Stephen Allen Benoit
March 27, 2009March 31
March 31, 2009
Jubilee: A Festival of the Arts and Humanities is under way at Nicholls State University with a large slate of events running through April 23.
The festival has around 80 events including art exhibitions, concerts, lectures, cooking demonstrations, poetry readings and dance performances.
This year marks the 11th straight that Nicholls is holding the festival, which was begun to celebrate the university’s 50th anniversary in 1999.
“We’ve grown in diversity and variety,” said Jubilee coordinator Angela Hammerli, an associate professor at Nicholls State. “We maybe have more international events.”
“Everyone wants to appreciate each other’s cultures,” she said. “We like the variety, so people can find things they like to attend.”
Hammerli said putting together this kind of event is a big undertaking.
“I’d wondered if I could keep it up for 10 years,” she said. “Some things change every day. It’s fun to see things working out. It’s great to bring a variety of cultures to the area.”
Most events have no admission charge unless otherwise listed on the schedule. Free admissions for faculty and students will also be listed on the schedule.
Highlights of the 11th annual Fest
Musicians, artists, poets and authors – local and international – abound at the 11th annual Jubilee, a festival of the arts and humanities at NSU March 12-April 23.
Poetry Readings by Darrell Bourque and John Gery – April 1 at 6:30 p.m. at Ellender Memorial Library
Darrell Bourque is an endowed professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he has directed the Freshman English Program, the Creative Writing Program and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program. John Gery, from Lititz, Pa., is a poet and a critic of modern and contemporary poetry, as well as a collaborative translator of poetry.
