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Celebrate poetry during the 2009 International Festival of Arts & Ideas! The public is invited to attend an organizational meeting for the "Favorite Poem Project" on Friday March 13 at 9am at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, 15th Floor conference room of the New Alliance Bank Building in New Haven, located at 195 Church Street. The "Favorite Poem Project" is dedicated to celebrating, documenting and encouraging poetry's role in Americans' lives. Please RSVP to amatthews@artidea.org to attend the organizational
meeting, or if you’d like additional information about the "Favorite
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Click here to read the review of "IN MY MIND: Monk at Town Hall 1959" by Ben Ratliff.

Two new music events will go on sale to Festival Members on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 for $25 each:

Jason Moran returns to the Festival on June 23 to perform IN MY MIND: Monk at Town Hall 1959. Moran will perform this piece at New York’s Town Hall on February 27 as part of the 50th anniversary of Thelonious Monk’s historic 1959 concert at the venue.

Rupa & The April Fishes will perform on June 18 and completes the lineup of the Courtyard Concert series, which includes Miguel Zenón on June 16 and Tania Libertad on June 17.

Starting March 10, tickets for these two new events will be available...

This Saturday, the Festival will be introducing Wally Cardona and his new project Really Real, and exploring ideas for developing dances for this summer’s Festival. Following Wally Cardona’s workshop, any dancers/choreographers with ideas about creating dances can meet with Elizabeth Johnson and Meghan Bowden of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.

On Sunday, there will be an All Come Workshop, where local dancers/choreographers will introduce their ideas to the larger group and begin developing dances and recruiting participants.

Learn how to become a 2009 Festival Docent. RSVP by February 16.

The announcement of the Festival's 2009 theater programming appeared in both Variety and The Hartford Courant:

Variety
Arts & Ideas fest announces slate
Offerings include 'Circus,' 'Ivanov'
January 28, 2009
By Frank Rizzo

The Hartford Courant
Irish, Hungarian Theater At FestivalJanuary 29, 2009
By Frank Rizzo

The dazzling array of artists and thinkers that will be a part of the 2009 Festival are going to be announced on January 30 at the culmination of "Sneak Peek Week"- the 2009 International Festival of Arts & Ideas Preview Party.

Just as we want you to be the first to get a glimpse of the music, theater, dance, and discussions about “Global Identities/Local Heroes”, we also want you to be the first in line to take advantage of a very special discount ticket offer: $25 tickets for all performance events in June go on sale to Members of the Festival on Monday, February 2!

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Click here to read the article from January 22 in the New Haven Register about "Sneak Peek Week".

There will be limited availability. "Sneak Peek" events are discounted for Members of the Festival – purchase your Membership today!

Executive Director Mary Lou Aleskie was quoted in the New York Times "Culture" section on Sunday December 14. Click here to read the article online.

Watch a video clip and read the article about "Unsilent Night" in the New Haven Independent

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas collaboration with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange continues Saturday, December 6 and Sunday, December 7 at the Educational Center for the Arts at 55 Audubon Street in New Haven. Elizabeth Johnson, Associate Artistic Director of the ground-breaking inter-generational dance company, will be continuing work with New Haven community members that began in February. Thousands of people participated in a new series of dance works, “613 Radical Acts of Prayer,” which explored spirituality and social activism during the finale of the 2008 International...