Festival Stories

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...

A blog from the road by Director of Performance Programs Cathy Edwards

One of the things I love about attending the Dublin Theatre Festival is the festival tagline: Dublin Loves Drama. Certainly the festival feels like it is everywhere, and posters and signs blanket the city center. I've attended the festival several times over the past few years and it is always a fruitful place for research, discovering work, and meeting with colleagues in order to create plans for touring international theater projects. As in past years, this was an exciting time and a chance to reconnect with Irish...

A blog from the road by Festival Executive Director Mary Lou Aleskie.

Sitting in Warsaw's Frederic Chopin Airport waiting for my connection home from Tbilisi, I am trying to sort through the details of the past month's travel and all the opportunities collected.

I find myself feeling anxious to keep the interconnected network of artists, colleagues and politicians I encountered engaged and energized in discussion. Everywhere there seems to be equal parts anxiety and hopefulness about the times we live in and new ways to move into the future. In all my meetings this month, the unique...

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.

Celebrate the Festival's Fall Fellows!

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Time: 5:30pm-7pm

Location: 195 Church Street, 12th Floor, New Haven

Light refreshments will be served

Kindly RSVP to Dawn Gibson-Brehon by Monday, October 4, 2010

Click here for more information on the Arts & Ideas Fellowship Program

A blog from the road by Director of Performance Programs Cathy Edwards

It's been a great start to the Time-Based Art Festival (known affectionately as TBA Festival here in Portland), where I am in my second of three years as guest artistic director of the Festival. The Festival takes place for 10 days every September and kicks off the annual arts season in Portland. What does TBA mean? Time-Based Art means it unfolds over time (as opposed to something static like a painting) and also that the festival is designed to be contemporary and reflect upon the arts of our time. I love balancing...