Please join the Bayou Culture Collaborative for our March 21, 2025 gathering of people and organizations focused on preserving Louisiana’s heritage and examining the effects of land loss on local culture.

How do we make the past understandable to non-scholarly audiences when lifestyles, livelihoods, landscape, and even the language spoken have so radically changed? In the context of southeast Louisiana, Glen Pitre will look at some of the ways the past can be not only preserved, but also made more broadly accessible.

CLICK HERE to register for the gathering.

When: Friday, March 21, 2025 from noon to 1:30 p.m. Central

Speaker: Glen Pitre, Multimedia Storyteller

Title: “Folklore, folkways, folk wisdom: Rekindling the past for the present”

Where: Via Zoom, free

The Louisiana Folklore Society offers these gatherings to share perspectives on the human dimension of coastal land loss. In partnership with the Center for Bayou Studies at Nicholls State Univ. and the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center, the Bayou Culture Gatherings are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the Office of Cultural Development and the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, and the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program.

CLICK HERE to receive announcements about registering and other information.

For more information, contact the BCC at bayouculturecollaborative@gmail.com.