The Bayou Culture Collaborative (BCC) offers strategies to help ensure Louisiana’s cultural traditions are passed on to future generations.

The Bayou Culture Collaborative, an initiative of the Louisiana Folklore Society, is organized through the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center to accelerate environmental adaptation through culture and the arts.

A collective of more than 1,000 people and organizations, the BCC recognizes that culture is a powerful catalyst for action and that ecological disruptions threaten community ties to the land and resources that sustain cultural heritage and lifeways.

BCC projects create networks of concerned Louisianians to develop action steps for endangered communities and traditions. The public is invited to participate in the BCC.