While you can get your art fix this weekend with 2nd Saturday Artwalk in downtown Lafayette, you can get a head start Thursday in the cultural genre with some true local storytelling and poetry in Grand Coteau.
While you can get your art fix this weekend with 2nd Saturday Artwalk in downtown Lafayette, you can get a head start Thursday in the cultural genre with some true local storytelling and poetry in Grand Coteau.
While you can get your art fix this weekend with 2nd Saturday Artwalk in downtown Lafayette, you can get a head start Thursday in the cultural genre with some true local storytelling and poetry in Grand Coteau.
Sponsored The Festival of Words Cultural Arts Collective, in partnership with the UL Center for Louisiana Studies and the Imperial St. Landry Genealogical & Historical Society, Pauline Edmond and poet Jay Udall, and san open mic, get underway 7 p.m. at Casa Azul Gifts, Thursday.
Casa Azul is the blue wood-framed building at the only light in Grand Coteau on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
Edmond has spent her whole life in Grand Coteau. She graduated from St. Peter Claver High School, and studied elementary education at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. Edmond taught school for thirty years, most of those years at Grand Coteau Elementary. After retiring, she began baking cakes and selling them out of her home. Then 10 years ago, she opened P&D Cakes in town. Edmond's presentation will be filmed by documentary filmmaker Chere Breaux.
Udall is the author of five books of poetry. His latest volume, The Welcome Table (University of New Mexico Press), won the 2009 New Mexico Book Award. Udall was a Poetry Fellow of the Nevada Arts Council from 2010-11. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Nicholls State University.
Members of the public are invited to read their own poems, songs or stories for the Open Mic that follows. This free, community event is appropriate for all ages. For more information, call (337) 662-1032.