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As part of their holiday tradition, the International Festival of Arts & Ideas will present composer Phil Kline’s “Unsilent Night” on Thursday, December 9, 2010. A “boom box processional” that fills the crisp, winter air with Kline’s symphony for bells, the performance features audience participants carrying boom boxes, each playing one of four musical parts, to create a magical evening of ethereal sound. Kline’s signature composition “Unsilent Night” debuted on the sidewalks of Greenwich Village in 1992 and is now a holiday tradition worldwide from San Francisco to Sydney. “Unsilent Night”...

Click here to read the article in the Yale Daily Bulletin about Zainab Salbi's visit to New Haven this week.

The Festival's Visionary Leadership Award presentation and benefit luncheon is sold out.

The Yale World Fellows Program and the Office of the Secretary will be hosting a conversation with Ms. Salbi on Thursday November 18, 2010 at the Betts House, 393 Prospect Street, Third Floor, New Haven, CT. Tea will be served at 4pm. Human rights advocate and Yale World Fellow Ana Paula Hernandez will interview Zainab Salbi starting at 4:30 pm. Free and open to the general public.

Click here to read the article in the New Haven Register about the Visionary Leadership Award.

Click here for more information about the Visionary Leadership Award luncheon and award presentation taking place on Thursday November 18 from Noon to 2pm.

Bassist and composer Ben Allison joins the St. Luke's and Yale Steel Bands, directed by Deborah Teason, and the Common Ground Ensemble performing music by steel pan virtuoso Andy Akiho, Samuel Adams, and other Yale composers at On Common Ground II on Friday November 12 at 8pm in Morse Recital Hall at Sprague Memorial Hall. The concert is part of the Yale School of Music's Ellington Jazz Series hosted by the program’s founder and director Willie Ruff.

The Ben Allison Band currently features Jenny Scheinman on violin, Michael Blake on saxophones, Steve Cardenas on guitar, and Rudy Royston on...

New Haven Restaurant Week returns November 7–12, when 31 of New Haven’s unique, award-winning and internationally diverse restaurants will offer prix fixe lunch and dinner menus. Participating restaurants include many Festival supporters, such as 116 Crown, Barcelona Wine Bar, Bentara, Caseus Fromagerie & Bistro, Geronimo, Heirloom, Ibiza, Miya's Sushi, Soul de Cuba, Thali Regional Cuisine of India, Union League Café, and Zinc. For complete information click here.

Did you miss it at the Festival? Gare St. Lazare Players Ireland's highly acclaimed, innovative adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s novella “First Love” will be performed at Connecticut College in New London on Friday November 12 at 8pm. General admission tickets are $22, $20 for seniors, and $11 for students. Click here to purchase tickets or call (860) 439-2787 (ARTS).

Regarded as the greatest living Beckett interpreter, Conor Lovett’s one-man performance of "First Love" mesmerized Festival audiences in New Haven in 2009. Click to watch a preview video and an interview with Conor about "First...

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas' presentation of composer Phil Kline's Unsilent Night is featured in author and television journalist Diane Smith's new book, A Connecticut Christmas, a full-color celebration of the spirit of Christmas in a quintessentially New England state. The book highlights the most joyful things to see and do during the holidays, and she profiles some of the remarkable people who make the holiday season brighter for visitors and Connecticut residents alike.

A Connecticut Christmas includes fifty inspiring, funny, and heart-warming essays accompanied by...

First-time donors to the International Festival of Arts & Ideas – don't miss your chance to double (or even triple) your investment in the Festival!

The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven is launching giveGreater.org, a new online giving resource on Monday November 1 at 8am.

80% of the Festival's events are free, fusing arts and Ideas programs with hundreds of events with the best performers, speakers and leaders from more than 75 countries around the world. Tickets sales only cover a small portion of the cost of one of the world’s leading international festivals that engages this...

Zainab Salbi, Founder and CEO of Women for Women International, served as an inspiration to Lisa Shannon, who founded the organization Run for Congo Women. Click here to read the full story in the New York Times Magazine by Nicholas D. Kristof.

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas will present the 1st annual Visionary Leadership Award to Zainab Salbi on Thursday, November 18, 2010. Click here to read more information about the award presentation and benefit luncheon.

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas will present the 1st annual Visionary Leadership Award to Zainab Salbi, Founder and CEO of Women for Women International, on Thursday, November 18, 2010. The award presentation and benefit luncheon, sponsored by AT&T, will take place from Noon to 2pm at the New Haven Lawn Club, located at 193 Whitney Avenue in New Haven, CT. The guest host for the event will be Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School.

The Visionary Leadership Award was created in honor of the late Jean M. Handley’s leadership as a Founding Director of the...

On Thursday, December 9, 2010, join the International Festival of Arts & Ideas
for the 4th annual presentation of composer Phil Kline's Unsilent
Night in New Haven!

Meet at the Yale Bookstore (77 Broadway, New Haven) at 5:30 pm.

Enjoy refreshments as you pick up your music.

Processional
steps off promptly at 6:15 pm, winding its way through the streets of
New Haven and across the Green, returning to the Yale Bookstore for a
meet and greet with composer Phil Kline at 7pm.

Bring a boombox,
or anything that will blast a cassette, CD, or MP3... or borrow one of
ours! A recording of Phil Kline's...

The MacArthur Foundation has named Jason Moran as one of 23 "genius award” fellowship recipients this year. Click here to read the article by Felicia R. Lee in the New York Times.

Jason Moran has performed at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas twice: the East Coast Premiere of "Milestone" in 2007, and IN MY MIND: Monk at Town Hall 1959 in 2009. Last year's Festival also included a performance by 2009 MacArthur Fellow Miguel Zenón.