Bonjour! Folk Roots Kids Camps offer an unparalleled team of gifted artist/instructors for a fun-filled week of music, crafts, singing, and very special activities for ages 8-13. The registration fee includes all activities, craft supplies, classes, morning biscuit, lunch, afternoon snack, and a camp T-shirt. Daily lunch is INCLUDED in the registration fee. Get all the details and register here: lafolkroots.org
Come on in for Acadiana Brew Haha, an event that is all about the history and culture of beer and brewing in Louisiana! We've got so many great beers coming from right here at home, including several new breweries that have just opened in the past few years. Acadiana Brew Haha is designed to give you a taste of what's brewing right here at home and meet some of the people that make the magic happen -- even brews from our very own Vermilionville Brewhouse. We'll hold the official ribbon cutting for the Brewhouse at 12 noon during the festivities. Acadiana Brew Haha includes our region's craft, micro, nano, and homebrewers, and you to see what's on tap in Louisiana! This year, look for Bayou Teche Brewing, Gnarly Barley, Adopted Dog Brewery, and Agile Brewing as well as home brewers coming in from the Dead Yeast Society. Redstick Brewmasters and beyond! There will be demonstrations of both historical and modern methods. presentations, panels and more! All ticket-holders will receive this year's official souvenir mug, to handle your tastings all day! And of course, you'll want to make your preferences known, so each guest will have a ticket to vote for […]
Take a journey into natural healing with Mary Ann Armbruster and discover the many medicinal plants in Acadiana first utilized by our forebears, still available for our modern world.
The community is invited to join the Bayou Vermilion District’s Vermilionville to celebrate our annual Acadian Culture Day on Sunday, August 11th from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Join us for a family-friendly day of live music, great food, art, cooking, storytelling, spinning and weaving, arts and crafts, and other demonstrations. Here are some of the highlights you can expect: Quilting & Spinning Dance Lessons The storytelling of Cajun music Basket weaving Coton Jaune documentary Boucherie: An Edible Spectacle documentary The Tintamarre Parade Cooking Demonstrations Local Artist Demonstrations The Acadian Cultural Preservation Award Live Cajun Music all day the art of Cayla Zeek of Mattea Studio Food and beverage available for purchase. Admission is free. For more information about Acadian Culture Day call (337) 233-4077.
Our Les Vues FREE Film Series continues in August with Acadian Brown Cotton, a documentary detailing all about "The fabric of Acadiana", Acadian Brown Cotton.
Save the date for one of the best days on the bayou all year ’round! Gather your friends, your canoe, your cooler, your fiddle, your best costumes, your dog, whatever, and get ready to join us for a day to celebrate the Bayou Vermilion! This is going to be a great time on the water, and we want you to come a be a part of it. The parade will set sail at 11:30 AM from the dock at Vermilionville, and wind all along the bayou to Southside Park. We'll have music all the way down the bayou, and of course costume, shore party and boat decorating contests! At the park, we’ll have food and drinks, games, and music! Want to paddle but have no boat? The BVD has got you covered. We’ve got canoes and kayaks available to help you get in the water and experience our own Bayou Vermilion. Each vessel you rent from us comes with two registrations for paddlers. We'll also have a shuttle in the morning so you can drop off your gear and vessel at Vermilionville, then park at Southside Park and ride back to the Vermilionville dock! Shuttle will run at 9 AM, […]
Boo Bayou is back! Join us at Vermilionville for a fun fall festival for the family! There will be plenty to keep your squad busy including old-time games, face painting, and more! We`ll have a coloring station and trick-or-treating throughout our historic village. We'll also be showing some great kid-friendly spooooky films in our Performance Center, where you can pick up a fresh bag of popcorn. In our cooking school, kids can grab bags to decorate their own Halloween treats! In the restaurant, we`ve got a spook-tacular menu lined up to match the spirit of the day. And of course, kids and adults alike are welcome to transform themselves into whomever they would like to be for the event. Make memories with your family and enjoy great photo opportunities at our Fall Photo Station (costumes are encouraged, not mandatory...but there might be an extra piece of candy in it for you!) Admission is $5 for ages 2 and older. You do not want to miss one of the most exciting events of the year! For more information, please call 337-233-4077.
Come enjoy Le Theatre des Vampires, a gala unlike anything you’ve ever experienced – Danger! Secrets! Exhilaration! Death! And it’s up to you to unravel the mystery. Dress the part, collect the clues, talk to the suspects and make sure YOU aren’t the next victim drained of life! A Special Ghastly Murder Mystery Dinner Join Us for Frightening Fun!! You can sleuth by yourself or have more fun in a group! Enjoy a Three-Course Dinner by La Cuisine de Maman Games, Costumes, Prizes, Special Adult Beverages Doors open at 6 PM, dinner at 6:30. Costume Contest, Haunted History Tickets $60 Adult Themes
Join us for our FREE Film Series, Les Vues. In October, we'll show Closed for Storm, the story of the ill-fated New Orleans Jazzland Six Flags amusement park, devastated in Hurricane Katrina and left to slowly deteriorate.
Join us in November for Les Vues, our FREE Film Series, as we present Can't Stop the Water. This documentary tells the story of Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana and the Native American community fighting to save its culture as its land washes away. For 170 years, a tribe of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians has occupied Isle de Jean Charles, an island deep in the Louisiana bayous. They have fished, hunted, and lived off the land. Now the land that has sustained them for generations is vanishing before their eyes. Years of gas and oil exploration have ravaged the surrounding marsh, leaving the island defenseless against the ocean tide that will eventually destroy it. As Chief Albert Naquin desperately looks for a way to bring his tribe together on higher ground, those that remain on the island cling to the hope that they can stay.
