The staff carpenters are busy building all the exciting scenery that transforms the New Haven Green into a festival of serious fun!
The staff carpenters are busy building all the exciting scenery that transforms the New Haven Green into a festival of serious fun!
Join the cute baby dinos and teeth-gnashing giants of ERTH’s Dinosaur Petting Zoo for a special "dino-mite" brunch in support of the Festival's family programming. Experience ERTH's amazing dinosaurs...
Ken Smith, noted critic, journalist and partner in Museworks LTd., a Hong-Kong cultural consulting firm speaks with Mary Lou Aleskie, Executive Director of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas...
Choreographer and conductor Mark Morris discusses his work with a special focus on his company's 20th anniversary performances of Dido and Aeneas. He is joined by Joan Acocella, dance writer for The...
Jennifer Newman performs a new work-in-process that explores history, called The Geneva Project - A Work in Progress. The piece explores memory and ancestry through the multiple realities, inspired...
Ken Smith, noted critic, journalist and partner in Museworks LTd., a Hong-Kong cultural consulting firm speaks with Mary Lou Aleskie, Executive Director of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas...
At a launch event held at the foot of the Prudence Crandall Statue in the State Capitol Building in Hartford, International Festival of Arts & Ideas Executive Director Mary Lou Aleskie today...
Why do we like what we like? This wide-ranging and humorous discussion explores the idea that there are deep and surprising commonalities in the pleasures that we get from art, food, sex, stories,...
Three generations of Irish writers share their stories and discuss writing for the 21st Century. Featuring Colm Toibin, an award-wining novelist, short-story writer and critic whose bittersweet novel...
Last year's catastrophic earthquake was one of several humanitarian crises Haiti has faced in recent decades. Emeline Michel, a native Haitian singer and songwriter whose music draws from the island...
On November 4, 2011 the International Festival of Arts and Ideas honored New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson with its 2nd annual Visionary Leadership Award. At the award luncheon, Abramson...
A panel of contemporary Chinese American artists and intellectuals share their unique hybrid experiences to illuminate how we might better understand cultural and social differences and commonalities...