It felt great to be behind the camera to do what I love most “Portrait Photography”
🧑🏽🍼 Jada @_immonet_
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First time out the house with my camera in over two months. Healing takes what it takes — and Saturday night at St. Francis was the right room to come back to.
Step Rideau turning 60. Je'an-Paul Jolivette hitting 30 years on the bandstand. Keith Frank & the Soileau Zydeco Band in the building. They always do they thing — and this one was worth standing back up for.
Backed up on edits, but had to pull a few out the stack early. Black and whites from Time & Tempo, Houston. More coming.
📸: @1fleaux
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They told you we disappeared. We never did.
Cane River. Tremé. Frilot Cove. Plaisance. Mallet. Eight living Creole communities — still here, still working, still cooking, still riding, still praying, still passing the language down. Not a museum. Not a memory. A map.
Swipe through the eight. Read the names. Then come visit.
This is Carousel 1 of 8 in Series 2 of our DID YOU KNOW series.
More at creoleculture.com.
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he 2nd Annual REFRAMING Cinema Film Festival is here.
Eight independent films. Two screening blocks. One cultural panel.
Saturday, May 23, 2026
10 AM – 3 PM
LITE Center · Lafayette, LA
Day Pass · $10
A full day of cinema from filmmakers of color — shorts, mid-lengths, and a feature documentary — capped by a cultural panel Q&A with the team behind the Library of Congress–backed *Bayou, Buddha, and Padaek*.
We tell stories — our voices, our experiences, our truth.
Grab your Day Pass. Link in bio.
Presented by @vuesdeculture
#REFRAMINGCinema #RCFF2026 #LafayetteLA #LouisianaFilm #IndependentFilm #BlackCinema #FilmmakersOfColor #VuesDeCulture #LITECenter #Acadiana #FilmFestival #StoriesWeTell
Some of y'all questioned if our last few carousels were AI.
Fair question. The truth: the writing and the research were ours. The images were AI. I said that out loud the first time it came up. Saying it again here.
Now let's settle it. These photos are not AI. They're from last year's Creole Culture Day — our 4th annual — when over a thousand of y'all showed up. The pots were full. The accordions came out. The dance floor stayed open until we closed it.
Saturday, October 3, 2026 — we do it again. 5th Annual Creole Culture Day.
Pull up to creolecultureday.org for the full rundown of last year and what we're cooking for this one.
And while we're here — Creole Culture Day is one of the things we host. We've been on the ground documenting the culture we were raised in. The boucheries. The French tables. The pageant. The portraits. The published books. Multiple Events. Workshops. Panels. The stories nobody else has been telling the right way.
We're not a bot. We're a real organization made up of real Creoles doing real work — in our community, for our community.
creoleculture.com · creolecultureday.org
Proud of what we've built. Still building.
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Thank you, @encodednoire — Diamond Sponsor of the inaugural Miss Creole Queen Pageant.
Black-owned creative agency. We don't take that lightly.
Save the date: September 26, 2026 · Acadiana Center for the Arts.
Crown your queen.
Crown the culture. → misscreolequeen.com
Powered by Louisiana Creole Culture @officialcreoleculture
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TWO international film festivals. Two countries. 7 selections in total! 1 winner for Documentary (Long)! And it all started in the living rooms, church halls, and dance floors of Southwest Louisiana.
Built On Zydeco — the first documentary about Zydeco music made by Creoles of Color — is an Official Selection of the Niagara Canada International Film Festival, June 6–7, 2026 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. An IMDb qualifying festival.
This is not about us. This is about THEM.
Terrance Simien. Reginald “Buckwheat Jr.” Dural. Keith Frank. Jeffery Broussard. Rusty Metoyer. The Ardoin Family. The Chavis Family. The Dopsie Family. The Frank Family. The Cravins Family. The radio voices. The venues. The elders. Every person who sat down, told the truth, and trusted us with their story.
These frames right here — that’s 2× Grammy winner Terrance Simien at St. Anne’s Catholic Church in Mallet, Louisiana. A sanctuary that has held Creole people and the zydeco church dance for generations.
You don’t just film there. You bear witness.
Louisiana built this. We just pointed the camera.
Thank you Lafayette Travel and #CreateLouisiana for believing in this story before the world did.
Built On Zydeco: A Louisiana Music Documentary · Vues de Culture & La Louisianne
Directed by Milton Arceneaux & Dustin Cravins · Produced by Robert Chevalier
#BuiltOnZydeco #ZydecoMusic #BlackCreole #LouisianaCulture TerranceSimien NCIFF2026 NiagaraFalls CreateLouisiana LafayetteTravel IndieFilm Documentary BlackFilmmakers VuesDeCulture ZydecoChurchDance Acadiana
This is what we get for telling the truth - from the comments on IG: @offcialcreoleculture
"We have to break y'all out of Black ancestry."
That's flat-out racism. It's a 2026 version of "stay in your place" — dressed up with footnotes and confident punctuation, but the message is the same one Black folks have been getting for 400 years: your heritage isn't yours. Let us correct it for you.
When Louisiana Creole Culture names what's documented — that the word gumbo is Bantu, that the rice technique is West African, that filé is Choctaw, that andouille is German, that Black Creoles authored Zydeco, that "Cajun food" was a 1980s marketing rebrand — the response from people benefiting from the lie is to tell us we're "conflating" things and need to be "broken out of" our own ancestry.
They mean: shut up.
Shutting up is what got the receipts erased the first time. So no.
Black Creole identity has continuously held mixed African, French, Spanish, and Indigenous ancestry since 1699. Our ancestors didn't need rescuing. Our heritage doesn't need correcting. And we don't need anyone "breaking us out of" what we are.
Receipts > Respectability.
📚 Sources: Hall, Africans in Colonial Louisiana (LSU) · Brasseaux, Acadian to Cajun (UPM) · Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson, Wicked Flesh · Harris, High on the Hog · HNOC · 64 Parishes
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We waited. Carousels 1-4 dropped the receipts. Some of you didn't like them. So here are 10 more.
This isn't divisive. The truth has a date stamp.
The marketing campaign that rebranded Creole food as Cajun in the 1980s — THAT was divisive. Reading the receipts is just history.
Swipe through. Sources cited on every slide.
Part 2 drops tomorrow.
— Save the date · Creole Culture Day · October · Acadiana —
The food was never Cajun. It was Creole, African, Choctaw, German, Spanish, French.
The word changed. The truth didn't.
→ creolecultureday.org
#LouisianaCreoleCulture #CreoleCulture #BlackCreole #LouisianaCreole #CreoleFood #Gumbo #FoodHistory #BlackHistory #CreoleHistory #DidYouKnow #Acadiana #CreoleCultureDay
The music selling Louisiana? Most of it is Black Creole.
Zydeco didn't come from Cajun country. The first recordings of what's now called Cajun music were made by a Black Creole man in 1929. The accordion came from Germany — Black Creoles popularized it. Jazz started at Congo Square. Even Buckwheat Zydeco refused to perform under the Cajun label.
Carousel 2 of 4 in our DID YOU KNOW series. Swipe through the names. The dates. The receipts.
More at creoleculture.com.
#LouisianaCreoleCulture #CreoleCulture #BlackCreole #Zydeco #AmedeArdoin #BuckwheatZydeco #CongoSquare #JazzHistory #LouisianaMusic #BlackHistory #CreoleMusic #DidYouKnow
