‘Cajundome City’ to premiere at UL Lafayette’s LITE Center

By Rebecca Chaisson on Wednesday, August 10, 2022
  • The film “Cajundome City” will premiere at 7:15 p.m. Aug. 25 at UL Lafayette’s LITE Center. The documentary examines how the venue became the country’s first mega-shelter with a medical clinic, pharmacy, commissary and post office. (Photo from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
    The film “Cajundome City” will premiere at 7:15 p.m. Aug. 25 at UL Lafayette’s LITE Center. The documentary examines how the venue became the country’s first mega-shelter with a medical clinic, pharmacy, commissary and post office. (Photo from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

    With crammed shelters in Louisiana forced to turn away busloads of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in 2005, then-Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco enlisted the Cajundome. The venue’s transformation from a home to sporting events and concerts to a makeshift home for about 18,500 people total over the course of 58 days is examined in a new documentary film. “Cajundome City: Hurricane Katrina and America’s…