The library Board of Control and staff wishes all a happy and memorable Memorial Day holiday!The main library and all branches will be closed on May 30^th to celebrate the holiday.
NEW now at the Main Library on Tuesdays @ 1 pm we are hosting “Allons Parle en François”, an opportunity for anyone who wants to speak or listen to our beautiful French language. Coffee is included with this FREE program! Also, this Monday, 5/23/22, the kids club, Brilliant Butterflies will meet at 4 pm to make crafts. Parents are encouraged to participate. 
Good News! Turkey Creek branch library now has an active Facebook page! Please take a look and share! Now the main library and every branch has a timely way to promote the variety of  programs that they customize for their patrons!
Mark your calendars for Saturday, June 4^th for our Summer Reading Kickoff event with the impressive KUBUKI DANCERS! They will be “breakin it down” at the main library at 10 am for a morning of free entertainment, inspiration, and motivation. We hope to draw the interest of our Tweens and Teens especially! Here are the dates for our JUNE performers. Summer Reading Program calendars are now posted on our website and available for pick up at all main and all branches. Here’s a quick posting:  June 7, 8, 9^th: CHATTY THE MIME, June 14, 15, 16^th: NATIVE AMERICAN STORYTELLER PETER VILLEGAS, June 21, 22, 23^rd:  VENTRILOQUIST DONNA & PALS, June 28, 29, 30^th:  HONEY DO PETTING ZOO.Thank you to our sponsors for helping us make this the best summer ever! Friends of the Library, State Farm Eric Gil, Bon Aimee’ Insurance & Appraisal Services, Lakeview Park & Beach, Healthworks Rehab, Basile State Bank, Lyons Market, Paul’s Meat Market, Vidrine Ace Hardware, Adrion’s Funeral Homes, Buller Family Dentistry, JD Bank, Peter Strawitz Edward Jones,  Reed’s Pharmacy, & Evangeline Parish Farm Bureau. 

For more information call the main library @ 337-363-1369 or email [email protected]. Visit our main library and branch library Facebook pages or www.evangelinelibrary.org for all upcoming events and never forget that libraries do change lives…. even in the cloud! Suzy Lemoine, Outreach Coordinator.

So much support for our Summer Reading programming! Here’s a big “thank you” to our last summer reading incentive sponsors: Evangeline Parish Farm Bureau.   Your support is an acknowledgement of the importance of literacy and lifelong learning opportunities that are accessible to all through our public library system.
NEW now at the Main Library on Tuesdays @ 1 pm we are hosting “Allons Parle en François”, an opportunity for anyone who wants to speak or listen to our beautiful French language. Coffee is included with this FREE program! Also, this Monday, 5/23/22, the kids club, Brilliant Butterflies will meet at 4 pm to make crafts. Parents are encouraged to participate. 
Good News! Turkey Creek branch library now has an active Facebook page! Please take a look and share! Now the main library and every branch has a timely way to promote the variety of  programs that they customize for their patrons!
Mark your calendars for Saturday, June 4^th for our Summer Reading Kickoff event with the impressive KUBUKI DANCERS! They will be “breakin it down” at the main library at 10 am for a morning of free entertainment, inspiration, and motivation. We hope to draw the interest of our Tweens and Teens especially! Here are the dates for our JUNE performers. Summer Reading Program calendars are now posted on our website and available for pick up at all main and all branches. Here’s a quick posting:  June 7, 8, 9^th: CHATTY THE MIME, June 14, 15, 16^th: NATIVE AMERICAN STORYTELLER PETER VILLEGAS, June 21, 22, 23^rd:  VENTRILOQUIST DONNA & PALS, June 28, 29, 30^th:  HONEY DO PETTING ZOO.Thank you to our sponsors for helping us make this the best summer ever! Friends of the Library, State Farm Eric Gil, Bon Aimee’ Insurance & Appraisal Services, Lakeview Park & Beach, Healthworks Rehab, Basile State Bank, Lyons Market, Paul’s Meat Market, Vidrine Ace Hardware, Adrion’s Funeral Homes, Buller Family Dentistry, JD Bank, Peter Strawitz Edward Jones,  Reed’s Pharmacy, & Evangeline Parish Farm Bureau. 
Memorial Day is fast approaching so I’d like to invite families to come to the lobby of the main library in Ville Platte to take a photo with our lovely Memorial Day backdrop! Holiday closure notice: The main library and all branches will be closed on May 28^th and May 30^th to celebrate the holiday.
For more information call the main library @ 337-363-1369 or email [email protected]. Visit our main library and branch library Facebook pages or www.evangelinelibrary.org for all upcoming events and never forget that libraries do change lives…. even in the cloud! Suzy Lemoine, Outreach Coordinator.

The library Board of Control will meet this Thursday, May 19, 2022, @ noon in the multipurpose room of the main library in Ville Platte. The agenda is posted.

Mark your calendars for Saturday, June 4^th for our Summer Reading Kickoff event with the impressive KUBUKI DANCERS! They will be “breakin it down” at the main library at 10 am for a morning of free entertainment, inspiration, and motivation. We hope to draw the interest of our Tweens and Teens especially! Here are the dates for our JUNE performers. This is an early posting just to get the information out. Details will be posted next week on our website and printed on the calendars for pick-up:  June 7, 8, 9^th: CHATTY THE MIME, June 14, 15, 16^th: NATIVE AMERICAN STORYTELLER PETER VILLEGAS, June 21, 22, 23^rd:  VENTRILOQUIST DONNA & PALS, June 28, 29, 30^th:  HONEY DO PETTING ZOO. Thank you to our sponsors for helping us make this the best summer ever! Friends of the Library, State Farm Eric Gil, Bon Aimee’ Insurance & Appraisal Services, Lakeview Park & Beach, Basile State Bank, Lyons Market, Paul’s Meat Market, Vidrine Ace Hardware, Adrion’s Funeral Homes, Buller Family Dentistry, JD Bank, Peter Strawitz Edward Jones, & Reed’s Pharmacy.For more information call the main library @ 337-363-1369 or email [email protected]. Visit our main library and branch library Facebook pages or www.evangelinelibrary.org for all upcoming events and never forget that libraries do change lives…. even in the cloud! Suzy Lemoine, Outreach Coordinator.

The KABUKI DANCERS will be “Breakin It Down with The Origins of Hip-Hop Dance”! Please get the word out!! We booked these dancers especially for Tweens & Teens from all around the parish!

The Kabuki Dancers are a group of performing artists from the Acadiana area of Louisiana. As a group, they have performed and competed at various festivals, stage shows and competitions throughout the nation. Highlights include: The Apollo Theater NYC, local media appearances, as well as being a part of Festival International de Louisiane. Locally, we work within our library and public school systems to inform and influence those in our community in a positive way. We are artists with a message! Here are a few of programs: “Never Give Up!”, focuses on achieving goals through hard work and determination. Next, “Drop The B.E.A.T (Bullying Ends After Talking)” is our anti-bullying program featuring drums, spoken word poetry and dance. And third, “Shots Fired”, was a project motivated by the recent surge of youth gun violence. With this program we hope to educate our audience on how to channel negative emotions into self-expression through art and creativity.