NEW IBERIA, La. --- Great Acadian Awakening (GRA) 2021 has been postponed until 2022, yet a “mini” event will be held on Oct. 10, 2021.
The program is set to accomplish a day of reuniting all Acadians to gear up for the nine-day GRA 2022 celebration, which has been held ever five years since 2011.
Mass:
Louisiane-Acadie, Inc. will take part in a Catholic Mass in French held at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (515 Cathedral St., Lafayette) on Sun., Oct. 10, 2021 at 9 a.m.
Tintamarre:
Immediately following the mass, participants will gather at the parking lot of the Cajundome Conference Center (444 Cajundome Blvd., Lafayette) where they will have a tintamarre, which is a noise making walking parade to shout out that Acadian/Cajuns survived the Deportation in 1755.
Lunch & Speakers:
Following the tintamarre, the celebration will move to the second floor of the Conference Center, where there will be guest speakers, French music performed by a local trio, and entertainment by the young fiddlers from the Leblanc Elementary French Immersion program.
Representatives from surrounding parishes will give a short description of planned activities for the October 2022 GRA. Louisiana Cajun/Acadian family associations are encouraged to attend and share their family genealogies.
Vaughne Madden, executive director of the 7th Congrès Mondial Acadien, has made tentative plans to attend, bringing news about the next event to be held August 10 - 18, 2024 in the municipalities of Clare and Argyle, also known as the Acadian region of Southwest Nova Scotia in Canada. Congrès Mondial Acadien is an international gathering of Acadian culture that is held every five years.
Lunch will be catered and served on site by the caterer for the Cajundome.
Lunch Tickets:
Tickets are $20 per adult for the lunch, which will include: garden salad, fried fish/chicken fricassé, corn macque choux, bread roll, butter, bread pudding, tea and coffee. For kids 10 and under - $10 for chicken tenders, macaroni and cheese and drink. All meal tickets will have to be purchased ahead of time by going to Louisiane Acadie's
website.
