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Click here to read Donna Doherty's piece on the 2011 Festival announce.

Click here to read Frank Rizzo's blogs about The Cripple of Inishmaan.

Click here to read Frank's announcement for the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma.

Click here to read the New Haven Independent's coverage of the Festival announcement.

Click here to read the New Haven Register article about Governor Malloy's visit to the New Haven Chamber. Executive Director Mary Lou Aleskie is quoted on her thoughts about the Governor's budget move for the arts.

The CT Freedom Trail Website has been launched! To view, visit http://ctfreedomtrail.org/.

Look for more information regarding the CT Freedom Trail on www.artidea.org starting in mid-March.

Read this article from the New Haven Independent's Breaking Arts section about Aaron Jafferis, Festival alum, on the success of his show "Stuck Elevator."

Read this official press release from the office of Governor Dannel P. Malloy on bringing CT back into the tourism spotlight.

To continue our celebration of Errol Morris' films, the Whitney Humanities Center will be screening his most recent work!

What: Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch (2011)
When: Thursday, January 13 at 6pm
Where: The Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium

Click here to view the event website.

Errol Morris takes on the big questions in his documentaries—not only life and death, but the vicissitudes of chance and moral responsibility. They are about our encounter with the world - how we see it and how we deceive ourselves. In the process, Mr. Morris has developed a penetrating and original style...

Culturebot interviews Festival Programming Director Cathy Edwards on vision, curating and how she got there.

Read more by clicking here.

Click here to read the article by New Haven Register Arts Editor Donna Doherty, which mentions the performances of Gare St. Lazare Players' Moby Dick, Philip Glass, Lucinda Childs' Dance, Amrita Performing Arts' Khmeropédies I & II, and Elm City Dance Collective and Adele Myers & Dancers.

Click here to read the New York Times book review of “Representing Justice” by Yale Law School professors Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis, which Randy Kennedy calls "an academic treatise on threats to the modern judiciary that doubles as an obsessive’s tour of Western art through the lens of the law".

In this photo, International Festival of Arts & Ideas Executive Director Mary Lou Aleskie holds the first copy of "Representing Justice" as she introduces Judith Resnik as the guest host at the inaugural presentation of the Festival's Visionary Leadership Award on November 18 at the New Haven...

Click here to read the editorial in the New Haven Register by Charles Kochakian.