It is important to preserve our local history. Celebrate Creole Culture this Sunday at Vermilionville. This year’s theme is Les Femmes du Folklore, exploring and celebrating creole women, past, present and future. This family friendly event is FREE for all ages.
You can give back and get involved. Volunteers are needed: call 337.233.4077 x.207 for more information. C.R.E.O.L.E. Inc. is also supporting this day celebrating Creole Culture. C.R.E.O.L.E. is a non-profit organization who’s mission is to preserve and promote the numerous aspects of the Creole culture of Southwest Louisiana
Creole Culture Day Highlights
• Resistance Through Persistence: Enslaved Women and Culture in LA
• Genealogy Discussions
• Creole Inventions
• Spoken Word Interpretation & Visual Arts
• Healer’s Garden & Broussard Home Tour
• Richard J. Catalon Award Ceremony
• The McComb-Veazey Creole Heritage Community
• Sharing Circle
• Dr. Emma Wakefield-Paillet Presentation
• Voter Registration
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. View Inside Map for All-Day Activities, Exhibits & Demos
10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m.: $5 30-minute Boat Tours (Main Boat Dock; purchase tickets in Gift Shop)
11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.: Kids’ Arts/Crafts (Chapel)
11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.: Canoeing (Petit Bayou)
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Cooking Demo: Crawfish Pasta by LA Greedy Girl (Cooking School)
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.: – Richard J. Catalon Video (Performance Center)
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Richard J. Catalon Award Ceremony for Geneva L. Phillips (PC)
12:00 p.m.: – 2:30 p.m.: Mary Broussard & Sweet La La (Performance Center)
12:00 p.m. – 12:15: Spoken Word Poetry with Daphne Thomas
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.: Cooking Demo: Smothered Okra by Lillie Norbert
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Creole Jam Session led by John Wilson (La Forge)
2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.: Readings of Debbie Clifton by Geneva Phillips
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.: Cooking Demo: Sweet Dough Pies by Deloris Sias
(Cooking School)
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.: Sharing Circle: Today’s Creole and African Diaspora Experience in Acadiana led by Conversation Starters (Chapel)
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.: Donna Angelle & the Zydeco Posse (Performance Center)
Creole Culture Day is sponsored by Lafayette Consolidated Government, Acadiana Center for the Arts, The Vermilionville Living History Museum Foundation and LA Endowment for the Humanities.
For additional information, contact the Director of Museum Operations, Brady McKellar, at [email protected] or call 337.233.4077 x. 211. Visit vermilionville.org for more information.