Winter Steam Camp at T.R.E.E. House Children's Museum
2019-12-31 09:00 - 2020-01-03 12:00 (America/Chicago) | T.R.E.E. House Children’s Museum, 1403 Third Street, Alexandria, LA, 71301, United States
Join the T.R.E.E. House Children’s Museum for a winter themed camp on Tuesday, December 31st to Friday, January 3rd from 9:00 A.M to 12:00 P.M! Kid’s will be learning about science, engineering and art! Lots of fun!
Members: $80.00
Non-members: $90.00
Includes t-shirt! Pre-registration is required. Ages 6-12 only.
***Please fill out the form below to register***

Christmas Science at T.R.E.E. House Children's Museum
2019-12-14 13:00 | T.R.E.E. House Children’s Museum, 1403 Third Street, Alexandria, LA, 71301, United States
Join the T.R.E.E. House Children’s Museum on Saturday, December 14th at 1 PM as we do Christmas themed science experiments!
This program is included in $5 museum admission. T.R.E.E. House Members and children under the age of 2 get in free. Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult.

Become A Member Today!
To become a T.R.E.E. House member, simply complete the form below.

MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
* Unlimited visits for an entire year
* Discounts on Birthday Parties and Museum rentals
* 10% discount from the museum gift shop
* Advance registration discounts for educational classes & programs

A-Town Jazz: Dave Duplissey - Arts Council of Central Louisiana
2019-12-13 19:00 | The Hurst Loft, 1611 Washington Street, Alexandria, LA, 71301, United States
Do you like Jazz? We sure do! Arts Council of Central Louisiana invites you to join us for our annual Holiday bash at the luxurious Hurst Loft on Friday, December 13th at 7:00 PM.

As always, the Hurst Loft will be decked out in Holiday decorations and the Christmas spirit will be high!
This year A-Town Jazz features Louisiana Native, Dave Duplissey. Dave and his band of merry men will swoon us all night with a fabulous performance! Born on the banks of Bayou Bouef, Dave has deep roots in Cajun Creole culture.
Call the sitter and enjoy a cash bar, great jazz, good company and hors d’oeuvres (favors of India Courtesy of Amy Pillarisetti).

A special Thank You to the Hurst’s for allowing the Arts Council to use their beautiful venue.
On-line Tickets $30; Tickets at the door of event are $35

Celebrating Christmas – Red River Chorale
2019-12-10 19:30 - 21:00 | St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, 626 Fourth St., Alexandria, LA, 71301, United States
On Tuesday evening, December 10, 2019, the Red River Chorale will present Celebrating Christmas at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral in downtown Alexandria .

Set in the beautiful sanctuary of St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, our annual Christmas concert will feature a joyful procession and a variety of Christmas and holiday music, both sacred and secular. In addition to unaccompanied selections, the chorus will sing music accompanied by piano, organ, and string ensemble.

The concert will begin at 7:30 PM.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for students.

Holiday Traditions - Rapides Symphony Orchestra
2019-12-08 14:30 | Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center, 1202 Third Street, Alexandria, LA, 71301, United States
Join Rapides Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, December 8th for Holiday Traditions.

The Rapides Symphony Orchestra will be performing its annual Holiday Concert including music from The Nutcracker and other Christmas favorites.

The concert begins at 2:30 PM at Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center.

Tickets are $25 for adults, $15 for seniors (65+), $10 for students, and $50 for a family (2 adults and up to 4 children).

Christmas Ornament Making at T.R.E.E. House Children's Museum
2019-12-07 13:00 | T.R.E.E. House Children’s Museum, 1403 Third Street, Alexandria, LA, 71301, United States
Join the T.R.E.E. House Children’s Museum on Saturday, December 7th at 1 PM as we make Christmas ornaments!
This program is included in $5 museum admission. T.R.E.E. House Members and children under the age of 2 get in free. Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult.

Become A Member Today!
To become a T.R.E.E. House member, simply complete the form below.

MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
* Unlimited visits for an entire year
* Discounts on Birthday Parties and Museum rentals
* 10% discount from the museum gift shop
* Advance registration discounts for educational classes & programs

LightWire Theatre: A Very Electric Christmas - Arts Council of Central Louisiana
2019-12-05 19:00 | Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center, 1202 Third Street, Alexandria, LA, 71301, United States
The Arts Council of Central Louisiana is proud to present LightWire Theatre: A Very Electric Christmas!

