Festival Stories

Caravan of Thieves

Caravan of Thieves - Gypsy Swinging Serenading Circus Freaks! Us musicians here in Caravan of Thieves do quite a few shows across North America and what inspires us to keep working at this is the opportunity to play our music and have unique performance experiences when we can. Our involvement in Chautauqua! and in Arts and Ideas Festival is just that. When we received the call about doing Chautauqua! and heard we would need to arrange music to fit the story, be involved directly in a theatrical production and just use some of our style and flair that goes into...

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Click here to watch as Karen Schaler, Emmy Award-winning travel correspondent and author of "Travel Therapy: Where Do You Need To Go?", talks about the International Festival of Arts & Ideas as one of the top learning vacations on ABC News.

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Don't miss your chance to meet Karen Schaler during the Festival on Thursday June 17 at 7pm at The Study at Yale ( 1157 Chapel Street). Karen will be signing copies of "Travel Therapy", which features destinations you can’t afford to miss, and invaluable tips...

     Rodnesha Williams-Green

A Review of Pilobolus

Hi my name is Rodnesha Williams-Green. I am 17 years old, and I am I junior at Cooperative Arts and Humanity Magnet High school. On Friday, April 30^th, I went to see the theatrical show Pilobolus at the Shubert Theater. This was my first time seeing anything like the Pilobolus. I felt like the show was extremely different than any other show that I know of. The first thought that came to my mind when I first heard of Pilobolus, was guys in spandex outfit dancing around and I was sort of correct. The cast was made up of five guys and two girls...

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Click here to watch preview videos or find out more information about Moby Dick, A Celebration of Sol LeWitt, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Walking Tour: Rediscovering the Brewster Estate at Edgerton Park, Foodie Tour: Oysters on the Sound, Sushi 101: A Children's Sustainable Sushi Class by Bun Lai, Evolution & Revolution: Sustainable Sushi Dinner by Bun Lai, Foodie Tour: The Art of the Cocktail, Ideas: A Conversation with Bill T. Jones & Elizabeth Alexander, Ideas: Paul Goldberger - Why Architecture...

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Click here to read Donna Doherty's interview with David Leddy in the New Haven Register.

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Click here to read the interview and watch the video as Donna Doherty of the New Haven Register discusses the Festival with Executive Director Mary Lou Aleskie.

Click here to watch preview videos or to find out more information about Dance, Collaboration & Invention: A Conversation with Lucinda Childs & Philip Glass, the films of Errol Morris, Sushi 101: A Children’s Sustainable Sushi Class by Bun Lai of Miya’s, Comme Toujours Here I Stand, Box City, Khmeropédies I & II, Susurrus, Amir ElSaffar & Two Rivers Ensemble, Joyce Moreno, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngone Ba, Moby Dick, Christopher Rouse:...

General admission tickets to the solo piano concert by Philip Glass on Sunday June 13 are sold out. If you are a Festival Member, or want to become a Member, you can be put on a stand-by list, so that if any tickets are released back to the Festival Box Office, we will let you know by Noon on Thursday June 10. A few reserved, premium orchestra tickets are still available for $250 per seat. If you are interested in one of these options, please call the Festival at 203.498.3758.

And don't forget: there are several other ways to experience Philip Glass at the Festival:

• Opening Night: Dance - a...