Sommet
des femmes acadiennes
Municipal Auditorium / Morgan City, Louisiane
July 31, 1999
A community gathering of Acadian women and their allies in French and in
English.
Round tables – Listening to each other ... sharing our lives, our dreams
and our thinking with the entire world. With some fun thrown in!
Lecture by Glen Conrad:
See Historian
raps myth on Acadians
Acadian Memorial, St. Martinville
August 2, 1999
Lecture by Carl Brasseaux:
See Speaker
takes mystery out of Cajun x-factor Cajun surnames
Acadian Memorial, St. Martinville
August 4, 1999
Genealogical
Symposium
Peltier Hall,
NSU, Thibodaux, August 5, 1999
The reception will be at 6 PM on August 4.
The Symposium will be 9-5 on Thursday, Aug. 5.
Speakers are expected to include:
Stephen White, Carl Brasseaux, John Doucet, Gerald
Brault, Don Hebert
"Genetics
of the Acadian People" Public Forum
Bulber Auditorium, McNeese University August 9, 1999
The LSU Medical Center will be presenting this forum on Acadian genetics.
Academic Conferences
USL, Lafayette, August 10-13, 1999
| The names in parentheses are the speakers.
They are mainly from 3 universities ... Moncton, USL, and Poitiers.
CMA told me that most of it will be in French. It will be at the
Bayou Bijoux Theater at USL.
Aug 10 - 9 am - Ouverture
2 pm - Linguistique/Corpus (Ryon, Y. Cormier, Peronnet, Marquillo)
Soiree: Presentation of Les Acadiens: Odyssee d'un peuple
Aug 11 - 9 am - Histoire (Magord, Basque, Boucher,
Brasseaux)
2 pm - Ethnologie (Valiere, R.G. LeBlanc, B. LeBlanc, Ancelet)
Soiree: Performance de Champlain
Aug 12 - 9 am - Litterature (Bourque, G. LeBlanc,
Allain, Cheramie, Teboul)
2 pm - Ecologie Culturelle (Moreau, Louder, J.M. Cormier, Henry)
5 pm - Lancement des livres de Perce-Neige (Debbie Clifton/Jean
Arceneaux/Zachary Richard) et du dictionnaire acadien (Y. Cormier)
Soiree: Projection d'Evangeline
Aug 13 - 9 am - Linguistique/Ensiegnement (Ryon,
Ancelet, Guidry, Marquillo, Peronnet)
2 pm - Bilan
5 pm - Reception |
Conference
: "French Immersion in Louisiana"
Lafayette
August 12, 1999 |
Events at the Acadian
Memorial during CMA-LA, 1999
Unless noted, all activities were at the Acadian Memorial
Every day activities:
10 am - Guided tour (in French & English)
11 am - Mural character vignette (French or English)
4 pm - Guided tour (in French & English)
Monday, August 2, 1999
2 pm - Les Acadiens et la bonne terre: Professor
Glen Conrad speaks on early Acadian landholding in Louisiana (English)
Tuesday, August 3, 1999
2 pm - Jean Francois speaks
on The March, a novel about Louisiana Acadian Pierre Pitre and the
War of 1812 (English with bilingual discussion)
Wednesday, August 4, 1999
2 pm - Ensemble Encore: Dr.
Carl Brasseaux speaks on the online archive
7 pm - La Table Francaise: French sing-a-long
Thursday, August 5, 1999
2 pm - Eileen Chiasson Pendergast
to speak on the Acadians of Prince Edward Island (French with bilingual
discussion)
Friday, August 6, 1999
2 pm - Gregory Wood speaks
on Acadians in Maryland
7 pm - OUTDOORS - Zydeco deVille concert by Sha-Me-Noo
(bilingual cosponsor Golden Keys)
Saturday, August 7, 1999
Longfellow Evangeline State Commemorative Area, St. Martinville
- 65th anniversary of Louisiana State Parks celebration
11 am - St. Martin Parish Library (on Porter St.) - Evangeline
film reunion (English)
4 pm - St. Martin de Tours - Mass (English with French
choir)
5:30 pm - Chorale Acadienne
du Sudouest from Pubnico, Nova Scotia in concert (French)
6-9 pm - OUTDOORS - Belizaire of Paris to play
traditional Cajun music (French)
9-12 pm - OUTDOORS - NIK-L Beer to play traditional
swamp pop (English); sponsors Kiwanis/Lions/Jaycees
Sunday, August 8, 1999
Longfellow Evangeline State Commemorative Area: Traditions
of the Teche
7:30 pm - St. Martin Square - Chariot parade; sponsor:
Lioness Club
Monday, August 9, 1999
Nantes Day
2 pm - Vignette on Olivier Terrio, then Gerard
Braud to speak on Acadians in Nantes (French)
6 pm - Maison Duchamp: Nantes Acadian Maryannick
Braud in concert (French)
Tuesday, August 10, 1999
2 pm - Jane G. Bulliard
to speak on the Wall of Names (English)
6 pm - Maison Duchamp: Cajun singer/songwriter Helen
Boudreaux in concert (bilingual)
Wednesday, August 11, 1999
Bouctouche Day
10 am - Genealogist Stephen White
to speak (English with bilingual discussion)
2 pm - Jean Clovis Colette
to speak on the City of Bouctouche (bilingual)
3:30 pm - Mi'kmaq and Louisiana Native American presentation
(English)
5:30 pm - OUTDOORS - La Petite Boucherie:
Jr.
Flores & Bayou Boys with guest fiddler
Dominique
Dupuis; sponsor: Jaycees
Thursday, August 12, 1999
10 am - Betty Boudreau Vaughn
to speak on her novel I'll Buy You an Ox
2 pm - Dr. Neil Boucher
to speak of the Acadians' return to the Maritimes
8 pm - Heymann Performing Arts Center, Lafayette - Acadian
Memorial Fundraiser - Evangeline the Musical in concert by Jamie
Wax
Friday, August 13, 1999
Grand Pre Day
2 pm - Dr. Barbara LeBlanc
to speak on Grand Pre (bilingual)
7 pm - OUTDOORS - Zydeco de Ville: Sha-Me-Noo
in a zydeco music concert (bilingual); sponsor: Golden Keys
Saturday, August 14, 1999
10 am - Main Street - Parade of Festivals
2 pm - Forum: Meet the Acadians / Rencontrez les Acadiens
(bilingual)
4 pm - Maison Duchamp - Scenes from Maison Duchamp:
a short play (English)
5 pm - Maison Duchamp - La Famille Duchamp: une
saynete (French)
5 pm - OUTDOORS - Sha-Me-Noo
in
concert (bilingual)
8 pm - OUTDOORS - Magnolia
Sisters in concert (French)
10 pm - St. Martin Square - Bells on the Square concert
10:30 pm - Tintamarre
11 pm - CMA French Closing Mass at St. Martin de Tours
12 am - Area Restaurants - Community Breakfast
12:30 - 2 am - OUTDOORS - Nathan
& the Zydeco Cha Cha Band
Sunday, August 15, 1999
Fete Nationale des Acadiens
6:30 am - City Hall - Flag raising ceremony
7 am -5 pm - Open House
2 pm - Acadian author and politial leader Jean-Marie
Nadeau to speak (French) |
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CMA Acadian Conferences
