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Creole Culture Day

Celebrate the Women of Creole Culture

This year’s theme is Les Femmes du Folklore, exploring and celebrating women found in Creole culture, historical and contemporary. The event is a family-oriented, FREE event for all ages. Enjoy a day of cultural exchange, vendors, exhibits, cooking demonstrations, arts & crafts, boat tours, canoeing, live music and more.

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 by Conversation Starters

• Dr. Emma Wakefield-Paillet Presentation

• Voter Registration


Date & Time

June 9, 2019

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Location

Vermilionville Living History Museum and Folklife Park - 300 Fisher Road, Lafayette, LA, 70506 300 Fisher Road Lafayette 70506 LA US

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Event Website

337-233-4077

FREE

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