Louisiana Creole Culture
Revealing Past
Curating Present
Preserving Future
The people. The food. The French. The music.
We keep the culture
in front of the people
who live it.
Louisiana Creole Culture celebrates, preserves, and reclaims the culture of Creoles with roots in Louisiana. We document the people, the food, the French, and the music, and we set the record straight about where this culture comes from.
We host boucheries and French tables. We run Creole Culture Day every October in Grand Coteau. We make films, exhibits, and oral histories that carry the culture forward, and we honor the people who built it. This work is community first, and it is ours to tell.
The work
A film by Milton Arceneaux
The Old Way
Still Cuts
A Creole boucherie, told honestly. The skills, the traditions, and the sacred practices passed down through generations of Creole families. Made with the families who opened their homes and their histories: Antonio Duhon, Jocorey Houston, Shane Boagni, Brice DeClouet, Richard Zeno, and the Cravins family.
See the works
A short film
Parish Okra
The relationship between okra and Louisiana. Three local farmers across different parishes and two generations of cooks share how they cook okra, and what it means to keep doing it their way.
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The 5th Annual · Grand Coteau, Louisiana
Creole
Culture Day
The people we honor
Each year we honor Creoles who move their communities forward across agriculture, technology, leadership, history, and culture.
They support us.
Support them back.
Creole-owned businesses stand behind this work. Get to know them, and give them your business.
