Great Art, Big Ideas Podcast
Festival 2025 Playlist
Scene On Your Screen, Ep. 9
This week Activist Songbook has a lot going on! Check out their Virtual Choir, panel about Activism and Allyship, collaboration with One Village Healing, and their Illuminated Manuscript of Activist...
Compagnia de' Colombari - More or Less I am, episode 3: NATURE AND DEMOCRACY
Inspired by Walt Whitman’s revolutionary poem “Song of Myself,” the international collective Compagnia de’ Colombari combines fiddle and flute, dance, sea shanties, opera, and poetry in a declaration...
CONSTITUTION CAFE: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CENSUS, JUNE 17
Join Gabriel "Jack" Chin, Edward L. Barrett Jr. Chair of Law, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law, and Director of Clinical Legal Education, your neighbors, and local experts in a community...
Activist Songbook Virtual Choir #4: We Are Leaders
Inspired by Wei Chen, Mary Yee, and Allison Budschalow By Byron Au Yong and Aaron Jafferis Featuring Jason Chu and Z BellWe Are Leaders is inspired by Wei Chen and the students of South Philadelphia...
Who is Essential? Race, Culture, and Identity in American Democracy
John Dankosky invites Khalilah Brown-Dean, Political Science Professor at Quinnipiac University, and others to reflect on identity politics at this disorienting time when a new identity has emerged...
Don't Miss: SLAVERY & THE AMERICAN STORY
At 7pm on June 19 please Join Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and creator of the landmark 1619 Project for The New York Times Magazine Nikole Hannah-Jones in conversation with the host...
Scene On Your Screen, Ep. 8
Get your music fix with new installments of the Activist Songbook Virtual Choir and More or Less I Am, and a Dixwell neighborhood concert. Engage with today's most pressing issues in the Ideas...
SPEAKING YOUR TRUTH FIRST STEPS INTO THE ART OF STORYTELLING WITH MATTHEW DICKS
Internationally bestselling novelist and 46-time Moth StorySLAM and GrandSLAM champion Matthew Dicks teaches the art of personal storytelling in a low stakes, information packed, highly entertaining...
HOUSING AS A HUMAN RIGHT? TACKLING CHALLENGES OF AFFORDABILITY AND DISCRIMINATION
John Dankosky moderates this talk exploring the intersection of housing and democracy with Connecticut experts including Karen DuBois Walton (Executive Director of the Elm City Communities/Housing...
FILM STYLO: STUDENT FILMS FROM THE PANDEMIC - NEW HAVEN AND HONG KONG
Over the past months, students in New Haven and Hong Kong have been simultaneously participating in a stay-at-home filmmaking initiative called Film Stylo, which guides them to create short films...
CONSTITUTION CAFE: THE CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS OF THE POLICE USE OF FORCE, JUNE 10
Join Ekow Yankah, law professor at Cardozo School of Law; freedom fighter Kerry Ellington; facilitator Eric Rey, your neighbors, and local experts in a series of community dialogues the...
Stories, Sovereignty, and Imagining Forward
A conversation with Native American artists and leaders who offer their perspective on issues of sovereignty, ancestry, and post-pandemic survival, organized in partnership with theater director...