Spice up your life with SAGE! (Senior Academic Group Education)

The Paradoxes of the Presidency: When Popular Expectations and Constitutional Limits Collide, Dr. Thomas Laehn, Mon, Jan 14, 3:30 - 4:30 pm, --No charge for this lecture.

1.A.: Tales from the Bayou: Putting Louisiana's Stories on the Screen - Glen Pitre & Michelle Benoit, 3:30 - 4:30 pm, Mon, Jan 28

1. B.: "American Creole New Orleans Reunion"--documentary, Mon, Jan 28, 4:30 - 5:30 pm

2."How Do You Fight  A Song:  Country Music in the Campaigns of Jimmie Davis" - Kevin Fontenot, 3:30 - 4:30 pm, Mon, Feb 25

3. The Koasati (Coushatta) Language Project - Dr. Linda Langley, 3:30 - 4:30 pm, Mon, Mar 11

4. Art Gumbo! A Review of 20th Century Louisiana Art - Bridget McDaniel, 3:30 - 4:30 pm, Mon, Apr 8

5.Cajun Music and Zydeco--Dr. Barry Ancelet, 3:30 - 4:30 pm, Mon, Apr 29

Artwork produced by artists who lived or worked in Louisiana during the 20th century is art historian, Bridget McDaniel's topic for today's lecture. With modernism as the dominant trend, you will see how our artists incorporated southern elements into their expressive personal styles.

Witness the evolution of 20th century art as we look at environmental, religious, and cultural influences. From representation to abstraction and from pottery to painting to sculpture; Louisiana artists have produced it all!

You loved him in September and invited him back. So, returning to SAGE from ULL is Barry Ancelet, host of Saturday night's "Rendez-vous des Cadiens," on KRVS, public radio.

Cajun music and Creole zydeco are Louisiana hybrids. Like the blues and jazz, rock and reggae, they are made up of cultural elements that came together in a typically American experience that blended European (primarily French, but also Spanish, German and English), native American and Afro-Caribbean musical traditions.

The American context was basic to the development of these hybrid music forms. Nothing quite like them developed in Europe or Africa. In America, both European and African cultures were far from home and on new ground where new combinations were possible. This talk will trace the evolution of this blending process from its origins through its most recent contemporary forms.