Great Art, Big Ideas Podcast
Festival 2024 Playlist
Festival Foodie Experiences!
The Festival Foodie Experiences are bursting with vibrant flavors for all tastes and occasions.
Prepare for Dino-mite!!!
Dinosaurs are coming to town! The artists of Australian theater and visual arts company ERTH have created awesome prehistoric creatures, from cute baby dinos to teeth-gnashing giants that live in a...
Get the Info!
The Festival Info Booth on the New haven Green is ground zero for the Festival experience: come by for free wireless internet, information on performances, meeting places for tours, and more.
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Building a Festival
The staff carpenters are busy building all the exciting scenery that transforms the New Haven Green into a festival of serious fun!
Dino Brunch!
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...
Enlivening Global Traditions: What Happens when Peking Opera meets Shakespeare in Wu Hsing-Kuo's Contemporary Legend Theater
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...
Mark Morris in Conversation with Joan Acocella
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...
The Geneva Project - A work in progress
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...
Enlivening Global Traditions: What Happens when Peking Opera meets Shakespeare in Wu Hsing-Kuo's Contemporary Legend Theater
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...
Announcing Freedom's Journey, a statewide culture and heritage initiative
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...
How Pleasure Works
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,...
The Irish Literary Landscape
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...