On Friday, October 10, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. the Hilliard Museum will host the CLS’s Festivals Acadiens et Créoles Symposium, Et asteur quoi ?! Countercultural Currents, Artistic Intersections /Courants contre-culturels, intersections artistiques, exploring how the deep cultural roots are informing the next generation of artists, now. This program is a collaboration between the Hilliard Art Museum, Center for Louisiana Studies, Helis Foundation, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, John T. Scott Center, and FrancoFAE, and honors Barry Ancelet as the 2025 LEH Bright Lights recipient of the Champion of Culture Award for Festivals Acadiens et Créoles. Support also comes from the Guilbeau Center for Public History, UL’s Public History program, and from the Franco-American Benevolent Society. For more information, click here.
Festival Acadiens et Créoles Symposium
