This workshop is led by Jean-Luc and Vanessa Guy, a team whose masks and costumes parade all the tropics including Dominica, Senegal, Mexico, and soon Louisiana. During the workshop, you will compare and contrast mask and costume practices found in both Matinique and here in Acadiana, as well as examples of masks found elsewhere in the world. The cost is $450. NUNU Members pay only $150 for the two day workshop.

Toussaint and Guy will prepare a meal using one of Martinique’s signature spices, Colombo, and add our own native Louisiana ingredient to the recipe, Louisiana gulf shrimp. Colombo is a blend of French, West and East Indian spices, combining turmeric, brown mustard seed, hot pepper, coriander, West Indian bay leaf, thyme and black peppercorn. The cost for this all-inclusive dinner, which brings the Caribbean to YOU, is $50. NUNU Members pay only $25 with a NUNU member discount. NUNU Member Code: NUNUMEMBERDINNER

Are you interested in just attending the cooking demonstration? If so, click here and purchase your spot for that event instead.

Come meet Vanessa Guy and Jean-Luc Toussaint from Martinique for a discussion about what is Creole Soul.  We will share a common history, common wounds, and a need for regeneration together. Free

C.R.E.O.L.E., Inc. is a non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve and promote the numerous aspects of the Creole culture of Southwest Louisiana. Join them for their monthly Creole Table.

Patricia Cravins will perform a theatrical monologue based on the research of Dr. Darrell Bourque and contributions from the Ardoin Family. Includes live storytelling and accordion demonstrations by the Ardoin Family. Co-hosted by

Pat Cravins and Gabrielle Deculus

Artist Vanessa Guy, 9-11 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 14 at NUNU Collective for breakfast and a Miracle Morning Healing Plant Ritual that includes 20-minute breathing and relaxation exercises, followed by a 20-minute talk. Immediately following the talk, participants come together for tea and a light breakfast. The cost is $15. Mask-making workshop participants pay only $10 with a $5 discount. Mask-making workshop participants pay only $10 with a $5 discount. Code: DEMO

Creole business owners and program leaders, please share your information. We will then designate you as a Creole business owner or program leader within our database and share that information with incredible organizations that help to support and perpetuate Louisiana French and Creole cultural heritages within the state of Louisiana including but not limited to: CODOFIL, C.R.E.O.L.E. Inc, Saint-Luc French Immersion and Cultural Campus, NOUS and Télé-Louisiane.