Brighten your holidays with LightWire Theatre’s A Very Electric Christmas! Audiences of all ages will treasure this magical and captivating tale of family, friendship and hope set to timeless holiday hits. This delightful holiday production will make children wide-eyed with delight and warm even the smallest of hearts!
LightWire Theatre: A Very Electric Christmas will be presented on Thursday, December 5th @ 7 PM at Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center.
Special Sponsors include: The City of Alexandria, The Greater Alexandria Economic Development Authority, Hotel Bentley, The Alexandria/Pineville Convention & Visitors Bureau, & The Central Louisiana Community Foundation.
Ticket pricing is as followed:
General Admission: $18 | Senior: $15 | Student/Child (ages 3+): $10 | Family (2 adults + 2 students): $45

J.S Bach by Lin He - Nachtmusik
2019-12-03 19:00 | Sylvan Center, 1264 Canterbury Drive, Alexandria, Louisiana, 71303
Enjoy the Bach “Chaconne” and more performed by violin virtuoso Lin He on Tuesday, December 3rd. This is the fourth concert in the Fourth Nachtmusik Season, featuring a total of eight monthly chamber music concerts. This concert is sponsored by Betsy and Sonny Trammell.
Our monthly Nachtmusik concert series is held in the beautiful Sylvan Center. Nachtmusik programs are intimate and engaging concerts that always provide outstanding educational value as well, with professionally produced program notes, and insightful commentary from performers.
The Sylvan Center:
1264 Canterbury Drive at Parliament, Alexandria, LA 71303
Doors open at 6:45. Music begins at 7:15.
$12 admission. Students: $6.
For more information visit: https://www.sugarmillmusic.org/nachtmusik.
Insightful program notes by music scholar Jackson Harmeyer will be available. Read all of his music writings at https://www.jacksonharmeyer.com/ .

Audition Notice - Talking With... -City Park Players
2019-12-02 18:00 | The Rapides Foundation Building, 1101 4th Street, Alexandria, LA, 71301, United States
City Park Players Audition Notice
Talking With… by Jane Martin

Auditions for Talking With…: by Jane Martin
Date/Time: Monday, December 2nd at 6 pm & Saturday, December 7th at 10 am
Location: Inside the Rapides Foundation Bldg, 1101 Fourth St., Alexandria
Cast needed: 11 women
Talking With… is a collection of sharp, bittersweet portraits of women, many of whom have reacted to disappointments by melting into private worlds. Idiosyncratic characters amuse, move, and frighten, always speaking from the depths of their souls. These eleven ten-minute monologues include a baton twirler, a fundamentalist snake handler, an ex-rodeo rider, and an actress willing to go to any length to get a job. It premiered at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York in 1982 and has been performed around the world.
Directed by: TBA
Showtimes:
Thursday-Saturday, January 30-February 1 at 7:30pm
Sunday, February 2 at 2:30pm
Thursday-Saturday, February 6-8 at 7:30pm
Sunday, February 9 at 2:30pm
For more information, please contact us at: cityparkplayers@gmail.com or call 318-484-4478.

Hot Air Balloons! at T.R.E.E. House Children's Museum
2019-11-23 13:00 - 14:00 | T.R.E.E. House Children’s Museum, 1403 Third Street, Alexandria, LA, 71301, United States
Join the T.R.E.E. House Children’s Museum on Saturday, November 3rd at 1 PM as we learn about the science behind hot air balloons. Then join us for a story time and craft!
This program is included in $5 museum admission. T.R.E.E. House Members and children under the age of 2 get in free. Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult.

Become A Member Today!
To become a T.R.E.E. House member, simply complete the form below.

MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
* Unlimited visits for an entire year
* Discounts on Birthday Parties and Museum rentals
* 10% discount from the museum gift shop
* Advance registration discounts for educational classes & programs

Well Groomed - Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers
2019-11-20 19:00 | hearn stage, 1102 Third Street, Alexandria, LA, 71301, United States
Join The Arts Council of Central Louisiana on Wednesday, November 20th at 7:00 PM for a screening of Well Groomed. This film is part of the 2019 – 2020 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers. Q & A with the Director Rebecca Stern and Justin Levy (Producer) will follow the screening.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students.
About the film:

Competitive creative dog grooming is the most colorful competition in America. Well Groomed poignantly captures the creative process and traveling with four women at the center of the competition as they enrich their lives through this fascinating intersection of art and animals. Following champion groomers and their gorgeous, vibrant dogs through a year in the life on the technicolor competition circuit, Well Groomed effervescently explores an American not often portrayed in cinema.

From South Carolina to California, New York to Arkansas, the film follows dog groomers from their homes to large-scale dog grooming competitions and showrooms where their communities meet, discuss, and compete with technicolor exuberance. As the film unfolds, we meet Adriane, Nicole, Cat and Angela. Perpetual runner-up, Adriane has an intense drive to prove herself a winner, and is beloved by her competitors for being so kind and friendly. Nicole hopes to connect with people in the grooming community as much as she connects with her dogs at home, while facing the very real challenge of turning her struggling grooming shop into a successful business. Cat is the champion in the show ring but, over the year, must come to terms with competition’s reality as responsibilities outside of the grooming circuit surface. And Angela is the glue that binds the creative grooming industry with her innovative beauty products, extremely adept grooming skills and swagger that comes from constant success. Outside the competition ring, working as professional groomers, they spend their limited spare time away from washing, blow-drying, and fluffing other people’s dogs caring for their own numerous pets and experimenting with new designs on their show dogs, finding creative inspiration in their seemingly mundane surroundings. These women are revolutionizing the age-old question – what is art?

