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  • Les Vues Free Film Series: All on A Mardi Gras Day

    Vermilionville - Performance Center

    Les Vues, the free film series at Vermilionville is back! Our first selection for 2023 is a must-see. Winner of the Louisiana Filmmaker Award, Royce Osborn's All on A Mardi Gras Day tells the story of New Orleans' black carnival, from Congo Square to post-Katrina. This award-winning documentary mixes interviews with Big Chiefs, Zulu Kings and other carnival maskers with amazing archival footage and classic New Orleans music. The free film runs an hour, and after the film, Alton "Tiger" Armstrong will speak on his experiences as Big Chief of the Lafayette Mardi Gras Indians.

  • Les Vues Free Film Series: No One Went Hungry

    Vermilionville - Performance Center

    Les Vues, the free film series at Vermilionville is back! Our April 2023 selection is No One Went Hungry: Cajun Food Traditions Today, a film by Kevin McCaffrey. After the film, enjoy a presentation by Food Historian and Vermilionville interpreter Jay Steiner.

  • Les Vues – May “SoLA: Louisiana Water Stories”

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    Vermilionville - Performance Center

    Les Vues, Vermilionville's free film series is back and better than ever. May's selection is "SoLa: Louisiana Water Stories, a documentary by Kevin McCaffrey. Speaking after the film will be Meadow Landry, Acadiana Master Naturalist & coordinator for the Outdoor Adventure Kids Program. Join us for an educational and fun evening, 6:30 PM, Monday May 22.

  • Les Vues — Reconstructing Creole

    Vermilionville - Performance Center

    Enjoy Les Vues, Reconstructing Creole, FREE documentary Monday, July 1 at 6:30 PM. This film was named Best Documentary Feature at the 2007 Hollywood HD/DV Film Festival, as well as the 2007 Humanities Documentary of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.A burned-out plantation home is restored while the memoir of its former mistress reveals a world of slavery and society balls, of race-mixing and family bonds, of cruelty, love and joie de vivre.

  • Les Vues November — Can’t Stop the Water

    Les Vues FREE Film Series
    Vermilionville - Performance Center

    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.