Public Calendar

💚💛❤️🖤You’re Invited!💚💛❤️🖤 Join us on February 22nd at 11:00am for the 2nd Annual Event of the Central Louisiana African American Culture & Heritage Center located at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Branch of the Rapides Parish Library!   Coming into fruition a year ago, the African American Culture & Heritage Center was created to honor […]

Join us in showing your Mardi Gras spirit with a painting. An artist will guide you step by step in a pre-sketched painting, from beginning to final masterpiece. The painting can be customizable with colors and extras. Price includes all materials to complete the entire painting. Class will begin at 6:00 pm, plenty of time

Learn all about the rocks you love to collect! We will be bringing stones that you can touch and feel yourself and talk about the ways that they are formed.

We might be over 50, but we’re as young as we feel! Come for the bingo, but stay for the friendships! Seating is limited. Registrations are required. Visit the link to register. https://rpl.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=143073* *This event is proudly sponsored by HealthyBlue!

Join us as we light the night. Our Mardi Gras Parade is Feb 21 this year. Our parade route will be the same as our Christmas Parade route, from the Flag Pole on Riverfront Street, down Main Street and ending at the LCU signal light.

Learn all about the rocks you love to collect! We will be bringing stones that you can touch and feel yourself and talk about the ways that they are formed.

We might be over 50, but we’re as young as we feel! Come for the bingo, but stay for the friendships! Seating is limited. Registrations are required. Visit this link to register. https://rpl.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=143072* *This event is proudly sponsored by HealthyBlue!

-The Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living (TFL) is hosting a Central Louisiana Vaping Town Hall on Thursday, February 20, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. This hybrid event will bring together community members and leaders from across Central Louisiana to address the growing youth vaping epidemic. The discussion will focus on raising awareness, exploring solutions,

Come paint an African mask with our Artist of the Month Ronald Ray Veal. Ronald is an artist of many different formats including hand drawing, painting, computer graphics, and clay sculpting.   Seating is limited. Registrations are required. See the link to register. https://rpl.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=144408

Award winning British vocal consort, The Gesualdo Six, makes its Louisiana debut singing a concert of atmospheric choral works exploring the transition from darkness into light. The group records for the presitigious British Hyperion Records and will have a selection of their compact disk recordings on hand for purchase and autographs. Join us for the

This Black History Month art project was inspired by the women of Gee’s Bend, who live in a small and remote black community in Alabama. When the women of this small town began quilting in the 19th century, it arose only from a physical need for warmth. However, over the years they have been credited

We might be over 50, but we’re as young as we feel! Come for the bingo, but stay for the friendships! Seating is limited. Registrations are required. Visit this link to register. https://rpl.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=143071* *This event is proudly sponsored by HealthyBlue!