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Vermilionville’s Painting Class Series

Vermilionville

Vermilionville invites you to come paint with us!  Anyone can participate in our new painting class series starting on Saturday, June 26 from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.  Registration is required and includes all art supplies as well as mimosas and strawberry infused water.  You also have the option to add a delicious lunch with bayou chicken caesar wrap, pasta salad, cookie, and lemonade. During this class you will learn to paint a landscape scene of an alligator resting on the bank of the petit bayou.  Fun facts about alligators and our Petit Bayou will be shared with the groups as we paint to educate about the importance alligators play in their ecosystem.  Spots are limited, so make your reservation today! For more information and to register for this class, visit this link:  https://form.jotform.com/80424226503952.

Vermilionville’s Painting Class Series: Painting with History!

Vermilionville

Vermilionville invites you to come paint with us!  Anyone can participate in our new painting class series on Saturday, July 24 from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.  Registration is required and includes all art supplies as well as mimosas and strawberry infused water.  You also have the option to add a delicious lunch with bayou chicken caesar wrap, pasta salad, cookie, and lemonade. During this class you will learn to paint a beautiful, antique artifact from the museum's collection, the Regina Music Box.  Historical information and fun facts about the Regina Music Box and the corresponding record disks will be shared with the groups as we paint.  Spots are limited, so make your reservation today! For more information and to register for this class, visit this link:  https://form.jotform.com/80424226503952.

Vermilionville’s Painting Class Series: Painting with History!

Vermilionville

Vermilionville invites you to come paint with us!  Anyone can participate in our new painting class series on Saturday, October 16th from 10 a.m.-12 p.m.  Registration is required and includes all art supplies as well as mimosas and strawberry infused water.  You also have the option to add a delicious lunch with bayou chicken caesar wrap, pasta salad, cookie, and lemonade. This class is Halloween-themed. You will learn to paint Vermilionville's oldest historic house, Maison Broussard.  Historical information and fun facts about the Maison Broussard and Halloween will be shared with the group as we paint. Spots are limited, so make your reservation today! For more information and to register for this class, visit this link: https://form.jotform.com/80424226503952.

Vermilionville Painting Class Series

Vermilionville invites you to come paint with us!  Anyone can participate in our new painting class series starting on Saturday, June 26 from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.  Registration is required and includes all art supplies as well as mimosas and strawberry infused water.  You also have the option to add a delicious lunch with bayou chicken caesar wrap, pasta salad, cookie, and lemonade.  During this class you will learn to paint a landscape scene of an alligator resting on the bank of the petit bayou.  Fun facts about alligators and our Petit Bayou will be shared with the groups as we paint to educate about the importance alligators play in their ecosystem.  Spots are limited, so make your reservation today!  To save your spot visit think link:  https://form.jotform.com/80424226503952 or call 337-233-4077.

Les Mains Guidées — Dìa de los Muertos Doll Workshop

Vermilionville - Cooking School

Les Mains Guidées returns, with a fabulous "VoodooHoodoo" Doll workshop from artist extraordinaire, Kate Ferry. Come make your own Dìa de los Muertos doll (La Calavera Catrina) and learn the story of these dolls, prominent in Mexican culture as part of a multi-day celebration of friends and family who have died. All materials and supplies will be furnished to fashion a colorful work of art for you and your family to enjoy. Workshop attendees age 14 and up!

$50.00

Les Mains Guidées — Edible Wild Plants with Mark Suter

Vermilionville

Edible Wild Plants Come join us for a walk to learn edible wild plants of Southern Louisiana! Proper identification will be covered to safely identify about 50 different wild plants that can provide food. These were used by both Native Americans and early settlers of the area! Mark Suter is the owner and head instructor of Primitive Texas and Louisiana, a wilderness survival school that conducts outdoor classes in both states. He has been studying and using edible wild plants for over 25 years and is working on publishing a second book on the subject. Wild plants are free, nutritious, and very common! Les Mains Guidées -- Edible Wild Plants with Mark Suter will be held Saturday, May 6 from 1 -3 PM. Cost $35 per person.

$35.00

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Les Mains Guidees — Herb Green Percussion Workshop –CANCELLED

Vermilionville - Performance Center

Unfortunately, we must cancel this workshop. Hopefully, we can reschedule again later in the summer. Thank you for understanding. Herb Green will lead an exciting workshop on percussion Saturday, June 3, 10 AM - noon. He will talk about the history and sounds of a range of percussion instruments including the djembe, talking drums, bells and more. From there, the session will move into how these instruments are played and how they fit into the overall soundscape of music. The participants will then work to drum together. The workshop is $35 per person, class limited to 25. If your heart beats to drumbeats, this is an unbeatable experience, sign up today!

$35.00

Les Mains Guidées: Wax Flower Couronne

Vermilionville

As part of its mission for the preservation of traditional trades and folkcrafts, Vermilionville continues to host monthly workshops allowing our community to learn a craft from the Acadian, Creole and Native American traditions. Topics range from woodcarving to foodways (and many things in between). For the November Les Mains Guidées, Ivy Lemieux - one of our highly experienced craft artisans - will share the methods used for designing and building a wax flower couronne, traditionally used for the decorating of graves for All Saints Day. Guests will learn to form the delicate flowers from paper and wire, how to dip them to preserve the shape, and how to bring these together to form the traditional wreath. During this workshop, Ivy will also share some of the other elements of mourning and All Saints traditions in history. You can register below and purchase tickets for $30, all needed materials and supplies included!

$30.00

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Les Mains Guidees Workshop — Santons de Provence CANCELLED

Vermilionville - Cooking School

Vermilionville is proud to have Kate Ferry return for another Les Mains Guidées Saturday, December 2 making Les Santons de Provence, traditional clay figurines that the Provençal make to place in the Christmas Crèche. This was so much fun last year, we made Santons of the traditional figures, but also some familiar Vermilionville characters, like Louie the Cat and Mr. October, Brady McKellar. Make plans to come! Kate Ferry is a well-known area artist, designer and illustrator who has made a career of doing award-winning work for Louisiana agencies and clients, while also producing her own works including murals, paintings and other artworks. The crib is composed of figures called “santons” which formed French villages some centuries ago, the shepherd, the drummer, the village idiot and many others. The first Christmas crib known in France was set up in 1775 in Marseille. Nowadays they are set up around the end of November, or beginning of December and dismantled after Epiphany when the Three Kings join the other figures. The origin of the word “santon” is the Provencal noun “santoun” which means little saint. Santons are traditionally hand made of clay and painted by artisans, and you can have that same […]

$55.00

First Friday French Table

Vermilionville

Friday, April 5 join us in La Cuisine de Maman for the First Friday French Table, a FREE, fun and casual way to learn and practice your French!