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CENTER The LITE center is located in the Research Park of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The $27 million, 70,000 square foot LITE complex is one of the most comprehensive and tightly integrated data visualization and supercomputing installations in the world. LITE brings together research, academics, government, and industrial leaders sharing and looking for the latest technology, concepts, and solutions. LITE is “the” place to be for those that want to be right in the middle of the action where immersive visualization meets supercomputing. |
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 ACADIANA ARTS COUNCIL The Acadiana Arts Council is a "cultural environmentalist" charged with cultivating the region's art resources. They create new opportunities for artists, nurturing new organizations, developing and promoting the activities of existing arts and cultural organizations and filling community programming needs are still the goals of the Acadiana Arts Council. |
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Natural History MuseumLocated at 433 Jefferson Street in downtown Lafayette, The Lafayette Natural History Museum & Planetarium presents science, technology and history through exhibitions, planetarium shows, hands-on interactive experiences, filsm workshops and othr programs for children, families and adults. Traveling exhibitions, from organizations such as the Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Foundation, change quarterly, as do the featured planetarium shows. The building is an example of urban re-design and re-use, and has received many design awards for its dramatic interior space. |
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des ArtsLocated at 109 Vine Street in downton Lafayette, the mission of Cite des Arts is to provide an experience that welcomes and encourages interactions between various cultures, generations and artistic disciplines in order to increase the participation, enjoyment and knowledge each may have with and of the others. |
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 GRAND CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY Located in downtown Lafayette at 402 Buchanon Street, The Grand Contemporary Art Gallery exhibits regional and national talent The gallery offers the most diverse gathering of artists and the broadest price range in the heart of Acadiana. Grand Contemporary is open from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and by appointment for the remainder of the week. |
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 GRANT STREET DANCEHALL Grant Street Dancehall is a beautiful 100 year old brick and cypress honky tonk built originally as a fruit warehouse. Grant Street opened it’s doors on the Fourth of July, 1980 with two (now) legendary south Louisiana bands gracing the stage that night, Red Beans & Rice Revue and the late King of Zydeco Clifton Chenier & his Red Hot Louisiana Band. Playing guitar with both bands that night was Sonny Landreth, who recently recorded in and named his seventh album after the club. The list of great American artists that have graced the stage at Grant St. include: Ray Charles, B. B. King, Muddy Waters, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Albert King, John Lee Hooker, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Warren Zevon, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dizzy Gillespie, JJ Cale, Dr. John, The Meters, Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, Los Lobos, and Buckwheat Zydeco. This list is far from complete. Grant Street is not just your average honky-tonk, it is an institution, an icon, and gateway into the heart of a unique and thriving culture that exists nowhere else. The owners and staff are passionate about continuing this legacy of birthing great live music shows and making it a breeding ground for Acadiana’s musical culture’s preservation and evolution. |
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