Great Art, Big Ideas Podcast
Festival 2024 Playlist
It's 30 days until the start of Festival 2017!
30 DAYS. That's right. Thirty Days until Festival 2017 kicks off in New Haven. Our Director of Programming, Chad Herzog is counting us down - in just 30 seconds. Here we go.
June is Festival Month!
Welcome to YOUR FestivalThere’s so much to experience. We hope you are empowered through the rhythms of BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play, healed through the communal music of (Be)longing, and surprised by...
Global Sounds Concert Takes NEW HAVEN Students to CUBA
“It was awesome, definitely was a great experience. The students really enjoyed the dance, and the movement. It was just amazing.” -Dr. Evelyn Robles, Principal from Worthington Hooker School On...
Majora Carter, Visionary Leadership Award Honoree
This year's VLA award was presented January 25th to revitalization strategy consultant, real estate developer, and Peabody Award winning broadcaster Majora Carter.
Executive Director Mary Lou Aleskie to depart Festival in Spring
Gordon Geballe, Board Chair of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, today announced that Executive Director Mary Lou Aleskie, who has served in that post since 2005, will depart the Festival...
LA RONDE Review: "the immensity of imagination"
Lucy Gellman of the New Haven Independent ventures through LA RONDE at the New Haven Armory.
POWER FROM THE EARTH: THE SHIFT TO RENEWABLE ENERGY IN NEW ENGLAND
In the wake of the 2015 climate change summit in Paris, and increasing acknowledgement of the dangers facing our planet, the push has become more urgent to move toward renewable energy. John Dankosky...
DAN AUSTIN: YOU CAN GO ANYWHERE
Philanthropist and long-distance bike pilgrim Dan Austin riffs on the impact of bikes given to formerly trafficked women and girls around the world
THE AMERICAN DREAM IN 2016: MILLENNIALS AND THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
How is the U.S. serving or not serving its young people, and how will this shape the upcoming election, given that millennials constitute the country’s largest demographic?Moderated byCarolyn DeWitt...
J. KENJI LÓPEZ-ALT: THE FOOD LAB
Chef and author López-Alt dispels common cooking myth and frees you from previous culinary constraints using science!
A DUTY TO LOOK? HUMAN RIGHTS AND IMAGERY
When, if ever, is it ethical to view images of famine, poverty, and violence, and what is our relationship to these images?Moderated byJames Silk, Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School and...
WRITING HOME: NARRATIVES OF PLACE AND DISPLACEMENT IN THE AMERICAS
Three contemporary Latin American writers discuss how the cities, languages, personal histories, and politics of our past inform the narratives we construct today. Presented in collaboration with PEN...