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First
Annual Acadian Memorial Festival -
2005 Theme: Commemoration of the Acadian Deportation
CALLING ALL CAJUNS!
Please join us in commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Acadian
Deportation! This is going to be a super year for the Acadian Memorial
and for all Acadians/Cajuns. We are optimistic that we can
accomplish more awareness about our customs, culture, traditions
and spirit brought to us by our ancestors two and a half centuries
ago.
On Saturday, March 19, 2005, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. along the Evangeline Boulevard
to the Acadian Memorial, the Acadian Memorial Foundation invites all to participate
in the family-oriented first Acadian Memorial festival. We invite you
to join in all activities and to include family, friends, and especially children
and grandchildren. View our festival schedule below.
There will be no entrance fee. Instead, we ask everyone to buy a lapel
pin to show support for the Acadian Memorial projects. We also encourage wearing
Acadian costumes to create a perfect opportunity for photographs near the Deportation
Cross or the Evangeline Oak.
This festival will celebrate many Acadian/Cajun customs we want to preserve
for Cajun children. Join us for this spring-time family event, commemorating
Acadian/Cajuns:
- crackling cooking, jambalaya, boudin making, couche-couche
- taking a picture at the Deportation Cross or the Evangeline
Oak
- quilting
- wooden boats on the Têche
- finding a long-lost cousin
- viewing your family mosaic coat of arms
- tapping your foot to chanky-chank from Cajun musicians,“Les
Frére Michot” and “Moi -J’aime-Ca-Comme-Ca” (I-Like-It-Like-That”),
Jam sessions - bring your instruments.
Enjoy the Acadian Memorial Choir, Renaissance Acadien & Theatre
Vignettes, lectures on Cajun Veterans, Who is A Cajun?, Cajun settlement
archeology, and much more.
We hope you join us for a fun-filled Cajun day where you can dance and visit
with your friends and family.
We need volunteers, vendors, craftsman, food sales and more! If you want
to be a part of this commemoration to the Acadian/Cajun heritage, please give
us a coup d’main (a helping hand). For
more information or
a AM Festival Poster please call the Acadian Memorial at 337.394.2258.
Schedule of Events:
Acadian Memorial
Festival - March
19, 2005
10:00 am.
Acadian
Memorial Festival Opening/ Twinning Ceremony with Evangeline Oak
Park & Grand-Pré National Historic Site/Canada
11:00 to 1:00
Dance to the music of "Les
Frére Michot"
11:00 to 6:00
Demonstrations
of Cajun Cooking / Samples for sale
4:00 to 6:00
Music
by "Moi-J'aime-Ca-Comme-Ca" (
I-Like-It-Like-That)
On Going:
Arts and Crafts
Sweet Shoppe
Cafe au Lait / Beignets
Flea Market / Marché aux Puces
1929 "Evangeline" Movie
Showing, Acadian Memorial Conference Room
Theatre on Deportation Story - Acadian Deportation Story for
Children, told by a costumed Mouse: "Fiddles
and Spoons:Journey of an Acadian Mouse"
Genealogy
Assistance:
Acadian Memorial Conference Room (Upstairs) 10:00am
to
3:00pm
Storytelling:
Allan
Simon / Nunk Allan, Raconteur
des histoires de les Cajun
Jam Sessions:
Bring your instruments and join in music
making around the Evangeline Oak
Lectures:
Calling All Cajun Veterans for a Reunion at 2:00pm / Duchamp Opera
House - Jason
Theriot, WW II historian
Dr. Mark Rees, ULL- Lecture on Archeological Dig of first Cajun Settler, Armand
Broussard Home site
Elaine Clement, CODIFIL - Lecture/Discussion on "Who can be called
Cajun"
Cajun Dance Lessons by Lou & Cal Courville / Maison Duchamp @ 1:00
pmHoop Net Making Demo with reminiscing about fishing along the rivers
and bayous
Exhibitions:
Evangeline Spirit / Acadian Memorial & St. Martinville Cultural
Heritage Center
Wooden Boats Along the Teche
Achafalaya Boat Replicas
Wood Carving
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