Canadian Inuk vocalist Tanya Tagaq is a wildly inventive artist who seems to master any medium in which she creates. Her music is like nothing you’ve heard before: a blending of punk, folk and...
Michelle Dorrance taps moves that energize, electrify
January 20, 2019
Michelle Dorrance would be considered a tap phenomenon even if all we knew of her was virtuosic footwork. But as her movement skills have developed and matured, so has her musical acumen and...
SYDNEY FESTIVAL: WHAT WILL HAVE BEEN
January 9, 2019
Brisbane-based circus arts company Circa is one of Australia’s greatest cultural exports — a groundbreaking ensemble of circus artists constantly stripping back and reinventing their art form, and...
Rosanne Cash: 9th Annual Visionary Leadership Awardee
January 2, 2019
Join us on Tuesday, February 26th for the 9th annual Visionary Leadership Award Luncheon and Conversation. The Award Luncheon, which draws over 400 attendees from across the region, raises money for...
Daniel O‘Brien, hand-balancer and aerial straps artist, Circa ensemble
January 1, 2019
Australian circus artist Daniel O'Brien comes from Maryborough, three hours north of Brisbane. He started gymnastics at six years old but gave it up at 15. However, he later he moved to Melbourne to...
Arts & Ideas Makes Time to Vote
November 1, 2018
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, based in New Haven, Connecticut, stands with hundreds of leading companies and small businesses from coast to coast in support of a vital common goal:...
Geoff Sobelle builds a HOME at the International Festival
August 27, 2018
I hadn’t intended to get married when I left the house this afternoon.But by 5pm, I had a new husband – a stranger I had never met – who drank wine and toasted me with a moving but silent speech...
Tom Griggs on Mornings with Mubarakah
May 31, 2018
Our Co-Director, Tom Griggs, joined WNHH host Host Mubarakah Ibrahim to talk Festival!
Join the Journey to Pepperland
April 3, 2018
At the 2017 Golden Globes, Donald Glover made the proclamation that the Atlanta rap trio Migos was “The Beatles of our generation.” It was an ambitious statement, one that made audiences question...
Visionary Leadership Award Reflection
March 13, 2018
Claudia Rankine sits on stage. She has just won the 8th annual Visionary Leadership Award. Speaking calmly, taking pauses only to let her words resonate more clearly, Rankine discusses her award...
'Tell 'Em About the Dream': Kronos Quartet Explores Moment MLK Went Off-Script
January 18, 2018
Kronos Quartet performs a piece based on King's iconic "I Have a Dream" speech in Music for Change: The '60s - The Years that Changed America. Learn More >Martin Luther King may have never delivered...
Announcing Festival Co-Directors!
November 16, 2017
Tom Griggs, Chad Herzog, and Liz Fisher appointed Co-Directors of the Festival.