If you’ve got a fondness for chickens and/or rural celebrations of Mardi Gras, you would do yourself right to check out this week’s installment of Film@theCenter. The Acadiana Center for the Arts, the Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism, and the Media Arts Workshop at the UL at Lafayette continues the free film series Film @ the Center with Dance for a Chicken on Feb. 21 at 2 p.m.
In the film Dance for a Chicken, local filmmaker Pat Mire explores the rural aspects of the Cajun Mardi Gras. Each year before Lent begins, processions of masked and costumed revelers, often on horseback, go from house to house gathering ingredients for communal gumbos in communities across rural southwest Louisiana. The often-unruly participants in this ancient tradition play as beggars, fools, and thieves as they raid farmsteads and perform in exchange for the donation of a chicken.
For more information, call 233-7060.
2010 Film@the Center schedule:
February 21 – “Dance for a Chicken“ (1993) March 21 – “American Creole” (2006) April 18 - Short Circuit Traveling Film Festival May 16 – UL Lafayette Media Arts Workshop Student Showcase June 20 – “All The King’s Men” (1949) July 18 – “Spend It All” (1971) August 15 – “Against the Tide: The Story of the Cajun People of Louisiana” (2000) September 19 – “Low and Behold” (2007) October 17 – “The Blob” (1988) November 21 - 48th Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival (Film program to be announced in March 2010) December 19 – “Louisiana Story and Louisiana Story: The Reverse Angle” (1948)
Film @ the Center is a free film series held every third Sunday of the month at the AcA that exposes local residents and students to films portraying Louisiana’s people and way of life to an international audience while also allowing current generation filmmakers and film students to screen their work to a hometown audience.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Plains Exploration and Production, the Houston company Flores has been running since 2002, is building a deepwater Gulf of Mexico warehouse and storage facility on Bernard Road in Broussard.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
Subscribe to this comment's feed