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The Calder Quartet (Benjamin Jacobson & Andrew Bulbrook, violin; Jonathan Moerschel, viola; Eric Byers, cello) is featured in the Los Angeles Times today. Click here to read the article.

At the 2006 International Festival of Arts & Ideas, the Calder Quartet (named after the great American visual artist Alexander Calder) payed homage to Shostakovich with a piece by Pulitzer Prize winning American composer Christopher Rouse - his String Quartet No. 2. The quartet also performed works by Beethoven and Shostakovich in Sprague Memorial Hall at Yale University as part of the Festival.

Click here to read the Hartford Courant article by Donna Larcen and Amy Ellis about holiday festivities in the region, including the Festival's third annual presentation of Phil Kline's Unsilent Night in New Haven, which will be taking place on Thursday December 10 starting at 5:30pm at The Yale Bookstore (77 Broadway).

The City of New Haven will hold their second annual "Tent City" community fundraiser on November 19 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the Green, in order to address homelessness and to keep the overflow shelter open during the winter. Tent City began in 2008, and it is the hope of the City to promote the same spirit of community this year while raising awareness of homelessness issues.

In this challenging economy, homeless funding is limited. Without appropriate resources, more than 100 people in New Haven could be out in the cold this winter. The staff of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas...

Today marks the beginning of Gender Moves, a four week series of workshops exploring movement and gender with Janet Brodie and Irwin Krieger. Come out and move with this fantastic duo as they use techniques drawn from the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange toolbox to delve into issues of gender, develop simple movements related to those ideas, and collaborate to create dances based on the ideas and movements. All are welcome – If you can move, you can dance! It is not necessary to attend all four sessions.

Wednesdays October 21- November 11
6pm-7:45pm
United Church Parish House
323 Temple Street, New...

New Haven Restaurant Week is only a month away (November 8-13, 2009)!

Get ready by watching the featured video broadcast of Global Flavors: A Conversation with Top ChefsModerated by Bonnie Tandy Leblang and featuring Denise Appel, Arturo Franco-Camacho, Bun Lai, and Jean Pierre Vuillermet, the inventive and eclectic chefs of Zinc, Bespoke, Miya's Sushi and Union League Café discuss how they reinvent the fine food of various cultures at their restaurants.

This panel discussion was originally presented on Monday, January 26, 2009 at Union League Café as part of the 2009 International Festival...

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas videos are now available as a free podcast from iTunes. You can also rate and review either individual podcasts, or the group of videos as a whole.

Click here to view the Festival's podcasts in the iTunes Store.

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas has just added a new
benefit for all 2009 Members: a 10% discount on a subscription to The Connecticut Forum.

Are you not currently a Member of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas? Click here to purchase a 2010 Membership
and receive a 10% discount on a subscription to The Connecticut Forum. The Festival will be
announcing additional benefits for 2010 Members throughout the year!

The Festival has just added a new benefit for all 2009 Members: a 30% discount on tickets to "The Pride of Parnell Street", September 1-6 at 59E59 Theaters. The production runs through October 4 as part of 1st Irish 2009, a festival of Irish theatre across New York. This is the New York premiere of the internationally acclaimed original production by Fishamble: The New Play Company. The U.S. premiere of "The Pride of Parnell Street" took place at the 2008 International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven. Click here to watch a preview video of "The Pride of Parnell Street".

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Did you know that Cathy Edwards, the Director of Performance Programs at the Arts & Ideas Festival, has also been curating a multi-disciplinary performing arts festival in Portland, OR? As a 2009/2010 Festival Membership benefit, we invite you to help us celebrate Cathy’s first year as the Guest Artistic Director of the Time-Based Art Festival in Portland, Oregon. We’ve put together a special insider itinerary that will enable you to experience an art-filled adventure in one of the U.S.’s most engaging cities, complete with Cathy’s attention and insights into both Portland and the festival....

We hope you enjoyed the 2009 International Festival of Arts & Ideas - please help us serve you better! An integral part of our ability to improve each Festival is feedback from patrons like you. We want to learn what you thought about this year's Festival, and what your ideas are for the future. We value your opinions and appreciate your input.

Click here to take the 2009 Festival Survey This survey will only take a few minutes to complete, and your responses will help us fine-tune the Festival for 2010. And, taking this survey gives you the chance to win a 2010 Festival Membership!

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas has just added a new benefit for all 2009 Members: a discount on tickets to Rennie Harris Puremovement at Jacob’s Pillow Dance, August 5-9.

International dance ambassador Rennie Harris and his troupe Puremovement return to Jacob’s Pillow for an evening of the best of hip-hop dance. The company combines all types of hip-hop forms including popping, locking, electric boogaloo, and b-boying to present an evening of athletic, intense, and exciting dance. Blending racial, cultural, class, and political statements, Harris and his dancers communicate...

Click here to read Arts Editor Donna Doherty's interview with Festival Executive Director Mary Lou Aleskie in the New Haven Register.