Name: Festival of Louisiana Creole Futures: The Baby Dolls’ Legacy in Song, Dance
Start: 2025-10-19T08:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-16T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Dillard University

$Festival of Louisiana Creole Futures: The Baby Dolls\u2019 Legacy in Song, Dance$

Festival joining art and scholarship in shared learning about the Mardi Gras maskers known as the Baby Dolls, keepers of Creole tradition.
Agenda

🕑: 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
11/15 Keynote – “Carnival as Thought Work” w/ Kim Vaz-Deville and Anupama Rao
🕑: 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
11/15 Lecture – “Creole Songs as Archives” with Lawson Ota
🕑: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Performance – Baby Dolls sing Louisiana Creole songs/solo Phyllis Lewis Hale
🕑: 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Only on 11/15 Workshop “Umbrellas and the Art of Masking” (Seperate ticket)
🕑: 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
11/16 “Learning from Creole Voices” Discussion w/ LA Creole/Kouri Vini Speaker