Well Groomed is a vibrant dive in to a colorful subculture of Americana. Director Rebecca Stern has captured a seemingly effortless ride-along experience with artists who are at the top of their craft. Well Groomed is a revealing look at pets, families, friendships and the glory of creativity through a bright prism of color.

WELL GROOMED Trailer from Rebecca Stern on Vimeo.
Southern Circuit is the South’s only tour of filmmakers, providing communities with an interactive way of experiencing independent film. Southern Circuit provides organizations with the opportunity to screen work from emerging filmmakers and some of the medium’s most respected directors. The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a program of South Arts. Southern Circuit screenings are funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.

A Doll's House - Spectral Sisters
2019-11-07 19:30 | hearn stage, 1102 Third Street, Alexandria, LA, 71301, United States
Spectral Sisters is proud to present A Doll’s House!
In 1879, Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House,” became an immediate sensation, telling the story of Nora, a woman married to a domineering husband after being raised by a domineering father. Though their marriage seems happy on the surface, Nora has had to sacrifice her honor and personhood. In 1879, a woman couldn’t vote, couldn’t conduct business without her husband’s permission, and could not refuse her husband’s sexual advances. We’ve set our “A Doll’s House” in 1959, when a woman could vote, but was otherwise still subject to her husband’s control.

A blackmailer threatens to reveal a crime Nora committed to save her husband’s life. Disillusioned by her husband’s response, Nora realizes she has to change her life—to grow up and be a reasonable human being with a mind of her own—or end her life. Her decision shocked audiences in 1879 and will make current audiences think about what it means to be a human being and what it means to love one.
A Doll’s House will be performed Thursday through Saturday from November 7th to November 9th @ 7:30 PM and Sunday, November 10th @ 2:30 PM on the Hearn Stage at the Kress Theatre.
Tickets: General Admission $10.00 ; Teachers & Students $5.00.

Fall ArtWalk 2019
2019-10-18 16:00 - 21:00 | Downtown Cultural Arts District, 1102 third street, Alexandria, LA, 71301, United States
Join the Arts Council of Central Louisiana for Fall ArtWalk 2019 on Friday, October 18 from 4 to 9 PM. Fall ArtWalk takes over the streets of the Alexandria Cultural District again, with music, dance, visual artists, and craft vendors as well as food and drink.
ArtWalk is FREE and open to the public.
ArtWalk vendors are encouraged to register now before spaces are filled! Please note that all items sold at Fall ArtWalk MUST be handmade.
The Arts Council is also looking for volunteers to help coordinate vendors and entertainers. Please contact Kate Febuary at 318 484 4474 or Kate@louisiana-arts.org for more info.
Please note that you will receive an email with your vendor space and instructions approximately one week before ArtWalk.

Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee – Arts Council of Central Louisiana
2019-09-14 19:00 | Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center, 1202 Third Street, Alexandria, LA, 71301, United States
Black Angels over Tuskegee is SOLD OUT!
The Arts Council of Central Louisiana is proud to present Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee. Vibrantly energetic and emotionally captivating, Black Angels Over Tuskegee continues to enlighten and educate Off-Broadway audiences after an extended opening. ACCL is excited to bring the outstanding talents of Peabody High alumnus, Layon Gray, back to his Alexandria roots.
Black Angels Over Tuskegee is one of the longest running productions Off-Broadway! Originally opening in January 2010 for a two-month engagement, the award-winning, historical docudrama is a narrative of six men embarking upon a journey to become the first aviators in the United States Army Air Forces during a tumultuous era of racial segregation and Jim Crow idealism in twentieth century American history. Black Angels Over Tuskegee is inspired by true events and endorsed by the real Tuskegee airmen themselves!
Black Angels Over Tuskegee will be presented on Saturday, September 14th at 7 PM at Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center.
WINNER – NAACP Award | WINNER – ADA Award!
“Doing triple duty as a playwright, director, and actor, Layon Gray presents a compelling and heart felt look at an all too often over looked aspect of black, military, and American history with his absolutely brilliant drama Black Angels Over Tuskegee.” – The Epoch Times
This presentation of Black Angels Over Tuskegee is produced by Mark Brown.
Special Sponsors for Black Angels Over Tuskegee include: The City of Alexandria, The Greater Alexandria Economic Development Authority, The City of Pineville, Alexandria Museum of Art, Hotel Bentley, The LSUA Foundation, The Alexandria/Pineville Convention & Visitors Bureau, & The Central Louisiana Community Foundation.
Ticket pricing is as followed:
General Admission: $20 | Senior: $15 | Student/Child (ages 3+): $10 | Family (2 adults + 2 students): $50
