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Weekly Highlights in Louisiana

Every featured event of the week, past and present

Spirits in the Park at Coquille
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Spirits in the Park at Coquille

The team behind New Orleans' Mortuary Haunted Mansion brings a free, three-day Halloween festival and concert series to the Great Lawn at Coquille Park in Covington, Oct. 30 through Nov. 1, 2026.

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New Orleans Film Festival Opens
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

New Orleans Film Festival Opens

The 37th New Orleans Film Festival opens Oct. 22 at the CAC Black Box Theater with 'Victory,' Ben Chace's documentary on Soul Queen Irma Thomas, part of a six-day run of 175 films.

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Finding Neverland at NOMA
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Finding Neverland at NOMA

Producer Richard Gladstein discusses the making of 'Finding Neverland' with Meryl Poster at NOMA's Lapis Center for the Arts on October 20, 2026, closing out the Producer's Choice film series.

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People of Hope Museum at St
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

People of Hope Museum at St

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge brings the free, tractor-trailer People of Hope Museum to St. George Catholic Church and School Oct. 23-25, 2026, with 40-plus video stories, a poverty simulator and a recording booth for your own story.

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Live After Five: Michael Foster
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Live After Five: Michael Foster

Baton Rouge's longest-running brass band brings jazz, Latin, pop and hip-hop to the free Live After Five series at North Boulevard Town Square's Galvez Plaza on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026.

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Art Break at LSU Museum of Art
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Art Break at LSU Museum of Art

The LSU Museum of Art's free Art Break on Saturday, October 24, 2026, invites teens and adults to build tin-inspired sculptures after David Butler, with live jazz and R&B by Rayne Jackson.

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New Orleans Film Festival's
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

New Orleans Film Festival's

The 37th New Orleans Film Festival runs Oct. 22-27, 2026, with 175 films at the Contemporary Arts Center, the Prytania and the Broad, plus an opening night party at Gallier Hall.

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Pleasant Zion Centennial in
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Pleasant Zion Centennial in

Pleasant Zion Missionary Baptist Church marks 100 years with a free Community Outreach Fest on Oct. 17 and a Centennial Anniversary Musical featuring the Zion Harmonizers on Oct. 18 at 3317 Toledano St. in New Orleans.

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Monster Mash Returns to Bogue
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Monster Mash Returns to Bogue

The annual Monster Mash brings trick-or-treating, carnival rides and the inclusive Sully Sensory Pavilion to Bogue Falaya Park in Covington on Oct. 17.

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Abita Springs Opry
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Abita Springs Opry

The Abita Springs Opry's second fall show brings country, bluegrass, jazz and Southern gospel to the old Abita Springs Town Hall on Oct. 17, 2026.

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Chloe Cemetery Cleanup
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Chloe Cemetery Cleanup

Descendants and volunteers gather Oct. 17-18, 2026, to clear Hurricane Laura debris from Chloe Historic Cemetery, a historic Black and Creole burial ground on English Bayou in Calcasieu Parish.

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Madisonville Wooden Boat
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Madisonville Wooden Boat

Madisonville's 35th annual Wooden Boat Festival brings over 100 classic boats, live music, and the Quick 'n' Dirty boat-building contest to the Tchefuncte River on Oct. 17-18, 2026.

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Bagging the Balls of Moss
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Bagging the Balls of Moss

A downtown cleanup on October 10 enlists volunteers to hand-pick an airborne epiphyte off Baton Rouge's trees — part of a years-long campaign to save the city's canopy.

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Free Shots for the First 100
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Free Shots for the First 100

West Baton Rouge's animal shelter opens its doors for a low-cost vaccine clinic, with a donor covering free rabies shots for the first hundred pets through the gate.

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Three Days of Cajun Soul
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Three Days of Cajun Soul

Now in its 52nd year, Festivals Acadiens et Créoles returns to Girard Park with a free weekend of music, dancing, food and a Smithsonian partnership.

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Six Fridays Under the Oaks: How
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Six Fridays Under the Oaks: How

Soul Revival takes the Trailhead amphitheater stage on October 2 as part of Mandeville Live!, a free fall concert series staged at the city's old rail depot site.

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The Wildest Show in the South
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

The Wildest Show in the South

For six decades, inmates at Louisiana's largest maximum-security prison have ridden bulls and sold handmade crafts to crowds of thousands -- a spectacle that is by turns celebrated and condemned.

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Pumpkins, Ponies and a Purpose
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Pumpkins, Ponies and a Purpose

A free, cashless autumn tradition at First United Methodist Church throws open its gates to families — and quietly funds one of the parish's oldest child care missions.

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A Quiet Room Under the
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

A Quiet Room Under the

The parish fair has been a Covington tradition since 1910, but this year it will hold something new — a sensory room built by a teenager in memory of her little sister.

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The Right Tools, the Right
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

The Right Tools, the Right

A free community resource fair takes root at a brand-new North Baton Rouge facility, connecting EBR Schools families with tutoring, afterschool care, and the helping hands they need before the first bell rings.

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Ten years in, the Westbank
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

Ten years in, the Westbank

A free two-day festival born from a simple question — why does the West Bank of Jefferson Parish have to cross the river for a good time? — returns for its 10th anniversary with national acts, gospel, gumbo, and a field full of bounce houses.

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Beer, Bounce Houses and a
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

Beer, Bounce Houses and a

New Orleans' largest craft brewery turns its taproom into a family block party for pediatric cancer research, blending football, live music, and a limited-edition beer for a cause that hits close to home.

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Ninety-One Years of Shrimp
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Ninety-One Years of Shrimp

Louisiana's oldest state-chartered harvest festival returns for its 91st year, celebrating the two industries that built Morgan City — and the strange, beautiful bond between them.

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Bigfoot Finds a Home in
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Bigfoot Finds a Home in

What began as a modest bet on true believers has grown into one of Louisiana's most unexpected annual traditions — and the third Natchitoches Louisiana Bigfoot Festival returns September 5, 2026.

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In Laurel, Adam Trest Turns the
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

In Laurel, Adam Trest Turns the

The Mississippi artist's new exhibition, Bandits & Blooms, celebrates the raccoons, opossums, and weeds we love to hate—and invites viewers to see them anew.

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A Milestone Morning in Baton
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Milestone Morning in Baton

ESPN's iconic pregame show celebrates its 40th season and 500th campus visit as LSU opens the Lane Kiffin era against Clemson in prime time.

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Louisiana flag
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

GameDay's 500th Road Stop Turns

ESPN's traveling pregame show celebrates 40 seasons and 500 campus broadcasts as Lane Kiffin debuts as LSU's head coach against Clemson.

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A Riverfront Run for Caleb: The
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Riverfront Run for Caleb: The

On September 5, 2026, the Caleb Wilson Foundation's inaugural 5K run/walk through New Orleans' Goldring-Woldenberg Riverfront Park will honor a young trumpeter whose death in a fraternity hazing ritual sparked a statewide movement for change.

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Under a New Moon: The Full Moon Market Leaves Plaquemine for a Riverfront Revival in Brusly
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Under a New Moon: The Full Moon Market Leaves Plaquemine for a Riverfront Revival in Brusly

The Capital Region's fastest-growing monthly night market packs up its booths and moves to Saint James Park, bringing its creative community together under the stars.

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Under a New Moon: The Full Moon
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Under a New Moon: The Full Moon

The Capital Region's fastest-growing monthly night market packs up its booths and moves to Saint James Park, bringing its creative community together under the stars.

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