The Backyard Series
Event Name: The Backyard Series
Location: Vermilionville Performance Center
Date(s):
Mar 12, 2013
Time:
Starts: 6:30 PM Ends: 8:30 PM
Before the store-packaged egg dyeing kits and messy vinegar-smelling egg dyeing processes, folks in South Louisiana decorated their eggs using natural dyes, flowers, herbs, leaves and grasses. Other inventive people recycled silk and wool fabric scraps to wrap eggs before immersing them in boiling water, achieving even more fantastic colors and designs.
Join us Tuesday, March 12 for an egg-dyeing workshop with three local artisans. Connie Boustany will instruct participants in how to wrap eggs, and Vermilionville artisans Jocelyn Trahan and Brenda Lalonde will demonstrate how to create various natural dyes from your kitchen produce and garden. We'll have all of the basic supplies and plenty of eggs for you to create your own egg-cellent Easter decoration. After we've dyed our eggs, we will hold a pacqué contest, to see whose egg is the strongest.
This event is kid-friendly, so be sure to bring the whole family!
Join us Tuesday, March 12 for an egg-dyeing workshop with three local artisans. Connie Boustany will instruct participants in how to wrap eggs, and Vermilionville artisans Jocelyn Trahan and Brenda Lalonde will demonstrate how to create various natural dyes from your kitchen produce and garden. We'll have all of the basic supplies and plenty of eggs for you to create your own egg-cellent Easter decoration. After we've dyed our eggs, we will hold a pacqué contest, to see whose egg is the strongest.
This event is kid-friendly, so be sure to bring the whole family!
The series is presented by the Center for Louisiana Studies and sponsored in part by Decentralized Arts Funding distributed by the Acadiana Center for the Arts and the Louisiana Division of the Arts in partnership with the Vermilionville Foundation. Free and open to all ages.
The Backyard Series is free and open to all ages. Food and drinks are available for purchase. The Backyard Series is sponsored by CCET, with support from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the Acadiana Center for the Arts and the Vermilionville Foundation.
The series is sponsored in part by Decentralized Arts Funding distributed by the Acadiana Center for the Arts and the Louisiana Division of the Arts in partnership with the Vermilionville Foundation. Free and open to all ages. For more information visit the Center for Cultural & Eco Tourism's website by clicking here.
Held the second Tuesday of the month at Vermilionville's Performance Center from 6:30-8:30 p.m., the Center for Cultural & Eco Tourism's Backyard Series brings a wide range of topics to the general public to provide educational opportunities and offer new perspectives on established traditions and perceptions. The series’ presentations range from informal workshops to question-and-answer forums to interactive presentations led by qualified facilitators. In our own backyard, we still fall prey to preconceived notions and commodification of our culture. CCET’s series bridges this gap between academia and the general public, and this linkage is fundamental to a better understanding of cultural and historical authenticity and constructively addressing stereotypes. The series is sponsored in part by Decentralized Arts Funding distributed by the Acadiana Center for the Arts and the Louisiana Division of the Arts in partnership with the Vermilionville Foundation.