FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAncestral Nourishment & Food Tours at the 2024 International Festival of Arts & Ideas New Haven, CTThis year the International Festival of Arts & Ideas (IFAI), brings two...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS & IDEAS PRESENTS A NEW LINE-UP TO KICK OFF THE SUMMER
April 24, 2024
THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS & IDEAS PRESENTS A NEW LINE-UP TO KICK OFF THE SUMMER, featuring Grammy Award Winners, National Humanities Medal winners and more, 29 years and counting!!!April...
Our 2ND ANNUAL HOLIDAY GUIDE FOR FESTIVAL FANS
December 11, 2023
Can you believe it's already the holiday season? It feels like just yesterday we were all gathered on the New Haven Green, rocking out to the awesome tunes of Stout or dancing along to the smooth...
The Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide for Festival Fans
December 19, 2022
Do you have a special friend or family member that seems to be impossible to buy for? We've all been there. Whether it is your best friend, your mother-in-law or your boyfriend's sister's...
The LIT Kwanzaa Celebration
January 31, 2022
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ELM CITY LIT FESTIn accordance with Mayor Elicker’s December 26 health and safety guidelines suspending in-person events to prevent the spread of COVID, the Festival and Elm...
A Poem by Andres Camilo Madariaga
August 18, 2021
When we sent out an open call to have workers submit a picture of themselves, we also asked them what essential work meant to them. Here, Andres Camilo Madariaga, restaurant worker & volunteer at the...
Building the Stage: An Interview with a Stagehand
June 19, 2021
An interview with Jim Shea, Business Agent for IATSE LOCAL 74 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees As the steel skeleton of the Festival’s iconic stage rose on the Green this...
Where to Get your Copy of Joy Harjo's AN AMERICAN SUNRISE for the NEA BIG READ
April 30, 2021
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas invites you to join us as we celebrate US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's An American Sunrise, the Festival’s choice for the 2021 NEA Big Read. Harjo’s poems sing...
Five Poems by US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo
April 5, 2021
The poems of US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo sing of beauty and survival, illuminating a spirituality that connects her to her ancestors and thrums with the quiet anger of living amid the ruins of...
Imagine with the Festival May 14 - June 27, 2021
February 26, 2021
Festival 2021 will feature 200+ events—80% free—with luminaries like choreographer Ronald K. Brown, Indigenous theater director Madeline Sayet, and a high drama, high fashion Hair Art show.
Interview with Artistic Director & Choreographer Ronald K. Brown
February 23, 2021
Get to know dancer and choreographer Ronald K. Brown and EVIDENCE: A Dance Company, which mixes traditional African dances with contemporary music and staging.
New Year's Resolutions: Looking forward with Shelley Quiala
January 7, 2021
Executive Director Shelley Quiala sets intentions her for the new year,