Center, 217 E. Thomas St., Hammond, will open its annual “Young Artists Exhibition” with a reception from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. March 6, in the Main Gallery. The exhibit is a showcase of artwork created by Tangipahoa Parish students under the guidance of their art teachers.
A simultaneous exhibition, “The Studio Collection,” also opens that evening in the Center’s Mezzanine Gallery on the second floor is “The Studio Collection.” This show features expressive paintings by Pat Macaluso, along with stained glass works by Sharon Sledge.
Both shows run through April 2. Gallery hours are noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Friday. Admission is free. Visit hammondarts.org.
SLU student show
The Southeastern Louisiana University Contemporary Art Gallery will open the 2026 Juried Student Exhibition with a reception from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on March 12. The show runs through April 17, and features artwork by Southeastern students.
The exhibition is juried by graphic designer and New Orleans artist Kay Curley and Orlando Hernandez Ying, curator of the Arts of the Americas at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
The gallery is located in East Strawberry Stadium on campus at 411 Ned McGehee Dr., Hammond. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m. to noon Friday. Admission is free. Visit southeastern.edu/slucontemporary.
At NuNu
Nunu Arts and Culture Collective, 1510 Bayou Courtableau Highway, Arnaudville, will host an “Acadian Brown Cotton: Seed Distribution & Regenerative Ag” seminar on March 14.
For more information, visit nunucollective.org.
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