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  • Créole Culture Day Celebration

    Bayou Vermilion 300 Fisher Road, Lafayette, United States

    The public can enjoy a FREE FESTIVAL at Vermilionville for the 22nd annual Créole Culture Celebration on Sunday June 9, 2024, 10 AM - 4 PM. Every year, Vermilionville celebrates the cultures of Acadiana that contributed so much to our unique folklife. Come back to Vermilionville in June for the return of our Créole Culture Day event!  On this day we recognize and honor our region’s Créole heritage. So much of our food, traditions, and music comes to our region from the Créole culture, and on this day we both demonstrate and celebrate its many contributions to our contemporary folklife. Join us for our 2024 Créole Culture Day, Sunday, June 9! See our official map and schedule of events above!.  

  • Acadian Culture Day 2024

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    Bayou Vermilion 300 Fisher Road, Lafayette, United States

    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.

  • Old Time Winter Family Day

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    Bayou Vermilion 300 Fisher Road, Lafayette, United States

    December 14th will mark our Old Time Winter Family Day, with Vermilionville’s artisans on hand to demonstrate winter traditions of the Acadian, Creole and Native American cultures such as open-hearth cooking demonstrations and making candles, soap, natural decorations, and citrus pomanders. Children will enjoy writing letters to Papa Noël, and can even meet the French Santa Claus himself, who was actually a trapper that would deliver presents such as candy, money and small toys. Admission to this family event is just $5, for age 2 and up. Vermilionville’s restaurant, La Cuisine de Maman, will also be open for regular business hours that day, offering a tasty buffet of Cajun and Creole favorites. Vermilionville is closed to the public on Monday, but is open Tuesday - Sunday from 10 AM – 4 PM.

  • Creole Culture Day

    Créole Culture Day Celebration

    Bayou Vermilion 300 Fisher Road, Lafayette, United States

    The public can enjoy a FREE FESTIVAL at Vermilionville for the 23nd annual Créole Culture Celebration on Sunday June 8, 2025, 10 AM - 4 PM. Every year, Vermilionville celebrates the cultures of Acadiana that contributed so much to our unique folklife. Come back to Vermilionville in June for the return of our Créole Culture Day event!  On this day we recognize and honor our region’s Créole heritage. So much of our food, traditions, and music comes to our region from the Créole culture, and on this day we both demonstrate and celebrate its many contributions to our contemporary folklife. Join us for our 2025 Créole Culture Day, Sunday, June 8! Schedule: Performance Center:10 AM Herb Green Percussion11 AM Catalon Award Presentation12 PM Kaleb LeDay & the Zydeco Prodigies2 PM Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp BandCooking Demos11:30 AM Ms. Delores Sias Sweet Dough Pies1:30 PM Krystal Moses with Greedy's to Go: Shrimp CreoleIn the village: CREOLE Inc: Creole Inventors & MusiciansLouisiana Folkroots Instrument Petting ZooDaphne Thomas: Ancestral StoriesCharles Chassion: Visual ArtsAdrien Guillory-Chatman: Kouri-Vini Reading & Create-A-StoryCheryl Forbes Montgomery; A Story of EnslavementLa Table Creole & La Table Chantane                        […]

  • Acadian Culture Day 2025

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    Bayou Vermilion 300 Fisher Road, Lafayette, United States

    The community is invited to join the Bayou Vermilion District’s Vermilionville to celebrate our annual FREE Festival, Acadian Culture Day on Sunday, August 10th from 10 AM – 5 PM. Join us for a family-friendly day of live music, great food, art, cooking, storytelling, spinning and weaving, arts and crafts, and other demonstrations. IN THE VILLAGE: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM The art of Kali Picard Wood running and musket demonstration (hourly)with Bob Borel Cajun music storytelling and play along with Kevin Rees The art of Roz LeCompte Healing Garden Tours with The Lafayette Master Gardeners A Traiteur’s Traditions with Becca Begnaud History’s Fun & Games with Marlene Doucet Broussard House Tours with Jay Steiner 11:00 – 3:00 Family Crafts in the Chapel IN THE PERFORMANCE CENTER: 10 AM Cajun Jam 10:30 AM Tintamarre! 11 AM Cameron Fontenot & the Rhythm Aces 1:30 PM Acadian Cultural Heritage Award 2 PM Bonsoir Catin CRAFT & COOKING DEMOS IN THE COOKING SCHOOL: 11:30 Traditional Soap Making with Mimi Delgizzi 1:00 A Season for Pastries with Poupart’s Bakery 3:00 a Cajun-themed Cocktail with Tait Martin of Wildcat Brothers Food and beverage available for purchase. NOTE: No outside vendors needed. Admission is free.

  • Homeschoolers Learn to Cajun Waltz

    Homeschoolers -- Join us for a fun introduction to the Cajun Waltz! Learn the simple steps, enjoy the music, and experience a fun part of the Cajun culture together with other homeschooling friends! Ages 7+ for dance lessons, younger siblings cannot participate in dance lessons but are welcome to spend time in the village. ALL children must have a chaperone with them whether in the village or at dance lessons.

    Free – $35

  • Les Mains Guidées: Wax Flower Couronne

    Bayou Vermilion 300 Fisher Road, Lafayette, United States

    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 October Les Mains Guidées, Ivy Broussard - 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

  • New Year’s Eve Dance with Geno Delafose and French Rockin’ Boogie

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    Bayou Vermilion 300 Fisher Road, Lafayette, United States

    ONLINE TICKETS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE -- THEY WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR. Ring in the New Year with Geno Delafose and the French Rockin’ Boogie!  Don’t miss the biggest party of the year at Vermilionville with delicious food, drinks, and dancing with Geno Delafose, New Year’s Eve at Vermilionville. Lobby opens at 8 p.m.  Doors open at 8:30 p.m. with music from 9:30 PM - 12:30 AM.  Food and beverage are available for purchase. Tickets are $45 each, available below. All funds from this annual event will go towards programs that promote and preserve local cultures in Acadiana. NOTE: No outside food or beverages are allowed in the Performance Center. This includes water bottles, so be aware. Also, no large bags or backpacks, unless subjected to search by security. No smoking within 25 feet of the Performance Center. Smoking is allowed in designated areas, with clearly marked receptacles for cigarette butts.  

    $45

  • Les Vues January — Dance for a Chicken

    Vermilionville 300 Fisher Road, Lafayette, LA, United States

    Cajun filmmaker Pat Mire gives us an inside look at the colorful, rural Cajun Mardi Gras. Every year before Lent begins, processions of masked and costumed revelers, often on horseback, go from house to house gathering ingredients for communal gumbos in communities across rural southwest Louisiana. The often-unruly participants in this ancient tradition play as beggars, fools, and thieves as they raid farmsteads and perform in exchange for charity or, in other words, "dance for a chicken."