Downtown Events

PrizeFest Launches This Weekend

The Louisiana Film, Music, Fashion and Food Prize has gone mostly online for 2020, but the opportunities for fun remain! Louisiana Film Prize Instead of gathering in multiple venues to watch the Orange and Teal Slates of films this year, your ticket will allow you to watch the slates when you want Oct. 2-11. After you […]

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New Normal Drive In Concerts Sept. 18 & 19

See the video of the bands talking about their return. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It’s better than ‘Cats’. DON’T WAIT. GET YOUR TICKETS NOW.  It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that 2020 was the year the live music died, or at the very least, was put on indeterminate […]

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Five Things to Do Downtown!

Lederhosen, glass pumpkins, two full nights of live music, Southern kitchen witchery and a much-needed date night top the list of 5 Things to Do Downtown. Pack up your VW for a drive-through concert, practice your yodel and experience the many things our #CoolDowntown has to offer. Eight musical acts, a giant LED screen, food, […]

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Lauren Ross’ 2020 PrizeFest Poster

Each year the Louisiana Film Prize works with a local artist to create a commemorate poster, but we think 2020’s version is pretty perfect. Artist Lauren Ross‘ take from a Louisiana Film Prize perspective pretty much says it all because whose head HASN’T exploded at some point in this dumpster- fire- of- a- year? Ross, […]

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Bleu Beauty Med Spa Opens Friday

You are invited to the opening of the new Bleu Beauty Med Spa & Laser Clinic at 509 Market Street, the Standard, on Friday, Sept. 11 from 4 pm- 6 pm. Meet the owner and tour the new North Louisiana space for this up-and-coming business in Slidell, Covington, and now, in downtown Shreveport. Welcome this […]

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The Y’s Downtown Deal!

The YMCA wants downtown to be fit and fabulous and are offering those who live and work downtown a special ‘Why’ Deal ( Why in the world wouldn’t you take it?!) If you have a downtown connection, you’ll be able to join the Downtown Y (which provides total access to the big beautiful Preston Street […]

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Five Things to Do Downtown

See the places and spaces of Shreveport Common through the eyes of artists, become one yourself at an acrylic pour session with beer, to boot. Laugh in the face of the Apocalypse with a quirky new comedy, dance to the sounds of The Joanitones and practice your pirate ‘ARGHHH’ to be ready for the coming […]

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Farmers’ Market Extended and Vote NOW!

The Shreveport Farmers’ Market needs a push to the top! We are in the Top Ten markets in the nation, but need to be in the Top THREE for additional kudos and a cash prize that the market can sorely use! Remember to cast your vote as soon as you can to help us get there. […]

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Bricks4Kidz Lego Camp

Do your kids love legos and are you looking for one more fun and educational week for them before the school year starts in earnest? We have just the thing, the final Bricks4Kidz Lego Camp at Sci-Port Discovery Center! There is one week of Bricks4Kidz LEGO Camp left and we are offering a $10 discount […]

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Five Things to Do This Weekend!

Be a movie mogul at your own personal screening, enjoy eclectic breakfast offerings, share a meal with an amphibian, toss a bag of corn for fame and fortune and say hello with haiku.  You, too, can be poet who didn’t know it in our #CoolDowntown COVID has changed our outlook, but a personal movie night […]

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