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Click here to read the interview and watch the video as Donna Doherty of the New Haven Register discusses the Festival with Executive Director Mary Lou Aleskie.

Click here to watch preview videos or to find out more information about Dance, Collaboration & Invention: A Conversation with Lucinda Childs & Philip Glass, the films of Errol Morris, Sushi 101: A Children’s Sustainable Sushi Class by Bun Lai of Miya’s, Comme Toujours Here I Stand, Box City, Khmeropédies I & II, Susurrus, Amir ElSaffar & Two Rivers Ensemble, Joyce Moreno, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngone Ba, Moby Dick, Christopher Rouse:...

General admission tickets to the solo piano concert by Philip Glass on Sunday June 13 are sold out. If you are a Festival Member, or want to become a Member, you can be put on a stand-by list, so that if any tickets are released back to the Festival Box Office, we will let you know by Noon on Thursday June 10. A few reserved, premium orchestra tickets are still available for $250 per seat. If you are interested in one of these options, please call the Festival at 203.498.3758.

And don't forget: there are several other ways to experience Philip Glass at the Festival:

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Click here to read the article about the Calder Quartet and Christopher Rouse’s String Quartet No. 3 by Frank J. Oteri from the May/June issue of Chamber Music Magazine.

Click here to watch a preview video of the Calder Quartet.

Click here to purchase tickets online.

Click here to listen to Festival Executive Director Mary Lou Aleskie on The Faith Middleton Show today at 3pm and 10pm.

A documentary directed by Anne Bass, “Dancing Across Borders”, has been added to the Opening Weekend schedule of the Festival. A free screening of the film will take place on Sunday, June 13, 2010 at Noon in the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven.

Dancing Across Borders depicts a young man’s intimate and triumphant journey from the serene countryside of Cambodia to the halls of America’s premier ballet training academy, New York’s School of American Ballet, and the stage of the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle. The film is an inspiring story of growth, adaptation,...

"Close to home or across the country, city street or bosky glen: Festivals beckon. Enjoy." The "Summer Stages" section of the New York Times features Dance, Comme Toujours Here I Stand, Moby Dick, Space Panorama, Chautauqua!, Susurrus, Amir ElSaffar & Two Rivers Ensemble, Joyce Moreno, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, The Blind Boys of Alabama, La Excelencia, Festival Grand Finale: Dan Zanes & Friends, Philip Glass: Works for Solo Piano, Christopher Rouse: Transfiguration, The Rouse Effect: The Next Generation, The Palestrina Choir, and The Four Nations Ensemble: Seductions & Confessions.

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All Ideas events at the Festival are free. The best way to secure your seat is to purchase an "Ideas Insider Pass", which guarantees your seat up to 15 minutes before the scheduled start time of all Ideas event at the 2010 Festival. Click here to purchase an "Ideas Insider Pass" online. You can also purchase an "Ideas Insider Pass" in person at the Shubert Theater Box Office (247 College Street, New Haven), and by phone at 203-562-5666 or 888-736-2663.

New this year: Only interested in a few Ideas events? As space is limited, you can now make an online reservation to gain access to priority...

The brochure for the 15th annual International Festival of Arts & Ideas is now available online. Click here to view.

Executive Director Mary Lou Aleskie is a guest on the "How New Haven Got its Groove Back" on the WNPR Colin McEnroe Show.

Festival Executive Director Mary Lou Aleskie will give a preview of this summer’s Festival at a public lecture on Thursday April 22 at 5pm at United Church, 323 Temple Street, New Haven. The lecture, sponsored by East Rock Village, is free and open to the public. Ms. Aleskie will describe the historical background of arts festivals as well as the impact of the Festival in New Haven, which draws over 100,000 people each year. Ms. Aleskie will also talk about the Festival’s theme of the intertwining of traditional and contemporary art. The presentation will include local performers Tusuykusun...

The Good Dance—dakar/brooklyn will be performed next weekend at Wesleyan University, following preview performances at the 2009 International Festival of Arts & Ideas and its subsequent engagement at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in December. The Good Dance—dakar/brooklyn is a collaboration between Brooklyn-based Reggie Wilson (Fist & Heel Performance Group) and Congolese choreographer Andréya Ouamba, whose Compagnie 1er Temps is based in Dakar, Senegal.

Friday, April 23 & Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 8pm
Wesleyan University Center for the Arts Theater
283 Washington Terrace, Middletown

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Festival Executive Director Mary Lou Aleskie was interviewed this morning by Logan Byrnes on Fox Connecticut News. Click here to watch the interview.