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Peforming Arts Series - Creole vs. Cajun
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
- LSUE Public Relations |
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The Louisiana State University at Eunice Performing Arts Series is please to present two free programs on November 14 on the campus of LSUE.
The first is a noon time program in the LSUE LeDoux Library’s Louisiana Room featuring Greg Osborn, a Creole historian and New Orleans Library archivist. Osborn will discuss the difference between Cajun and Creole.
The second program will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Health Technology auditorium. Actress and playwright Barbara Trevigne, a lifetime resident of New Orleans with a master’s degree in Social Sciences, will present “The Tignon and Women of Color in Old New Orleans.”
This audio-visual program will include information on the mandate, instituted during the administration of Don Estevan Miro (1785-1791), which forced women of “pure or mixed African blood” to wear head coverings called tignons. This will include a demonstration on tignon tying on audience members.
Trevigne acquired her artform as a child from her grandmother and began professionally using it in 1987.
Some material for tignons will be on hand but audience members are encouraged to bring their own cotton or madras material to create their own tignon. Two yards will be needed for a tignon.
These programs are being sponsored by the LSUE Academic Assistance Program. |
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