Community Calendar 2009: Events Thibodaux

Community Calendar

EVENTS Thibodaux Playhouse is set to hold auditions for its musical and last play of the season, “Sanders Family Christmas,” at 7 tonight at
the playhouse’s rehearsal hall, 1120 Caroline St., Thibodaux. The play, a musical comedy by Connie Ray and conceived by Alan Bailey, will be directed by Bert Boquet. The cast calls for four males and three females. For information, call 446-1896. The Louisiana Lions summer camp is coming up. The camp is designed for physically-challenged youth ages 7 to 19, mentally-challenged youth ages 8 to 19, youth with diabetes ages 6 to 14 and youth with pulmonary disorder ages 5 to 15. For information, call Leo R. White with the Terrebonne Lions Club at 537-4439. Lefevre’s Art Supply and Gallery, 230 Enterprise Drive, Houma, is set to offer summer classes, including arts and crafts, painting, calligraphy, origami and drawing for ages 6 to adult. For information, visit or call 580-7991. “Diversity and End-of-Life Care,” the Hospice Foundation of America’s annual education program, is scheduled to be shown live from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Terrebonne Parish Main Library, 151 Library Drive, Houma. Lunch will be provided from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The program, shown live via satellite and Webcast, is moderated by Frank Sesno, professor of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington State University and special correspondent with CNN. The program features panelists examining how diversity influences end-of-life decision-making the impact of culture at the time of death and bereavement. For information, call 876-0163. Tickets go on sale Friday for South Louisiana Center for the Arts’ production of the musical “Annie Jr.” For tickets or information, call 876-2222 or visit . The Terrebonne Orchid Society, a nonprofit organization including members from Terrebonne, Lafourche and nearby parishes, will hold its annual Spring Orchid Show from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday and from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday at Southland Mall, 5953 W. Park Ave., Houma. Admission is free and open to the public. This year’s show is titled “Orchids in the Jungle.” The show includes blooming plants and potting materials for sale by vendors from several states, orchid growers on hand to answer questions about growing orchids and membership forms for anyone interested in joining the Terrebonne Orchid Society or the American Orchid Society. For information, call Ashley Matherne at 594-4050.
The annual Bonne Terre Garden Fair, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Southdown Plantation House, 1208 Museum Drive, Houma. The fair, put on by the LaTerre Master Gardener Association and LSU Ag Center, offers educational seminars and demonstrations by gardening experts sales of plants, supplies and merchandise a plant disease clinic soil test station children’s activities a garden-themed art show museum tours and food. Admission is $3 each, and free for children under 12. For information, call Patricia Whipple at 446-1316.

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