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
More Info
337-233-4077
FREE
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