<p fr-original-style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times; color: #000000;" id="isPasted" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;">Support Vues de Culture: Help Us Preserve Louisiana&rsquo;s Creole Stories<p fr-original-style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times; color: #000000;" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;">Vues de Culture is a Louisiana-based nonprofit media organization dedicated to documenting and celebrating the stories of people of color through film, photography, exhibits, and cultural events. With a commitment to authenticity and cultural preservation, we support projects that uplift Creole and Black communities across the state. Your donation helps us continue this work&mdash;amplifying underrepresented voices, preserving language and traditions, and reframing Louisiana&rsquo;s cultural narrative.<p fr-original-style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times; color: #000000; min-height: 18.0px;" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 18px; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;"> <p fr-original-style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times; color: #000000;" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;">Featured Projects:<p fr-original-style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times; color: #000000; min-height: 18.0px;" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 18px; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;"> <p fr-original-style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times; color: #000000;" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;">Built on Zydeco Built on Zydeco is a Creole-directed documentary celebrating the artists, language, and legacy of Zydeco music&mdash;one of Louisiana&rsquo;s most powerful cultural exports. The film follows the personal and cultural journeys of musicians including Keith Frank, Terrance Simien, and Reginald &ldquo;Buckwheat Jr.&rdquo; Dural, along with legacy and emerging artists shaping the sound today. Through v&eacute;rit&eacute; storytelling, intimate interviews, and archival footage in both English and Louisiana French, Built on Zydeco explores the role of Zydeco in preserving Creole identity, Louisiana French, and Kouri-Vini&mdash;while spotlighting the economic realities of sustaining this tradition.<p fr-original-style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times; color: #000000; min-height: 18.0px;" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 18px; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;"> <p fr-original-style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times; color: #000000;" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;">The Old Way Still Cuts: A Creole Boucherie This powerful documentary follows five Louisiana families as they carry out one of the oldest and most sacred Creole traditions: the boucherie. But this story is about more than food&mdash;it&rsquo;s about survival, memory, family, and the passing down of culture through fire, language, and labor. Spoken in Kouri-Vini and grounded in personal testimony and ancestral knowledge, the film reclaims the boucherie as a Black Creole tradition. It is a vivid reminder that even now, when so much has been lost, the old way still cuts.<p fr-original-style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times; color: #000000; min-height: 18.0px;" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 18px; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;"> <p fr-original-style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times; color: #000000;" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;">REFRAMING Cinema Film Festival Curated by Vues de Culture, the REFRAMING Cinema Film Festival is a nationwide celebration of storytelling rooted in authenticity, culture, and community. The festival centers the voices and experiences of people of color through powerful screenings, artist talks, and intergenerational dialogue. With a focus on cultural preservation, language revitalization, and community memory, REFRAMING Cinema is more than a festival&mdash;it&rsquo;s a gathering space for cultural caretakers, filmmakers, and the communities they represent.<p fr-original-style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times; color: #000000; min-height: 18.0px;" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 18px; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;"> <p fr-original-style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times; color: #000000;" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;">Donate today to help us tell the stories that matter. Your support directly fuels our ability to create and share these vital narratives. Together, we can ensure that Louisiana&rsquo;s rich Creole history continues to be seen, heard, and honored.

Dear <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip" fr-original-style="" style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255); border-radius: 4px; color: rgb(42, 42, 196); padding: 1px 8px; font-size: 11px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; -webkit-user-select: none; box-sizing: inherit;">First name, Thank you for your generous donation to Vues de Culture. Your support directly fuels our mission to document, celebrate, and preserve the stories of people of color&mdash;especially Creole and Black communities across Louisiana&mdash;through film, photography, exhibits, and cultural events. With your contribution, you are helping us bring powerful projects like&nbsp;Built on Zydeco,&nbsp;The Old Way Still Cuts: A Creole Boucherie, and the REFRAMING Cinema Film Festival to life. These efforts honor our heritage, revitalize endangered language, and ensure that the voices and traditions shaping Louisiana&rsquo;s cultural identity are not only preserved&mdash;but celebrated. We&rsquo;re grateful to have you with us in this work. As we continue to build, we&rsquo;ll be sure to keep you updated on the stories you&rsquo;re helping us tell. With gratitude,Milton ArceneauxPresident, Vues de Culture<a fr-original-style="" href="mailto:milton@vuesdeculture.org" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: initial; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">milton@vuesdeculture.org</a><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1749392819/wysiwyg/enl43fcjdvhdf61mhdwq.png" style="width: 176px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto 5px 0px; text-align: left; position: relative; max-width: 100%; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; -webkit-user-select: none; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 176px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto 5px 0px; text-align: left;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">

<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-width:normal;line-height:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Support Vues de Culture: Help Us Preserve Louisiana’s Creole Stories<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-width:normal;line-height:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Vues de Culture is a Louisiana-based nonprofit media organization dedicated to documenting and celebrating the stories of people of color through film, photography, exhibits, and cultural events. With a commitment to authenticity and cultural preservation, we support projects that uplift Creole and Black communities across the state. Your donation helps us continue this work—amplifying underrepresented voices, preserving language and traditions, and reframing Louisiana’s cultural narrative.<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-width:normal;line-height:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;min-height:18px;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-width:normal;line-height:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Featured Projects:<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-width:normal;line-height:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;min-height:18px;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-width:normal;line-height:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Built on Zydeco Built on Zydeco is a Creole-directed documentary celebrating the artists, language, and legacy of Zydeco music—one of Louisiana’s most powerful cultural exports. The film follows the personal and cultural journeys of musicians including Keith Frank, Terrance Simien, and Reginald “Buckwheat Jr.” Dural, along with legacy and emerging artists shaping the sound today. Through vérité storytelling, intimate interviews, and archival footage in both English and Louisiana French, Built on Zydeco explores the role of Zydeco in preserving Creole identity, Louisiana French, and Kouri-Vini—while spotlighting the economic realities of sustaining this tradition.<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-width:normal;line-height:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;min-height:18px;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-width:normal;line-height:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">The Old Way Still Cuts: A Creole Boucherie This powerful documentary follows five Louisiana families as they carry out one of the oldest and most sacred Creole traditions: the boucherie. But this story is about more than food—it’s about survival, memory, family, and the passing down of culture through fire, language, and labor. Spoken in Kouri-Vini and grounded in personal testimony and ancestral knowledge, the film reclaims the boucherie as a Black Creole tradition. It is a vivid reminder that even now, when so much has been lost, the old way still cuts.<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-width:normal;line-height:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;min-height:18px;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-width:normal;line-height:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">REFRAMING Cinema Film Festival Curated by Vues de Culture, the REFRAMING Cinema Film Festival is a nationwide celebration of storytelling rooted in authenticity, culture, and community. The festival centers the voices and experiences of people of color through powerful screenings, artist talks, and intergenerational dialogue. With a focus on cultural preservation, language revitalization, and community memory, REFRAMING Cinema is more than a festival—it’s a gathering space for cultural caretakers, filmmakers, and the communities they represent.<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-width:normal;line-height:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;min-height:18px;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-width:normal;line-height:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;width:100%;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%">Donate today to help us tell the stories that matter. Your support directly fuels our ability to create and share these vital narratives. Together, we can ensure that Louisiana’s rich Creole history continues to be seen, heard, and honored.

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